Restaurants & Lodging
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Jones’ Food Street Journal – Citronnelle & Mad Chef Craft Brewery
By David Jones We had tickets on a recent Friday night for a jazz concert at the Ware Center on Prince Street in Lancaster, so we decided to pick a place nearby for dinner. Citronnelle is literally right around the corner and sounded like a good choice. It’s very unassuming from the outside and you…
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The Dish Highlights “Cider Culture” With New Publication
For all the cider lovers out there, Dish LLC is launching a new niche publication, aptly named Cider Culture. The new magazine is designed to keep consumers updated on the latest in cider trends, destinations and news. The idea came after the company found that hometown roots and the regional varieties of cider resonate well…
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Jones’ Food Street Journal – Anthony’s Coal Fried Pizza
By David Jones Time for a little lunch review. This past week we took Mom for a shopping trip to Exton Square Mall and finished up just in time for lunch. Where to go? We thought of all the options and chose Anthony’s Coal Fried Pizza in the strip mall just behind Exton Square. Its…
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Jones’ Food Street Journal – Spring House Brewery
By David Jones The City of Lancaster held their annual restaurant week recently and we decided to take advantage by checking out the new Hazel Street location of the Spring House Brewery. There is also another tavern location on West King Street, but their food options are limited to snack/bar food. The Hazel Street location…
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The Rams Diner Set For Grand Opening Next Week
Formerly La Tolteca, the Rams Diner in West Goshen is planning to show off its transformation at its grand opening sometime during the week of October 18-24. With several finishing touches still to complete after it passed its health inspection at the beginning of this month, the process is moving forward quickly as the clocks ticks…
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Jones’ Food Street Journal – Stone House
By David Jones Those of us familiar from Western Chester County and Eastern Lancaster County are probably familiar with the location of the Stone House. It was formerly Four Brothers and has had many different owners and names over the years. We decided to check it out on a recent Tuesday evening to see what…
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Jones’ Food Street Journal – Cafe Fiorello’s
On a recent trip to West Chester, Lin and I decided to follow up on a recommendation of a friend who told us about Fiorello’s on East Gay Street in the Borough. We got there about 5:30 and had no trouble being seated. The first thing you notice is the very attractive interior design. The…
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Victory Brewing Re-launches Headwaters Ale With a New Look
Craft beer lovers rejoice! Victory Brewing Company is bringing back its popular Headwaters Ale, not only to tantalize the taste buds of craft beer enthusiasts, but also with an even stronger commitment to forwarding watershed environmental stewardship programs. The Headwaters Ale is going to be distributed nationally with every beer poured, or sold in bottles…
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Jones Food Street Journal – Thorndale Inn
By David Jones I recently had the opportunity to have lunch with 3 of my favorite lovely ladies, my wife, my mother and a family friend. We were heading home from shopping in Exton and decided to stop at the Thorndale Inn. My mother uses a cane and Jeanette, our friend, uses a walker so…
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Jones’ Food Street Journal – Black Lab Bistro
We haven’t gotten over to Phoenixville much in the past couple of years, but we’ve been reading about all the good stuff happening there and when it came time to celebrate Lin’s birthday I asked her to pick a place to dine and she said let’s go to the Black Lab Bistro in Phoenixville. I…
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Chatty Monks Brewing Company to Open a Second Brewpub in Phoenixville
Phoenixville cannot get enough of good beer, as Chatty Monks Brewing Company‘s success is showing. The West Reading craft brewery is already preparing to open another location in Phoenixville, a little over a year after first opening its doors in Reading. Chatty Monks will be moving into the 13,000 square foot space previously occupied by the…
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TheTownDish.com Invites Restaurants To Compete As Part Of The Chester County Food Drive
Sharpen your knives, because a competition is brewing, and it is all for a good cause. Dish LLC is using its online culinary publication TheTownDish.com to invite Chester County restaurants and any other food related business to participate in a food drive to benefit the less fortunate members of the community, and they are adding…
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Jones’ Food Street Journal: Something Grilled
Why not go for some ribs! Something Grilled used to be in Honeybrook, but now they are in Exton in the same shopping center as Produce Junction on Route 100. It’s a small place, but it was full on a recent Friday night. As the word gets around it may be harder to get a…
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Jones’ Food Street Journal – Pomodoro Downingtown
By David Jones This week’s review is about a nice Italian restaurant in an out-of-the-way spot in Downingtown. Lin used to work at Pepperidge Farm in Downingtown so we were familiar with Woody’s which used to sit at this location on Chestnut Street. Anyone familiar with the original location for Victory Brewing will also know…
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Jones’ Food Street Journal – A Brief Trip To The Outer Banks
By David Jones The summer is a great time for trips and I often see OBX stickers on cars around our area so I thought I would do a piece on our dining experiences in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. We split our stay between Kill Devil Hills and Duck, so we also tried…
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Craft Beer Pubs Keep Multiplying, Changing the Dining Landscape of Chester County
Craft beer is currently sweeping the suburbs, with some of the new brewpubs sprouting around Chester County and across the state, boosting the local economy by providing a great place to meet, high quality, value for money food, and great and unusual locally produced beers. Six new brewpubs have opened in Chester County since…
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Victory Brewing Company Raising Funds Through Celebration & Brandywine Clean-up
Victory for the Headwaters, a daylong celebration and fundraiser, is being held by Victory Brewing Company on Saturday, September 12th from 12:00 pm to 8:00 pm. The event starts with a volunteer trash clean up and canoe trip down the Brandywine River. Afterwards, the festivities continue at Victory’s Parkesburg brewery at 3127 Lower Valley Road…
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Kennett Square’s New Galer Estate Vineyard and Winery Raises Gold-Medal Goblet
A goblet has been raised as a toast for one of the first glasses of Galer Estate Vineyard and Winery’s new winemaker, Virginia Mitchell, and it comes from judges of Sonoma County, Calif.’s 2015 International Women’s Wine Competition. With props to grapes from the Red Lion Vineyard it acquired in 2008, the Kennett Square winery…




























































