Restaurant Reviews

The Landis Store Hotel restaurant is a great find that we have been to twice, and is just minutes away from us. I had the duck last time and I tell you, I savored every single bite.

Dress casually or dress up, either way you will feel very comfortable in the quaint little hotel.

Currently it is openned only Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, but in September, they will not be openned on Wednesdays.

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We were in the area so we decide to stop in at Old Man Rafferty’s for the delicious cheesecake and the tomato soup.

The soup was so good, I will with out a doubt go back to Old Man Rafferty’s again.

Here is a video I made a while ago of Yellow House hotel, which is a nice place outside of Oley, PA. We ate in what was actually the Hotel kitchen well over a hundred years ago.

The Yellow House Hotel has fine dining, but casual attire is acceptable.

The hotel actually has rooms for rent, so if you were in town for one of the local festivals or touring around the Oley country side, the Yellow House might fit the bill if you were looking for a cozy B&B type lodging for the night.

The Bear Creek Restaurant, The Grille at Bear Creek is a great place to eat any time of year. If you are unfamiliar with Bear Creek, it is a ski resort outside of Allentown, PA. Not a huge resort with a tremendous amount of slopes like out west, but for the locals it is a great retreat that does not take hours to get to.

Sadly, this year I was unable to get out and enjoy the slopes at Bear Creek, but last year, I had both my son and daughter out for at least one good day of skiing. For a family that does not ski more than once or twice a year, the slopes of Bear Creek that range from easy to difficult single diamonds are more than enough to challenge our abilities.
Bear Creek, which was formerly known as Doe Mountain, was bought out by same company that owns Killington in Vermont.
The Grille at Bear Creek restaurant is serviced by the Boston Culinary Group and is headed out by Executive Chef Jason Pope, CEC of South Carolina. Looking at their site, I noticed that they have an on site herb garden to guarantee that the herbs they use are fresh.

The only criticism that I have about the Bear Creek Grille is that the water needs to be purified because it had a really bad after taste. That is one of my pet peeves…tsk tsk.
Other than that, I will with out a doubt eat at Bear Creek again. The high quality meal did not give us sticker shock when we got our bill. As a matter of fact, we actually guessed a price that was quite a bit higher than our actual bill.
Bear Creek gets 3.5 stars out of 5, and if they corrected their water situation, would actually rate a whole lot higher.

A new cafe is coming to Boyertown which is badly needed in this small town. I will be doing updates of the local coffee shop as the date for its grand opening gets closer.

I was checking out Delicious Asian Foods most recent post, Zainal’s Satay at Petaling Street Kuala Lumpurwhen I noticed an add for Foodbuzz in the left sidebar. Surprisingly, I clicked on the add and found Foodbuzz, which is a social site for “foodies” or people who like food.
The site looks like it has a ton of features that could make it one of my newest favorite food sites to visit. I created my profile and added Thegrubhound to my profile.
I love Social sites, and have not been involved with any food related social sites, so this will be a good one to find fellow foodies to network. It certainly looks like there are a lot of possibilities with FoodBuzz, so I am sure I will be blogging about Foodbuzz and adding buttons and widgets in the near future.
Check out TheGrubhound on FoodBuzz.com. Cheers!

The only Mexican restaurant in Kutztown has some really good food. I heard somewhere that it was said to have the best Mexican food on the East coast, which seems like a pretty tall order to me.
At any rate, I had the house specialty which is Fajitas a la Mexicana with Shrimp. The two tortillas were more than enough to fill me up.
If you have a chance to dine at La Cocina Mexicana, make sure you get an extra side of their guacamole.

Last week we were vacationing on Singer Island, which is just outside of Palm Beach. The concierge at the Marriott’s Ocean Pointe resort we were staying at, made reservations for us at Charley’s Crab on Thursday night.
Lizzie said she had the best crab cakes she has had this year, and she believes that they rival the Bar Harbor crab cakes she had last summer at The Bar Harbor Hotel.

Anyway, the food at Charley’s Crab was great. We both loved the PuPu Plater appetizers we shared. My fish entre, which was really ugly, really tasted great.
If we had the option to do it again, I believe we both would gladly go to Charley’s Crab again.

Phil’s Fish Stew looks so good. He even ships his cioppino or fish stew in a plastic bucket. For $89 it looks like you can order a nice little intimate dinner for two.

Look at the sauce he makes for the stew. I have used brown sugar in my sauce, but never cinnamon or saffron.

Well if anyone has had the priviledge of trying Phil’s food, please let us kn0w.