Including, but not limited to, your choice of main courfe, served up with potato of the day.
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Homemade Breads, All Sorts
A basket of afforted colonial breads paffed to your table fresh from our own bakery, served up with a galipot of butter.
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Garden Stuff
We have created a hofpitality sallade of the freshly picked garden greenstuff. To dreff your sallade, homemade delicately spiced herb, bleu cheese, fat free french, ranch dreffing. Or, you may choose
$2.5
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Vegetables
Our fertile pennfylvania countryfide supplies the fineft of vegetables we search the markets for the beft and frefhest. Your servant will be happy to defcribe the seasonal favorite prepared for tonig
Chilled backfin crabmeat difposed in a fanciful manner atop an avacado. Served with sauce louis, a creamy blend of herbs and lemon.
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Appetizer of the Day
A generous offering difposed in a fanciful manner to dreff your table. Your servant will gladly defcribe the appetizer and its unique preparation.
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Porridge of the Day
Freshly homemade soup prepared by carefully boiling over coals with no smoke or dirt therein from stirring the fire. Served up steaming hot and heartily herb'd in a pipkin.
$5.75
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Baked King's Onion Soup
If you support the caufe of liberty from england as we do, and wish this soup to be re-named 'washington's onion soup', so inform your waiter! Freshly made with beef and a variety of cheefes on top,
$6.25
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Fruit Fancy
Our adams county is one of the leaders in fruit production in the united states. We are proud to provide the seafons beft fruit stuff fixed in the best manner of local receipts.
$6.95
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Jumbo Shrimp Cocktail
Steamed over a gill of small beer and selected seafonings. Served with a sauce of spicy persuasion.
A splendid delicacy from farther away than we can imagine, tafting admirably well. A 12 oz. Tail with drawn butter.
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Crabmeat a La Dobbin
Lump blue crabmeat at its very beft. Gently toffed in hot butter sauce until done to perfection. An agreeable dish.
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Fine Fowl with Shrimps
In the 1800's the dobbin house was a station for the 'railroad' which served to efcort thousands of runaway slaves to freedom. Rev. Dobbin is againft slavery, and thus, all of the servants here tonig
$25.95
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Gettystown Shrimp
A generous portion of tender shrimp topped with lump crabmeat and topped with his majefty's imperial sauce. Then baked in a slow oven and served up on a pewter plate juft right.
$26.95
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Maryland Colony Crabcakes
Rich with natural goodness, broiled and served up hot, containing more 'juft crabmeat' than you've ever seen.
$26.95
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Imperial Crab
Lump crabmeat topped withimperial sauce and his majefty's favorite spices. Baked to a proper brownness. Eats finely done thus.
$26.95
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Fresh Catch of the Day
A generous portion of a tender offering from local streams or diftant seas difposed in a fanciful manner to dreff your table. Your servant will gladly defcribe the catch and its unique preparation.
$26.95
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Seafood Isabella
Truly worth coming miles for Rev. Dobbin's firft wife, ifabella, left him this secret family recipe. Made of fresh vegetables with a medley of seafoods in a wine sauce, then simmered over hot ember '
$29.95
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Drunken Scallops
Deep sea scallops sauteed with bacon and herbs, then drowned in chablis. Served directly to you in a succulent sauce.
$29.95
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Seafarers Feast
A favorite of this area, which rev. Dobbin now calls 'gettiftown'! A generous portion of tafty offerings from the sea served up broiled 'til juft tender, as you wish. Orange roughy, fillet of salmon,
The drink of the dobbin house. An absolutely incredible concoction of the light & dark rums, exotic liqueurs, & fruit juices, the potency of which mandates a limit of two (2) per customer. Truly, a g
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Don's Derring-Do
We twisted our bartenders arm 'til he divulged his secret recipe for this flavored blend of apricot brandy, orange & pineapple juices, & southern comfort.
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Philadelphia Fish House Punch
Rev. Dobbin may well have discovered this comingling of rum, brandy, peach brandy, & fruit juices while hobnobbing with the likes of washington & jefferson at philadelphia city tavern.
A generous portion of tender fish steak grilled until done to perfection. Served up with a tossed sallade, baked potato and hearth baked roll. Your servant will gladly describe today's selection.
