Dutch Pantry

Every chance we get, my husband and I eat here. We drive from Tulsa just to eat at the Dutch Pantry. The place inside is not fancy, but always clean. The people that work in there are always very kind. The food is just wonderful home style cooking and taste delicious. The dessert table is something to behold. It is definitely a place to try. If you do, I promise you will not regret it.

Oh holy balls this place is amazing! It is the definition of comfort food!!! This is not the place to go if you’re on a strict diet… or any diet at all. Fried chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy and some wonderful green beans are just some of the wonderful unhealthy things they serve at this buffet! And let me just tell you a little something about their dessert table… it…is…amazing!!! Everything is homemade and so full of fat and sugar it will have you crying in the gym for weeks afterwards panting the words «worth it!» While slowly passing out on the stair climber! I give this place two fat thumbs up!

Amazing homemade food. Such friendly people and homey feeling. I’ve been to this place for years and never had a bad experience. Amazing pies and noodles!

The restaurant is very simple, the food is also simple, but extremely comforting.
The quantity is basically and all you can eat, which is a dying way of doing business.
I liked their sign at the start of the food line which reads something like this «take all you want that you can eat, and you can go back for more» shows a very frugal way of looking at life, but one that I grew up with.
I recommend this place highly.

Five stars is unusual for a rating from me, especially since I’d give the food about 3.5. But the desert bar I’d have to rate between a 6 and 7. It truly is an amazing collection of homemade pies, cobblers, and bread pudding. Pies Included coconut, lemon, peach, blackberry, blueberry, pumpkin, and who knows what else. All made fresh with simple ingredients. I make my own coconut pie at home and had yet to find one that could match it. Most are just too overpoweringly sweet. This had just the right flaky and buttery crust, a not too deep layer of sweet coconut custard, and a nice topping of whipped cream. I picked up a blackberry pie to take home and look forward to making the trek back out. Just remember, take it easy on the food bar and save room for a few deserts!

A great place to get a delicious home-​cooked meal. If you’re in Chouteau or just passing through, you must stop here! Make sure you’re wearing sweatpants so you can truly take advantage of all of the delicious sides. Their desserts are okay, but the carrot cake is amazing!

Great food. I would highly recommend this place. The exterior and interior are nothing special, but I couldn’t care less because their food is so good!

Love this place. We have passed this place forever and never knew it was here. It is so delicious. Everything is fresh and homemade. All the employees are nice and friendly and it is very clean. It is a buffet style meal but they keep everything so fresh. If you are traveling by here you have got to stop and try. We rely a lot on these reviews and what people say about restaurants. You will be very happy with your choice to stop here. Pecan pie is Awesome!!! Mashed potatoes and gravy are homemade, green beans are REAL with bacon and the salad bar is so fresh with homemade ranch. You just have to stop and try this little place. so much food cant mention it all.

The reviews are correct… You pay the adult price if you only eat one helping, but how is that different from any buffet? The green beans are chock full of bacon and onions and «cooked down», southern style. Every thing we ate was fantastic. My daughters raved about the meatloaf. I had bbq beef and fried fish. Old diner chairs and Formica topped tables are run down, but very clean. If you don’t want food, it’s worth it just for the dessert buffet. I’m not joking. The desserts are to die for. Don’t expect gourmet anything, but it IS all artisan quality.
Update: We stopped here again yesterday on our way through town. They closed two minutes after we got there (New Years Eve). Although they didn’t put anything new on the buffet, they didn’t make us feel rushed or hurried. An elderly couple came in a good 20 minutes later, she with a walker, he with a cane, and the workers helped them get their food from the buffets, served them drinks and were so very, genuinely kind. They never rushed any of us feel rushed or as if we were in their way. They quietly began cleaning and putting things away.

You can’t beat this buffet style food. And the desserts, oh my! Good for the entire family!

