{"id":11609,"date":"2014-05-18T16:31:55","date_gmt":"2014-05-18T23:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=11609"},"modified":"2014-05-18T16:31:55","modified_gmt":"2014-05-18T23:31:55","slug":"iowa-machine-shed-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=11609","title":{"rendered":"Iowa Machine Shed Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/machine-shed.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11615\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/machine-shed-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Iowa Machine Shed Review\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a>&#8220;Dedicated to the American Farmer&#8221; &#8211; was the slogan of a restaurant we used to pop into in Davenport Iowa. \u00a0The &#8220;Iowa Machine Shed&#8221;, just outside of town, served wholesome American food in large quantities. \u00a0 We had moved to Davenport to build the first radio station I owned. \u00a0Back in Marconi days. \u00a0 Today there are a half dozen Machine Shed restaurants in Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant cooks from scratch and uses top notch suppliers. \u00a0Some people might compare it to Cracker Barrel, and I guess there is a similarity, but Machine Shed is better, in my opinion.<\/p>\n<p>These places seat a big mess o people, so remember that when setting out to visit. \u00a0They are open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, with slightly different menus at each meal.<\/p>\n<p>After your drink orders are taken, the server will bring the table complimentary &#8220;fixins&#8221;, which is comprised of an ample bread basket with super soft large dinner rolls, a family sized bowl of slaw and one of cottage cheese. \u00a0I love cottage cheese, and this has to be some of the best I have had, ever, anywhere. \u00a0High milk fat content, small curd.<\/p>\n<p>This trip, I ordered the country fried chicken, which was nice and crisp on the outside and juicy inside. \u00a0Dinners come with a vegetable and your choice of a large variety of spud preparations. \u00a0I got fries and some nice gravy to go with it.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re in for breakfast, or need a little sweet thing (besides Mrs. Burgerdogboy), they have these massive breakfast rolls in a couple of different varieties, and I swear, they must weigh two pounds.<\/p>\n<p>Next time I zip through the Upper Midwest, I&#8217;ll angle to hit a Machine Shed at breakfast, as they have a platter which covers all the breakfast pork options. \u00a0Nice. \u00a0And BTW? \u00a0There is no better place to be during summers in America than the farm belt. \u00a0County fairs, small town festivals, block parties. \u00a0The best.<\/p>\n<p>Typical dinner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.machineshed.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/MS-Dinner-IA-IL-9.13-web.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">menu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11611\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11611\" style=\"width: 432px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140518_120914.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11611\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140518_120914-1024x624.jpg\" alt=\"Iowa Machine Shed Review\" width=\"432\" height=\"263\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11611\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Complimentary &#8220;fixins&#8221;<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11612\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11612\" style=\"width: 435px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140518_124036.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-11612\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140518_124036-1024x737.jpg\" alt=\"Iowa Machine Shed Review\" width=\"435\" height=\"313\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11612\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Country Fried Chicken<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/r\/271\/1205857\/restaurant\/The-Machine-Shed-Rockford\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; width: 200px; height: 146px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/b\/link\/1205857\/biglink.gif\" alt=\"The Machine Shed on Urbanspoon\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Iowa Machine Shed Review<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Dedicated to the American Farmer&#8221; &#8211; was the slogan of a restaurant we used to pop into in Davenport Iowa. \u00a0The &#8220;Iowa Machine Shed&#8221;, just outside of town, served wholesome American food in large quantities. \u00a0 We had moved to Davenport to build the first radio station I owned. \u00a0Back in Marconi days. \u00a0 Today&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=11609\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Iowa Machine Shed Review<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,11,16,34,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11609"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}