Family Style Dining - All You Can Eat at Wright's Farm Restaurant in Harrisville, Rhode Island

The traditional family style dinner where folks gather1972, Wright's Farm Restaurant has steadily expanded
around a large table, dining on course after course withoperations to six dining rooms and has become a
unlimited servings is a popular pursuit for native Rhodelandmark in northern Rhode Island. Sprawled on a
Islanders and out-of-towners who wing it to our poultrypastoral setting, the place still has farm appeal, while its
palaces. Chicken family style, an all you can eat mealmanicured lawn encourages an after dinner stroll. A
comprised of salad doused with Italian dressing, rolls,large gift shop and toy store with a vast array of
pasta (shells, ziti, or penne), and roasted potatoes oritems is a browser's delight while waiting to be seated
fries with those legs, breasts, or thighs, is one big Italianinside one of its six dining rooms.
Job pulled inside the confines of the smallest state inAs lovely as these accommodations may be, it's what
the Union. Several restaurants which offer this uniquegets carried out of the kitchen that wows all the birds
tradition of dining share common attributes: their onceof a feather who flock to Wright's Farm Restaurant
humble abode expanded to a huge banquet facilityon a Thursday and Friday 4 pm-9pm, Saturday 12
capable of accommodating more than 1,000 patrons atpm-9:30 pm, or Sunday 12 pm-8 pm. The Galleshaw
one sitting; banquet rooms with elegant namesfamily motto by which their family serves other families
resemble barrack mess halls flanked by wallsis "quality, quantity, and consistency" at $11 per adult,
bordered with floral wallpaper and painted in shades of$6.95 for children 4-10 years, and children 3 and under
sage green, mauve, or burgundy.go free. Only cash or check payments are accepted.
When families get together to celebrate milestones likeSo, let the dinner begin with rolls made fresh daily in
birthdays and weddings, a family style, all you can eattheir own bakery, along with salad tossed with Wright's
chicken dinner is the preferred sit down. Those worthFarm Classic Italian Dressing. Loosen your belt for shell
flocking to include: Lancellotta's Banquet Restaurant,macaroni with tomato sauce made from their own
1113 Charles St.,North Providence; Lombardi's 1025 Club,recipe, and make room for the main entrée. I
1025 Plainfield St., Johnston; Twelve Acres, 5 Douglascan attest their chicken is succulent and tender, while
Pike, Smithfield; The Bocce Club st louis avethe fries are the freshest I've tasted. Two kitchens, 75
woonsocket West Valley Inn, 4 Blossom St., Westovens, and a wait staff of more than 160, assure a
Warwick. The restaurant most seem to cluck about,constant flow of food delivered with promptness.
flying the coop far and wide to patronize is Wright'sWright's Farm Restaurant salad dressing, pasta and
Farm Restaurant, 84 Inman Rd., Harrisville.barbecue sauces, frozen chicken pies, fudge, and
Gene Wright, the main supplier of chickens for Theother Wright products can be found in grocery stores
Bocce Club, began outdoor dinner events for theand supermarkets throughout Rhode Island,
Knights of Columbus and other organizations out of aMassachusetts, and Connecticut, as well as their gift
garage on his farm in Harrisville in the early 1950s. He'dshop. Wright's Farm Restaurant is a well-orchestrated
cut feed barrels in half lengthwise and used them asItalian Job, quite capable of delivering a tasty and
makeshift chicken barbecues. In 1954, Wright took asumptuous all you can eat, family style chicken dinner
customer's suggestion and opened up ato native Rhode Islanders and out-of-towners who
restaurant-Wright's Farm Restaurant.gladly wing it to the boonies of Harrisville for a hearty
Purchased by the Frank T. Galleshaw, Jr. family inmeal.