hey everybody welcome to Discover SPRINGFORD I'm your host Geoff Desiato, a
local realtor and recent transplant to the Spring-Ford area and I'm on a
mission to discover what makes Spring-Ford a great place to live work and
explore. Today we're gonna find out what makes it such a great place to eat.
I'm here in front of the Railroad Street Bar and Grill located at the corner of
Railroad Street and Mill Lane in Linfield PA owner Mike McCloskey is
waiting inside and he's going to share with us some information about the history of
this location as well as the intricacies of his menu so let's take a look inside
come on follow me
I'm here at the railroad Street Bar and Grille with the owner mike.mccluskey
Mike how are you I'm doing very well that great thanks for having me
what you see in front of us is one of their signature seasonal items but
before we get to that I just want to ask you Mike to tell us a little about
yourself how you got started in the business but also if you want to go
further back where you grew up what you wanted to do did you always want to get
into the restaurant business and so on so I'll let you kind of take it from
there absolutely I was born and raised in media Delaware County I lived there
until my early 20s then I moved out to the Lansdale area and I was in the real
estate business and I actually had no interests if you would have told me 15
years ago ten years ago that I would have owned a restaurant I tell you
you're out of your mind I had no restaurant experience or very little
restaurant experience so I'm just having odd jobs growing up but this property
this building in Railroad Street was actually brought together by accident we
were real estate partnership group was buying rooming houses in Montgomery
County and we had several and Lansdale and we ended up buying one here sight
unseen we went to settlement came to see it and I'm like there's a bar here and
the grill or the work force at the time said yeah yeah you could just rent it
out so we renovated the entire property and
couldn't find a viable tenant couldn't find somebody that wanted to work with
our lease terms so I said let's just try and open it and move forward from there
and when was that that was in 2006 okay and four years later I had some some
visions to do to go in different directions in the partnership group with
beers and whiskey's and locally grown foods and they had no interest in doing
that so I bought them out and here we are today Wow
so it's funny that you say you're from blaze that's where I have transplanted
from the Lansdale area North Bend and my journey I'm currently in real estate and
if you had told me five years ago ten years ago that I'd be real estate agent
I would have said the exact same thing that you said about restaurants so
that's kind of one of the reasons why we're doing the show is to to explore
and to expand beyond this stereotypical which it seems like that's what you're
trying to do with the menu just in our conversation the the regular Bar and
Grill food is not is not what you're looking to do necessarily correct you're
looking to improve and expand upon what people would expect from a place like
railroad street and be different a lot of what we do is locally sourced our
cheese comes from Cana Bella farms over in Chester County all of our meat is
raised at why not farm over and Glenmore / tomatoes are all produced by reuters
for tomato and vegetable company they also produce all of our peppers we
dehydrate all of our peppers what we don't dehydrate we will jar so you know
all year long we'll will utilize the locally sourced organic products as well
and we do as much support of the farms call dairy stops in here every week and
drops off you know heavy cream milk nelson's ice cream supplies us with our
ice before dessert so I mean there's just there's just a whole inner circle
of local community people that we utilize here at Railroad Street that's
really important and I noticed I didn't realize till today though the the logo
is very popular I've seen it and not realized that it was to this venue that
can you tell it's a little bit how that came to be did you get somebody to
design a tour you came up with out yourself further
that was actually there's another by accident a local businessman actually
had a business in the area and can be handing out Magnus and this is going
back six years ago now and I said this is a great idea I said do you care if I
if I copycat your idea that's enough knock yourself out that was thirty four
thousand magnets ago we have thirty four thousand magnets currently on the street
yeah they're Freight we don't charge anybody for them if you're willing to
support us we're you know we're ecstatic about it and well even people send
self-addressed stamped envelopes from all over the world people travel with
the magnets I get emails every day from people in Rome people in China or us
serve our military service people it's it's very exciting it's it never gets
old so when I'm moving up an email and it's a magnet email it didn't never gets
