Surviving "Duncan Hines Family" Restaurants

 
Alabama

• Bayley's, Theodore
• Morrison's Cafeteria, Mobile

Alaska
 
Arizona

• Arizona Biltmore -Phoenix - DHR
• Beaver Dam Lodge, Beaver Dam - NR
• Camelback Inn, Scottsdale
• Copper Queen Hotel, Bisbee
• El Tovar Hotel, Grand Canyon Village
• La Fiesta Cafe, Douglas
• La Posada, Winslow
• Lodge on the Desert, Tucson
• Monte Vista Hotel, Flagstaff
• The Stockyards, Phoenix
• The Wigwam, Litchfield Park - DHR

Arkansas

• Arlington Hotel, Hot Springs
• Franke's Cafeteria, Little Rock
• Mason's Pancake Shop, Hot Springs
• Hotel Seville, Harrison

California

• Allied Arts Guild, Palo Alto - NN
• Andersen's Valley Inn, Buellton
• Hotel Benbow, Benbow
• Big Sur Lodge, Big Sur
• Buckeye Restaurant, Sausalito - DC
• Cademartori's, Monterey - NN
• Carlton Hotel Coffee Shop, Atascadero
• Cary House, Placerville
• Cathay House, San Francisco
• Claremont Hotel, Berkeley
• Hotel del Coronado, Coronado
• Restaurente del Paseo, Santa Barbara - NN
• El Adobe de Capistrano, San Juan Capistrano
• El Cholo's, Los Angeles
• El Encanto, Santa Barbara
• El Paseo Inn, Duarte
• Estrada's Spanish Kitchen, Fresno
• Fishermen's Grotto, San Francisco
• Gilder Inn, Seal Beach - NN, DC
• Huntington Hotel, Pasadena
• Knott's Berry Farm, Buena Park
• La Casa Del Camino, Laguna Beach - OX
• La Casa Rosa, San Juan Bautista
• Laguna Vista Cafe, Laguna
• La Valencia Hotel, La Jolla - OX
• La Venta Inn, Palos Verdes Estate - VO
• Lawry's, Beverly Hills
• The Little River Inn, Little River
• Lundblad’s Lodge, Saratoga - VO
• Mattei's Tavern, Los Olivos - VO
• Hotel Miramar, Santa Monica
• The Mission Inn, Riverside
• Mt. Whitney Cafe, Lone Pine
• Locatelli's, Boulder Creek - NN
• Mac's Restaurant, Point Richmond
• Normandy Inn, Carmel
• Ole's Waffle Shop, Alameda
• Padua Hills Theater, Claremont
• The Pines Café at Cambria Lodge, Cambria
• Rainbow Tavern, Soda Springs
• The Inn at Rancho Santa Fe, Rancho Santa Fe
• Santa Maria Inn, Santa Maria - OX
• Schroeder's, San Francisco
• Sign of the Piper, Berkeley
• Sonoma Mission Inn, Boyes Springs - OX
• Spenger's Fish Grotto, Berkeley
• Top of the Mark, San Francisco
• Trader Vic's, Oakland - NL
• The Twin Inns, Carlsbad
• Victor Hugo's, Laguna Beach - NN, OX
• Women's City Club, Berkeley 

Colorado

• Ace Gillett's, Fort Collins
• Baldpate Inn, Estes Park
• O. P. Bauer's Confectionery Co., Denver
• Buckhorn Exchange, Denver
• Buckhorn Lodge, Parshall - NN
• Broadmoor Hotel, Colorado Springs
• Brook Forest Inn, Brook Forest
• The Country Cupboard, Grand Lake - NN, DC
  
• Craftwood Inn, Manitou Springs - VO
• Elkhorn Lodge, Estes Park
• The Placer Inn, Idaho Springs - NN, DC
• The Swiss Chalet, Colorado Springs - NN, DC
• Troutdale in the Pines, Evergreen

