So for those of you who are on a budget, I’m going to introduce you to some cheap eats. There is a restaurant about two miles from Harrisonburg in Dayton called Thomas House Restaurant. This restaurant serves breakfast, lunch and dinner. Breakfast and lunch are lunch-line style and dinner is a sit down affair. The restaurant doesn’t give dinner menus, but instead there are dry-erase boards in various places throughout the restaurant with the menus that are changed for different times of day. Mennonite waitresses commonly set the scene—bringing the true “country” feel into place. The atmosphere is down-to-earth and the restaurant owner even works in the kitchen. The restaurant has a unique little pond right inside the entrance.
All meals start with a choice of bread—you can get a white or wheat roll, or a corn muffin. I chose a corn muffin which was very sweet, but delicious. For dinner, the most expensive menu item was oysters at $12.00. All menu items come with a choice of two sides from the approximate 15 side choices they offer. I ordered the pork bar-b-que with green beans and scalloped potatoes. The pork was also sweet, tender and super yummy! The green beans were seasoned with ham and scalloped potatoes were jam-packed with cheese. All the food was recognizably homemade and country style.
For a whopping $6.50 I was impressed! I really don’t know of anywhere else in Harrisonburg where you can go eat a homemade meal for less than that. Even Applebee’s charges more for some of their appetizers that are frozen and plopped into a pan. Another cool thing is that it only takes about seven or eight minutes to get your food. All the food is made ahead of time and kept in warmers, but you would never know it by the fresh taste!
Follow Route 42 South right out of Harrisonburg to 222 Main Street in Dayton, VA.
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