The Trisslers took over the old Kegel's Seafood space in 2012 and never looked back — Kegel's had held that corner of West King since 1941, and the father-and-son team gave it a second life. 24-plus taps, live music on weekends, karaoke Sundays and Mondays at 9, and a rooftop Skybar added in a 2019 remodel for when you need altitude with your pint. The Skybar's garage doors roll up in good weather and there's a fire pit in the Lookout Lounge when it doesn't. Order the 551 West Burger if you're brave — it's topped with peanut butter, jalapenos, bacon and cheddar, and somehow it works. Go Wednesday and they knock $10 off the fish tacos.
The one and only Legion hall on Arcadia Road in Manheim Township, and this place runs a busier bar calendar than plenty of places in town — live bands, bar bingo, wing nights, dance nights, all posted on the post's own events page. This is the full Legion operation too: Auxiliary, Sons, and a Riders chapter. Tuesday trivia runs 6 to 8:30, built so you're home at a decent hour. Fridays bring cover bands like Clockwork to the hall — come for dinner, stay for the dance floor. Hit a wing night and you'll understand why the regulars guard their tables.
A Lancaster entertainment juggernaut parked on Route 30, American Music Theatre packs 1,600 seats and runs upward of 300 shows a year — the rare room that hosts big-name touring concerts and mounts its own large-scale original productions under one roof. Comedians, tribute acts, holiday spectaculars, chart-topping headliners: if it tours, odds are it stops here. This is the "get dressed and make a night of it" tier of night out, not a corner-bar hang. Check the calendar (it's always stacked), grab seats to whatever speaks to you, and let a real production do the heavy lifting. For a mid-size market, having a room this big and this busy is a genuine flex.
A proper two-story Irish public house planted right on King Street downtown, Annie Bailey's is equally good for a quiet pint of Guinness and a loud Saturday. Downstairs leans pub, upstairs opens up for the crowd, and the whole place runs on the easy, everyone's-welcome energy the best Irish bars are built on. The calendar keeps it humming — live music, trivia, and a patio that's basically a summer institution in this town. Come for a pint and Irish fare, stay because you ran into three people you know. Loud, friendly, and easy: exactly what you want from a downtown local.
The Lititz outpost of Appalachian Brewing Co., set inside the historic Lititz Junction building with real railroad heritage as its backdrop. It's a full brewpub — house-brewed ABC beer (plus their well-known house-made sodas), a solid menu, and live entertainment — with the kind of character that only comes from setting up shop in a building with a past. The old train-junction setting is half the fun; grab a flight and a bite and let the surroundings do some of the talking. It's an easy stop whether you're deep into a Lititz day out or just chasing good beer with a side of history. House beer, real food, and a backdrop you can't fake.
The Harrisburg-born wing chain's first Lancaster County outpost, open since 2015 off Columbia Avenue at Centerville Road and built like a stadium — 119 TVs, 40 taps, a glass skybox over the main bar, and room for 300 inside plus another 100 on the patio. Founders Gary Huether Jr. and Mike Murphy named the brand after the sound of a Model T horn, and the wing sauces made its reputation. Tuesday is the night: trivia at 6:30 with music bingo running right alongside it. Wings and a draft at the big bar is the standing order — weekdays bring half-price happy hour from 4:30 to 6:30 (half off everything behind the bar, minus bottled beer, doubles, talls, and pitchers) — and the patio's the move when the weather holds. Doors stay open till 1 on weeknights, 2 on weekends.
Bar 1888 is the cocktail-and-wine heart of Southern Market, the reborn food hall inside Lancaster's 1888 market house. The setup is genuinely great: graze the vendor stalls across the hall for whatever you're craving, then bring it back to a proper bar pouring cocktails, wine, and beer — no need to commit to a single cuisine or a single drink. It's more than a place to sip between bites, too, with live music, trivia, and karaoke landing midweek to give the hall a pulse after the lunch crowd clears. Roll in with the group that can never agree on dinner, let everyone scatter for food, and reconvene at the bar. Eat across the hall, drink right here.
An 1812 bank barn on the Red Caboose Motel grounds in Ronks, rebuilt over 18 months by B&D Builders and local Amish craftsmen and reopened as a music venue in 2023. The Prickett family put real money where the music is — Clair Brothers speakers, lighting and sound out of Rock Lititz, and a converted silo you can climb for the view — so a 200-year-old barn now out-specs most rooms in the county. Summer Thursdays mean Jazz on the Patio, 6:30 to 8:30, free, with beer, wine and specialty drinks flowing from the Barn Bistro starting at 6. Bring a lawn chair or claim a courtyard table. Come July 3, it's the Celebrate America concert with fireworks — and Casey Jones' serves dinner inside two actual Pennsylvania Railroad dining cars if you want the full trainyard evening.
