New Hope Mills Best of the Region award

2020 Auburn Citizen Award

We thank our loyal guests for voting for us, and we look forward to serving our community and visitors with more amazing food and friendly hospitality. The New Hope Mills Café has won the Best of the Region award for Best Breakfast from the Auburn Citizen. This award was voted on by local and regional patrons of our café. We’d like to thank our guests and look forward to delivering more of the amazing food and service you come to expect.

We’re so grateful that our café in Auburn, New York has won the distinguished Auburn Citizen award. People from far and wide stop by our cafe’ to enjoy our delicious menu featuring pancakes, waffles, french toast, crepes and more. In our store, we offer a wide variety of pancake and waffle mixes as well as unique home decor and kitchenware.

         New Hope Mills chocolate turtle waffle   New Hope Mills Pumpkin Buttermilk Pancakes    New Hope Mills Cafe and Store. flour pancake mix, syrup      

New Hope Mills tripadvisor award

2020 Tripadvisor Travelers' Choice Award

Congratulations New Hope Mills Store and Café on being a Travelers’ Choice Winner. Each year, we comb through reviews, ratings, and saves from travelers everywhere, and use that info to award the very best. You’re in the top 10% of restaurants worldwide.

Thanks to all the amazing reviews our wonderful customers have posted, we are honored to announce that New Hope Mills has won this prestigious TripAdvisor award!  We’d like to thank our guests and look forward to delivering more 5-star food and service.

We’re so blessed that our cafe’ in Auburn, New York has won the distinguished Tripadvisor award. People from far and wide stop by our cafe’ to enjoy our delicious pancakes, waffles, and shop in our store.

          New Hope Mills pancakes       New Hope Mills Cafe'       New Hope Mills Cafe' and Store

We’re looking forward to serving our amazing community for many years to come. 

New Hope Mills historic mill black and white

Central New York Living History

  A long time ago in America, the land was covered with grist mills. These water-powered mills were built next to a swift river where the current from that river turned the water wheel, which turned the heavy stones, which ground the corn into cornmeal or the wheat into flour for baking and cooking.

The grain is lifted in sacks onto the sack floor at the top of the mill. The sacks are then emptied into bins, where the grain falls down through a hopper to the millstones on the stone floor below. The milled grain (flour) is collected as it emerges through the grooves in the runner stone from the outer rim of the stones and is fed down a chute to be collected in sacks on the ground or meal floor. 

       New Hope Mills bags of grain       New Hope Mills historic hopper    New Hope Mills historic flour

New Hope Mills started in Moravia, NY as a flour mill servicing the local farming community in 1823. Nearly 200 years later the business is still alive. Doug Weed, the 3rd generation Owner and CEO fondly recalls days in his youth, mixing and packing flour at the location everyone in the New Hope Mills’ family calls, ‘The Old Mill.’ Working alongside his Father and Grandfather, Doug and his siblings and cousins learned the value of hard work and the tools and trade of milling, mixing, and packing what has become Central NY’s favorite pancake mix!

            New Hope Mills Historical Mill        

In 2005, the mill and the saw mill up stream were both added to the New York State and National Register of Historical places.