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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...
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...
(WHTM)– A lottery ticket worth $1 million was sold in Pennsylvania last week, according to the PA Lottery. The PA Lottery said that a retailer in Lycoming County sold a $1 million-winning Million Dollar Win It All Scratch-Off last week. Nittany MinitMart in Loyalsock Township will receive a $5,000 bonus for selling the winning ticket. […]
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.
A 1918 Montgomery Ward department store now holds more than 100 vendors across four floors. Yes, the same company that once sold America everything by catalog. The building got a second life, and it’s packed with treasures. The ground floor ceilings rise 18 feet high. Restored maple floors run...
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...
Clothes don’t even make it onto these racks unless they’re freshly laundered, odor-free, and free of pet hair. A single pilled sweater or broken zipper is enough to get turned away at the counter. That strict door policy shapes everything inside this Pennsylvania resale shop. The focus stays...
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...
Chocolate, vanilla, and chocolate-vanilla twist will all be available.
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...
An entire aisle of ramen noodles. That’s one aisle, in one grocery store, and it might be the least surprising thing inside. This Pennsylvania supermarket also stocks live seafood, Korean barbecue meats marinated and ready for the grill, and even kimchi refrigerators. The signs come in three languages: English, Korean, and Chinese.
A Pennsylvania tavern has a taxidermy skunk on display, an old bank vault used for private dining, and an appetizer called Goat Balls. The Skunk and Goat Tavern sits on Main Street in North East, a small Erie County town near Lake Erie. Its unusual name is only part of the story.
One pizzeria in this list wants you to reserve your dough before you show up. Not your table. Your dough. I love that kind of quiet confidence. Another spot sells pierogies out of a former gas station. A third serves roast pork sandwiches near railroad tracks in an industrial pocket of a big city. None of them shout for attention, and that’s exactly why they caught my eye.
Nearly 30 flavors of homemade pie have made a family restaurant in Pennsylvania a memorable stop for travelers craving old-fashioned comfort food. From caramel apple crumb to chocolate peanut butter and lemon meringue, the selection gives dessert lovers plenty to think about. But the pies are only part of the...
Pennsylvania has no shortage of diners, but a special group of them still runs on one simple rule: no cards, just cash. That might sound old-fashioned, yet these spots keep regulars coming back with home fries, fresh biscuits, thin pancakes, and booths that have seen decades of breakfast orders. This...
A single chrysanthemum plant in Pennsylvania gets trained to hold more than a thousand matching blooms at once. One plant. A thousand flowers. I still can’t get over that. Gardeners start growing it in January, and the planning for its big show begins two years ahead. That kind of patience feels wild to me, especially for a display that lasts only a few weeks in fall.
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...
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,...
More than 450 kinds of perennials grow along winding paths here, and a friendly cat named Tiny might greet you on the way in. That alone had me hooked. Add frog-filled ponds and a greenhouse, and this plant nursery starts sounding like a storybook setting. The property covers about two...