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Springfield
Fourth of July Parade
Read about the
latest family attractions events in the Cooperstown area,
including news from the National Baseball Hall of Fame, The Farmers'
Museum, and Fenimore Art Museum.
The
Cooperstown Community Band offers free concerts during the summer
Gas
prices and general inflation got you down? Maximize your
hard-earned money by following these money-saving
Cooperstown vacation tips.
| Family Travel
Beyond Cooperstown |
Howe
Caverns in Cobleskill, NY, features an 80-minute tour of a living,
limestone cave, carved by an underground
river over the course of millions of years, located 156-feet below the
earth's surface!
| Cooperstown For
Your Parents' Special Getaway |
Lakefront Park can provide a
place for parents to reconnect and reflect
Parents
need their own special time together, too. read about why Cooperstown
can be a special getaway for Mom and Dad!
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 FAMILY DINING IN COOPERSTOWN
NEW YORK!
There's
no shortage of Cooperstown area restaurants that cater to
every taste at affordable prices.
Hoffman
Lane Bistro pleases parents with upscale, creative dishes while
children get to color on paper tablecloths, eat chicken fingers and
pasta, and be treated very well by a friendly staff (Frank
Forte
Photography. All work is copyright protected).
Cooperstown, NY, has a lot of "specials" on its vacation menu,
including many family-friendly restaurants featuring colorful settings,
affordable prices and delicious food.
Our
favorite Cooperstown restaurant is the Doubleday Cafe (93 Main St., Cooperstown,
Tel. 607-547-5468), located in the
heart of the Village of Cooperstown. Whether breakfast, lunch or
dinner, the Doubleday Cafe seems to hit a home run with every meal they
serve -- omelets, wraps, salads, steak dinners, creative seafood
specials, delicious desserts, to name a few. The Doubleday
Cafe
perhaps catches the spirit of Cooperstown the best of any Cooperstown
restaurant. The busy, inviting dining room/bar area with high ceilings,
big picture windows overlooking beautiful Main St., sports on the televisions, and crowds
of "locals" and visitors help make the Doubleday Cafe an unofficial community
meeting place -- with terrific food, of course!
Despite
some
minor annoyances (like charging 75 cents for a lemon in our glass of
water), T.J.'s Grille (124 Main St., Cooperstown,
Tel. 607-547-4040) is also an excellent family
dining choice for breakfast,
lunch and dinner. T.J.'s atmosphere is fun with neon flourishes, a
large screen television, black and white tile floors, a display case of
baked goods, statues of Laurel and Hardy, an adjoining gift shop,
pinball games at the entrance and a Dino the Dinosaur (from that
brilliant television and transcending cartoon show, The
Flintstones)
ride out front. T.J.'s makes an excellent mac and cheese, roast chicken
and turkey dinners, meatloaf and over sized sandwiches. T.J.'s is also
located in the heart of the Village, making it convenient to many
Cooperstown attractions.
An
up-and-coming restaurant is The Pit (34-36 Pioneer St., Cooperstown,
Tel. 607-547-9611),
located in the cellar of the Tunnicliff Inn. Formerly a mediocre
restaurant with a limited lunch menu and really crabby waitresses, The
Pit has transformed into an extremely well-run restaurant with more
sophisticated, pleasant service, a wider variety of comfort and
healthier foods, and a childrens' menu with bargain prices.
The
Pit always had potential with its cozy, dimly-lit basement oasis and
now it has finally delivered on its promise. Parents can have tasty
salads, soups, burgers, sandwiches for lunch or impressive looking
steak, seafood and chicken dishes for dinner, while the kids can enjoy
the requisite hot dogs, chicken fingers and pasta -- by the way, done
better than most other restaurants. The Pit has a very good
chef
in its kitchen!
Of
course, no visit to Cooperstown would be
complete without a visit to the tiny Cooperstown
Diner (136
1/2 Main St., Cooperstown, Tel. 607-547-9201). This
landmark diner really does a tremendous job with breakfast and lunch,
as well as with their limited dinner menu. It's everything a diner
should be -- pleasantly plain with quick, friendly service, booths and
a counter area, and lots of home style food. The Cooperstown
Diner
isn't much bigger than your home's family room, so you can expect a
wait sometimes -- outside of the restaurant as there's no
indoor
waiting area, of course!
Hoffman
Lane Bistro (Hoffman Lane, Cooperstown, Tel.
607-547-7055) and Hawkeye
Grill (60 Lake St Cooperstown, Tel.
607-547-9931)
in the Otesaga Resort Hotel might initially seem like more like special
date places for parents, but both are quite accommodating to well-
behaved children. Hoffman Lane Bistro features multi- level dining with
a sleek, contemporary design. Hoffman's has a children's menu, and
paper tablecloths for children and really immature adults to color with
crayons. For the adults, the menu selection and quality of food rivals
that of any highly regarded urban dining spot. We recommend a mixed
greens or Caesar salad, chicken alfredo with roasted red peppers,
artichokes, pearl onions and penne, pan seared salmon with basmati rice
and lemon caper sauce and the beyond tasty meatloaf dinner.
The
Hawkeye Grill is simply wonderful, a restaurant with lovely views of
Otsego Lake (with memorable outdoor dining in the summer) and type of food you'd
expect from a first-class hotel landmark. The Hawkeye allows casual
(but neat) dressing and is actually a good family vacation -- unusual
for restaurants of this genre. We love the fillet mignon of
beef
tenderloin, the grilled shrimp risotto and any "seafood of the day"
special. Service is professional and refined but very friendly, thus
adding to the Hawkeye's presence as a valid place for a well-behaved
family to eat!
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Featuring
Cooperstown travel videos and classic baseball clips to get you in the
Cooperstown spirit!
All videos are rated G for the whole family to enjoy!
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