Schoolhouse Restaurant

Detail: While it's not the peanut butter sandwiches and Twinkies mom packed your Ninja Turtle lunchbox with, it is comfort food only a mother could make. Fried chicken, meatloaf, mashed potatoes and gravy, corn fritters, roast beef, cobblers, ice cream sundaes, cakes and pies -- all written in perfect cursive on the chalkboard and served by clones of our elementary school lunch lady. A Civil War-era schoolhouse (and the first two-story school building in the Midwest), it fills with area families. Entrees: $11-$17.