Lyn-Way Restaurant

Good home cooking for reasonable prices, and the pies are unbelievable!

Great Pie!!! Great Prices!!!
The open face sandwiches are great I recommend the turkey open face!
Negatives– a lot of the food is probably right out of a freezer bag
But seriously the pie is out of this world!!! Dutch Cherry or the Buckeye pie are my favorites

Great place filled with happy people and wonderful food. Ashland’s go-​to for a satisfying meal.

A local favorite for pie. I recommend the Buckeye. Pair it with a cup of coffee because there is no shortage of richness in this slice. Everything else is your typical dinner food. Sit at the counter for quick service and an old-​timey feel.

Four stars for the pie! I don’t often find my way back to Ashland but when I do I love coming to the Lyn-​way. Food is reasonably priced and pie is to die for.

Talk about a family restaurant! Inexpensive and truly good comfort food! Remodeled since our last visit, but we do hail from SoCal. Our waitress was fast, keeping our cups and glasses filled. I enjoyed the Pollock while my wife had a grilled cheese on sourdough. We shared a side of waffle fries. I had a side salad and my wife the beef vegetable soup to start. Though the salad was basic, it was fresh and the soup seemed to be from scratch with my wife thoroughly enjoying it. The fish was breaded and cooked on the griddle. The highlight of the meal and a fourth star were the pies! I had the Banana Cream and my wife the Buckeye Pie. Both made from scratch, rich, and delicious! My understanding is that all pies are made on site with the Sour Cream Raisin only available Thursday and Saturday. We will indeed be back!

This is a very good place for pie. I recommend the Buckeye pie. The rest of the food tastes like it is straight from Sysco with little if anything done to «fix it up» (e.g. instant mashed potatoes and gravy, salad from a bag). Also, the prices were rather high for the quality of the food ($ 8 for some salad from a bag and a frozen split chicken breast).
I was surprised about the quality of food, given the somewhat high rating this place received. However, the high rating may just reflect the limited non-​fast food competition in Ashland.
If it is open, I would highly recommend the Pump House Grille. The food is the very best around & it supports a good cause!

If I was just rating the pies I would give it 4 stars, but the place as a whole is pretty mediocre at best. Not a lot of flavor. The one thing that keeps me from going to this place is that it isn’t open on Sundays till 4 pm. A breakfast joint that isn’t open till 4pm!!! I get the whole church thing, but come on I need greasy, carb loaded crap after a hard night of drinking.

Wow, I love this place! I often visit Ashland due to work and some coworkers who live in Ashland suggested Lyn-​Way. I love a good mom-​and-​pop diner experience and Lyn-​Way did not disappoint! I especially loved the stuffed pepper soup! I will definitely go back next time I am in town. See you soon! And save me a piece of coconut cream pie!

My grandparents used to take me here as a kid and I have fond memories here. Going back as an adult made me realize the food is kind of bland. The puddings and pies make it all worth it though!!!

My sister moved to Ashland in 2006. She started exploring the area, and she had been suggested this as a place to get a good meal and awesome pie. So, of course, we went there, and I had a chicken sandwich while she had a salad. We then shared a piece of pie (I think it was buckeye). I was hooked! Her salad looked great, and my sandwich was yummy. We, subsequently, have visited there a number of times, and I am very fond of their coconut cream pie. The food is cooked quickly enough that you don’t feel like you’re waiting around forever, and they use good ingredients so you don’t think anything is coming from a frozen item and just re-​heated. I really like the salad with baked chicken on it. This is where I started getting a taste for putting hard-​boiled eggs in my salad for the added protein when I make salads at home. I haven’t tried their breakfast nor have I had a variety of their items, but the food I’ve eaten there has always been of good quality, and I highly, highly recommend the pie!

Everything is bland. The pie is disgusting.