old because I never know what I'm going to say and it's just the support is
it's it's you can't even put work stuff yeah I mean you're putting Linfield you
know for of it you know for most terms lube field is not really a recognizable
name other than to the locals and you're having people from room brandish their
vehicle or a refrigerator with lid filled Pennsylvania that's pretty
impressive so have you had any tourists or any people show up here that it's
because of the magnet or because of what they've heard or seen based on word of
mouth of Railroad Street every day somebody new comes in and says that the
magnet brought me here I didn't know what it was I finally finally figured
out what it was I got close enough to one I saw it in a parking lot and I
looked it up online and found now I'm here so yes did I get people that come
from afar because of the magnet I can't say yes I can't say no because as much
as I'm a very hands-on owner I'm here every night I'm at the podium I seek
tables I'll run food I work in the kitchen I try and talk to as many people
as I can because I love I love talking to everybody that's your old real estate
cycle yeah network to get engaging with people but at the end of the day you
know there's so many people that I don't talk to that I wish I could so yes
probably but I can't this definitively say yes so real estate how did you get
into that originally was that a family thing or no always one of the built
houses always wanted to be a home builder and pretty much just started at
the bottom working for a development company in Bluebell Pennsylvania and at
that time it was a Western development company then I went on to work for a
little bit of a larger one and I worked in land and sorry in North Wales for a
phenomenal builder who's actually very very new to the springboard area WB
homes they're building over by the Country Club and I probably learned more
working for that group about business and life and home building and that was
it's a huge part of the success of forever Street really oh yeah so you've
been able to use some of the lessons that you learned in another industry to
apply to absolutely anything off the top your head put you on the spot of like
different things that you're either your old manager or boss taught you that you
apply yeah um always have more money coming in than you have going
a wise man knows what he doesn't know yeah and yeah I mean those are two that
stick in my head every day that uh that the owner of the WB homes always used to
say that to me that's great now let's take a moment to
talk about the locally sourced food that you bring into Railroad Street because I
know you have a partnership with roars for tomato vegetable company which will
have on the show next time and we can talk a little bit about this thing that
I you can see my my bite right here I'm gonna take another one while you talk
about a little bit of the you know what you're trying to accomplish with the
menu here I guess it was about three years ago tomato Joe Moscow who's a
local borough councilman roar soar came to me trying to sell me tomatoes and
consistently come in day after day you want to buy tomatoes you want to buy
tomatoes one of my tomatoes anyways I was driving by his house one day and I
was like let me stop and buy some tomatoes from this guy so I ended up
finding this many tomatoes the second fit in my car and I didn't realize how
good a tomato could be so we started incorporating them into or our menu back
then and you know time went on and Joe and I became friends and one of the
things that we we do is we're still in the real estate business per se and I
had vacant areas and land throughout Lynn field and and the township and I
said hey if you need more area to grow tomatoes
knock yourself out it's criminal ground sitting vacant I don't have any
intentions of building on it any time soon and pal
next thing you know he started a garden and I knew nothing about tomatoes and
now I'm working in the garden with him Wow
so and that was a small 12,000 square foot garden and this year alone we just
burn at over forty five over and over an acre and a half of full-on tomatoes
there's about 900 tomato plants 450 pepper plants and I can't tell you how
much corn I took I just can't count and wild flower so it's become a
presentation piece in Lynn field so a lot of people drive by it and I
constantly hear every day how beautiful it is and how much fruit it produces I
have just 650 pounds on on-site right now tomatoes
that are getting ready to it's a pretty exciting for us we're actually doing
full on organic ketchup so realizing roars for tomatoes organic apple cider
vinegar celery it's 100 percent there's no high fructose corn syrup there's no
corn syrup there's no tomato concentrate whatever that is and so that's that's
coming to put into play next week so you'll see that through verse 4 tomato
company yeah I'm sure we'll talk a little bit more about that and you'll
see on the tables here at railroad ties very good no more of that the other guy
has we'll just call them right I do will apologize say but he continues to watch