Connecticut

• Bee and Thistle Inn, Old Lyme
• Cavey's, Manchester
• Cobbs Mill Inn, Weston
• Conley Inn, Torrington - OX, BB
• Cooke's Tavern, Plainville
• Dolly Madison Inn, Madison - OX
• Griswold Inn, Essex

• Homestead Inn, New Milford
• Old Riverton Inn, Riverton - VO
• The Pettibone Tavern, Simsbury - OX
• Ragamont Inn, Salisbury
• Silvermine Tavern and Galleries, Norwalk - Coming Soon
• Skipper's Dock, Stonington
• The Spinning Wheel, Redding Ridge
• Stonehenge, Ridgefield
• Wake Robin Inn, Lakeville - VO
• Waverly Inn, Cheshire
• White Hart Inn, Salisbury - OX, BB

Delaware

• Dinner Bell inn, Rehoboth Beach - BB
• Wayside Inn, Smyrna - NN, DC

District of Columbia

• The Iron Gate, Washington
• Occidental Restaurant (at the Willard Hotel), Washington
• O'Donnell's, Washington
• Hotel Washington, Washington

Florida

• Cap's Place, Pompano
• Clewiston Inn, Clewiston 
• Columbia Restaurant, Tampa
• Hillsboro Club, Pompano
• The Inn in Ponte Vedra Beach, Ponte Vedra Beach
• Ocean Lodge, Cocoa Beach - NN
• Vinoy Park Hotel, St. Petersburg - NN
• Wakulla Springs Lodge, Wakulla

Georgia

• Partridge Restaurant, Rome

 
 
 

Massachusetts

• Ashfield House, Ashfield
• Col. Ebenezer Crafts' Publick House, Sturbridge
• Durgin Park, Boston
• Jacob Wirth's, Boston
• Lafayette House, Foxboro
• Longfellow's Wayside Inn, South Sudbury
• The Lord Jeffrey Restaurant, Amherst
• Mary Hackett's, Duxbury - NN
• The Mill-on-the-Floss, New Ashford
• The Old Grist Mill Tavern, Seekonk
• The Old Mill, Fitchburg
• Red Lion Inn, Stockbridge
• The Skipper Restaurant, Nantucket Island - NL
• Sweetheart Tea House, Shelburne Falls
• Union Oyster House, Boston
• Wiggins Old Tavern, Northhampton
• Williams Inn, Williamstown

Michigan

• Chippewa Hotel, Mackinac Island
• Dearborn Inn, Dearborn - OX
• The Grand Hotel, Mackinac Island
• London Chop House, Detroit
• Ludington Hotel Dining Room, Escanaba
• Midland Country Club, Midland
• Schuler's Restaurant, Marshall
• St. Clair Inn, St. Clair
• Weber's Inn, Ann Arbor
• Zehnder's, Frankenmuth

Minnesota

• Grand View Lodge, Brainerd
• Hungry Jack Inn, Grand Marias
• Lowell Inn, Stillwater
• Lutsen Resort, Lutsen
• Kahler Hotel, Rochester
• National Forest Lodge, Ely
• Rustic Inn, Two Harbors
• Ruttger's Lodge, Deerwood

Missouri

• Barn Inn, St. Albans - OX, BB
• McDonald Tea Room, Gallatin
• The Old Tavern, Arrow Rock

Mississippi

• Weidmann's, Meridian

Montana

• New Sacajawea Inn, Three Forks
• Union Pacific Dining Room, West Yellowstone

Nebraska

• Petrow's, Fremont

Nevada

• The Grand Cafe, Reno

New Hampshire

• Hanover Inn, Hanover
• Lamie's Tavern, Hampton
• Loch Lyme Lodge, Lyme
• Lovett's Inn, Franconia
• Mountain View House, Whitefield
• Spalding Inn, Whitefield

