Plate of BBQ chicken and potato filling from Kauffman's in Bethel
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Where to Get Potato Filling in Berks County

During the holiday season, one of the most popular dishes in Berks County is potato filling. A unique local side dish, filling is a mash-up of mashed potatoes and stuffing that has served as a side for Pennsylvania German families for generations. If you want to try this traditional dish, at the holidays or any time, here’s where you can find potato filling in Berks County in 2026:

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Restaurants Serving Potato Filling

Plate of BBQ chicken and potato filling from Kauffman's in Bethel

Kauffman’s BBQ Restaurant
Bethel

While the restaurant is best known for its BBQ chicken (and with good reason), Kauffman’s also serves some of the best potato filling in the area. Get it alongside chicken, roast beef or ham any time of year. The restaurant also sells filling by the quart, pint and tray at Thanksgiving.

Review: Kauffman’s BBQ Restaurant
Sausage with potato filling covered in gravy from the Deitsch Eck

Deitsch Eck
Lenhartsville

Berks County’s spot for Pennsylvania Dutch cooking, the Deitsch Eck offers potato filling among its many traditional entrees and sides. Other authentic PA Dutch offerings include scrapple and lettuce with hot bacon dressing. Filling is also available by the pound for holiday pre-orders.

Review: Deitsch Eck
Two chicken croquettes and a side of potato filling, smothered in gravy, from Temple Family Restaurant

Temple Family Restaurant
Temple

Temple Family Restaurant is one of the many local diners that have potato filling on the menu. Most dinner entrees are served with a side – get your potato filling with their chicken croquettes, smoked sausage or roast beef.

Review: Temple Family Restaurant
inside a stainless steel diner

5th Street Diner
Temple

Enjoy potato filling with your favorite entree or sandwich at the 5th Street Diner in Temple. Smoked sausage and roast turkey are served over filling while it’s available as a side for hot sandwiches, steaks and chops, and classic dinners.

Review: 5th Street Diner
outside of Airport Diner in Kutztown

Airport Diner
Kutztown

Kutztown is Berks County’s hub of Pennsylvania Dutch culture, and the Airport Diner in Kutztown serves potato filling both with roast turkey and as a regular side.

Stainless steel diner with a sign out front that reads "American Diner"

American Diner
West Reading

The American Diner in West Reading promotes its “home-made filling” as one its regular sides. Meatloaf, sausage, roast beef and roast turkey are all served over the classic Pennsylvania German side dish too.

Americana Diner
Bechtelsville

Roast chicken over filling and smoked sausage over filling are among the regular featured items at the Americana Diner in Bechtelsville. 

Review: Americana Diner
exterior of Pied Piper Diner at night

Bally Family Diner
Bally

At the Bally Family Diner, chicken croquettes are served over potato filling while filling is also available as a regular vegetable item.

Sign above the door to a restaurant that reads "Crossroads" with two intersecting lines

Crossroads Family Restaurant
Muhlenberg Township

While the menu doesn’t have many Pennsylvania Dutch foods, Crossroads Family Restaurant does offer potato filling in his vegetables of the day rotation – and it’s always available on holiday menus.

Review: Crossroads Family Restaurant

Heidelberg Family Restaurant
Robesonia

Mondays at the Heidelberg are all-you-can-eat chicken pot pie nights, but potato filling is available on the menu every day at the Robesonia diner.

Jak’s Downtown Diner
Topton

Potato filling is one of nine side dishes available at Jak’s Downtown Diner in Topton. It pairs well with oven-baked meatloaf, a hot roast beef sandwich or sausage.

Kempton Hotel
Kempton

The Kempton Hotel has a small selection of PA Dutch dishes on the regular menu, including potato filling. You can also try another local specialty, Dutch fries – a cross between French fries and potato chips – or chicken pot pie.

Main Street Pub
Bally

Potato filling is one of more than a dozen side options at the Main Street Pub in Bally. The restaurant offers a varied menu that includes steaks, seafood, pasta and build-your-own burgers.

Perry Restaurant
Shoemakersville

Filling is always on the menu at Perry Restaurant. The Shoemakersville spot serves roast turkey, beef and pork over filling. And all hot sandwiches are served with the choice of mashed potatoes, filling or fries.