A bar and grill inside a 255-year-old stone barn on the old Stoner farmstead, part of Manheim Township's Overlook campus off Fruitville Pike — the farmhouse next door dates to 1750. Gene and Anneliese Pelland, the couple who ran McCleary's Pub in Marietta, opened Stoner Grille here in 2016 and built the bar itself out of 200-year-old barn wood. 24 taps, live music on weekends starting around 8:30, and a heated patio looking out over the golf course. Order the rockfish tacos — top seller for a reason — and check the deviled eggs, which rotate nationalities with the seasonal menu. Music schedule lives at stonercommons.com, and note they're closed Monday through Wednesday, so plan for the back half of the week.
Mount Joy's Main Street bar and grill, open till midnight every single night. The wings are the calling card — zesty orange and garlic parm get name-checked in reviews more than anything else on the menu — and the corn nuggets dipped in syrup are the sleeper order regulars swear by. Thursday is trivia, 7:30 to 9:30, and it's the night to be there. Come Monday through Thursday and the dine-in specials run $7 to $10 — boneless wings, tacos, barbecue pork platters, depending on the night. Grab a beer, order too many wings, stay for last call.
Chef Sara Elia took over the old Tied House on Lititz's Main Street and reopened it in early 2025 as a Southern Italian spot with pasta, seafood, and pastries made daily. She built her name running the Serafina's catering company and helping stage the L'Italia Festival in Lititz Springs Park — this is her flavors of home, full time. Monday is the night: live music 5:30 to 8:30 while dinner runs, with the Tom Pontz Trio and StarLite Trio in the rotation. Start in the downstairs wine bar, a 50-seat room under the 90-seat dining floor upstairs. Bring cash — cards carry a 3% surcharge — and remember it's dark Tuesday and Wednesday.
An 1869 Victorian mansion built by tobacco merchant John Rohrer, who used it for entertaining — and Dean Oberholtzer has kept that job going since he opened the restaurant in 1998. The name comes from the rooftop belvedere that once looked out over downtown, but the real draw is upstairs: Crazy Shirley's Lounge, a jazz bar with a baby grand, named for a longtime staffer. Live jazz runs Friday and Saturday nights, and every second Sunday the lounge flips to Showtune Sundays from 8:30 to 10:30. Happy hour hits twice Monday through Thursday — 4 to 6 and again 9 to 10 — with cheap espresso martinis at the bar. On a warm night, take the back deck: fountain, heaters, and plants everywhere.
Lancaster's Belgian beer bar, opened on King Street in early 2024 by Bert Flores, the guy behind the old Bert's Bottle Shop near Millersville. About two dozen Belgian beers pour from each brewery's own specialty taps into glassware made for that exact beer — Flores doesn't cut corners on the ritual. The elephant in the name is a tip of the cap to Delirium's pink one. Get the mussels and frites and let the bar steer your first pour; the beef carbonnade, beef stewed in Belgian beer, is the cold-weather order. When it's warm, the covered side patio along Lenox Lane seats 80. Keep an eye out for Belgian brewery nights — they've brought in Cornelissen before.
Three friends — head brewer Jon Sager plus Ryan and Janae Dagen — opened Bespoke on Gap Road in 2021, then outgrew the place and built a bigger taproom down the street in 2023: 100-plus seats inside and a beer garden out back. The name is the pitch — bespoke means custom-made, and that's how they brew, small batches in the middle of Amish country. Saturday nights the beer garden runs live music from 6 to 8, with some Friday shows moving indoors. Wednesday is $10 wings all day. And if you're a veteran, first responder, teacher, or nurse, Thursday knocks 20% off your food.
BierHall leans all the way into the German beer-hall fantasy — long communal tables, big steins, and a festive, everyone's-invited roar, out on New Holland Pike just outside the city. The beer follows the theme: German-style brews poured with an American flourish, and food built to soak it all up. This is a shoulder-to-shoulder, make-a-new-friend kind of room, not a quiet date spot — which is exactly the point. Grab a bench, order something big, and settle in for the long haul. Prost, and pass the pretzels.
Three homebrew guys went pro in late 2020, taking over the old Isaac's in Granite Run Square off Manheim Pike. Mark Garber runs the Lancaster Homebrew shop nearby, Clyde Mackey drove trucks and brewed on the side, and Dean Kroesen is Garber's childhood friend — they opened with seven house beers, four of them IPAs, plus a coffee porter, milk stout, and brown ale. The weekly rhythm: trivia Tuesday at 6:30, free bingo Wednesday, live music Friday nights. The room seats around 200 with full table service, so the wings, burgers, and pizza come to you — no fighting a taproom counter with a full pint.
A family owned and operated institution in the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch Country, Bird-in-Hand Farmers Market has spent decades bringing the region's freshest meats, dairy, produce, baked goods, and bulk foods under one climate-controlled roof. Beyond the food stalls, local Amish and Mennonite crafters sell handmade quilts, floral arrangements, leather goods, toys, and regional souvenirs — a proper small-town-America browsing experience just off Route 340. Open Fridays and Saturdays year-round (with select Wednesdays and Thursdays added seasonally), it's equal parts grocery run and destination outing, drawing locals and visitors alike for Pennsylvania Dutch-style eats and a genuinely bountiful spread.
