Pataha Flour Mills — Restaurant in Dayton

The Pataha flour mill, simply put, is fantamassupcredible. Because fantastic, amazing, super, and incredible don't do it justice on their own. The owners (VanVogts) are good friends of mine, they're amazingly friendly and love what they do at the mill. The food they make is exceptional, and quite filling. The mill itself is nothing to be passed up, taking a walk through and checking out the old machinery, the catwalks, reading what machine did what job, and the ins and outs of it all is actually very fun. Little side note: the Pataha flour Mills XXX brand flour was actually featured in early Looney tunes cartoons. They even have a picture of bugs bunny I think it was holding a bag of their XXX brand flour. If you're driving through, in a hurry or not, I would very highly recommend stopping in and saying hi to the VanVogts. Tell them...

We went with friends already familiar with the mill and it's restaurant. They have a no price menu, and the food is very good. We were allowed to go on an unguided tour of the mill which has much of it's mechanisms and structure intact - full of wooden hand made chutes and augers. The large water flume pipe is disconnected in the basement, but it is still there, the water powered motor, and the large belts and pulleys - totally amazing. There is a large collection of film cameras on the first floor- thousands of different models - the largest...

Excellent food....pastor john is amazing, his wife louise is an awesome cook...the fellowship is wonderful...steven foster night that was held at our church on oct.20th, 2018 was a lot of fun and some great music...my husband doug showed off some of his artwork and i got to show off some of my cards...thank you to all the people that helped that night and made it worth while we couldn't have done it without you...David Lara , Janet Parsons , Elaine Mader, the Lewis - Clark quintet , just to name a few....thank you john for the love...