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Alpine Homestead Restaurant - CLOSED
- Price Range:
-
$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- Yes
- Delivery:
- No
- Take-out:
- No
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
3 reviews for Alpine Homestead Restaurant
3 reviews in English
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Review from andy r.
San Francisco, CA
3/27/2007 2 photos
A Swiss restaurant with
THE WORLD'S LARGEST CUCKOO CLOCK!
Alpine-Alpa was established in 1935 by the Grossenklaus family in Ohio's Amish country, originally producing cheese. They expanded to include a restaurant, cuckoo clock shop and marketplace for all things Swiss this side of banking and watches.
Yes, and where's the giant clock?
Above the entrance is an animated 'Swiss Miss' mannequin who invites all inside to a lodge-like dining room with a waterfall to partake in such delicacies as Swiss steak, Swiss noodles and anything else that's good with gravy. I do attribute my first experience with fondue here as a child.
Okay, okay, what about the big-ass clock?!
For all we cared, you could have fed us "Alpine-Alpo" and we'd have just kept watching that minute hand working its way around to the 6 and 12. We could hear the thing going off, but couldn't leave our seats until we finished everything and paid the tab.
Fer cryin' out loud, SHOW US THE #&@$% CLOCK!!!!
If you must:
http://www.youtube.com...
It's 24' tall and took 12 years to finish.
Note: You know you're getting close when all the gas stations have tiny animated skiers and bobsledders in the pediments. -
Review from Justin R.
New York, NY
6/24/2010
The strangest thing happened to me today. A salad I bit into at lunch today smacked me down memory lane. It immediately took me back to a trip my family took. We stopped here for dinner when I was like 8-9 years old! The salad I had today tasted exactly like what I remember the salad tasting like back then at the restaurant! Which of course reminded me of a bunch of other fun stuff about the place, the cuckoo clock, and them making cheese.
Anyways it was an amazingly fun memory and I was hoping the place was still around. I wonder what I would think of the place if I visited it at my age now but back then... -
Review from Jen Q.
Brewster, OH
1/31/2010
This placed closed awhile ago and the World's Largest Cuckoo Clock has been sold to the highest bidder(I believe that's Walnut Creek Cheese, but I could be wrong).
