Lancaster, PA dining is home to Pennsylvania Dutch style cooking.

Local restaurants, local recipes and local ingredients in Pennsylvania Dutch Country.

The names alone often get a second glance – dried corn, whoopie pies, schnitz und knepp – but these unusual delicacies are an everyday affair in Pennsylvania Dutch Country.  Made from scratch with tender loving care, treats like apple dumplings and shoofly pie are staples in local bakeries, and no Pennsylvania Dutch restaurant is complete without an offer of chicken pot pie and a side of chow chow.

Visitors to Lancaster, PA can sample these and other homemade Pennsylvania Dutch favorites to get a taste of the cooking traditions passed from generation to generation – and kitchen to kitchen – among the locals of Lancaster County.

To help you plan your trip, we’re assembled some of the best Lancaster, PA dining for you to explore in our Pennsylvania Dutch Restaurant directory below.