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One Pennsylvania burger hides mushrooms and onions inside the patty itself, then gets finished with Velveeta and a homemade hot mustard. I read that and immediately wanted to know who thought of it first. The surprises kept coming. Another spot on this list pairs smash burgers with birria tacos. A...
Primanti Bros. said in February that it was closing its Camp Hill and Lancaster restaurants. It hasn’t been the only familiar name to go dark in Pennsylvania this year. Here are the restaurant chains closing Pennsylvania locations in 2026, and where. 1. Smokey Bones. Smokey Bones shut down its...
Snapper soup is the dish people keep bringing up at one old colonial house in the Pennsylvania countryside. Yes, that snapper. The turtle-based classic that sounds like a dare and somehow tastes like comfort. The soup is only the start. The same kitchen turns out crab cakes, French onion soup,...
Goat, rabbit, and lamb sit right alongside chicken wings at one old butcher counter. Some shoppers drive hours just for the small turkey wings. The shop opened in 1929. That means it has fed families through nearly a century of changing neighborhoods, prices, and supermarket trends. I like how the...
A bakery in Pennsylvania sells fresh pasta right next to its bread and cannoli, and it closes on Thursdays and Fridays. That schedule alone made me curious. Who skips Friday?. Another stop on this list serves its pasta in flights, so you can sample several dishes at once. A third has been cooking Southern Italian food since 1946.
Imagine watching an entire stainless steel diner lifted onto trucks and transported across town. That is exactly what happened to a historic Pennsylvania restaurant when a highway expansion project threatened its longtime home. Rather than abandon the building, its owners moved the vintage structure approximately 12 miles to a new...
For more than 70 years, a small-town grocery store has served generations of Pennsylvania families. Today, its owners are working to keep that tradition alive as thinning shelves and fierce competition threaten a familiar neighborhood landmark. The market still offers something larger chains cannot easily recreate: a butcher counter where...
A plate of crispy haddock and fries at one Pennsylvania seafood house can stretch into two full meals. That is a lot of fish for a place hundreds of miles from the nearest lobster boat. The whole idea started on a Massachusetts harbor, years before the doors ever opened. Today...
Craving middle-of-nowhere restaurants in Pennsylvania that are totally worth packing your bags for?. These 7 remarkable spots serve up outstanding food and experiences you’ll never stop talking about!. 1. Big Mike’s Steaks & Hoagies (Forksville) Forksville is a tiny borough tucked deep into Sullivan County, the kind of...
In 1983, a fire wrecked the upper floors of a beloved restaurant building, and it was marked for demolition. Then one man stopped the bulldozers. He claimed the burned-out shell and saw an Italian dining room where everyone else saw rubble. His whole family spent ten years rebuilding it and...
Free chocolate milk refills are still a thing at one Old West-themed steakhouse. That detail alone made me grin. The chain behind it once had more than 700 restaurants across America. Now only about a dozen remain nationwide. Just one still stands in Pennsylvania, and people drive hours to reach...
The bacon at this butcher shop is dry-cured and heavily smoked right on the premises. Even better, the sausages, cold cuts, and smoked meats are made by hand in-house, the old-world German way. The man who started it all began his butcher apprenticeship in Germany at just 13. He earned...
In Western Pennsylvania, Friday during Lent means one thing for a lot of families: a trip to the fire hall or church basement for fried fish. These dinners are run by volunteers, priced for real neighborhoods, and packed with people who have been coming for years. The best ones rarely...
Buffalo gets the credit for inventing the chicken wing, but Pennsylvania has quietly built a wing scene that can hold its own. From Pittsburgh to Philadelphia, neighborhood bars are tossing wings in sauces that range from classic hot to flavors you have never heard of. Some spots offer more than...
Say “Giant” to a grocery shopper in Philadelphia and to one in Pittsburgh, and they’ll picture two different stores. The names sound related, and that’s where a lot of the confusion starts. Here’s why eastern Pennsylvanians shop at Giant and western Pennsylvanians swear by Giant Eagle....
(WHTM)– Coca-Cola is celebrating the holidays in Pennsylvania this year with its iconic traveling Holiday Caravan. According to Coca-Cola, the Holiday Caravan is a traveling celebration that visits communities across North America to spread holiday magic and festive joy. This season, the caravan is stopping at several locations across the Commonwealth. Coca-Cola provided a list […]
Some dinners are just dinner, and some get circled on the calendar weeks ahead. Across Pennsylvania, certain steakhouses have become the go-to spots when a family wants to mark a birthday, toast an anniversary, or simply make a night feel bigger than usual. This list covers nine of them, from...
Thanksgiving doesn’t have to mean spending hours in the kitchen. If you’d rather leave the cooking to someone else this year, you’re in luck. There are restaurants across central Pennsylvania ready to serve a holiday meal. From traditional turkey and mashed potatoes to all-you-can-eat buffets, WITF has rounded up restaurants open on Thanksgiving Day in the region.
One of these Thanksgiving tables sits inside an old railroad station, and trains still roll past the windows. I did not expect that when I started digging. Turkey with a side of passing freight cars? Yes, please. Another stop on this list is an inn that dates back to around...
