The comfort here is Lake Erie fish-house comfort. Perch Dinner, Perch Tacos, Yellow Pickerel, Southern Fried Chicken, fries, onion rings, and familiar sides keep the meal hearty without making it formal.

211 Main makes comfort food feel considered: The Orchard Melt adds fig jam and brie to pulled chicken, Blueberry Brie pairs fruit, bacon, and cheese, and the shareables keep the meal grounded.

Hank DeKoning is strongest when the order is direct comfort food: Roast Beef Dinner, DeKoning Breakfast, Steak on a Bun, Liver & Onions, and breakfast meats from the same family meat-business world. The food is plain in the best way, built around plates that regulars can return to without decoding them.

The menu works because it stays in a narrow comfort-food lane: perch, pickerel, haddock, fries, poutine, burgers, coleslaw, and milkshakes. It is the kind of simple beach meal where the best choices are fried, salty, cold, or all three.

The menu leans into familiar comfort rather than novelty for its own sake: adobo with rice, pancit, lumpia, fried chicken, pork BBQ skewers, and an adobo poutine. The family-recipe framing gives those dishes warmth without turning them generic.