Wooden chairs partner with wood-grain Formica-topped tables set with green paper placemats. A wallpaper border accents cream-colored walls at chair-rail height, and artificial plants hang from the ceiling.

Otherwise, the room's decor is simple and plain. Just a few antiques accent the decor near the front an adding machine on a table and, hanging from a wall, a drum with the inscription, ''Victory Band, Neffs, Pa. The deep, narrow dining room with its high ceiling seems cavernous. This restaurant's diner-style fare offers a little bit of everything and at such reasonable prices that it's no surprise locals would forgo cooking at the end of a long week for a cost-effective dinner out instead.Īfter all, where else can you find a hamburger for $1.95, a steak sandwich for $2.95, or four pieces of honey-dipped chicken with two side dishes for $8.95?Īt the hotel's entrance, a string of multicolored, tiny lights in the bay window adds a cheery welcome to the vestibule, outfitted with appropriate memorabilia for an old hotel antiques such as a typewriter, a dress form and big, old sled that must have carried lots of red-cheeked children down many hillsides.

The pace inside the old hotel was a bit frenetic, as well, as tables emptied and filled with a steady flow of hungry patrons. With its parking lot filled to the brim, the Neffs Hotel seemed the epicenter of activity in the sleepy village of the same name on a recent rainy Friday night.

Patina green cauliflower sandwich