American Hotel

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7304 E Main St
Lima, NY 14485
The historic American Hotel, located in a 150-year-old building and a member of the National Register of Historic Places, is noted for its homemade soups, featuring unique favorites like cheeseburger chowder, thai peanut, vegetable beef, cauliflower cheddar, and New England clam chowder.

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4.037 reviews
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Brian G.
2/28/2023

We weren't sure what we were walking into here- the Yelp ratings aren't the best, but they scored high with a TripAdvisor award in 2018. It's not fancy, but it is down home- salt of the earth...

Dee A.
5/20/2025

Returning here after many years, we were not disappointed by the variety of sandwich choices. The long list of potential soup choices is shortened to 2 per day. On this day, there were two bland...

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Beatrice T.
10/29/2024

Homey atmosphere, homemade soups and other entrees. I had the Italian sausage soup, and it tasted like my Mom's. The fried baloney was sinfully good!

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Stan F.
10/25/2020

There has been an American Hotel on this site since about 1790. The first two were made of wood. The present day building was built in 1840. After two fires in the 1850's, it was rebuilt in 1861...

Marilyn D.
9/29/2024

We liked the reviews on this place so we ventured in. The homemade soups of which you could pick from about 7, were delish. The sandwiches were old school, liverwurst, fried bologna etc. They gave...

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