One day each summer, the grounds that host the PA Renaissance Faire turn into a Maryland crab feast with a blues soundtrack. Blues & Brews hit year 17 in 2026 at Mount Hope Estate — the 1800s Grubb ironmaster mansion Charles Romito bought in 1980 and turned into a winery, now also home to Swashbuckler Brewing and Lancaster County Cider. One ticket covers everything: all-you-can-eat hard shell crabs, steamed shrimp, pulled chicken, and hush puppies, with Swashbuckler beer and local cider pouring all session. Lancaster's own Jimmy Blue and the Jilted Playboys headlined 2026. Pick your session — noon to 3 or 5 to 8 — and buy ahead, because sales cut off the day before and it runs rain or shine.
A 1753 stagecoach tavern on the old Philadelphia-Harrisburg road, now run by Greek-American brothers George and Tony Agadis, who cut their teeth in their dad's Manhattan diner before landing in Lancaster County in 2000. Inside it's exposed stone, a walk-in fireplace, and a menu that goes full Lancaster — shepherd's pie, pork and sauerkraut, even hogmaw. Trivia runs every first and third Wednesday at 6 in the Garden Room, and seats there go fast, so show up early. The bar pours handcrafted cocktails alongside beer and wine. Start with the Wisconsin cheese curds or the crab dip and work backward through 270 years of tavern history.
A women-run winery on a hilltop in Quarryville, deep in southern Lancaster County, pouring its own reds, whites, fruit wines, and spumante. They keep local beer on tap too, so the non-wine person in your group isn't stuck sipping water. The move is the 700-foot covered wraparound deck — grab a bottle and let the vineyard views do the work. Live music comes through the tasting room seasonally, and the calendar stays busy Wednesday through Sunday. Closed Monday and Tuesday, so plan the weekend run.
A genuine survivor — Bube's (say "Boobie's") is a 19th-century Victorian brewery in Mount Joy that bills itself as the only completely intact pre-Prohibition brewery in the country, and it plays the part to the hilt. Dine in the Catacombs 43 feet down in the original stone aging cellars, grab a seat in the biergarten, and drink craft beer where lager was actually brewed a century and a half ago. This is a destination, not a quick stop — it leans all the way into theatrical, with murder-mystery dinners, themed feasts, and a haunted reputation the staff happily play up. Weird, historic, and genuinely unforgettable: go once for the spectacle, again because you'll want to show someone. Just book ahead — the good stuff (those catacombs especially) fills up.
An honest-to-goodness British public house in the middle of Lititz, and one of the most decorated beer bars in the country — USA Today named it the Best Beer Bar in America, and it racked up "Best Beer Bar in Pennsylvania" honors year after year. Part of the Lititz Springs Inn, it pairs a seriously curated beer list (the bartenders are Cicerone Certified) with proper British pub fare and a warm, wood-and-good-conversation kind of room. Beer nerds genuinely make the trip for the draft-and-bottle list, but you don't have to be one to love it — there are craft cocktails, a seasonal kitchen leaning on local purveyors, Monday taco nights, and a full English breakfast on Saturdays. Settle into a corner, order something you can't get anywhere else nearby, and stay a while. This is the real thing, not a themed knockoff.
Columbia's corner tavern since 1903, when it opened as the Union Hotel for the mill and railroad crowd. The name's a Teddy Roosevelt reference, and Sherry Landis and Dave Zahm have run it since 2000. The bar itself is the show — hand-carved from a single walnut tree by a Lancaster planing mill, under a stamped tin ceiling, with preservation awards to prove it. Ask for the Beer Bible — they claim the biggest beer selection in the area and back it up with constant rotation. Wednesday is Wing Nite, Tuesday goes Tex Mex, Thursday means mussels, and the crab soup and Rough Rider ribs are the orders. They open at 4 and skip Sundays and Mondays, so plan accordingly — and if the night runs long, there's an 11-room inn upstairs.
A multi-floor antiques market in the heart of Columbia, packed with hundreds of vendors and the kind of dense, keep-going inventory that swallows an afternoon whole. Furniture, vintage, collectibles, oddities, ephemera — it's all in here somewhere, and half the fun is not knowing what you'll turn up two aisles over. This is treasure-hunt territory, so come with time and a loose plan rather than a tidy shopping list. Named for the Columbia–Wrightsville bridge that famously burned in 1863, it slots right into a day spent poking around the rivertown. Bring patience and maybe a tape measure; the best finds reward a slow, thorough lap.
