Where to Get Potato Filling in Berks County

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.