Yesterday's Calf-A

Home style meals and desserts

Our History

Yesterday's Calf-A is housed in the one room school house built with locally made bricks from the red butte directly behind the school house. From 1903 to 1963 the building was filled with the local children (on average 20, mostly farm kids) until the school was consolidated with Lima, 8 miles to the south.

In 1978, the building was purchased, and with a grand opening of Feb 25th, the Dell schoolhouse became Yesterday's Calf-A, a home-style café where diners ate whatever meal the owner cooked that day. The Calf-A has changed hands twice since then, but to this day, the inside and out side remain much the same as it was for the last hundred years, and the food is just as fantastic as it was back then.

The original chalk boards are still used to display the daily special and pie list. The school's hardwood floors remain and maps hang so visitors from far and wide can place a pin showing where they are from. There's even still a hole in the ceiling from the accidental stabbing by flagpole, when the boys brought the flag in one day.

Some of the school books once used in the school house can be found on the book shelves. And if you're interested in a little nostalgia, they can be purchased.

Today's menu features homemade pies, mouth watering roast beef, delicious open faced 'hot beef sandwiches" with real mashed potatoes and gravy, daily specials, homemade soups and dinner rolls, as well as giant sticky buns, and maple doughnuts fresh every morning. The portions are plentiful and the coffee is always on. And don't panic when you see the amount of food, we have to go boxes!

Homemade Perfection

From Maple doughnuts to sticky buns fresh out of the oven

Unbelievably tender roast beef and local grown beef for burgers;

Sausage, bacon, ham, or porkchops and sourdough pancakes for breakfast

Homecut fries and home made pies

Even a Bowl & a Roll is a meal in itself. But it's all homemade and takes a minute to cook so sit back, enjoy your drink and talk to each other like it's 1999 because there's no Wi-Fi here!

Meals are more than plentiful, drink refills free, and history surrounds.

Live a little, learn a little, and 'Get schooled at Yesterday's'