I’ve done several stories for The Last Word about restaurants. Most of them in Chautauqua County, New York. There are so many interesting restaurants in Chautauqua County! My destination today is just a few miles from the Pennsylvania border.
I’ve arrived at Meeder’s Restaurant in Ripley. This place has been the heart and soul of Ripley since 1960. That’s the year a local farmer named Andy Meeder traveled to this location on Main Street. The building was a gas station, and the entire business was up for auction.
“The story is he came to buy a washer, a clothes washer. He went home owning a restaurant,” says Bob Bentley, the current co-owner of Meeder’s…