A butcher shop leading a delicious double life in downtown Lancaster — Cabalar cuts meat over the counter by day and turns into a burger-and-cocktail bar by night, all powered by the same on-site butchering. That's the secret behind the burgers: when the people grinding the beef are the same ones breaking down the whole animal, the patty hits different. Come for a smash burger and a cocktail, leave with dinner from the case for tomorrow — it's a rare spot that sends you home with groceries and a buzz. Butcher-driven, chef-minded, and refreshingly unfussy about it. Downtown's tastiest two-in-one.
The Lititz outpost of York's Collusion Tap Works, set inside the revived Lititz Shirt Factory — same inventive, small-batch brewing brain, a new room with its own personality. Expect a rotating board of creative beer that doesn't play it safe, solid food to match, and a taproom that feels more like a hangout than a sales floor. It's the kind of brewery that rewards the curious: order the weird one, chase whatever just tapped, and settle in when there's live music on the calendar. A great anchor for a Shirt Factory visit, and proof that Collusion travels well. Come thirsty and a little adventurous.
The homegrown brewpub anchoring downtown Columbia, a few blocks off the Susquehanna, where the beer's made in-house and the vibe is pure rivertown-friendly. It's a community room as much as a brewery — open mics, local artists on the walls, and weekend live music keep the place humming well past happy hour. Small-town beer with a big heart, and an easy centerpiece for a day spent working through Columbia's antiques and river trails. Grab a pint, catch whoever's playing, and let the night unfold at rivertown pace. No pretense, just good beer and better company.
A proper hidden speakeasy tucked into downtown Lancaster — you knock to get in, and that's rather the point. Behind the door is a low-lit cocktail room that rotates themed drink menus and trades in exactly the kind of in-the-know energy you're not supposed to post about. The cocktails are the main event, made with care and a little theater, and the whole thing rewards showing up curious. Bring a small group, order whatever the current menu is built around, and settle into a booth like you've got nowhere else to be. Some places want to be found; Conway would rather you earn it.
Three longtime Lancaster city bartenders bought the shuttered Molly's Pub and reopened it in 2023 as their own neighborhood joint across from Musser Park. Joabi Leflar, Sean 'Boots' A'Hearn and Jason Shirk poured at half the bars in the city — Annie Bailey's, Molly's itself — before betting on their own corner. Smash burgers, loaded wings, a daily special that rotates all week, and a late-night happy hour from 9 to 11 for the people just getting started. There's a '70s-themed lounge upstairs — the Shag Bar — and a Corner Carryout around the corner for the walk home. Tuesdays run music trivia at 7 and karaoke at 9; Sundays it's bingo upstairs at 5.
A coffee shop on the main corner of Intercourse that turned a dead gas station into the town's live-music stage. Carl and Fan Smucker — Carl ran Auntie Anne's in the '90s — bought the property in 2012 and built Smucker Village around it: the Corner Coffee Shop, a pair of shops, and Rolled Cold Creamery doing lactose-free rolled ice cream. No bar here, and the music carries it anyway — live acts play Friday and Saturday evenings, 6:30 to 8:30, with the garage doors rolled up so the courtyard gets the show too. Grab a coffee and a Belgian waffle from Rolled Cold and claim an Adirondack chair. Second Saturdays add local makers working their craft in front of you.
An interior-design showroom and gallery on Prince Street, in the thick of Lancaster's Gallery Row, where designer David Lyall's eye is on full display. It's a browse-and-admire kind of space — furniture, lighting, art, and home pieces staged like a set you'd love to live in, whether you're furnishing a room or just stealing ideas. Come First Friday and it turns into a genuine event, doors open and the showroom buzzing with the Gallery Row crowd. Wander through for design inspiration, a standout piece for your place, or a reminder of what a well-composed room can feel like. Equal parts store and small museum of good taste.
Retro arcade, bowling lanes, and an honest-to-goodness bar, all packed into a former armory in downtown Lancaster. Decades is grown-up game night done right — cocktails in hand, classic cabinets lit up, and enough to do that nobody's checking their phone. Your high score has never mattered less. It's built for the group that can't agree on one thing to do: bowl a string, chase a high score, post up at the bar, repeat. The old armory bones give it real character, and the drinks keep it firmly on the adult side of nostalgia. Show up with friends, a little competitive streak, and zero dignity to protect.
Jim and Deb Radwanski — he's Bubba, she's Doc — opened this in 2022 in the old B&B Tavern space where they used to date, and turned it into a full upscale bar and restaurant. The move is the patio: its own outdoor bar, heat lamps, firepits, and a straight shot view over the hills and valley. It runs year-round, not just in July. Live music covers Thursday through Sunday — Thursdays 5 to 8, Fridays and Saturdays 6 to 9, Sunday afternoons — so pick your night. Order the house Bourbon Slushie and the Goat Cheese Truffle Fries, or go big with a $100 Tower Drink. Friday happy hour runs 2 to 5 on the patio, and when the lot fills up, a free limo-van shuttles you in from overflow parking.
