The venue is spectacular. It has been standing since 1876 by what once was the Sunbury train station. It catered to the most discriminating travelers and the venue still reflects that. It is open for lunch only on Thursdays, and you may need a reservation. Fridays throughout the month of April 2017, they offer dinner theater. Otherwise, they are open only for holidays and special events: St. Patrick's Day, Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, and wine tastings, scotch tastings. If you send them your e-mail address, or add it on their website, they will alert you to up-coming events.
They only prepare one menu per day, but it is always different. We stopped by for lunch today and had a fritatta and salad. The fritatta was nothing to write home about--mostly potatoes, but it went down OK. The salad was something else: large, covered with grated cheese, with mixed garden greens + spinach, avocado, onions, tomato. You can get it with or without cold turkey slices, croutons, in fact you can have almost anything you want in it.
There was only one one dessert today, chocolate chunk cookies. They begin making them when we order them, and when they came out the were so hot we could hardly hold them together.
The location is what this restaurant is all about. Near the courthouse, so lots of lawyers and police officer, and across the street from the new synagogue. The food is priced for every man: we paid $24 w/tip for our fritatta, salad, and cookies.
The website is http://www.thepackerhouse.com. Pictures of the interior and exterior may be found there. read more