New Jersey

• Bernards Inn, Bernardsville
• Claridge Hotel, Atlantic City
• Franklin Arms Tea Room, Bloomfield
• Long Valley Inn, Long Valley
• Buttonwood Manor, Matawan - VO
• The Old Mill Inn, Basking Ridge
• Peacock Inn, Princeton
• Perona Farms, Andover

 
 
 
 

 
South Dakota

• Chef Louie's Steak House, Mitchell

Tennessee

• Jimmy Kelly's, Nashville - NL
• Paris Landing State Park Inn, Buchanan
• Peerless Steakhouse, Johnson City
• Read House, Chattanooga

Texas

• Luby's Cafeteria, Beaumont 

Utah

• Hotel Ben Lomond, Ogden
• Parry Lodge, Kanab
• Stevens Hotel, Fillmore - VO
• Zion National Park Lodge, Zion National Park

Vermont

• Barrows House, Dorset
• Brandon Inn, Brandon - OX
• Bristol Inn, Bristol - NN
• Four Chimney's Inn, Bennington
• Hartness House, Springfield
• McIndoe Falls Inn, McIndoe Falls - BB
• Middlebury Inn, Middlebury
• Shelburne Harbor Inn, Shelburne - NN

Virginia

• Chowning's Tavern, Williamsburg - DHR, TM
• Christiana Campbell's Tavern, Williamsburg - DHR, TM
• King's Arms Tavern, Williamsburg - DHR, TM
• Hotel Roanoke, Roanoke
• Wayside Inn, Winchester - OX
• Williamsburg Inn, Williamsburg - OX

Washington

• Davenport Hotel, Spokane - OX

West Virginia

• General Lewis Hotel, Lewisburg - OX
• Greenbriar Resort, White Sulphur Springs - DHR
• Park View Inn, Berkeley Springs

Wisconsin

• Alex's Supper Club, Appleton - NN
• Fleur de Lis, Milwaukee - DHR, NN
• Fox and Hounds, Hubertus
• The Gargoyle Royal Steak House, Lake Geneva - NN, DC
• Green Bowl Tea Shop, Watertown - NN
• Haselow's Fine Foods, Hartland
• Heaven City, School, Mukwonago - DHR
• Hoffman House, Madison - NN
• Ishnala, Lake Delton
• Julian's, Madison - NN
• Karl Ratzch, Milwaukee CLOSED 4/2/2017
• Mader's Restaurant, Milwaukee - DHR, TM, OX
• Oage Thomsen's Restaurant, Kenosha - NN, DC
• Red Circle Inn, Nashotah - DHR, OX
• Schwaben-Hof, Milwaukee - NL
• Wellhoefer's Sea Grill, Manitowoc - NN, NR, DC

 Wyoming

• The Plains Hotel, Cheyenne

I am glad you are doing this.
 
For years the Park View Inn in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia was a Duncan Hines mainstay.  I ate there as recently as 2002.  Sometime since then it has changed its name to The Country Inn, but that seems to be the only change.  It's pretty much the same place that Duncan Hines knew in the 1930s.
 
http://www.thecountryinnwv.com/#!restaurant/cv81
 
 

In Louisville, Kentucky there is the Brown Hotel, which was a Duncan Hines recommended stop.  It has been a roadfood.com recommendation for years.
 
http://www.brownhotel.com/
 

Louis,

As long as you don't try to persuade me to include KFC, I think we'll be OK.
 
I think location or name changes are acceptable, as long as there is some firm connection to the original restaurant (especially in this case with the ties to the Colonel and to Duncan). Even menu changes can be justified if the quality remains high. The food we eat has changed significantly in the last 80 years.
 
I think a tougher issue is listed restaurants that keep the same name and location, but have had a big drop-off in quality. These are places that Duncan would have eliminated from his guides. I think I will add a note to these listings describing how things have degraded.

Jim

Jim, I endorse your approach to listing these restaurants.  There are a LOT of restaurants that Duncan Hines recommended that he would not set foot in today; their standards are just too low.
 
