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"I will make my mark on the face of this earth and no man will ever
wipe it out!"
- James Jerome Hill
J. J. Hills Restaurant in Leavenworth featured in
Short Trips: Town keeps the season bright, Bavarian style
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, December 23,
2004
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J. J. Hills Restaurant
J. J. Hills Leavenworth Restaurant
& Wine Bar
Casual Dining
& Group Catering in Leavenworth
Washington

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J. J.
Hills Restaurant and Wine Bar captures Leavenworth's beginnings as a railroad town.
Join us for fine dining in a relaxed atmosphere, and select from BBQ
ribs, Steaks, German favorites, full cocktail service and a children's
menu.
All soups, sauces, dressings,
desserts, and entrees are made from scratch in-house. Specialty
sausages are ordered through Bavarian Meats, an award winning family
run sausage factory.
Enjoy the history of the Great Northern Railroad, old
Leavenworth photos, and the model train circling the dining room!
Wine Bar: Enjoy a glass of
local wine or a cocktail in Leavenworth's new wine bar before dinner
at J. J. Hills.
Daily
hours are 4:30pm - 9:30pm for both J. J. Hills Restaurant and for Room
Service at the Icicle Inn.
Please call 509-548-8000
to reserve tables for large
group dining,
and call sales at 800-558-2438 for banquet rooms.
Timothy Wick, our executive chef, comes from a long
background of serving customers. He has built on his
reputation as executive chef at Desert Canyon and specializes in
meeting guests needs in the restaurant and catering
functions.
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James Jerome Hill "The Empire Builder"
J. J. Hills Restaurant is named for
James Jerome Hill, The "Empire Builder" who first brought the
railroad through Leavenworth. Come and see the many historic
pictures and memorabilia regarding the Great Northern Railway, and
enjoy the model train circling the dining room!
Arguably
the most colorful of all transcontinental railroads was the Great
Northern. Even today, more than 30 years after the merger with the
Burlington Northern, the "Big G" is still a favorite of railroad
fans the world over.
Many towns and cities owe their very
existence to James J. Hill's driving ambition to forge through the Cascade
Mountains in order to complete his dream of northern transcontinental
railroad.
Leavenworth is just such a town.
Built solely around the Great Northern Railroad's east side entrance to
the Cascade Mountains, the town was platted in 1893 by a group of
financiers headed by "Captain" Charles F. Leavenworth.
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James J. Hill - 1910
(Minnesota Historical Society Collection) |
From the very beginning the
heart of the town was the Great Northern Railroad with its depot and
roundhouse. For years Leavenworth prospered due to railroad money in the
form of employees for construction through the Cascades. With the
employees came their families and families needed schools, churches and
all numbers of daily household goods. The railroad required timber for
their rails and bridges. Because of the railroad the abundance of timber
in the Northwest could now reach the unquenchable markets in the Midwest and east coast. A large lumber mill was built adjacent to the railroad for
convenience in shipping.
Leavenworth's place in history is truly owed
to the legendary railroad tycoon, James J. Hill.

J.
J.
Hills Restaurant & Catering
Chef
Timothy Wick
Reservations:
(509) 548-8000
Catering
office:
(509) 548-7000 x 410
tim@icicleinn.com
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