LeeAnn’s Main Street Diner Opens With Comfort Food Classics

There's a new owner of a familiar restaurant location in Rice. The Old Creamery Cafe in Rice is now LeeAnn's Main Street Diner, and is open at 405 Main Street in Rice.

The post was up on social media recently, and I'm excited to stop by and try some of the food that's listed on the menu.

LEEANN'S MAIN STREET DINER IN RICE IS NOW OPEN

LeeAnn's Main Street Diner will be open daily from 6:30 am until 2:30 pm, according to the posts.

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When you think of Old Creamery Cafe, many people think Craft Show! I spoke briefly with her sister-in-law, Gina Carlson, about the new business, and she told me that LeeAnn's Main Street Diner will continue the Craft Show tradition in the summer and will also offer catering services that guests have come to know from the Old Creamery Cafe.

The previous owner, Mark Larson, operated the Old Creamery Cafe that opened back in 1989.

TELL US MORE ABOUT LEEANN!

LeeAnn Hockert (Demo) has worked in the food service industry her entire life, starting at age 15 as a dishwasher at Country Inn in Rice. She worked as a waitress at Clearwater Travel Plaza and managed a Super America location before spending 24 years as a waitress at Jimmy’s in Sauk Rapids.

A DREAM COME TRUE FOR LEEANN

Opening her own diner has been a dream for LeeAnn, and she’s got tons of ideas she hopes to bring to life in Rice as she becomes integrated in the community.

SPECIAL MENU ITEMS

There are some special LMD options on the menu she hopes customers will love as much as she does. There are plans to introduce more homemade meal specials and baked goods in the future. The first sweet treat that will come to the menu (soon) is caramel rolls. Breakfast is served until 10:30 AM, then lunch is served until 2:30 PM. Also, kids' menus are available. Website coming soon!

LEEANN'S BREAKFAST MENU

LeeAnn's breakfast menu features delicious, tasty comfort foods, like the Breakfast Burrito, the Country Fried Steak Combo, Eggs Benedict, Biscuits and Gravy, Pancakes, omelets, a Monte Cristo Sandwich, LeeAnn's Main Street Diner Potatoes, and a Breakfast Burger, topped with Swiss and American cheeses over a hard egg and bacon, served with hashbrowns and a side of hollandaise.

LUNCH FEATURES LOTS OF OPTIONS

For lunch, the sky's the limit! From appetizers to quesadillas, wings and nachos, to burgers, sandwiches, soups, salads, baskets, and more.

Some people have already asked if LeeAnn will consider being open for dinner hours. LeeAnn's Main Street Diner hopes to expand to dinner hours once it is settled into the space.

WELCOME TO RICE!

Many residents were welcoming the new restaurant to Rice and asking for some of their favorite foods to be on the menu.

See the Aftermath of the 1886 St. Cloud, Sauk Rapids and Rice Tornado

Here are some historical pictures taken of the destruction from an F4 tornado/cyclone on the cities of St. Cloud, Sauk Rapids and Rice, Minnesota on April 14, 1886.

Gallery Credit: Brown and Riley, "Cyclone Views: Pictures Sauk Rapids Cyclone" (1886). University and Other Publications. 1.

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