As to Kentucky Fried Chicken, when Duncan Hines died in 1959, the chain didn't even exist.  So I think we're safe there.  Besides, the KFC recipe has been so watered down since from what I ate there 46 years ago that it's only a ghost of what it was in its pressure cooker incarnation.  What you get at Claudia Sanders' Dinner House is both the recipe and style of preparation (pan fried) that Duncan Hines experienced.
 

I think the Middlebury Inn in Middlebury, Vermont should be included on the list.  It was in some of Duncan Hines' first guidebooks in the mid-1930s.  From what I can tell, their restaurant seems to be carrying on the quality that Hines was recommending to weary travelers.
 
http://www.middleburyinn.com/
 

Here is a list of restaurants from the 1945 issue of Adventures in Good Eating along with some information about each.
 
Outside Angola, Indiana there is the Potawatomi Inn in Pokagon State Park which has a restaurant associated with it. This restaurant is a park concession operated by a private business.
Near MItchell, Indiana is a similar operation, the Spring Mill Inn, at Spring Mill State Park.
Both of these restaurants associated with these parks are still in operation.
 
In downtown Nashville, Indiana is the Nashville House, known for their fried biscuits and apple butter. Not my first choice for a meal in Nashville, but the food is pretty good.
 
I have had some contact with a couple of listed Kentucky establishments over the years.
Ashland, Kentucky was the home of the Henry Clay Hotel and its restaurant. At the time that I was there, in 1968, the hotel was still operating and the basement had been leased to the U. S. Government for use as a military induction center. While I know they must have fed us lunch, I'm afraid that I don't remember anything about the meal. The hotel was closed and converted to an apartment house named the Henry Clay House in 1975.
 
Louisville, Kentucky was home to The Brown Hotel, known for the Hot Brown Sandwich. This hotel also closed, in 1971, and was used as an office building for several years before it was restored and reopened as a hotel in the mid 1980's. Now known as the Camberley Brown Hotel, it again serves the hot brown in its restaurants. While I never ate here, I had begun to plan a trip to have a hot brown back about 1980 until I discovered it had closed.
 
Battle Creek, Michigan had the restaurant in the Hart Hotel at one time. It too has fallen on hard times, and the hotel building is presently owned by the Church of Scientology.
 
Now for some good news. Zehnder's Restaurant in Frankenmuth, Michigan is still in business, and it is still in the hands of the family that started it. And Schuler's Restaurant in Marshall, Michigan is also still operating, with the 4th generation of the Schuler family in charge.
 
Lebanon, Ohio is the home of the Golden Lamb, still operating over 200 years since it opened.
 
Columbus, Ohio, was the home of Marzetti's Restaurant until it closed in 1972.

I'm surprised. I have been to 11 of those restaurants listed by JRPfeff.

Louis
In Louisville, Kentucky there is the Brown Hotel, which was a Duncan Hines recommended stop.  It has been a roadfood.com recommendation for years.
 
http://www.brownhotel.com/
 

I was in Louisville last week and actually stayed at The Brown Hotel. I just couldn't bring myself to spend $22 for an open-faced turkey sandwich with a bunch of stuff on it that I am not sure I'd like. 
 
Come to think of it, I am not sure that I'd spend $22 on an open-faced turkey sandwich if it were piled high with macaroni and cheese and chocolate sauce. 
 
Wait. That doesn't sound good, either. I guess I meant that I wouldn't pay $22 for an open-faced turkey sandwich if it were topped with a bunch of things that I like more than that which tops a Hot Brown. 

JRPfeff
 
Louisiana

• Antoine's Restaurant, New Orleans
• Arnaud's Restaurant, New Orleans
• Broussard's Restaurant, New Orleans
• Commander's Palace, New Orleans
• Galatoire's, New Orleans

 
Yah! It was added to your list! 

I couldn't find either Science Hill Inn or the Greyhound Tavern in any of my books.
 

I accept the challenge for the two Pennsylvania restaurants.