Route 61 Diner
Muhlenberg Township

Several items at the Route 61 Diner are served over filling: chicken croquettes, roast beef, roast turkey and smoked sausage all come with the classic PA Dutch side dish.

Farmers Markets

Betty’s at Shillington Farmers Market
Shillington

Betty’s is one of the longest-running local producers of specialty salads and sides. Their Shillington Farmers Market stand offers more than 30 products, including potato filling.

packs of apples on a wooden counter next to an aisle of packaged foods at Blue Spruce Market in Stouchsburg

Blue Spruce Market
Stouchsburg

Blue Spruce offers homemade potato filling in their Stochsburg market, available in trays at the holidays.

Hershey Harvest
Temple

Hershey Harvest offers a wide array of products from Italian dinners to classic American comfort foods. But they also have a selection of Pennsylvania Dutch specialties, including chicken pot pie, corn nuggets, shoofly pie, whoopie pies and, of course, potato filling.

black rectangular serving tray filled with potato filling

Shady Mountain Market
Fleetwood

Shady Mountain Market lists potato filling among the more than 15 prepared meals and sides they offer in their frozen section. The market also offers wet-bottom shoofly pies, a dozen varieties of whoopie pies, and fastnachts in-season.

black rectangular serving tray filled with potato filling

Smucker’s PA Dutch Farmer’s Market of Wyomissing
Wyomissing

Smucker’s Salads is the place to get potato filling at the Wyomissing Farmers Market. The stand also offers pineapple filling at Easter and other traditional PA Dutch prepared meals throughout the year.

exterior of Twilight Acres Farm Market in Stouchsburg

Twilight Acres Creamery
Stouchsburg

Twilight Acres is more than a dairy store, it is also a place to get some excellent prepared meals and sides including potato filling and other Pennsylvania German foods.

Weisser’s Delicatessen

Weisser’s Delicatessen is the place to get filling at the Fairgrounds Farmers Market. Potato filling is available at the market stand from November through April, perfect for Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter dinners.

2026 Holiday Sales

Central Berks Fire Company
Centerport

You can get your holiday potato filling from the Central Berks Fire Company for $4.50 per pound. Online ordering is now open – pickup is scheduled for Wednesday, November 25 from 3 to 6 p.m. Facebook Post

Kutztown Grange
Kutztown

The Kutztown Grange is taking orders for potato filling and bacon dressing through November 13. Filling is available in two-pound ($9) and three-pound ($11) pans while dressing is available by the pint ($6) or quart ($10). Pick-up is Tuesday, November 24. Facebook Post

Pioneer Grange
Topton

The Pioneer Grange is taking preorders for homemade filling. The cost is $7 for 1.5 pounds or $9 for 2.5 pounds. Orders must be placed by November 9 for pickup on November 25. Facebook Event

Zion Lutheran Church
Womelsdorf

The Women of the ELCA at Zion Lutheran Church in Womelsdorf are once again hosting a potato filling sale this year. Preorders will be available starting in October with pickup scheduled for November 20.

Where do you get your potato filling? Let us know in the comments below or email berkscountyeats@gmail.com.

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An order of chicken Paremsan, featuring an extra large chicken breast topped with red sauce on a bed of spaghetti, from Temple Family Restaurant.
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Review: Temple Family Restaurant

A view of the entrance to Temple Family Restaurant.

I have always enjoyed a good diner, but I’ve found that I appreciate them even more since becoming a father because I know they are a safe bet for a night out with my son.

Diners always have plenty of seating (including high chairs), the service is quick and there are always kids options on the menu.

So when we were struggling to decide on a place to go for a family dinner on a Sunday in December, my mind went to diners. And that’s how we ended up at the Temple Family Restaurant.

A view of Temple Family Restaurant's large dining room, featuring tables, booths and blue accent lighting at the ceiling.

It had been years since Julie and I last visited Temple Family Restaurant – at least five because we hadn’t been back since Berks County Eats became a thing. We had always enjoyed it, but with so many places to visit, it had fallen off our radar.

