Red Rooster Cafe-- Mineral Point, Wi-- Part 2

Still eating those pasties.

I saw a wilted salad offered on the menu and had to inquire. It is a salad with hot bacon dressing. You can get your pasty either as a pie or hand-crimped for 50 cents more. Hand-crimped was the way the Cornish miners ate them, so that's how I ordered mine. Liz had it as a pie.

I'd probably say a pot pie comes the closes to a pasty, but pasties are much dryer. We had ketchup on the table and Heinz Chili Sauce and I used quite a bit of that on my pasty.

The building went up in 1892. After it was a bank, it was the Tip Top Stop from 1936-1941. Coffee was a nickle, pie a dime, and a burger was a dime as well. A full meal and dessert was a whopping 50 cents.

The Red Rooster opened in 1972 and was featured in a Chicago Tribune article in 1988.

A Pasty a Day Keeps the Doctor... --RoadDog