Lancaster, Pennsylvania City Guide
For over 20 years, Pamela Lanier's Lancaster, Pennsylvania Travel Guide has been your connection to Lancaster's tourism community with invaluable details on local attractions, restaurants, shopping, museums, history, outdoor recreation and more.
Lancaster Fare
 Known for its hearty Pennsylvania Dutch dishes, Lancaster County will delight tummies with dried corn, whoopie pies, schnitz und knepp, apple dumplings, and shoofly pie; but when you’ve had your fill of local delights, Lancaster offers many other casual and fine dining venues that include a variety of Asian, European, Indian, Mexican/Peruvian fares, as well as micro-breweries, family owned taverns, grilles and bistros…Lancaster is a culinary destination! Do not forget there are at least 5 quality wineries offering tours, summer music and entertainment. The most prominent of these is the Mt. Hope Winery and its PA Renaissance Faire.
Central Market, located near Penn Square, dates back to the mid-1700's, is the country's oldest publicly-owned, continuously-operated farmers’ market. In its Romanesque Revival style building, every Tuesday, Friday and Saturday, visitors will be offered regional food specialties including Pennsylvania Dutch sausages, cheeses, scrapple (a cornmeal cake with embedded pork meats), pickled vegetables in a variety of sweet, pickled or spicy sauces, as well as freshly baked breads and other picnic goodies. Don’t be surprised if you also come across delicious strips of Jamaican jerk chicken, Middle Eastern cuisine, or the wonderful local Lebanon bologna… after all you might want to catch a hometown baseball game with the Lancaster Barnstormers at the Clipper Stadium. There are other large outdoor farmers markets (most significant are…Roots and Green Dragon) throughout the county that offer fresh goods on special market days all year. These markets, as well as the rich offerings of Lancaster’s ‘Garden Spot’ provide Lancaster’s numerous dining venues local organically grown produce, fresh cheeses and free-range meats as standard stables for creative culinary menus.
So Lancaster is more than the Amish/Mennonite fare… it’s a vibrant city with critical American heritage history; with deep cultural roots still growing today in all the arts; with a culinary cornucopia abundant of home grown goods to tempt the palate at many dining venues; with outdoor activities for the sports enthusiasts; with wonderful lodging opportunities; with communities of people who cherish their culture, rural-city experiences, and who sincerely offer hospitality to those they welcome as neighbors.
Guest Editor: Molly Craig |