Dinner and a Broadway-style show under one roof — Dutch Apple pairs a full buffet with professional musical theatre, so the whole night's handled from appetizer to encore. Eat well first, then sit back as the cast takes it from there; it's the rare night out that comes fully bundled. A Lancaster staple for exactly this kind of evening, it's ideal for a celebration, a date, or wrangling a group that wants dinner and entertainment without a second stop. Book a table, come hungry, and let the show do the rest. Old-school in the best possible way.
A contemporary gallery on Lancaster's Gallery Row that's part exhibition space, part literary hub — an immersive room that treats art and the written word as good company. One of the newer faces on Prince Street, it's already the kind of spot that shows up every First Friday with something worth the walk. Expect rotating work, an eye for the experimental, and programming that reaches past paintings-on-walls into readings and community happenings. Swing through on a gallery crawl or make it the destination; either way it rewards slowing down and actually looking. Small space, real point of view.
An Italian restaurant parked at the edge of Lancaster Airport's runway, which sounds strange right up until you're on the patio with a drink watching planes come in. Rob and Rose Billas opened it in 2002; Eric Perrone — who also runs The Sandwich Factory Sports Lounge — bought it in 2021 and put real money into the outdoor setup. The play is the outdoor bar: covered, heated, firepit going, around 100 seats with a straight view of the runway. Live music runs Saturday nights in season. Come at dusk — small planes on final approach beat whatever's on the TV over the bar.
A Victorian opera house that's the crown jewel of Lancaster's theatre scene — the Fulton opened in 1852 and is a designated National Historic Landmark, one of the oldest continuously operating theatres in the country. Beneath the gilded, red-velvet grandeur, it stages Broadway-caliber musicals and plays year-round, with production values to match the room. This is the get-dressed-up, feel-something tier of night out: grand, gorgeous, and genuinely goosebump-worthy when the lights go down. Grab tickets to whatever's on the mainstage, get there early enough to take in the building, and let a real production sweep you along. Few rooms in the region can touch it.
A Haines family winery on a Mount Joy hilltop, family-run since 2009 and grown from founder Larry Kennel's hobby fruit wines into a serious estate operation. The one to know is Grande Rouge, their Bordeaux-style flagship that took Double Gold at the 2016 San Francisco Wine Competition, and Forbes put their Cab Franc on a Thanksgiving table list. The deck looks out over five-plus acres of vines, and that's where everything happens. Live music hits the deck Fridays and Saturdays, 6 to 8:30. Wednesdays are Wag & Wine — bring the dog, they sell dog wine and biscuits — and Thursday nights run 5 to 9 with trivia in the mix. Deck seating is first come, fire pits burn October through April, you can bring your own food, and they're closed Sundays, so make it a Friday.
Since 1932, Green Dragon Farmers Market & Auction has been Lancaster County's sprawling Friday-only institution — 60 acres of indoor and outdoor shopping in the heart of Amish Country, drawing millions of shoppers over nine decades. Seven market buildings house over a hundred local vendors slinging farm-fresh produce, Amish baked goods, fresh meats, antiques, furniture, clothing, and jewelry, plus a stable of restaurants for when browsing turns to grazing. True to its roots, three separate auctions run every Friday — hay & straw, household goods, and small animals — alongside 30+ acres of free parking that fills up fast. Open every Friday, year-round (including Good Friday), 8 AM to 8 PM. One of the largest flea markets on the East Coast, and a can't-miss for anyone chasing the real Lancaster County market experience.
This is the Taproom at Loxley's, the bar inside the treehouse restaurant at the Heritage Hotel out on Centerville Road at Route 30. Open since 2009 and built on a Robin Hood of Loxley theme, it commits to the bit — you cross a bridge over a koi pond to get in, a living tree grows through the dining room, and the indoor bar wraps around an oak. The Taproom runs 36 rotating drafts, so there's always something new on. Thursday is trivia, Saturday brings a rotating live musician, and happy hour runs daily. Get the fried cheese curds from York Valley Cheese and grab a spot on the two-story patio — the outdoor bar is heated and runs nearly year-round, with room for 230 outside. Bonus: 5% of your food bill goes to a charity you pick at the table.
A Lancaster dive-bar institution over sixty years deep, tucked in the Stadium District and pouring the cheapest, realest drink in town. No frills, no attitude, no pretense — just a stool, a cold one, and the kind of worn-in room that's logged decades of regulars, college kids, and everyone in between. This is the anti-craft-cocktail-bar, and proud of it — you come for the prices, the characters, and the easy feeling that you already belong. Post up, order something cheap, and give it an hour; the regulars will have adopted you by last call. A genuine local legend, exactly as-is.
The bar under Hurricane Pizza Grill in Columbia — park in the rear lot and head downstairs. It calls itself a mix of local tavern and vacation getaway, the owner's a chef, and it keeps its own later hours than the dining room upstairs. Twenty drafts on tap and pizza, stromboli, ribs, and burgers coming down from the kitchen. Friday is karaoke night, no cover, and bands and trivia rotate through too. The specials board does real work: dollar wings all day Thursday, half-off ribs all day Friday, and a daily 7-to-9 happy hour with $4 Green Tea shots and $6 Long Islands. Open seven days at 4, so a random Tuesday works — that's $2 Michelob Ultra drafts all day.
