Austin House Main Menu 2012

Austin House

Cafe

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BurgersAll burgers cooked to medium and topped with sauce, lettuce, tomato and onions. Served with fries. Substitute fries with onion rings, soup, salad, sweet potato fries or fresh Yukon gold potato chips for 1.50

baskets

finger steaks with fries

Beef strip pieces battered and fried golden, served with ranch dressing. 8.50

3 piece fish and chips

Battered cod fillets and fried golden served with fries, lemon and tartar sauce. 8.50

Golden fried oysters

Served with fries. 11.00

fried shrimp

Plump, juicy shrimp served with fries, lemon and your choice of tartar or cocktail sauce. 10.00

3 piece chicken strip basket

Served with fries and your choice of sauce. 8.50

Austin Club

Ham, turkey, bacon, lettuce and tomato. 9.50

chicken strip sandwich

Golden strips of chicken breast with lettuce, and tomato a top a fresh Tuscan roll. 8.50 Fish sandwich\

Cod fillet battered and fried golden with lettuce, tomato and tartar sauce. 8.50

mesquite Chicken SAndwich

Grilled tender chicken breast, on a Tuscan bun. 9.50

teriyaki Chicken SAndwich

Chicken breast with a teriyaki glaze topped with pineapple, lettuce and tomato. 9.50

Grilled cheese

Served on white or wheat bread. 6.00

Grilled ham and cheese

Juicy ham piled high with melted cheese on white or wheat bread. 8.50 ham Sandwich 8.50

Turkey Sandwich 8.50 Bacon, lettuce and tomato

Need we say more! 8.50 Ultimate BLT

Bacon, lettuce, tomato, cucumber, avocado, and Swiss cheese. 9.50

Add an extra 2.00 for any splits.

Chili burger

Open faced burger topped with chili, cheese and onions. 9.75 Buffalo burger

A third pound ground buffalo patty. 11.00 Add cheese for 1.00 BBQ Burger

Our own BBQ sauce on a 1/3 pound patty with onion straws. 9.75 THe big foot

(For those who believe)

Starts out with our 1/3 pound ground chuck patty and gets bigger from there by adding two strips of bacon, egg, mushrooms, cheese, lettuce, onion, and tomato all with a special 1000 Island sauce. 11.00 Hawaiian Burger

Our ground chuck patty served with ham and pineapple, topped with a teriyaki glaze. 10.50

Austin burger

Our traditional 1/3 pound burger. 8.50 Add cheese for 1.00

bates burger

Served with bacon and cheese. 9.50

blue mountain burger

Smothered in Blue cheese with bacon. 10.00

Dixie burger

Topped with bacon, Swiss cheese and sauteed mushrooms. 10.00

Pepper jack burger

Spicy Pepper Jack cheese and jalapenos on our traditional burger 9.50

Tipton burger

A mountain of a burger, two beef patties, two slices of cheese topped with bacon. 11.00

Logger burger

A big burger served with cheese, ham and egg. 11.00

sandwiches Served with fries or substitute for 1.50 Onion rings, soup, salad, sweet potato fries or fresh yukon gold chips.

soups and salad chili. Bowl 5.00 Cup 4.00 Soup Bowl 5.00 Cup 4.00 Side tossed salad 5.00

Garlic bread 1.50

Mesquite Austin House

Chicken salad

Mesquite style chicken breast topped a fresh bed of greens, dried craisons and served with your choice of dressing. Served with bread on the side. 11.00

Chef salad 11.00

Caesar salad 10.00 With chicken 12.00 / With Shrimp 14.00

cobb salad

Blue cheese, hard broiled egg, bacon, fresh tomatoes and cucumbers. Served with bread on the side. 10.50

Dinners Dinners served after 4:00All dinners come with vegetable, potato and hot bread. Top your dinner with fresh sauteed mushrooms and onions add 2.50.

crispy chicken salad

Romaine lettuce topped with crispy chicken, tomatoes, cucumbers, croutons with your choice of dressing. Served with bread on the side. 10.50

Mediterranean salad

Fresh greens with feta cheese, kalamata olives, candied walnuts, dried cranberries, and roma tomatoes, topped with huckleberry vinaigrette. Served with bread on the side. 11.00

salmon salad

Sockeye salmon served on a bed of crisp romaine with onion, peppers, cucumber, shredded carrot and topped with croutons and candied walnuts. Served with huckleberry dressing and bread. 17.00

seafood All dinners include vegetable, potato and hot bread.

