• Jones’ Food Street Journal

    Jones’ Food Street Journal

    By David Jones Well, it’s been quite a while since I’ve had dinner out in Chester County.  While visiting Florida this winter we had more than a few meals out and a variety of cuisines at over 70 different establishments. We tried sushi two times in Florida and enjoyed it both times very thoroughly, so…

  • Dinner And A Movie All In One — Coming This Fall At The Movie Tavern

    Dinner And A Movie All In One — Coming This Fall At The Movie Tavern

    Feast your eyes on the latest blockbuster and entertain your taste buds with a cool beverage, tasty snack or delicious cooked-to-order dish, Chester County, because you’ll be able to enjoy them both — at the same time — when the Movie Tavern opens in Exton this fall. “No longer will you have to race around to…

  • Boxcar Brewpub Brings Speakeasy Vibe to West Chester

    Boxcar Brewpub Brings Speakeasy Vibe to West Chester

    West Chester based Boxcar Brewing Company has opened a brewpub at 142 East Market Street, in addition to its Westtown Brewery. With current distribution in six eastern Pennsylvania counties, and soon moving into New Jersey and Delaware, owners Jamie and Kymberly Robinson wanted to create a comfortable locale for the community to come enjoy their beer.…

  • Bell’s Delites Scoops Up A Big New Treat For Parkesburg

    Bell’s Delites Scoops Up A Big New Treat For Parkesburg

    The family-run drive-up ice cream hot spot in Parkesburg is ramping up to serve a brand new treat to its fans once the mercury begins to rise. A hard-to-miss checkerboard paint scheme and modern walk-up window awning are already drawing double-takes to the brand new, year-round Bell’s Delites. The first round of excitement in the…

  • Newly Opened Avondale Natural Foods Offers Cafe, Hand-Crafted Breads

    Newly Opened Avondale Natural Foods Offers Cafe, Hand-Crafted Breads

    Although Avondale Natural Foods only opened at the end of January at 122 Pennsylvania Ave., the store’s home-baked bread, cafe and juice bar are already attracting a local following, Philly.com reports. The store has organic foods and health and beauty products, and bread baked by Ilon Silverman. Its comfortable cafe has a simple breakfast and…

  • Thorndale’s The Craft House Offers Craft Beer And Gourmet

    Thorndale’s The Craft House Offers Craft Beer And Gourmet

    By Shannon Maria Jones The Craft House opened its doors in January 2015 as a craft beer and gourmet food option adjacent to the Ingleside Golf Club in Thorndale, PA.  The large, former President Buchanan summer estate is a two-story facility housing a bar, a dining room, event and game space as well as the…

  • White Horse Tavern Est. 1715 Once Again Open For Business

    White Horse Tavern Est. 1715 Once Again Open For Business

    The White Horse Tavern and Wine Bar within the Sheraton Great Valley Hotel has undergone extensive renovations and recently reopened for business, Virtual-Strategy Magazine reports. The 1715 tavern, one of the first licensed public houses in America, now has some modern touches that build on a “classic colonial” atmosphere. Playing to Chester County’s agricultural roots, the White…

  • Award Winning Armstrong Ales A Favorite Of Beer Geeks

    Award Winning Armstrong Ales A Favorite Of Beer Geeks

    By Shannon Maria Jones From an ordinary industrial park in Phoenixville, PA Steve Armstrong has been quietly turning out complex small-batch brews that are winning over a growing number of beer geeks. His one-man operation, Armstrong Ales, is a two barrel microbrewery that has brewed nearly 30 varieties of beer since opening its current location…

  • Victory Brewing Company’s Helles Lager Now Stocked In 35 States

    By Shannon Maria Jones In response to growing consumer demand for a crisp-tasting lager beer, Victory Brewing Company is excited to share their best-kept secret by making Victory Helles Lager available to their entire 35 state  distribution area. Long held as a favorite in the Philadelphia region because of the area’s longtime love affair with…

  • The Dish: Vote To Put West Chester Eatery On Philly’s Restaurant Scene!

    The Dish: Vote To Put West Chester Eatery On Philly’s Restaurant Scene!