Two galleries under one Prince Street roof, right in the middle of Lancaster's Gallery Row. Karen Anderer Fine Art brings the polished, collectible side — a rotating, eclectic crew of local and regional artists — while its companion CityFolk Gallery leans into folk and outsider art with a looser, more whimsical streak. Between the two, that's a lot of ground for one address. First Friday is when it really comes alive, with receptions worth lingering at and a crowd that actually stops to look. Come to buy something for the wall, to see what's new, or just to browse two distinct sensibilities back to back. A reliable anchor on any Gallery Row wander, and an easy place to fall for a piece you didn't plan on.
A working gallery and studio collective set inside an old bank building downtown — and yes, it leans into the vault theme. Resident artists actually make their work here, so you get finished art on the walls and the buzz of a real studio in the same visit, all in a space with serious architectural bones. It's more destination than drive-by, especially on First Friday when the whole place switches on and the resident artists open up. Wander through to meet makers, watch work in progress, and pick up something straight from the person who made it. Part gallery, part studio, part clubhouse for Lancaster's art crowd.
The OG of Lancaster craft beer — one of the city's original brewpubs, pouring award-winning beer out of a historic building on Plum Street since the mid-'90s. It's the kind of place that's earned a lot of "we've been coming here for years," with a scratch kitchen backing up the brews and a legacy most newer spots are still chasing. Come for a flagship pint and a plate that actually holds up, or work through whatever seasonal's on tap. It's comfortable, dependable, and proudly established without coasting on it. When you want Lancaster beer with real roots, this is more or less where the story starts.
The beating heart of downtown Lancaster and, by most accounts, the oldest continuously operating public market in the country — vendors have been setting up on this spot for the better part of three centuries, with the grand brick market house dating to 1889. Inside: 50-plus stalls of local everything, from produce and meats to baked goods, prepared food, and crafts. It runs three mornings a week (Tuesday, Friday, Saturday), and it's as much a social ritual as a grocery run — you go for the horseradish and the sticky buns and end up chatting your way down every aisle. Come hungry, bring cash and a tote, and give yourself more time than you think you need. A genuine Lancaster institution, and rightfully so.
A Victorian-style pub tucked right beside Central Market — "the Dipco" to regulars — with pressed-tin charm, a long beer list, and classic American plates. It's cozy and a little timeless, the kind of downtown bar that feels like it's always been there and probably always will be. There's live music on the calendar to go with the pints, and an easy, settle-in atmosphere that suits both a quick post-market drink and a long night out. Grab a table, order something off the board, and let it become your default downtown meet-up. Old-school in all the right ways.
Lancaster's improv troupe started in 2015, went full nonprofit in 2019, and now runs its own theater at 16 S. Prince right in the middle of downtown. Different house teams hit the stage every weekend, and the content runs a solid PG-13 — they recommend 18 and up. Shows go Friday and Saturday nights at 7 and 8:30, ten bucks a ticket, and the First Friday Free For All costs nothing. It's BYOB, so grab a six-pack on the walk over. The room's small — buy ahead or show up early.
A restored factory building in Lititz reborn as a genuine mixed bag — a two-tier live music venue, a revolving art gallery, monthly open mics, and event space, all under one industrial-chic roof. It's the kind of adaptive-reuse project that hands an old building a second act and gives a town a new anchor for a night out. Depending on the night it's a concert, a gallery opening, an open mic, or a private event — so it pays to check what's on before you go. Catch a show, wander the art, or make it one stop on a bigger Lititz day. Easily one of the coolest, most flexible rooms in town.
An actual Prohibition speakeasy in the Leola woods — built in 1929 from Lehoy Forest oak, and the booths that once hid the liquor are still the ones you sit in. After repeal it became a restaurant, Charlie DiSantis ran it for fifty years and filled it with over a hundred paintings, and the Liddell family brought it back with a 2017 renovation that added a proper speakeasy lounge. Twelve dining rooms, each one different. Friday and Saturday nights there's live music in the Piano Lounge from 6 to 9:30 — jazz quartets and trios doing three sets. Order a prohibition-era cocktail at the bar and the Crackling Pork Shank 'Osso Buco' after. First Wednesday of the month is the wine tasting, cigar nights hit the patio, and the drive in past the 1849 Zook's Mill Covered Bridge is part of the show. Closed Sundays.
An open-air amphitheater tucked into Lancaster's Long's Park, best known for a free summer concert series that's become a warm-weather institution — bands on the stage, blankets and lawn chairs on the grass, sunset doing its thing behind them. It also hosts a genuinely respected art festival, so the park pulls double duty as a culture hub when the weather cooperates. The move is simple and hard to beat: pack a chair, grab a picnic, and post up for live music that costs you nothing but the drive. Easygoing, all-ages, and quintessentially summer-in-Lancaster. Lawn chair, sunset, live band — done.