Cod fish dinner

Battered cod fillet fried golden, served with lemon and with your choice of cocktail or tartar sauce. 12.00

Shrimp dinner

Plump, juicy shrimp served with lemon and your choice of cocktail or tartar sauce. 15.00

salmon dinner

Sockeye salmon served with potato, veggie and bread. 18.00

Seafood combination

A mixture of battered cod, shrimp, oysters and clam strips served with lemon, cocktail and tartar sauce. 18.00

Oyster dinner

Golden fried battered oysters served with dipping sauce. 16.00

Add a soup or salad to any dinner for 3.00 extra.

Rib eye steak USDA choice Hand cut to your choice of size.8 oz. 17.00 12 oz. 20.00 or 16 oz. 24.00 Rib eye steak and shrimp

8 oz. steak paired with delicious shrimp. 22.00

Chicken fried steak

A beef steak breaded and fried chicken style Topped with our country gravy. 14.00

mesquite Chicken Dinner 15.00

Chicken strip dinner

Tender strips of chicken in a southern home-style breading. 12.00

Top Sirloin steak Aged U.S.D.A choice Northwest raised Double R Ranch 8 oz. top sirloin steak broiled to perfection. 17.00

Top sirloin steak with shrimp

Aged U.S.D.A choice Northwest raised Double R Ranch 8 oz. top sirloin steak broiled to perfection served with shrimp. 21.00

Hawaiian chicken breast

Grilled chicken breast with pineapple slices basted in a teriyaki glaze. 15.00

chicken alfredo Chicken, broccoli and mushrooms tossed with fettuccini noodles in a rich alfredo sauce. Served with fresh table bread. 16.00

Four cheese ravioli

Pasta exploding with a four cheese blend of mascarpone, ricotta, Romano and parmesan cheeses in a rich alfredo sauce served with fresh table bread. 16.00

Shrimp alfredo Shrimp, peppers and onions tossed with fettuccini noodles in a rich alfredo sauce. Served with fresh table bread. 16.00

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The history of Bates and austin

The town of Austin was started by a man named Newton. In the late 1800’s, Minot and Linda Austin arrived and purchased

the town site and renamed it Austin. Minot ran a stage line between Sumpter and Canyon City. Linda ran the general store,

hotel and boarding house. At one time, Austin boasted a population of approximately 500 people.

The Sumpter Valley Railroad arrived in the year of 1905.

In the beginning, the rails stopped at the farmer stagecoach stop of Austin Station. A large sawmill owned by Oregon Lumber Company

was built beside the tracks at Austin. This mill was in operation during the decade preceding World War I. The passenger trains from Baker stopped at

the Austin House(Austin Station) for lunch which “MA” Austin served at her boarding house. From Austin, the Oregon Lumber Company

laid their tracks into the timber and brought logs to the big double-sided mill.

Austin was quite a town in its day, with several saloons, store and even a jail. It boasted a board sidewalk also. There was a mill called the Eccles Mill near Austin.

This mill was owned and operated by BIll Eccles, brother to David Ecclesm, owner of Oregon Lumber Company.

In about 1917 the Oregon Lumber Company built a new double-sided sawmill

about a mile down the Middle fork of the John Day River from Austin. A company owned town was built for the mill workers and was named Batesville.

Later, the name was shortened to Bates. This mill remained in full operation until October 1975,

when a new mill was put into operation in John Day by Edward Hines Lumber Company.