At Udder Upp Café, located on Cook Road inside Kuehnert Dairy Farm’s Milk House about a half-mile west of U.S. 33 — or “just a stone’s throw from Fort Wayne” — it all starts with the cows. Three hundred dairy cows, to be precise, and the 3,300 gallons of milk they produce every day. That’s a lot of milk.
What does one do with that volume of milk?
If you are the fifth generation of the Kuehnert family, after more than a century of selling the milk on the open market as Kuehnert Dairy Farm, you bring to fruition a two-fold vision: Kuehnert Milk House, opened in 2024, where customers can buy your farm-bottled milk directly as well as the cheese curds and ice cream you make with that milk; and the Udder Upp Café, where they can savor a fresh-baked pizza topped with those cheese curds, followed by an ice cream cone.
Getting cheesy
The vision is brilliant; the execution is charming (and pun-filled); and the taste is incredible.
Kuehnert Milk House Udder Upp Cafe
11 a.m.-8 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday…