General Info:
Are you looking to enjoy a little bit of the country right inside town? Farmers Kitchen, located on 319 Walnut St., brings you to a place filled with lots of antiques that country-lovers enjoy and city-lovers can learn from. Here, a typical meal ranges from $5.00-$7.50.
Awards:
* Our newest burger, CJ'S Cy-Hawk Burger won first-place honors in the who Radio Hawkeye-Cyclone Burger competition held prior to the 2009 Iowa-ISU football game. Go Hawkeyes
* Our Peanut Butter Chocolate Explosion Pie won a blue ribbon at the 2009 American Pie Championship in Orlando, FL.
* Our Chili was voted the #1 World's People's Choice Chili at the 2007 World Chili Championship
* Our Breaded Pork Tenderloin Sandwich placed in the top 5 Best Pork Tenderloins by the Iowa Pork Producers in 2005
In The News:
* From 500 Things To Eat Before It's Too Late by Michael & Jane Stern:
The Farmer's Kitchen Sour Cream Raisin Pie is "the buffest sour cream raisin pie we've ever slid a fork into... the meringue is twice as tall as the filling, but the filling is so creamy-thick and packed with raisins that all the meringue simply melts into a halo around it."
Whether you're searching for food "just like Mom used to make" or "that you wish Mom had made," Farmer's Kitchen will fill your need for home-cooked food. Located in historic downtown Atlantic, Farmer's Kitchen may look like any other small-town diner dotting the Iowa landscape, but it sets itself apart by the breadth of its menu, the warmth of its staff, and its commitment to serving the finest quality meals around. Owner Mark Johnson is a highly principled restaurateur who refuses to cut corners and still believes that the best food is made from scratch.
* From the Iowa Pork Producers:
When Mark Johnson heard recently that a couple of eastern Iowa restaurants had created student scholarships and were funding them from the sales of "Chicken Lips," he wondered why he couldn't do the same thing with pork at his Atlantic restaurant. Johnson started selling "Pig Lips" at his Farmer's Kitchen yesterday and 50 cents of every order sold will go into the Pig Lip Scholarship Fund he has created.
Hot Beef Sandwich, Farmer's Kitchen, Atlantic, Iowa- How many harvests have been fueled by a classic hot beef sandwich, piled high with tender pot roast between two squishy pieces of bread, topped with a ladle of mashed potatoes and thick gravy? If the pork tenderloin wasn't Iowa's classic sandwich, this would be it. Nobody does it better than the Farmer's Kitchen in Atlantic. The beef here is fork tender and the gravy simmers for two days before making its debut.