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My top Lancaster recs
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items Restaurants and and hidden gems around Lancaster PA
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Treasure Hunting
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Things to do
Dining
Huge portions, great price, amazing staff who are always super friendly. Have yet to have a bad meal there. It's our go to restaurant when we dont know what we want. There's a huge menu and they serve breakfast all day. Plus you get your food very fa...
Knight & Day Diner
Great little coffee shop! Staff was great coffee ws wonderful and the pastries were delicious!
Slate Cafe
Beautiful little café! The staff were wonderful and the food was great. Small menu but made well. Ambiance was amazing, the view of the park and train coming through was great.
Tomato Pie Cafe
This place is absolutely amazing. Breakfast, lunch or dinner you will be able to stuff yourself to the gills with good home made food. Steak, salmon, meatloaf, fried chicken, mashed potatoes, every kind of veggie with a salad bar and bread service. N...
Shady Maple Smorgasbord
One or the best local grocery stores in Lancaster! Fresh fruits and veggies, and amazing deli case and the best cupcake and bakery around!
The Market at Oregon Dairy
Great place for dip nail service. Fast and friendly.
Home - The Nail Studio | PA 17601
Jess is the best! I alwaleave feeling great and she knows just what I need/want with my hair. I just tried out the hair spa services the other day and they were super relaxing!
The Style Studio
Highly recommend if you are trying to keep your grocery budget low! Always stocked with a wide variety of products and even fresh produce!
Sharp Shopper Grocery Outlet
Great market full of a mix of eclectic vendors in a maze of vendors set ups. You can find all kinds of amazing items from food to Amish brooms to even fireworks!
The Green Dragon Market
Amazing restaurant for, what else? pancakes! I'm not too keen on the rest of the food, but the breakfast is amazing, and you can order it all day. They have 2 restaurants, 1 in Ephrata and 1 in East Petersburg.
Pancake Farm
Amazing diner! All day breakfast, large menu with huge portions and great prices.
Gus's Keystone Family Restaurant
Great grocery store with fresh fruits
And veggies, meats, awesome bakery section and even a hot food/cafe section with pretty good food for great and go. And everything and a good price.
Dutch-Way Farm Market - Ephrata
Great Italian restaurant/bar connected to the Lancaster Airport. They have a great light menu if you are looking for a cheaper optional in the warmer weather, you can sit outside and watch the planes take off and land at the outside patio.
Fiorentino's Italian Restaurant
Great diner right beside Park City Mall. Huge menu with breakfast all day and huge portions
Park City Diner
Classic mall with small food court in lower level: pizza, Chinese, Burger King, Ice Cream. Large anchor department stores on the corners with plenty of filler stores like Bath and Body Works, Foot Locker, Hollister, Sephora, BooksaMillion, Hallmark, ...
Park City Center
Hot fresh cake donuts you can watch being made right in front of you. Tons of toppings to choose from! You can also get them made into a breakfast sandwich with bacon or sausage. Coffee is pretty good also.
Duck Donuts
Delicious macarons with a wide variety of flavors daily. Nice clean store and friendly staff. Blueberry pancake was amazing. Pricing was reasonable.
Sweet Velvet Macarons
Amazing coffee company that bas branched out to several locations around Lancaster County. The New Holland store is beautiful, full of lush indoor hanging plants, the coffee is smooth and delicious, the food is delicious and the staff are always frie...
New Holland Coffee Co.
Great thin crust but floppy pizza. Great mild wings fast delivery
Metro Express
The most amazing cupcakes! Moist cakes and cream cheese butter cream. Most of the cupcakes have a filling which keeps them moist. They have gluten free options also. They offer ice cream sundaes and coffee drinks also. They also hold story times, cup...
Lancaster Cupcake
Amazing homemade ice cream made on premises. Tons of flavors to choose from fresh made waffles, a descent lunch menu and small gift shop with local offerings.
Fox Meadows Creamery
If you're driving through Lancaster, make sure you stop at a Wawa even if its just for a snack! The coffee is always hot, the subs or hoagies are one of the best fast food you can get and the masd to order drinks are great!
Wawa
Amazing local ocream place with drive through mostly year round and a sprinkle of outside seating. A wide variety of ice cream to choose from with tons of toppings!
Son's
Treasure Hunting
As an avid crafter, I cannot say enough about this shop! The staff are amazing, the variety of items you can find both regularly and randomly is amazing and you cannot bet the prices. I love stopping in and going on a treasure hunt.
Art of Recycle
Love this thrift shop! It's huge with two stories! Always has Christmas out! Everything is so nicely organized by color and size. You could be there a good 2 hours if you have the patience!
Re-Uzit Shop of New Holland
Love love love this store!!! Everyone is so nice! You can not beat the prices, and I always walk out with something. They dont have a huge amount of stuff, but they have a large variety of items. The craft supply area is always stocked.
Mount Joy Gift & Thrift
Love this place to shop and drop my items off at. She always has a wide range of women's clothing and shoes, children's clothing and toys and even some men's items. And her selection of high-end handbags are amazing. All at a very reasonable price. T...
The Exchange Consignment Boutique - Your Trusted Consignment Shop
Nice little shop full of all kinds of odds and ends for your crafting needs
Lancaster Creative Reuse
Nice little consignment shop full of a mix of upscale items. A good selection of Vera Bradley. Some children's items. For the store spac the had a good variety of clothing for Men and Women, shoes and jackets and purses well organized.