because I might have stuff in my teeth I don't care this is so good and I
definitely know what by eating this I know what you mean by you didn't know
how good a tomato paste tomato paste but the the BST one of the things that kind
of like it upsets me when with my menu it's our money was very different
there's a lot of creative thought that goes into it a tremendous amount with it
with our culinary team and myself and when people come in in order to BLT it
just to kind of like just I just want to hit myself instead and I said let me
come up with the ultimate BLT so I took royersford tomato
I took bespoke bacon which is back from my Lansdale rooster local spinach and a
nice ciabatta roll and I have a friend in Salem Salem County New Jersey who
owns over Swan farms he's actually it's the oldest working farm in New Jersey
Matt I'm here yeah met him here and we take his garlic and he ferments it into
a black garlic and we make a black garlic aioli so that's that's the cream
the the sauce that you're tasting there when you eat the the BST so there's a
lot of thoughts that's put into that and it's become I mean we it's become quite
a staple in the community yeah that's a crab when you first said BST I had no
idea we talk about because I'm not very clever so either way they just call it a
B if I can I don't I don't have anybody operating the camera but if you can see
how thick that piece of bacon is this is not the typical light sandwich that you
have when you just fry up some bacon in your pan at home
so you know know a couple centimeters thick this is like almost a half an inch
thick piece of bacon so it's incredible it's one of the most tasty sandwiches
I've ever had to be honest with the end I'm not just saying that because I'm
here in your restaurant and you're doing this show with me but one of the things
we discussed brief re briefly I'd like to ask you know as we wrap up just going
a little bit more detail in some of the history of this place because it says on
the side that this I mean this building not the umbrella Street Grill obviously
but the building was established in 1850 and and you know we have seen some shots
of the the railroad itself and coming in I came in on truly Mill Road which is
right along the river there or Creek whatever it is just beautiful and then
to come in and you're in this little hamlet of a town Lindfield if you don't
mind just going not at least what you know I'll tell you what I know and I'm
not a local historian I love talking to the local historians I hope to have on
the show so are you trying to reach out to usually can get back to me I can
definitely set you up with some local historians Linfield this bar and grill
at the building was built in 1850 it was a bar and it was a hotel all the way
through the Prohibition they distilled they distilled whiskey here and it was
known as the Montgomery house hotel popping try the hotel Montgomery and in
the 40s I believe that's when it became no one actually knows the wind but it
did become the Linfield hotel it was the Linfield hotel until 2003 I bought it in
oh five I believe open it no 6 is railroad Street Bar and Grill we are
actually sitting in an expansion of it so the main bar and what's interesting
about the main more when you actually go in and see it it's probably the most
uncomfortable bar you can never sit knee that's horrible
because there's no ledge there's no overhang there's no litter so that bar
was actually constructed as a workingman's bar so you would actually
get done working at the liquor distillery you would come here this was
your spot and you'd stand just leave that because he leaned it up and you
drink some beers with your friends and then you'd go home so it's the original
bar yeah ok that's out of that for sure I've struggled to keep it I mean it
time where it probably should be replaced but I kind of just don't want
to because they fit I mean that's a big part of the history here for sure that's
really fascinating I really appreciate the time the effort that you've done to
bring attention to lib feel to you know the greater spring forward area
obviously it's been a pleasure meeting you talking to you hopefully as things
expand I'd love to come back see how things are going as we wrap up why don't
you let people know how they can get information about railroads treat you if
you're on social media your web social media railroad railroad Street Bar and
Grill Instagram Railroad Street horn Railroad Street bar Grill Railroad
Street calm Street is actually spelled out and that pretty much is the best way
to do it great so Mike thanks so much well that's all
the time we have for today I want to thank you for watching this episode of
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by going to TV discover spring ford.com you can also find all the information
for the railroad Street Bar and Grille below this video and I encourage you to
patronize this establishment you will not be sorry and get the BST I highly
recommend it until next time Godspeed
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