Dobbin House Tavern

lavish 25 item salad bar, fresh baked breads.

chicken coq au vin, baked ham with pineapple raisin sauce, stuffed shells and tomato sauce.

rice pilaf, oven roasted red potatoes, buttered dilled carrots, green beans almondine.

fudge brownies, blueberry trifle, gingerbread with lemon sauce, colonial pudding cake.

coffee, tea, or iced tea.

lavish 25 item salad bar, fresh baked breads.

select three - one from each (chicken, seafood, beef tips). chicken: hunters style, coq au vin, garden style, cacciatore; seafood: diane, newburg, creole, potpourri, beef tips: stroganoff, diane, peppered with mushroom, garden style; ham with pineapple raisin sauce; prime rib carved (add $6 per person).

select four: rice pilaf, mashed potatoes, oven roasted red potatoes, glazed sweet potatoes, o'brien potatoes, buttered corn, buttered dill carrots, green beans almondine, broccoli and cauliflower with cheese sauce, seasonal mixed vegetables.

select three: chocolate cake, fudge brownies, colonial pudding cake, gingerbread with lemon sauce, fruit tarts, blueberry trifle, cherry crumb pie, chocolate mousse.

coffee, tea, or iced tea.

with herb dressing.

choice: baked chicken hunters style, broiled fillet of salmon, primal rib of beef, baked potato, seasonal vegetable.

coffee, tea, or iced tea.

with homemade dressing

with whipped butter

choices: broiled flounder with lemon butter; baked chicken with mushrooms, supreme sauce; baked smithfield ham with pineapple raisin sauce.

baked white potato; seasonal vegetable; chocolate cake; coffee, tea, or iced tea.

with vegetable toppings and homemade herb dressing.

with toppings and hot bacon dressing. $1.50 extra.

with toppings and caesar dressing. $1.50 extra.

stuffed with cornbread stuffing.

served au jus.

two 4 oz. broiled jumbo lump crab cakes.

6 oz. filet mignon, 6 oz. lobster tail.

The drink of the Dobbin House! An absolutely incredible concoction of the light & dark rums, exotic liqueurs, & fruit juices, the potency of which mandates a limit of two (2) per customer. Truly, a genuine bargain

We twisted our bartenders arm 'til he divulged his secret recipe for this flavored blend of apricot brandy, orange & pineapple juices, & southern comfort

Rev. Dobbin may well have discovered this comingling of rum, brandy, peach brandy, & fruit juices while hobnobbing with the likes of washington & jefferson at philadelphia city tavern

Homemade soup made here by carefully boiling over coals with no smoke or dirt therein from stirring the fire. Served up hot & delicious in a pipkin with sippets

Freshly made with beef and a variety of cheeses on top, baked in a 'quick' oven to succulent tenderness, and served up hot and delicious in a tureen with sippets

A dobbin house favorite, warm & creamy served with fresh vegetables & crackers

Native fresh fruit of the season, assortment of cheeses accompanied by homemade sweet breads & sweet cheese dip

Homemade sweet bread served with cream cheese

Actually "extraordinary. " A cup of fresh soup, a tureen of greens, garden sallade, spinache sallade or caesear sallade

Fresh mushrooms, black olives, croutons, bacon & onion rings in company, served with hot bacon dressing

A tureen of fresh greens tossed with cucumbers, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, bell pepper, tomato and mushrooms with the dressing you prefer. Served with hearth baked roll

A tureen of romaine, croutons & onion rings in company with a caesear dressing. Served with a hearth baked roll

A small sallade & a half Dobbin's deli sandwich. Choice of: Garden, Spinache, or Caesar Sallade. Choice of: Ham, Roast Beef, or Turkey. Choice of: White, Whole Wheat or Rye

A cup of fresh soup & a half Dobbin's Deli Sandwich. Choice of: Ham, Roast Beef, or Turkey. Choice of: Potato Sallade, Cole Sla, or Potato Chips

Fresh garden greens with the lean of smokehouse ham, turkey, cook'd eggs, swiss & provolone cheese. Served with a hearth baked roll

Fresh Garden greens tossed with nuts and served with smoked turkey, apple, herb dressing, dried cranberries, bleu cheese crumbles and homemade sweet bread.

