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Restaurant Round-Up: Arepa City
Tuesday, April 28, 2009 4:52PMWe've decided to slightly tweak the format of Restaurant Round-Up. With so many great events coming up, the Spotobe team realized that we might want to start running more blog posts, and that those blog posts should probably be a little bit shorter. The change is going to be reflected in Restaurant Round-Up first. Instead of doing three restaurants every week, we're going to put up one-review Round-Ups on a semi-regular basis (crazy with the hyphens). We'll see how it goes. Starting things off, Dave B. submits a glowing review after a trip to one of Harrisburg's newest restaurants, Arepa City.
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Restaurant Round-Up: Zembie’s, Pavone’s & 3rd St. Deli
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However the tradition of naming sandwiches after people got started, it's an awesome one. Seriously. What a great thing to have associated with your name. It's especially awesome if the sandwich named after you is in some way a reflection of your personality. For instance, the Fraser Street Deli in State College named everything on its menu after former Penn State athletes. If you feel up to it, you can order the Jimmy Kennedy, which is a quadruple bypass masquerading as a breakfast sandwich.
The Jimmy Kennedy consists of enough eggs, cheese, sausage, bacon and ham to fill a complete toasted sub roll. The beauty of this sandwich is that you feel like Jimmy Kennedy when you're done with it; a little bit heavy, generally happy and unbelievably lethargic. Zembie's does this, but I don't think they really tried to match sandwiches with personalities. Otherwise the Matt Stairs would be a Sloppy Joe. This week in Restaurant Round-Up, I justify my love for Zembie's, Dori has an utterly "meh" experience at Pavone's and Dave tries to convince you to go to the 3rd Street Deli. As always, comments are appreciated. Full Article » -
Restaurant Round-Up: Ceoltas, Molly’s & Thai Palace
Tuesday, December 2, 2008 4:00PM
Central Pennsylvania has more than a few Irish Pubs; Harrisburg in particular. It would be easy to be condescending and say that they all came from the same cookie cutter, but I think that each of them has its own charm. Personally, I always tended to view Harrisburg's Irish pubs more as watering holes than actual restaurants. But after a while you get tired of the same old lunch options, and in the last few months, we've hit a couple of them. With that in mind, while I'd be more than happy to raise a bottle of Newcastle (sorry, I'm an English boy through and through) or five at McGrath's or Molly's, I'm a bit partial to the food at Ceoltas. So is Jason, who writes about it in this week's Restaurant Round-Up. Also in the Round-Up, Fran recaps lunch at Molly's in a vernacular about as Irish as the veggie wrap that he ordered. Also, Dave weighs in on Thai Palace in Camp Hill. He doesn't write in Thai though. ขอบพระคุณครับ Dave. As always, your input is greatly appreciated. Full Article » -
Restaurant Round-Up: Visaggio’s, Miyako Sushi & Houlihan’s
Tuesday, October 7, 2008 12:25PM
There are certain times that you really need a restaurant to step up, none more than when you're going out to eat for a special occasion. Like it or not, even the most carefully planned evening can be derailed by an expensive dinner that fails to meet expectations. Last weekend, Restaurant Round-Up contributor Winton celebrated his 5-Year Anniversary with his girlfriend, Ann, at Visaggio's (congrats, guys!), and happily, they had a fantastic meal. Visaggio's website features glowing recommendations from the pages of the Philadelphia Inquirer and from George Will, so it's not a surprise that the meal was good. I mean, if George Will says so...
This week, in addition to Winton's report on Visaggio's, Fran gives the pros and cons of Miyako Sushi and Dave talks about his favorite chain restaurant, Houlihan's. As always, let us know what you think in the comments section. Full Article » -
Restaurant Round-Up: Paxtang Grill, Hampden Diner & El Rodeo
Tuesday, September 30, 2008 2:00PM
Sometimes you want to get dressed up, go out and try something new and exotic on a Friday night. Sometimes you just don't feel like cooking and want to go somewhere you know the kids will be able to get the chicken fingers that they like and the bill won't completely empty your wallet.
Every community has a few inconspicuous restaurants that the locals swear by, and the Paxtang Grill is a place I've heard about from East Shore people ever since I moved back to the area. This week in the Restaurant Round-Up, Dori talked about it, Dave tried breakfast at the Hampden Diner and I ordered Pepe's Special (pictured... yum, right?) from El Rodeo. Again. As always, if you've been to any of these places, leave us some feedback in the comments section. Full Article » -
Restaurant Round-Up: Spring Garden Restaurant, Spice & McDonald’s
Tuesday, September 9, 2008 11:36AM
For those of you who don’t know, this week is Harrisburg Restaurant Week. You have until Thursday to check out special $30 three-course menus at raspberries, The Firehouse, Carley’s, El Sol, Stocks on 2nd, Cafe Fresco, Zia’s at Red Door and McGrath's Pub. None of them found their way into this week’s Restaurant Round-Up, but Spotobe encourages all of you to help make this first-time event a success.
This week in the round-up, Pete talks up the highly-regarded Spring Garden Restaurant, Dave submits a mediocre experience at Spice and local Twitterer Twoiterrings (who submitted this existential bent on fast food by email) looks at going to McDonald’s in a whole new way. Full Article » -
Restaurant Round-Up: Chocolate Cafe, Raspberries & Carrabba’s
Tuesday, August 26, 2008 4:06PM
I can only go out to eat so much. Same with Dori. In my case, my waistline and my wallet would both be adversely affected if I went out any more than I do now. In Dori’s case, well, she’s got a young 'un.
With that in mind, we’d like to introduce a new weekly feature, the Spotoblog Restaurant Round-Up. The people who keep Spotobe running on all cylinders love to go out as much as Dori and I do, and we figured the more meaningful information we can put out there, the better. Hopefully this will be one more resource to check out before spending your hard-earned coin on a meal.
We’ll be putting each post under the new Restaurant Round-Up category, and we’ll also create a category for each Spotobeing who submits a review. That way, if you find you tend to like the same restaurants as one of us, you can see every place that person has written about. This week, Madeline weighs in on the Chocolate Café, Dave dishes about Raspberries and Katie gives us the scoop on Carrabba’s. Enjoy: Full Article »
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