    This post seeking support for a West Chester eatery included in Philadelphia magazine’s Best of Philly poll went live on West Chester’s Dish.com this morning: The Best of Philly competition courtesy of Philadelphia magazine is underway, and one of our beloved West Chester restaurants has made the list of competitors. Core de Roma Trattoria is the only…

  • Victory At Magnolia Set To Open In Early 2015

    Victory At Magnolia Set To Open In Early 2015

    Victory Brewing Company’s newest brewpub, Victory at Magnolia, will open in early 2015, and even though the tables aren’t quite set, Victory fans are already buzzing about Chef Owen Kolva’s menu and the brewpub’s location at the newly constructed Magnolia Place at 650 W. Cypress St. in downtown Kennett Square. Victory says its new restaurant…

  • Chaddsford Winery Scores With Flyers Red And White

    Chaddsford Winery Scores With Flyers Red And White

    This fall, just in time for the hockey season, the Chaddsford Winery introduced two wines boosting the Philadelphia Flyers. Both are said to be preferred wine of the Flyers. Flyers White is a blended wine, a dry cellar blend of French-American Hybrid grape varieties with a fruity flavor, similar to a Sauvignon Blanc.  The wine…

  • Victory Brewing Company Explores All Natural and  Bourbon Barrel Techniques

    Victory Brewing Company Explores All Natural and Bourbon Barrel Techniques

    Keeping to its traditions of locally sourced ingredients and partnering with dynamite Pennsylvania businesses, Victory Brewing Company announced two innovative combinations in time for the holiday season. Victory has teamed up with Mt. Airy’s Earth-Bread + Brewery to create Earth & Flame, a limited edition bourbon barrel aged Scotch ale.  West Chester-based Waffatopia has also…

  • Another Naming Dispute Hits West Chester Restaurateur Dave Magrogan

    Another Naming Dispute Hits West Chester Restaurateur Dave Magrogan

    After sorting out a restaurant naming dispute with The Hotel Hershey earlier this year, West Chester’s Dave Magrogan Group is now rebranding its Stella Rossa Ristorante chain in the wake of a challenge from a Texas winery that doesn’t even sell its product in the state and ahead of more expansion plans. “I was disappointed that we…

  • Victory Beer Is Victorious and Seasonal

    Victory Beer Is Victorious and Seasonal

    By Shannon Maria Jones The past few weeks have been full of excitement at Victory Brewing Company. Victory’s Golden Monkey won a Gold Medal at the 28th Annual Great American Beer Festival in Denver, the largest commercial beer competition in the world. Golden Monkey beat out 58 entries in the Belgian-Style Tripel category from across…

  • La Tapatia Restaurant Wins La Comunidad Hispana Salsa Competition

    La Tapatia Restaurant Wins La Comunidad Hispana Salsa Competition

    La Tapatia Restaurant in Kennett Square out-spiced seven other local restaurants to win  the salsa competition during the 4th annual La Comunidad Hispana ¡Vive tu vida! Get Up! Get Moving!® event on Sept. 27 Anson B. Nixon Park. La Tapatia  Restaurant came out on top over El Ranchero Mexican Restaurant, La Peña Mexicana, Plaza Azteca, El…

  • Exton’s Fine Dining Destination Raises The Bar

    Exton’s Fine Dining Destination Raises The Bar

    Vickers Restaurant, Exton’s 42-year-old and oft-fabled fine dining establishment, is no stranger to rave reviews, but regional cuisine critics for Main Line Today didn’t even make it past the bar in highlighting the restaurant’s creative concoctions, inventive appetizers and dreamlike desserts for its latest review. “In all its decades, it hasn’t skipped a beat in…

  • Philly Pizzeria Lorenzo & Sons Expansion Tops Arrival Of Four New West Chester Eateries

    Philly Pizzeria Lorenzo & Sons Expansion Tops Arrival Of Four New West Chester Eateries

    A legendary late-night Philly pizzeria’s expansion to Chester County is the highlight of a quartet of new restaurants coming to West Chester. The expansion of Lorenzo & Sons touts even more menu items than the original — and toppings whenever you want — at the long-vacant former Sprazzo location on the corner of High and Gay streets,…