Pickles Cafe

Where do I start? I love Pickles! The only thing that upsets me is that it is closed on Sundays! Every other day anything I tried from the pick 2 or pick 3 specials has been really amazing! Fresh ingredients and creative and ever changing menu! I love going there for lunch with my girlfriends but also for brunch with my family!
It is in an old general store, it is one of the few authentic places in the area and I love to think it’s my local precious secret. Besides the great food and service you also can buy farm fresh eggs, antiques, flowers (there is an adorable flower shop in the parking lot) and they just opened the upper floor to sell a variety of handmade goods.

The wife and I had breakfast there today — she had been recently for a special Fort Wayne «foodie» event, and thought I’d like it… She was right!
Specialties are 5 egg omelette and hash. I had the hash and she had biscuits and grave. Both were very tasty!
The place is family owned and run, and you could tell. Everyone is super friendly and attentive. The front of the restaurant is a general store which sells little candies, jams, jellies, and meats raised on their own farm right there on the property, which keeps their prices low.
I’ll be back many, many times.

Had breakfast there this morning. Very quaint experience. Excellent food and great service. Small and crowded dinning area but worth it for the food. I would highly recommend for an enjoyable experience.

Pickles Café is located in renovated general store in Dunfee, open for lunch on most weekdays and Saturday. You can browse the general store and outdoors garden shop, if your party has to wait for a table. The restaurant itself is small, but was very charming, with vintage-​looking table clothes and rustic furniture. We had about a ½ hour wait on a Saturday lunch visit, but the time seemed to move quickly.
I ordered the garden vegetable sandwich with herbed cream cheese; it also contained spinach, avocado, cucumber and other veggies, on a tasty bread. I chose a side of fruit with potato chips, and a not-​too-​sweet lemonade. My dining partner ordered the turkey and artichoke panini, with chips & fruit. We both enjoyed our sandwiches; nothing extraordinary or too fancy here, just fresh and well-​prepared. I highly recommend ordering whatever dessert item is available, or go all out and choose the dessert sampler tray. We shared a slightly warmed piece of oatmeal chocolate chip pie, which was marvelous. I really regret not sampling more desserts, but we were pretty full by the end of the meal.
Most of the other menu items sounded like standard lunch-​time deli offerings (sandwiches /​soups/​salads), but the kitchen seems to put extra care in the dishes it sends out and the ingredients taste very fresh. Service was friendly, but they seemed a bit overwhelmed during our busy, packed lunch hour. On Saturday mornings, they open earlier and serve omelettes and brunch. Pickles is seemingly in the middle of nowhere, but is a welcome, quaint stop when exploring the outer limits of Allen and Whitley counties. Warning: when we visited, it was cash or check only, but this may have changed since.