The neighborhood bar of Columbia Avenue west of the city, pouring since 2001 in what used to be The Lion's Paw, a Penn State sports bar. George and Diane Robb built it into a regulars' room; Chad and Bobbi Jo Black bought it in 2022 because, in Chad's words, he didn't want anybody to ruin it. Smart man — he kept the menu and the staff. Order the roast beef sandwich — the house calls it world-famous and the regulars won't correct them — or go wings and a pitcher under the covered outdoor area, which seats 45. Live music turns up on Saturday evenings. With 12 TVs and Penn State DNA in the walls, this is your game-day HQ on the west side.
A beloved neighborhood bar on East Marion Street — the kind of low-key local where the patio is basically the whole personality, and that's a compliment. Drink specials, zero attitude, and a crowd that treats a sunny afternoon out back as a legitimate life plan. It's not trying to impress anybody, which is exactly why people love it. Roll up with friends, claim a patio table, and let a "quick one" turn into peak patio-season crimes. An easy, honest downtown hang that just works.
An authentic Irish pub in the rivertown of Marietta, overlooking historic Front Street, with a warm, lively room and a stage that's hosted both local talent and bigger names. Live music runs Wednesday through Saturday, and the bar keeps a deep rotating tap list (19 lines) of Irish and local beer. It's well worth the short drive from Lancaster or York — the kind of pub where the pour is proper, the crowd is friendly, and there's usually a band going by night's end. Grab a Guinness, catch a set, and settle into one of the county's better small-town watering holes.
A high-energy local roaster and coffee shop on Harrisburg Avenue that doubles as unofficial HQ for Lancaster's creative crowd. The coffee's serious — roasted in-house — but the scene is half the draw: laptops open, conversations going, and a buzz that makes it feel like something's always about to happen. Come for a genuinely good cup, stay because the room has a pulse. It's equal parts caffeine stop and community hub, the kind of place you pop into for a latte and end up staying an hour. Caffeine with a scene, and proudly so.
A 650-capacity, state-of-the-art venue on the Rock Lititz campus — the sprawling production hub where many of the world's biggest tours build their shows. That pedigree shows: national touring acts, theater, and live-production wizardry you can genuinely feel, in a room engineered by the people who do this for arenas. It's intimate by design but built to blockbuster standards, so a show here hits harder than the seat count suggests. Check the calendar, grab tickets to whatever's routing through, and see what a venue looks like when production nerds build their dream room. Small room, huge sound.
Mike and Kristen Brubaker's small-batch brewery, pouring across from the Elizabethtown train station since 2014 — E-town's first. The name comes from Mike's competitive bird-watching team that ran the World Series of Birding, and the whole thing started when Kristen gave him a homebrew kit. Twelve taps, everything unfiltered, brewed on a system Mike built by hand, and the house rule is right on the sign: no TVs, conversation welcome. Start with the Hoppy Toad IPA or the Mistopheles chocolate stout, and know that a buck from every Great 38 pale ale goes to creek conservation. Saturdays bring live music, and Vinyl Sunday runs noon to 5 — pick a record from the house collection or bring your own while a singer/songwriter plays. Flatbreads and rotating specials like shrimp boils handle the food. Closed Monday and Tuesday.
A historic Victorian estate in Manheim that's equal parts winery, brewery, and distillery — and the longtime home of the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire. The grounds run a full calendar of festivals and themed events across the year, plus theater staged right in the mansion, so there's almost always something happening on the estate. Come for the Ren Faire in full swing (turkey leg optional, fun mandatory), a wine tasting on the historic grounds, or whichever seasonal festival is on. It's a genuine day-out destination, not a quick stop — big, immersive, and unlike anything else in the region. Show up ready to make an afternoon of it.
A tavern in the trees of Mt. Gretna, the old Chautauqua arts colony where there's not a chain business in sight. Alan Funck bought it in 2009 and it became the founding spot of Funck's Restaurant Group, now about a dozen locations strong. The deck is the whole point — LebTown's critics called it one of the best deck atmospheres in the Valley, and it stays packed. Trivia runs every Thursday at 8, and live music takes over every weekend from 8 to 11. Go Lobster Tacos or the Pimento Smash Burger with a craft cocktail on the deck while the summer crowd rolls in from the lake and the playhouse. It's one of the few spots out there open late — 2 a.m. closes on Fridays and Saturdays — so it's where Gretna nights end.
A 300-acre family estate out in Bainbridge where J. Richard Nissley planted his first vines in the mid-'70s, and three generations of Nissleys still run the place — grandson Jonas came aboard full-time in 2016. The winery itself is a converted stone-arch tobacco barn, and Judith Nissley dreamed up the thing this place is famous for: Music in the Vineyards, live bands out among the vines. Saturday nights all summer, 5:30 to 9:30, and it's strictly 21 and up — pick a spot on the lawn and settle in. There's a wine bar, a beer tent, a slushy bar, and food trucks, so show up thirsty. Parking's free, and the wine slushy is the correct July call.
