They’ve done it again.  A great piece of downtown real estate has been transformed into a dark and depressing space.  We recently visited the newly opened Sam Bucca’s Pizza Pub (formerly Max’s, formerly Carmella’s Trattoria) and what a disappointment.  DowntownAfterDark’s signature is all over this one too.  From the giant signs advertising cheap beer on [...]

A word of advice if you’ve never been to Mangia Qui - rearrange your to do list. This place is well worth the visit! The downstairs is a very nice, quaint Italian restaurant and the upstairs is a gorgeous tapas bar called Suba complete with a high wooden beamed ceiling, colorful artwork, and detailed spanish [...]

Hey, I’m back from vacation and If you missed some updates that happened recently, here is some info:

Carmella’s Trattoria (formerly Max’s) next to the Hilton has reopened as Sam Bucca’s Pizza Pub.  One review already here.
Mangia Qui is opening a restauarant in Midtown called Sip.  They will be part of the new Midtown Arts Center.
High [...]

In a turn of events that will make it mercifully more difficult for me to gain weight, Chilly Willy’s ice cream on 2nd St. is apparently dunzo. Employee Katie told me that within a few weeks, Willy’s, which serves hand-dipped Hershey&#8…

Spice-gate continues. For those of you who aren’t aware, Monday a server and a bartender at Spice were fired after being quoted in a story by reporter Daniel Victor that appeared in the Sunday edition of the Patriot-News. Molly Turner …

This summer has been flying by and even though it seems slow here it’s been very busy for me.   Who knew building a house could be this time consuming.  Couple that with the fact that I really haven’t been out downtown that much this summer makes for slow posts online.
Either way, here are a few [...]

What do an Irish pub, an art museum, and a center for science and the performing arts all have in common? Not too much without getting really creative - unless you’re speaking about an innovative job and internship fair called Experience Harrisburg. In that case you’d know that Molly Brannigans, the Susquehanna Art Museum, and [...]