We’ve been eating lunch on Saturdays at The Good Life Cafe in Carlisle, the one and only local farm restaurant. It may be the only one in Pennsylvania. David Ison and Ruth Busko feature organic produce from Spiral Path, dairy products from Keswick Creamery, Three Maples in Millersburg and Trickling Springs Creamery, grass-fed beef from … Tuscarora Lowlines and chicken from Three Maples. “I have a particular commitment ...
Inspired by the wildly varying levels of service at restaurants in Harrisburg, seeking out good service seemed like a good start on a food story. So I interviewed three servers at the Golden Sheaf, adults who consider waiting tables their career. That’s the high end. At the other end, I’d like to interview the people who wait on customers at the Subway in Strawberry Square — to me, it ...
Two years after a rigorous expose by The Allentown Morning Call, the state Ag Department has finally relented and begun posting restaurant inspections online. Just not very many. Go ahead, try your luck at the Ag Dept website I plugged in Fisaga, the place downtown that has had the most churn. No record. Then I tried Stock’s on Second and The Firehouse, two of the oldest restaurants on the Row. You’d ...
Last Tuesday, I started for Subway in Strawberry Square to get lunch and found the place packed with kids. So I headed out toward Third Street, because I remembered that Lisa and Juan Garcia were about to open El Sol. It’s in the old Harrisburg Magazine space at 18 South 3rd. The place is cool and quiet. It’s a great room with a small bar toward the front and about ...
The famed Phantom Diner of WITF and Central PA magazine has filed Her/His answers to our 10 carefully constructed dining questions. The crucial Last Meal question is, of course, last. Ready? 1. How many of you are there? One and only one. 2. Are there any cuisines or styles of cooking you seriously don’t like? Not especially fond of Sub-Saharan African cuisine, especially sadza. 3. How do you review a cuisine you are ...
The Waiter at Waiter Rant is standing by the window, pretending the watch the passing scene, eavesdropping on the customers in his station. “No,†the older man says. “If everyone tried following their bliss everyone would be trying to get to the same place at the same time. It’d be a f**king traffic jam. But since no one likes going into the negative there’s more room for opportunity – ...
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