Celebrating 10 years of serving home-style PA-Dutch favorites

            Nix Besser (none better) is what this writer says about the Boova Shankel at the Boova Haüs Family Restaurant, whose owners, Don Mensch and

Don Mensch and Jason Van Dyke

Jason Van Dyke, are celebrating 10 years of serving up the Pennsylfanish-Deitsch (Pennsylvania-Dutch) favorite.

            Located in store 403 at the Quakertown Farmers Market, 201 Station Road in Quakertown, Don and Jason work their magic making their meals onsite and serving in a cozy dining area where one can smell the goodness coming from their kitchen.

            Boova Shankel is a large Pennsylvania-Dutch style pierogi.  The name, loosely translated, means boys foot, thigh, or pocket.

            Coming from different backgrounds these entrepreneurs found their mark in making Pennsylvania Dutch goodness their trade.

            Jason enjoyed cooking when he was in high school, but his career pointed him towards being a senior manager of telecom regulatory and compliance for a major utility company.  Early retirement had him thinking of what's next.

            With the closing of a local manufacturing plant, Don became free to chase his passion of making people happy with, you guessed it, food.

            Using his mother's recipe he made Boova Shankel for her and her friends at a nearby retirement community.  It's easy to please mom, but her friends were so impressed they encouraged Don to open a place and sell them.

            Jason and Don teamed up to open the Boova Haüs Family Restaurant.  The name Boova Haüs came from the creative mind of Jason – and how fitting it is for an eatery that specializes in Pennsylvania Dutch Food.   They have kept growing their menu over the past decade.

            Their main menu still has their Boova Shankel topped with popular gravies that are made fresh daily, hot dogs with sauerkraut, baked mac and cheese with their own natural cheese blend, and their own homemade meatloaf.

            Their specials include chicken bot boi (PA Dutch pot pie), homemade corn chowder, and pork and sauerkraut with their delicious filling (another of Don's mother's recipes).

            They added a breakfast menu that includes fresh egg sandwiches (with or without a breakfast meat – including their pan-fried scrapple), homemade cream-chipped beef, and homemade sausage and biscuits.

            There's always, at least, two homemade soups weekly.

            And, who can go without a homemade dessert, that changes weekly, which includes wet bottom shoo fly pie, funny cake, and fry-pies.

            The Boova Haüs added plenty more to their menu to appeal to everybody.  Goodies include: cheese steak sandwiches, chicken cheese steaks, cheeseburgers, chicken sandwiches and baskets, fish sandwiches and baskets, shrimp baskets, and much, much, more.

            You can dine in at the Boova Haüs Restaurant or take out.  They are open Fridays and Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.  You can call them at 267-733-4583 or visit them on Facebook at facebook.com/boovahausLLC.

            Don and Jason look forward to serving up their delicious food for another decade.

            As their catchphrase proclaims: "Deliciousness in a dough, Say So!"