The Last Meal restaurant has officially opened its doors to hungry true crime aficionados and curiosity seekers alike in Galion, Ohio.
The Last Meal Restaurant is an extension of The Ohio Museum of Horror. Both businesses were established by Nate Thompson in July 2025. Thompson has three years experience running a similar museum in Michigan.
Unlike Ohio, the museum in Michigan features an exhibit rated 18+ called ‘The Red Room.’ According to the website, “this exhibit contains THE MOST graphic, gory, and unbelievable real pictures of Death. Ranging from Celebrity Deaths, Serial Killer Victims, Crime Scene Photos from the late 1800’s, and more!”
Both museums balance fiction and non fiction with a focus on horror, true crime, the macabre, and the paranormal. Some of the things you will find inside the walls include horror memorabilia, true crime artifacts, and oddities including human bones.
If potential attendees are conflicted visiting the museum and restaurant, a portion of the profits from the sales is donated to various victims’ support foundations.
Dinner at The Last Meal creates an immersive culinary experience based on the final meals of notoriously executed convicts.
Enjoy Ted Bundy’s last meal; 8oz sirloin and eggs, a hash brown, toast with butter and jelly, and milk, juice, and coffee to drink. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. …even if it is your last one.
Feel like something lighter? Perhaps serial killer Aileen Wuornos is more your style; a smash burger with cheese and onions and a coffee.
Have a sweet tooth? Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh ordered just two pints of mint chocolate chip ice cream. Similarly, falsely convicted and wrongfully executed Joe Arridy asked for a bowl of no-churn vanilla ice cream.
Death row inmates cannot have alcohol with their last meal, but you can! The Last Meal restaurant’s drink menu of adult beverages are inspired by killers, with the exception of The Black Dahlia; a combination of pomegranate juice, lime juice, and lemon juice with tonic water, muddled blackberries, and a blueberry garnish. A drink worthy for the young and beautiful starlet murdered in 1947.
History of the Last Meal
Offering a last meal to death row inmates the night before their execution is not a mandated practice every state has to abide. Some facilities offer the condemned inmates what is available on their standard prison menu. Other states serve all inmates the same dinner each night, no exceptions.
This practice was specifically implemented in Texas when death row inmate Lawrence Brewer ordered an excessively large and expensive last meal. Once the food arrived at his cell, he told the guards he was no longer hungry. He did not touch a single piece of food from the buffet he ordered.
The meal consisted of; two chicken friend steaks with gravy and onions, a triple patty bacon cheeseburger, a Mexican omelet, three fajitas, one pound of barbeque chicken wings, a meat lovers pizza, a bowl of friend okra with ketchup, half a loaf of white bread, one pint of Blue Bell vanilla ice cream, a slab of peanut butter fudge with crushed peanuts, and three root beers.
There was not a budget before Brewer abused the privilege. The only exception was that the meal had to be prepared in the state’s facility’s kitchen.
For states where the inmate is allowed to order a special “off menu” option, a monetary restriction is placed. Most states allow convicted inmates a budget between $10-$25. Florida and California are the exceptions with a $40 and $50 last meal allowance.
In an era where true crime is thriving in pop culture, Thompson’s dream to expand his museums is a very real possibility. And with many last meals still to be recreated, his menu can continue to expand as well!