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Vegetables
Our fertile pennsylvania countryside supplies the finest of vegetables. We search the markets for the best and freshest.
$2.5
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Dobbin's Hot Beef Sandwich
Tender roast beef piled high on a hearth baked roll. Served up with its own juices for dipping. Choice of potato sallade, cole sla, or potato chips.
$9.5
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Grilled Marinated Chicken Breast Sandwich
A tender boneless breast of chicken layed to rest over night in a delicate wine & herb marinade. Then charcoal grilled and served up on a hearth baked roll with mayonnaise, lettuce & tomato. Choice o
$9.75
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Char-Grilled Steak Sandwich
A flavorful and tender portion of beef steak cook'd according to the strength of fire you prefer, and served up open faced on hearth baked bread with sauteed onions & mushrooms. Choice of potato sall
$13.5
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Maryland Colony Crabcake Sandwich
More just crabmeat than you've ever seen. Served up hot on french bread with dijon balsamic mayonnaise. Choice of potato sallade, cole sla, or potato chips.
$13.5
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Spit Roasted Chicken
Half chicken dinner. You'll love our tender, fresh bird skewered to a spit and turned continuously in front of a clear brisk fire until it has a delicate brown and crisp outside, and is moist and ten
$15.25
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Char-Grilled Marinated Chicken Breast
A tender & complete boneless breast of chicken layed to rest over night in a delicate wine & herb marinade. Served up with a tossed sallade, potato of the day and a hearth baked roll.
$16.5
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Char-Grilled New York Strip Steak
Partake of rev. Dobbin's favorite, a flavorful and tender portion of beef steak, carved from the finest meats. Cook'd according to the strength of fire you prefer and served up with a tossed sallade,
$23.95
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Maryland Colony Crabcakes
More just crabmeat than you've ever seen! Served with a tossed sallade, baked potato and a hearth baked roll.
$24.95
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Char-Grilled Filet Mignon
A 6 0z filet grilled to your choice of doneness and served up in it's own juices. Served with a tossed sallade, baked potato and hearth baked roll.
$24.95
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Dobbin's Filet Mignon and Crabcake
A 6 oz. Filet grilled to your choice of doneness and a just crabmeat crabcake. Served with a tossed salad, baked potato and hearth baked roll.
select three - one from each (chicken, seafood, beef tips). chicken: hunters style, coq au vin, garden style, cacciatore; seafood: diane, newburg, creole, potpourri, beef tips: stroganoff, diane, pep
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Vegetables
select four: rice pilaf, mashed potatoes, oven roasted red potatoes, glazed sweet potatoes, o'brien potatoes, buttered corn, buttered dill carrots, green beans almondine, broccoli and cauliflower wit
lavish 25 item salad bar including: soup of the day, fresh salad making, homemade dressings, homemade relish condiments.
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Entrees
assorted cold cuts and cheeses, turkey, smokehouse ham, swiss cheese, provolone cheese, pa dutch (ham, green beans and boiled potatoes), bar-b-qued chicken.
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Desserts
fudge brownies, chocolate cake, gingerbread with lemon sauce, vanilla pudding.
Homemade soup made here by carefully boiling over coals with no smoke or dirt therein from stirring the fire. Served up hot & delicious in a pipkin with sippets.
$3.95
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Baked King's Onion Soup
Freshly made with beef and a variety of cheeses on top, baked in a 'quick' oven to succulent tenderness, and served up hot and delicious in a tureen with sippets.
$5.95
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Chicken and Bleu Cheese Dip
Warm & creamy chicken, shallots, bacon and bleu cheese served with toasted french bread.
$10.5
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Warm Maryland Colony Crab Dip
A dobbin house favorite, warm & creamy served with fresh vegetables & crackers.
Fresh mushrooms, black olives, croutons, bacon & onion rings in company, served with hot bacon dressing.
$7.5
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Fresh Garden Sallade
A tureen of fresh greens tossed with cucumbers, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, bell pepper, tomato and mushrooms with the dreffing you prefer. Served with hearth baked roll.
$7.5
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Caesar Sallade
A tureen of romaine, croutons & onion rings in company with a caesear dressing. Served with a hearth baked roll.
