Breitach's Country Dining • 1852

Jacob Breitbach opened this riverside inn in 1852 under a federal permit signed by President Millard Fillmore, and six generations later his family still serves broasted chicken and towering homemade pies in the same dining room. Twice destroyed by fire and twice rebuilt by the community, Breitbach's stands as Iowa's oldest bar and restaurant, where the Mississippi River bluffs frame every meal. The fried chicken alone has drawn pilgrims to this Balltown crossroads for more than a century and a half.