The
Samoa Cookhouse has been serving up lumberjack-size
meals since 1893. For the last twenty-odd years, the public
has been invited to share in the bounty, so we saved up an
appetite and had lunch there today.
There's
no menu at the Samoa Cookhouse. You get what the cook's serving,
which today was salad, soup, roast pork, mashed potatoes,
home-made bread and peach cake with whipped cream. Our server,
Chris Tallmadge, of Eureka, CA, offered us seconds
on everything. Since we weren't going out to fell trees all
afternoon, we felt it better to decline. Well, okay, we did
have more mashed potatoes. They were 
just
too hard to resist. After lunch, Rose Harrington, Samoa
Cookhouse's manager, showed us the museum of culinary relics
and the history of the lumber industry.
If
you find ever find yourself on Highway 101 near Eureka, we
hope you're feeling hungry. Even if you aren't, you won't
regret a stop at the Samoa Cookhouse, the last genuine lumberjack
eatery in the West.
Samoa
Cookhouse, on Humboldt Bay, 4 minutes from Eureka, CA, across
the Samoa Bridge
Mailing address: 445 W. Washington St., Eureka, CA 95501
Telephone: (707) 442-1659
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Cookhouse Online
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