$7.5
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Gill of Porridge and Half Sallade
Actually "extraordinary." A cup of fresh soup, a tureen of greens, garden sallade, spinache sallade or caesear sallade.
$8.5
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Half of Sallade and Half of Sandwich
A small sallade & a half dobbin's deli sandwich. Choice of: garden, spinache, or caesar sallade. Choice of: ham, roast beef, or turkey. Choice of: white, whole wheat or rye.
$8.5
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Gill of Porridge and Half Sandwich
A cup of fresh soup & a half dobbin's deli sandwich. Choice of: ham, roast beef, or turkey. Choice of: potato sallade, cole sla, or potato chips.
$8.5
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Gill of Porridge & Half Sallade
A cup of fresh soup & a small sallade. Choice of: garden, spinache, or caesar sallade.
$8.5
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Salamagundi
Fresh garden greens with the lean of smokehouse ham, turkey, cook'd eggs, swiss & provolone cheese. Served with a hearth baked roll.
$9.5
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Springhouse Spread
Fresh garden greens tossed with nuts and served with smoked turkey, apple wedges, honey mustard dip and homemade sweet bread.
$9.5
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Adam's Delight
Native fresh fruits of the season, assortment of cheeses, accompanied by homemade sweet bread.
Freshly ground hamburger char-grilled to the strength of fire you prefer and served up on a hearth baked roll with lettuce and tomato. Choice of potato sallade, cole sla, or potato chips.
$9.5
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The Mason's Mile High
Meats & such piled almost as high as the stone walls of the dobbin house. But much straighter. Choice of hearth white, rye, whole wheat. Choice of two: smokehouse ham, roast beef, or turkey. Served u
Rev. Dobbin often afks for a tender, fresh bird perfectly prepared to a dobbin house specialty. Baked boneless breast of chicken topped with tomatoes, mushrooms and brown sauce.
$23.95
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Veal Madeira
Tender efcallopes of veal sauteed on a clear brisk fire. Finished with a madeira scented sauce and penna. Mushrooms. A delicious cookery.
$24.95
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William Penn's Pork Tenderloin
Agreeably cut pork tenderloin, sufficiently broiled and made ready to difh with an outftanding rafpberry sauce.
$24.95
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Primal Rib of Beef (Smiths')
Melt in your mouth standing beef rib, cooked to your choice of doneness in a reflector oven with its own juice steeped therein. The regular portion goes to dobbin's stepfon who's in trouble becaufe h
$25.95
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New York Colony Strip Steak, Carved to Order
Partake of rev. Dobbin's favorite, a flavorful and tender portion of beef steak, carved from the fineft of meats. Cooked to your choice of doneness and served up on a china plate with its own juices.
$28.95
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Broiled Filet Mignon
Cooked according to the strength of fire you prefer, and served up hot and on a china plate steeped in its own savory liquor.
$29.95
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Primal Rib of Beef (James')
Melt in your mouth standing beef rib, cooked to your choice of doneness in a reflector oven with its own juice steeped therein. The larger portion goes to dobbin's favorite son for being the firft at
$29.95
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Roast Duck Adams County
President adams is proud of this tender 1/2 duckling roafted in our hearth oven with tart adams co. Aples and hard cyder. Served up juft right with a delicious cyder sauce seafoned delicately with ci
$29.95
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Trio of Lamb Chops
Three tender chops broiled to the strength of fire you prefer. Served up with peppered merlot sauce. Succulently delicious.
$29.95
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Of Flesh and Fish
A favorite among rev. Dobbin's houfe guefts. Vifitors come for miles to enjoy his treat. Includes a 5-6 oz. Lobfter tail and a 5 oz. Filet mignon-thick, tender, and delicious. It eats extremely well.
$39.95
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About Dobbin House Tavern
Dobbin House Tavern serves Daily Fare, Our Favorite Cocktails & Of Soups & C. across 235 menu items, with prices from $1.25 to $43.00. See the full Dobbin House Tavern menu with current prices — budget picks like the $1.25 Hot Homemade White And Sweet Breads — updated September 2026. Rated 4.0/5 by diners.
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