A tender boneless breast of chicken layed to rest over night in a delicate wine & herb marinade. Then charcoal grilled and served up on a hearth baked roll with mayonnaise, lettuce & tomato. Choice of Potato Sallade, Cole Sla, or Potato Chips

A flavorful and tender portion of beef steak cook' d according to the strength of fire you prefer, and served up on ciabatta roll with sautéed onions, lettuce, tomato and mayonnaise. Choice of Potato Sallade, Cole Sla, or Potato Chips

Half Chicken Dinner. You'll love our tender, fresh bird skewered to a spit and turned continuously in front of a clear brisk fire until it has a delicate brown and crisp outside, and is moist and tender inside. Basted on its own juices and sprinkled with a special blend of slightly spicy seasonings, this healthy meal is served up hot from the spit with a nice garden sallade, a baked potatoe and a hearth baked roll. Served after 5 p.m. Mon. - Fri. and All Day Saturday & Sunday

More just Crabmeat than you've ever seen! Served with a tossed sallade, baked potato and a hearth baked roll

A 7 oz. filet grilled to your choice of doneness and served up in it's own juices. Served with a tossed sallade, baked potato and hearth baked roll

A 7 oz. filet grilled to your choice of doneness and a "just crabmeat" crabcake. Served with a tossed salad, baked potato and hearth baked roll

A tender & complete boneless breast of chicken layed to rest over night in a delicate wine & herb marinade. Served up with a tossed sallade, potato of the day and a hearth baked roll

A generous portion of tender fish steak grilled until done to perfection. Served up with a tossed sallade, baked potato and hearth baked roll. Your servant will gladly describe today's selection

Partake of Rev. Dobbin's favorite, a flavorful and tender portion of beef steak, carved from the finest meats. Cook'd according to the strength of fire you prefer and served up with a tossed sallade, baked potato and a hearth baked roll

10 oz. strip steak cook' d according to the strength of fire you prefer and served up with a tossed sallade, baked potato and a hearth baked roll

More just Crabmeat than you've ever seen! Served up hot on French Bread with Dijon Balsamic mayonnaise. Choice of Potato Sallade, Cole Sla, or Potato Chips

A tender slow cook'd rack of pork ribs. Served up hot from the grill

Our Fertile Pennsylvania Countryside Supplies the finest of vegetables. We search the markets for the best and freshest.....Market price

Meats & such piled almost as high as the stone walls of the Dobbin House...but much straighter! Choice of Hearth White, Rye, Whole Wheat. Choice of two: Smokehouse Ham, Roast Beef, or Turkey. Served up with Mayonnaise, Lettuce & Tomato. Choice of Potato Sallade, Cole Sla, or Potato Chips

Corned Beef or Turkey Breast served with sauerkraut, swiss cheese, and thousand island dressing

Tender roast beef piled high on a brioche roll. Served up with its own juices for dipping. Choice of Potato Sallade, Cole Sla, or Potato Chips

Freshly ground hamburger char-grilled to the strength of fire you prefer and served up on a brioche roll with lettuce and tomato. Choice of Potato Sallade, Cole Sla, or Potato Chips

Freshly ground hamburger char-grilled to the strength of fire you prefer and served up on a brioche roll with lettuce and tomato. Choice of Potato Sallade, Cole Sla, or Potato Chips

Freshly ground hamburger char-grilled to the strength of fire you prefer and served up on a brioche roll with lettuce and tomato. Choice of Potato Sallade, Cole Sla, or Potato Chips

Oven roasted black bean burger served on a brioche roll with spinach, avocado, tomato and red onions

with lettuce, tomato and Dijon Mayonnaise

with spinche, tomato, red onion and Dijon Mayonnaise

with romaine, tomato and Dijon Mayonnaise

After the Best Manner with Cherry or Blueberry topping

Native pippins between a delicate paste

With lemon sauce. The secret of this bread lies in watchful baking in a gentle oven

With ice cream and chocolate sauce

A favorite among the colonies!

George Washington loves it!

A country drink locally pressed of sustenance from breakfast to bedtime for women, children, farmers, etc. A gesture of hospitality

With another if you like

With another if you like. For Loyalists

For Patriots

lavish 25 item salad bar including: soup of the day, fresh salad making, homemade dressings, homemade relish condiments.

assorted cold cuts and cheeses, turkey, smokehouse ham, swiss cheese, provolone cheese, pa dutch (ham, green beans and boiled potatoes), bar-b-qued chicken.

fudge brownies, chocolate cake, gingerbread with lemon sauce, vanilla pudding.

coffee, tea, or iced tea.

turkey or ham sandwich, potato chips, apple, brownie, water or soda.