Was looking for a place to enjoy a leisurely lunch with a friend who lives in Columbus. (Ashland is exactly half way between our home towns.) Came across Lyn-​Way through Unilocal.Considering the lack of options in this area, this was an ok place to spend a few hours catching up. The menu is entirely comfort food… and very simple. A plain Chicken Breast was featured as their house speciality… what!?! In any case, I had the Roast Beef, Mushroom and Swiss sandwich, which was served on an open faced hot dog bun. It was surprisingly enjoyable despite the awkward presentation. My friend had the chili and it was decent.
Buckeye pie was delicious. (Chocolate pudding pie with tons of peanut butter bits.) Banana cream pie was terrible. Tasted like banana flavoring and we couldn’t find a real banana slice in it. Very generous slices so we could share with one another.
Staff was very friendly and willingly accommodated our 2 hour lunch without a single annoyed look. We tipped accordingly. ;-)
I wouldn’t go out of my way to go here again but if I was in town and looking for a decent, friendly meal, I’d stop in… and order some pie.

I grew up in Ashland, and I’ve been to this place hundreds of times, not necessarily because it’s good, but it’s the best of very limited options. I know the wait staff, I know the menu and I know the pie.
The service is very fast and probably the best part of this place. The entire staff is extremely friendly and attentive. You can’t knock this place for making sure you’re getting everything you ask for during your meal. Refills are prompt, the food comes out quickly and you get what you order.
However, the assertion that this place has good food — or «amazing pie» — is way over the top. C’mon people. Lyn-​Way is your classic frozen Sysco Foods dumped-​in-​the-​deep-​fryer-​or-​warmed-​in-​the-​oven type of diner. There isn’t really anything on this menu that will knock you off your feet, and of all the times I’ve been there, I don’t think I’ve ever noticed a «signature» type of dish. The burgers are alright. Try the Deluxe Big Way with everything.
As for this world famous pie. Well, I’ll be the first to say it: nothing amazing about it. Most of the fillings taste like they’re from a can, and the Buckeye Pie — purportedly the specialty — tastes like a chemical-​laden pie you’d throw in someone’s face. It isn’t that great. I wouldn’t say it’s awful by any stretch of the imagination, but the lack of competition makes it seem way better than it is.
As the most popular restaurant in town, I’d like to see Lyn-​Way try to change up a little — offer some vegetarian options, try to spruce up the menu with something other than short-​order items — and encourage the rest of the Ashland dining scene to follow. Getting a real chef in to design a few new dishes that are innovative rather than the same old, tired fare would do wonders for this place.

Yet another must stop place when I visit home and not only for the pie but sometimes I will go just for the pie. Like Adam said and everyone in Ashland will tell you their pie is A-​FREAKING-​MAZING! The entire menu is jammed packed with comfort food. My favorite would have to be the pork chops with mash potato and gravy and macaroni salad. Though I haven’t met an item on Lyn-Way’s restaurant I haven’t liked.
One thing I love about Lyn-​Way and Adam also touched on it is the regulars. You always see the same people or at least the same types of people here, usually white haired nice elderly couples in the early afternoon eating their dinner or families out for a bite to eat. They have a great bar seating area if you are eating solo and the servers will banter the older gentlemen and make friendly conversation with all as they go about their duties.
Now onto the pie. This is the kind of pie you dream about that haunts your dreams when you move away from Ashland until you can make the trip and get a few slices for the road after eating a meal and a slice there. Hands down my favorite is the graham cracker pie. A nice light graham cracker crust filled with vanilla pudding topped with whipped cream. Simple yet amazing. Though like their menu I haven’t had a pie I didn’t like though I tend to lean more towards the cream pies than fruit.
Now after re-​living the pie in my head since starting this review I must make a trip to Ashland soon for pie and comfort food. Maybe balloon fest weekend, that’s always a good time to see long lost friends.

This is the entire definition of Ashland as a small town crammed into one place: regulars, regulars, regulars, sick-​amazing pie of a thousand delicious varieties, photos of old Ashland adorning the walls, farmers and businessmen rubbing elbows and drinking cheap coffee, BLTs, Salisbury steak, and assorted other hometown cooking specialties.
Their pie is what has made this classic restaurant famous, and it entirely earns that reputation.
Order the pie.
Eat the pie.
Order another piece.
Eat the pie.
Eat the pie.