Restaurant & Bakery
Breakfast Menu | Lunch & Dinner Menu | Family Style Dining | Carry Out Menu | Catering Menu | Restaurant Banquet Services | Make Reservations | Fun Facts
Restaurant 
As Indiana’s largest restaurant (with 1,100 seats!), we’re excited to offer a variety of dining options for our guests...
Regardless of the selection you make, our polished casual atmosphere helps you relax and celebrate; even if the occasion you’re celebrating is simply time and a meal shared together.
Menu-Style Dining:
With 5 menu pages filled with savory selections, choose a garden fresh salad, chicken and noodles, a burger or an Indiana speciality; a lightly breaded pork tenderloin.
Buffet Dining Options:
We also offer all you care to eat lunch and dinner buffets. Our lunch buffet is served weekdays from 11am until 3pm (except Saturdays and holidays) and features 3 entrees and more than 10 made from scratch sides.
The dinner buffet, served Monday thru Friday, offers 4 entrees and 10+ sides to complement your entrees from 3pm until closing.
NOW offering a Saturday buffet available 11am until 9pm & a Holiday buffet available 11am until 8pm
Family-Style Dining:
Far and wide, our family-style dining is what we've become best known for. Using genuine Amish recipes passed down through the generations create old-fashioned family traditions in the 21st Century. No visitor to Northern Indiana should miss the delectable home style cooking that awaits their discovery.
Our family-style dinners come complete with your choice of beverage and a generous wedge of pie for dessert. (We offer 31 varieties of pie in our restaurant and whole pies are also available to purchase from our home-style bakery just down the hall from our restaurant.)
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We also serve satisfying breakfasts to start your day with all the comfort foods you most enjoy.
All items on our lunch and dinner menus are available for carry-out, also. This is ideal for today’s family on the go because it allows an opportunity to share a delicious meal together as a family in the comfort of their own home.
Please bring the entire family to enjoy the Essenhaus experience...
Feel free to view our on-line menus prior to your visit, but understand that prices and items are subject to change. As always, if you have specific questions or concerns, we're just a phone call away.
Established 1971
