Restaurants

While not known for its cuisine, the area around Oakwood offers some tasty options for a meal out, from down-home favorites to farm-to-table specialties.

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Amy’s Frosty Freeze

Amy’s Frosty Freeze in Mifflinburg looks like it walked out of American Graffiti.

The Purple Cow

The Purple Cow, along Rt. 45 near Lewisburg, is our family’s favorite ice cream spot in the valley.

The Elk Creek Cafe

The Elk Creek is located in Millheim, PA, the hippest small town along Penns Creek.

The Inglebean

Undeniably the hippest coffee shop in rural America, The Inglebean in Millheim serves as a meeting place and caffeination station for all of Penns Valley.

Rusty Rail

Located in a former buggy making factory in Mifflinburg, Rust Rail is the largest craft brewery in Pennsylvania, offering a large menu of upgraded pub fare and classic America favorites.

Boomerang’s

Real Americana, Boomerang’s is the only bar in the area, offering great Angus hamburgers and french fries.

The Original

The Original Italian Pizza and Restaurant in Mifflinburg offers pizza, pasta and salads that are better than you would expect in Central Pennsylvania.

Chilly Willy’s

A roadside ice cream shop that’s added a back dining room, Chilly Willy’s offers great soft service ice cream and sundaes year-round, and daily lunch and dinner specials.

Union County Sportsman’s Club

It’s open five days a week for lunch and dinner. Technically, a membership club, anyone can eat there. To drink, you need to be a member, which is no more expensive or complicated than going to the bar and asking the bartender to join.

Other Options

If you’re up for driving a bit further for dinner and drinks, we recommend checking three places in Bellefonte, PA. We frequent the town regularly to visit Big Springs Spirits, Axemann Brewery and The Red Horse Tavern, technically in Pleasant Gap, PA. Big Springs, housed in a former matchstick factory, makes their spirits on sight and offers a knock-your-socks menu of cocktails. A limited menu or charcuterie and order-out pizza rounds out their offerings. Axemann, a new entry in the Central PA craft brewery scene, remodeled a former steel fabrication factory into a post-industrial oasis for good beer and food truck fare. The restaurant is huge in scale with garage doors that open in the summer to the cool refreshing breezes of Logan Creek.