with Pineapple Raisin Sauce

add $8 per person

with cheese sauce

with Lemon Sauce

with vegetable toppings and homemade herb dressing

stuffed with cornbread stuffing (Min. 20)

with Lemon Sauce

with herb dressing

With Herb / Blue. Cheese Dressing

sliced turkey on a Hearth roll with potato chips

a classic Caesar Salad Served with grilled marinated chicken

4 oz jumbo Lump crab cake served with potato chips

Marinated chicken served with potato chips

with Bacon and Swiss cheese

with Homemade Dressing

with Whipped Butter

With mushrooms and supreme sauce. Served with a baked potato

with lemon butter Served with a baked potato

with Pineapple Raisin Sauce Served with a baked potato

minimum of 20 orders

with Lemon Sauce

with Lemon Sauce

with Pineapple Raisin Sauce

with crabmeat

with Bacon

with crackers 3 lbs

Price available upon request. Roast Beef or Prime Rib served with rolls

wrapped with Prosciutto

with fruits & crackers

with dip

Danishes, Muffins &Fruit Tarts

with Fruit and Nuts

with Cranberry Pineapple Chutney

with Maple Blueberry Glaze

with Grilled Shallots

A beautiful dining room with all the colonial charm of 3 fireplaces, a log cabin and a large adjacent gift shop. A lovely setting for a wedding reception or large party. The room may be divided for smaller groups

Six cozy historic rooms with authentic colonial decor present the perfect background in our historic town. Ideal for a bus tour on a time schedule. Limitations of some evenings

Your group will love the shelves of old books, warm oriental rug, and glowing fireplace of this completely private room. It's perfect for a club dinner and meeting

Two hundred year old wide board floors and beautiful antique decorations help make this room ideal for festive occasions like a birthday party

Two crackling fireplaces with warm paneling flank this private area. Colonial beauty makes these adjoining rooms just right for a stylish holiday party or anniversary celebration

This large upstairs room is perfect for meetings, wedding receptions, and private affairs. The unusual decor, fashioned after the original rooms purpose from the eighteenth century, allows you to dine in canopy tester beds!

A spinning wheel, oak beams, century old coverlets, and other antiques create a romantic and private place for that special occasion such as a wedding rehearsal dinner or bridge club night

Along with our charming historic rooms and our famous cuisine, our service is reminiscent of the days when colonial aristocratic society entertained: friendly, prompt, and with a personal attention to detail that makes you are your guests feel like royalty. We invite you to visit and choose the room you like best

They can be adjusted to the season of year and your groups special desires. We will be happy to incorporate your individual ideas

Payment will be due on the date of service

Drive north on Rt. 134 to the stop sign at Steinwehr Ave. Turn right onto Steinwehr Ave. The Dobbin House is the third building on the left. Unload passengers in front of parking lot. Park bus in parking lot to the right of the building

Each Guest pays for their beer, wine or cocktail

Host/Hostess pays for all alcohol consumed

Host/Hostess pays for beer, wine or punch. Each Guest pays for their cocktail

Amaretto, Creme de Cacao

Southern Comfort, Apricot Brandy, fruit juices

2 rums, coffee, brandy, fruit juices

Rum, brandy, fruit juices

(in season) Bourbon, soda, fresh mint

Rum, butter, apple cider, sugar, cinnamon

Irish Whiskey, whipped cream, cherry

Coffee, cocoa, Brandy, Kahlua

Whiskey, butter, sugar, cinnamon

our house specialty! with whipped butter. guaranteed to delight your group.

served on whole wheat bread. choice of: turkey with bacon and swiss cheese, hot ham and swiss, reuben on rye bread.

sliced turkey on a hearth baked roll with potato chips.

a classic caesar salad served with grilled marinated chicken.

4 oz. jumbo lump crab cake served with potato chips.

marinated chicken served with potato chips.

with mushrooms and supreme sauce. served with a baked potato. include a tossed salad topped with homemade dressing.

with lemon butter, served with baked potato. include a tossed salad topped with homemade dressing.

and boiled potatoes. include a tossed salad topped with homemade dressing.

(min 20) scallops, shrimp and fish. served with rice. include a tossed salad topped with homemade dressing.

(min 20) include a tossed salad topped with homemade dressing.

with Ranch Dressing

with Supreme Sauce / Baked White Potato

with Tomato Sauce

with Pineapple Raisin Sauce

with Lemon Sauce

with Homemade Dressing

with Whipped Butter

with mushrooms and supreme sauce

with lemon butter served with baked potato

with pineapple raisin sauce served with baked potato

with Lemon Sauce

with Pineapple Raisin Sauce

with Lemon Sauce

w/ cheese sauce

with Lemon Sauce

with Herb Dressing

with Lemon Sauce

with Homemade Dressing

with Whipped Butter

Seasonal Vegetable

with Lemon Butter

with Mushrooms and Supreme Sauce

with Pineapple Raisin Sauce

with hot bacon dressing

For your complete dining pleasure, our entire menu is prepared from the finest and freshest ingredients. Our servants will be most pleased to describe the delicacies prepared for tonight and to assist you in making your selection

