Every TV show that features a slice of Americana often serves it up in the form of a diner or small country café. Usually with a side of apple pie.

However, the on-screen version of a perfect small-town American Cafe is often a whole lot harder to find than one might expect. If you know where to look though, they do still exist and sometimes with Frontenac Friends at the helm.

Some silly people may say you can't go home again. However, that definitely doesn't apply if you plan on opening a restaurant designed to knock the culinary socks off the entire county. Which is precisely what Frontenac Friends Kelley (Terlip) and her husband Mike Gingras have done with their brand new restaurant Bushel & a Peck

You'll have to look twice and look often to see all the details hidden in the mural along Mike Hagerty's workshop in the old Obertos Texeco building. Hagerty and his family are longtime Frontenac residents with more than a little Raider pride.

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