Over the Fourth of July weekend, Mary and I went to the North Coast of California to see the Redwoods (more on that to come later). On the way, we stopped in Eureka, CA for the night and had dinner at a fun little place called the Samoa Cookhouse. It’s an old lumber camp cookhouse, and they even have a bit of a logging museum (see picture in the right).

The eating area is made up of a bunch of picnic tables and chairs. Unless you have a really big group (10 or more), you will be sharing a table with other people. This is part of the fun. The food is served family style using big plates and bowls and you can get more of anything you want. However, the food is shared only within your group.

The menu is fixed for a given meal (breakfast, lunch or dinner) on a given day. When I was there they served bread (fresh baked and yummy), salad, beef barley soup, peas and corn, baked potato, fried chicken and pork steak. The fried chicken was awesome and the pork steak was sort of country style (pan fried and smotered in white gravy). They ran out of apple pie, so we had to settle for chocolate pudding. Stop there if you get a chance!