Our fertile pennsylvania countryside supplies the finest of vegetables. We search the markets for the best and freshest. Your servant will be happy to describe the seasonal favorite prepared for tonight

Chilled backfin crabmeat disposed in a fanciful manner atop an avocado. Served with sauce louis, a creamy blend of herbs and lemon

A generous offering disposed in a fanciful manner to dress your table. Your servant will gladly describe the appetizer and its unique preparation

Our Adams County is one of the leaders in fruit production in the United States. We are proud to provide the seasons best fruit stuff fixed in the best manner of local receipts

If you support the cause of liberty from England as we do, and wish this soup to be re-named "Washington's Onion Soup" , so inform your waiter! Freshly made with beef and a variety of cheeses on top, baked in a 'quick' oven to a succulent tenderness, and served up hot and delicious in a tureen

Freshly homemade soup prepared by carefully boiling over coals with no smoke or dirt therein from stirring the fire. Served up steaming hot and heartily herb' d in a pipkin

Steamed over a gill of small beer and selected seasonings. Served with a sauce of spicy persuasion

in the tradition of our "Seafood Isabella. " Fresh vegetables sauteed in a wine sauce & laid to rest on a bed of pasta

Carrots, mushrooms, onions, and squash served with pasta & tomato sauce

Broccoli, cauliflower, mushrooms, and vegetable of the day served with a crumb-topped crown of tomato and potato of the day

A favorite among Rev. Dobbin's house guests. Visitors come for miles to enjoy his treat. Includes a 5-6 oz. Lobster Tail and a 5 oz. Filet Mignon-thick, tender, and delicious. It eats extremely well

Partake of Rev. Dobbin's favorite, a flavorful and tender portion of beef steak, carved from the finest of meats. Cooked to your choice of doneness and served up on a china plate with its own juices

Rev. Dobbin often asks for a tender, fresh bird perfectly prepared to a Dobbin House Specialty. Baked boneless breast of chicken topped with tomatoes, mushrooms and brown sauce

Cooked according to the strength of fire you prefer, and served up hot and on a china plate steeped in its own savory liquor

Melt in your mouth standing beef rib, cooked to your choice of doneness in a reflector oven with its own juice steeped therein. James': The larger portion goes to Dobbin's favorite son for being the first attorney to be admitted to our new county's bar. Smiths': The regular portion goes to Dobbin's stepson who's in trouble because he carved his initials (S.A) on the mantle in the parlor

Tender escallopes of veal sauteed on a clear brisk fire. Finished with a madeira scented sauce and Penna. mushrooms. A delicious cookery!

President Adams is proud of this tender 1/2 duckling roasted in our hearth oven with tart Adams Co. Apples and hard cyder. Served up just right with a delicious cyder sauce seasoned delicately with citrus herbs. A true taste delight

Three tender chops broiled to the strength of fire you prefer. Served up with peppered Merlot sauce. Succulently delicious

Agreeably cut pork tenderloin, sufficiently broiled and made ready to dish with an outstanding raspberry sauce

A splendid delicacy from farther away than we can imagine, tasting admirably well. A 12 oz. Tail with drawn butter

In the 1800's the Dobbin House was a station for the' railroad' which served to escort thousands of runaway slaves to freedom. Rev. Dobbin is against slavery, and thus, all of the servants here tonight are merely indentured. They all recommend this boneless breast of chicken with tender shrimp sauteed over a clear brisk fire with a hint of garlic and white wine

A generous portion of tender shrimp topped with Lump Crabmeat and topped with His Majefty's imperial sauce. Then baked in a slow oven and served up on a pewter plate juft right

Rich with natural goodness, broiled and served up hot, containing more 'juft crabmeat' than you've ever seen!

Truly worth coming miles for ... Rev. Dobbin's first wife, Isabella, left him this secret family recipe. Made of fresh vegetables with a medley of seafoods in a wine sauce, then simmered over hot ember' til tender. Dishes up on a bed of pasta. It answers well

Lump Crabmeat topped with imperial sauce and His Majefty's favorite spices. Baked to a proper brownness. Eats finely done thus

A favorite of this area, which Rev. Dobbin now calls "Gettistown" ! A generous portion of tasty offerings from the sea served up broiled 'til just tender, as you wish. Orange Roughy, Fillet of Salmon, Maryland Crabcake, Marinated Shrimp, Deep Sea Scallops

Deep sea scallops sauteed with bacon and herbs, then drowned in Chablis. Served directly to you in a succulent sauce

Lump Blue Crabmeat at its very best. Gently tossed in hot butter sauce until done to perfection. An agreeable dish

A generous portion of a tender offering from local streams or distant seas disposed in a fanciful manner to dress your table. Your servant will gladly describe the catch and its unique preparation