Merry Go Round Restaurant

05/26/2026

The weather may be cool, but our coffee is HOT!🔥 Come get some delicious breakfast to start your day off right! We've got chicken n' dumplings and spare ribs with saurkraut on special for lunch today as well! 😋

05/22/2026

To celebrate Memorial Day, we will be closing at 11am Saturday. Happy Memorial Day weekend!

05/12/2026

Hand rolled Chicken and Dumplings
Hand rolled Meatloaf
Homemade Ribs and Kraut
All day today!!

Don’t forget free coffee Wednesday and Thursday Breakfast!!

05/11/2026

Its been a whirlwind Mothers Day on our end! But we want to take a moment to show our appreciation and thank all the wonderful mothers who share their days with us! We hope that today was full of love and laughter, or maybe quiet and relaxing! Whatever your day held we hope it was just as beautiful as you make our days, everyday! ❤️❤️ Happy Mothers Day

05/06/2026

We've had so many people stop to take a peek at our old menu board that Natalie put together! Can you believe the prices back in the 40s-50s!!? 😳 Rumor is, we may see the Dilly Dog make a comeback this year!!! 👀 Come check out this little piece of history next time youre in!! 😊

04/29/2026

We had 2 very special guests today! June and Sue Smallwood were car hops here at Merry Go Round during 1948-1949!! How cool is that?! June actually met her husband here and they have spent many anniversaries with us over the years! Thanks for coming and having lunch with us today girls!! 🥰🥰

04/07/2026

We had a VERY special guest today! A once in a lifetime chance to meet someone absolutely amazing! There are only 61 living Medal of Honor recipients today, and we had the greatest pleasure of meeting one and offering our humble hospitality to him!

Donald "Doc" Ballard

A little about Doc. As a hospital corpsman in the Vietnam War, he received the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions! On May 16, 1968, Ballard treated two Marines suffering from heat exhaustion, and when returning to his platoon from the casualty evacuation helicopter pad, his rifle company was attacked by a unit of North Vietnamese Army (NVA) soldiers. While under enemy fire, Ballard was attending to a wounded Marine when an enemy gr***de landed near the wounded Marine, four other Marines, and himself. He immediately covered the gr***de with his body to shield the five Marines from the blast. Realizing that the gr***de failed to explode, he quickly threw it out of harm's way as it exploded, saving the Marines and himself from harm or death. He then continued on attending to wounded Marines during the firefight. For his actions, he received the United States of America's highest military decoration for valor, the Medal of Honor.

It was such an amazing pleasure to meet you Doc! You have such an incredible personality and were so very kind to us! We hope if you ever roll threw Evansville again, youll stop by and see us!!

02/16/2026

02/08/2026

Story time.
My wife and I were watching our oldest at soccer practice when a familiar face strolled by.
I knew this man as I met a lot of customers and they become close and almost family to me and the waitresses.
I introduced him to my wife and he treated my wife and kids like his own. This man was always full of joy and always made everyones day better.
We always seemed to run into each other outside of work and we passed each other shopping at Sam’s club and he made me feel like a million bucks. David Dodson

Last Friday I was running the floor. David and his wife came in to eat lunch. We joked around and smiled like we always do. He told me it was his wife’s birthday. They ended up coming in
later that evening with some of his kids and he brightened up the room as he always did.

Last night I received a phone call from a friend that informed me that David had a heart attack and he was no longer with us. Words cannot express how sorry I am and how much he will be missed. My deepest condolences go out to his wife Janna and his kids.

He is someone that I strive to be as a man,husband, and father. I hope to see his family in the future so I can give them a hug and share a tear. You will be missed and I will think of you when I’m having a down day because I know it will lift my spirits

Every waitress has similar stories and will miss him just as much. Merry Go Round lost a special individual.

Chevy Raeber

02/04/2026

Come in and see our "Walk down memory lane"...