Julie, Jakob and I arrived around 5 p.m. and found the restaurant to be busy, but not crowded. The dining area is very large with booths lining every wall and free-standing tables in the middle.

Our waitress was very attentive, arriving at our table within moments of being seated. She was happy to help as we worked to keep Jakob occupied – providing us with an extra menu for him to entertain himself with and also ensuring that his applesauce arrived with our salads.

Mixed greens topped with croutons, cheese and red onions, served with a side of Ranch dressing at Temple Family Restaurant

The menu is large and varied, but all of the “American Classics,” “Pasta Specialties,” and “Steaks and Chops” are served with a choice of soup or salad.

The salads were simple, mostly greens and croutons topped with shredded cheese, onions, green pepper slices and cherry tomatoes. It also came with more than enough salad dressing – at least twice as much in the cup than we usually see with diners.

A pair of dinner rolls in a basket with 10 packets of butter

Our meals were also served with fresh rolls and butter. The rolls were served warm and were very good. They also came with a pile of butter packets (I think I used half of a packet for mine).

For my entree, I chose the chicken croquettes. I have always enjoyed the fried chicken dish, but it’s not something I order very often. I was, however, very glad that I ordered it here.

Two chicken croquettes and a side of potato filling, smothered in gravy, from Temple Family Restaurant

The croquettes were delicious. The breading was nicely seasoned and the chicken had a great flavor to it. And as simple as it was, the bed of mashed potatoes the croquettes were served on were a perfect complement. And the croquettes were huge. I decided to save one for later rather than overdoing it at the restaurant.

Was it a steak dinner at a five-star restaurant? Absolutely not. Was it delicious comfort food? Absolutely.

Not taking the time to study the menu as much as I should have, I ordered potato filling as a side – even though the meal already came with mashed potatoes. (Full disclosure: when I was a teenager, I would do this on purpose when we went to diners. That was not the case here). The filling was fine, but nothing special. I actually enjoyed the mashed potatoes a little bit better.

An order of chicken Paremsan, featuring an extra large chicken breast topped with red sauce on a bed of spaghetti, from Temple Family Restaurant.

Julie had ordered the chicken Parmesan (both of our meals were listed as “homemade” in the menu and had pictures to further sway us on our decisions). It, too, was very good. The chicken breast had a crisp breading on the outside. The sauce was a little sweet and a little thicker than some places. But I thought it all came together very well.

And it was also huge. The chicken breast covered nearly the full length of the oblong plate. Julie didn’t even attempt to finish the whole thing, bringing home half for a later meal.

Her meal also came with a slice of garlic toast. It was not as good as the dinner roll. I thought it tasted more like Texas toast. Either way, it was completely unnecessary given the size of the chicken breast and the fact that we already had bread at the table.

The kids personal pan pizza at Temple Family Restaurant

The kids menu isn’t huge, but there are enough choices to keep most children happy. Jakob was pleased with his personal pan pizza. It didn’t look like anything I would eat, but Jakob finished every bite so I guess it served its purpose well.

He did not want his applesauce, though, so I ended up giving him my buttered corn, which he happily ate for me.

A small cup of rice pudding topped with whipped cream and dusted with cinnamon from Temple Family Restaurant

At the end of the meal, having saved a little bit of room, Julie decided to splurge for some rice pudding for her and Jakob. It came topped with whipped cream and was dusted with cinnamon. Rice pudding is not my favorite – it’s a texture thing for me, mostly – but Julie loves it, especially at diners. Jakob didn’t have much interest in anything other than the whipped cream so I ended up eating most of his share.

We certainly got a lot for our money during our meal as our two entrees, kids meal and rice pudding cost us $31.

It was an enjoyable meal, and kid-friendly at that. Mommy, daddy and Jakob all enjoyed our food and were happy with our decision.

Diners are once again moving to the forefront for me. And Temple Family Restaurant has earned a place near the top of our list.

BCE Rating
Food: Good to Very Good
Ambiance: Good
Service: Very Good
Price: Very Reasonable

Temple Family Restaurant
4949 N. 5th Street Hwy
Temple, PA 19560

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