I don’t expect much from roadside stops, but this place is gross. The green beans tasted like cigarettes and I actually witnessed an employee come from the kitchen and pour water into the spaghetti to rehydrate it. The dessert bar is twice the size of the actual food section, and it offers a surprisingly decent spread. This place is worth a stop if you want some roadside cobbler, but if you’re looking or an actual meal, you’re better off anywhere else.

If you’re in or around Chouteau for lunch, the Dutch Pantry isn’t a bad option. Don’t expect much in terms of atmosphere — it’s dark and a little run down inside and they don’t go to great lengths to present the food in an appetizing manner — but some of the food will be sure to hit the spot. I’d recommend the mashed potatoes, turkey, and stuffing. Unfortunately I didn’t have time to try the amazing dessert buffet everyone raves about.
If you go, go hungry. I barely had one plate full but still paid the buffet price of $ 10.98.

If you’re in the mood for good homestyle cooking, this is a great place. It is buffet style dining with salad bar, hot food bar, and dessert bar prepared by Amish cooks. Extremely casual atmosphere. We had lunch for about $ 10 per person and everything we tried was very good.

Food has gone down hill but still ok. The salad bar and dessert part is the better parts of this place. It needs to be better organized for customers instead of staff. Be very wary of going during peak times as you will be STANDING in line for what seems like forever. If you are taking seniors or kids and need to go back through, then you are out of luck and will probably not have time to sit back down to eat before they are needing something else. The price has continued to go up and up, but the quality has not. It is not bad food, but could be better. They do have good breakfast though. I would highly recommend the scrapple if you are eating breakfast.

Great home cooking and plenty of desserts that are wonderful. All you can eat. The dessert bar is great, and sometimes I’m tempted to only skim through the main course and jump straight to the dessert bar. You can take some of the desserts home as well, as I enjoyed some of their peanut butter (crunchy type) cookies at home later.
They have a different main course each day. (from their menu): Monday: Turkey and Dressing, Tuesday: Chicken Fried Steak, Wednesday: Fried Chicken, Thursday: Roast Beef, Friday: Catfish and Meatloaf, and Saturday: BBQ Pork Ribs & Fried Chicken.

We were hungry and wanting something more than fast food on our trek from TX to WI. We swung into this place not knowing what to expect and were pleasantly surprised by their small breakfast buffet. Typical offerings and eggs cooked to order. I didn’t love everything, I found the gravy for the biscuits to be very very sweet and the hashbrowns were of a very gooey, strange texture. BUT, overall the offerings were tasty. Good breakfast meats, nice little waffles, cottage cheese with a variety of toppings. Very friendly, basic dining atmosphere. This place is buffet only.
You can also buy canned jams, pickles, honey, homemade pies, cookies and cakes. Everything looked delicious.

What a great find! The previous reviewer was right — very unassuming and functional dining area full of locals coming in from a morning of hunting or work. And very friendly too! The food is very fresh with a good selection for the salad bar. The entrees and sides apparently change from day to day and is always like simple good home cooking. Then there is the dessert buffet… what a selection! All that we sampled, pies and cobblers, were just made, not too sweet and full of flavor. We bought two to take to family for Christmas (and snicker doodles too).
We were told the owners were going to renovate in the next week or so and a little freshening and updating would be nice. All in all, definitely worth a stop by. I’ve already recommended it to family who will be driving through in the future.

This unassuming place just off the highway in a small Oklahoma town is a perfect find for people on a road trip or for Tulsans looking for something different. It is run by the Amish, so it is a low-​tech, no frills, no decorations, totally basic type of restaurant. It is great, home-​made country cooking, served buffet style out of steam tables with no effort made at all to dress them up or camouflage them. One look around at a restaurant full of locals and regulars will assure you that you are in the right place though.
I should also mention that people come from miles around to buy their pies. They make a ton of different pies (3 different types of rhubarb pie alone). Before holidays you will have to order them days in advance. We got 3 of them last Thanksgiving on our way out of town and I saw a glimpse of their back room in which there were hundreds and hundreds of pies waiting to be picked up. The Amish do know their pie.