Purple Turtle Consignment Boutique
Great place to find deals on an array of items: women's clothes and shoes, kids' clothes, and shoes and household items.
Fashion Cents
Handmade Artisans
Amazing little shop full of local vendors from metal artists to candle makers to seasonal decor. You can spend a good hour or two looking at the many shelves packed with little gifts and walls filled with portraits and landscapes painted by hand or t...
Kindred Collections
Amazing mix of upscale vendors. The ambiance of the mill adds to the shopping experience with 3 floors packed to the brim with home decor, jewelry artists and bath and body crafters. There's something for everyone. They also added a second location i...
Artisan Mill Company
Amazing shop with a great mix of handmade vendors with items like gourd birdhouses, blended teas, natural soaps, paper gifts and even a live honey bee hive.
Bird-in-Hand Artisan Village
This amazing shop is filled to the gills with so many amazing products that you have never seen in any other shop in the area. It has a very indie/bohemian theme going on with hand made pottery, candles and prints, there's a lot to choose from all st...
The Artful Nest
Cute creative spaces filled to the brim with shelves of amazing vendors of all kinds. Clothing boutiques, food vendors, candle artists and even antique vendors
There's something for everyone at this shop and they have a second location in Lancaster ...
Prussian Street Arcade
Converted school house filled to the brim with different handmade crafters! Little overwhelming but take your time and you'll find all kinds of little treasures and reasonably priced
Jenny Lyns
This is a great shop in a converted building that used to be a train station among other things in the past. It's along the Columbia rail trail and beside Bootleg Antiques which is another amazing shop to check out. Inside Keystone you will find a wi...
Keystone Artisan Werks
Gift shops
Must stop when you are in Lititz and love chocolate! From the free sample to getting to watch them make the items right there in the store. They have something for everyone! Milk, dark, white, butterscotch and enrobbing anything you can think of: ani...
Wilbur Chocolate Retail Store
Interesting shop with a mix of handmade items and wholesale items. The space itself is unique with a coffee shop on the first floor and a little loft area above. Lots of different gifts for everyone on your list.
Trellis Marketplace
This little gem is full of amazing early american/primitive/country decor. The metal/tin lighting is beautiful and the selection of local chunky candles are great! They also have a wide range of textiles and floral to choose from.
The Tin Bin
Cute little crystal shop! Personable staff and a wide selection of crystals to choose from. They also just moved to a new shop closer to main street in Ephrata.
Hello Dia
This place is massive and amazing. From decor to clothing to food you can find everything here! Make sure you stop by whe. They have their open houses! Tina, the owner, cooks up a huge spread using the dips and dessert mixes she sells in the shop fo...
Olde Mill House Shoppes
Love this little metaphysical shop. The owner Brita is so nice and welcoming and the rest of the staff is helpful. Huge selection of crystals in any shape and size along with books, decks and other items.
Your Inner Light
Amalittle shop to check out in Lititz. This shop is full of little gifts from home decor to locally made candles. The owner designs the furniture and they have local souvenirs for you to pick up while walking around town.
Calkins' Vine & the Branches
Stop in this cute little village to check out all the amazing little shops including a fudge shop, olive oil and spice shop, candle shop, pet lovers, outdoorsmen, and don't forget the large Jams and Jellies store with tons of samples and a bakery nea...
Kitchen Kettle Village
These moonshine type drinks are amazing! The shop in Tanger outlet let's you sample a few before buying and they carry atleast 10 different flavors. My favorite is the Sweet tea flavor. The staff is always nice and they offer different sizes and sale...
Chicken Hill Distillery
Things to do
The place is great for a mostly shaded course set in lush gardens where you will see all kinds of wildlife while golfing. The course is intermediate at best but try to have fun! When you're done stop in the restaurant for some yummy food or ice-cream...
The Shack Restaurant & Mini Golf
Amazing theater that just added a Kitchen and bar. Food is amazing and drinks are great. Beer wall with 6-7 beers, wines and drink mixes decent bar with a slushy mixed drink and nice seating area both inside and out. Theaters are nice and clean and t...
Penn Cinema
Super cute little mini golf place with 2 different courses, water features and even a mirror maze if you dare!
Lost Treasure Golf
Must stop for thrill seekers and families alike! From the plentiful Rollercoasters to the Waterpark there's something for everyone. Come in the fall for Hershey Park in the Dark with haunted houses and even spooky drinks and eats and in the winter Ca...
Hersheypark
Great bowling center with plenty of lanes, pool tables, mini gold and a driving range. Mini snack bar and plenty of specials throughout the week.
Leisure Bowling and Golf Center Lancaster
Amazing market full of indoor and outdoor vendors. Tons of fruits and veggies, flowers, meats and cheeses, blankets and flags, whoopie pies and donuts, soft pretzels and candy and so so much more. Several large craft shows throughout the year on Sat...
Root's Country Market & Auction
Great shaded mini golf with easy to play holes and a pretty course. Fairly quiet despite being beside the highway which makes it pretty easy to get to. They are also connected to Scoops Ice cream which serves Hershey's Ice Cream and they also have a ...
Boulders Miniature Golf
Quiet little mini golf course on the out skirts of Amish country in Strasburg. Nice and shady with a little food shack.
Village Greens Miniature Golf and Snack Shoppe