The second building ever raised in what was then New Ephrata — an 1813 sales bill lists it as the tavern at the sign of the Golden Swan. When the railroad passed the town by and it renamed itself Lincoln, the tavern leaned all the way in, and today the dining rooms are stacked with Abe memorabilia under original 1800s tin ceilings. The main bar is the real thing, old enough that it once had a copper trough at its base for tobacco chewers. Wednesday is trivia at 6:30, hosted by Ken, a longtime server who knows the room cold. Out back, the Tiki Barn runs the full menu and a full bar with daily specials; Thursday brings the crab leg special. Grab a six-pack to go on your way out — they sell them.
A community-first brewery and restaurant on North Prince Street, built on exactly the everybody-knows-your-name energy the name promises. Rotating house taps, a solid kitchen, and a room that treats regulars like regulars — it's the neighborhood spot that actually remembers your order. The calendar keeps it social, with trivia and live music giving downtown a reliable reason to gather midweek. Come in for a pint and a bite, settle into the good kind of low-key, and stay longer than you planned. Unpretentious, local to the core, and all the better for it.
It started in 1980 as a two-day jousting festival in the Mount Hope winery parking lot; now it's a 35-acre Tudor village that takes over weekends from mid-August through late October. This year's run goes August 15 through October 25, with themed weekends stacked across the season and fifteen stages going at once. Turkey legs and costumed knights, sure — but the grown-up move is the Swashbuckler Brewing Company, on the grounds since 2000, plus the estate's wine and mead. Mount Hope also pours Rumspringa Brewing and Lancaster County Cider at pourhouses around the village, and there's a pub crawl if you want the guided version. Drink like it's 1590.
Lititz's dive bar with 125 years of receipts — Hiram Holtzhouse opened it in 1901 directly across from Lititz Springs Park, which is where the name comes from. It's survived two fires and Prohibition, which it waited out pouring chocolate milk and birch beer until the real stuff was legal again. Karaoke goes Thursdays and Saturdays, 10 to 1, with DJ Luke running the book. Two pool tables, a weekly pool league, pinball, and a digital jukebox handle the rest of the night, with domestic drafts and frozen drinks behind the bar. Eat before you come — the kitchen is snacks-only, because this is a bar that knows it's a bar.
A live-music and comedy venue with its own microbrewery attached, parked just outside Lancaster in Millersville. Phantom Power books touring acts and local talent alike, so the calendar swings from national names to hometown favorites — beer in your hand, band right in front of you. It's the rare room where the sound, the stage, and the taps all pull their weight, built for people who take live music seriously without any of the stuffiness. Check who's playing, grab a ticket and a house pour, and post up close. One of Central PA's genuine go-tos for a show.
The Lancaster outpost of the wing operation Bob Platzer started in 1983 and named for his grandfather, P.J. Whelihan — now 32 restaurants strong across Pennsylvania and Jersey. This one landed at the Shoppes at Belmont in 2018 and does exactly what a sports bar should: wings, cold beer, and whatever game matters that night. Tuesday is half-price wing night if you're a Pub Club member or a student, so get that sorted before you show up. Happy hour runs weekdays 4 to 6, and the first Wednesday of the month is Music Bingo at 7 with prizes on the line. Come August, book the fantasy draft package — half-price wings and starters and a dedicated area for your league.
The farm-to-table anchor on the first floor of the Lancaster Marriott at Penn Square, opened in 2019 in the old Penn Square Grille space. Chef Ryan McQuillan cooks modern American from an open kitchen, and the menu moves with whatever Lancaster County farms are pulling that week. The name is the old English spelling — a tip of the cap to the farmland feeding the place. The central bar pours handcrafted cocktails, local pints, and glasses off a serious wine wall, with 190 seats running inside and out. Weekends, bar bites go until almost 11, and the whole place holds until midnight Friday and Saturday. Smart move: start here, then take it upstairs to The Exchange, its rooftop sibling and the highest bar in the city.
A boutique professional theatre in Lancaster's West End that makes musicals and theatrical concerts feel intimate and a little electric. Prima works at a scale where you're close enough to catch every expression, favoring bold, contemporary programming over the safe and stuffy. Small room, big swings — it's the kind of company that world-premieres new work and reimagines the familiar, and the tight quarters only crank up the energy. Grab tickets to whatever's on, sit close, and feel a live show the way it hits when the cast is right there. Ambitious theatre without the arm's length.
The Prince Street Cafe crew planted their third flag in Columbia, and it might be the best thing to happen to Locust Street in years — a proper downtown coffeehouse where the house-blend espresso, seasonal matcha, and loose-leaf tea actually earn their keep. It's a designated pit stop on the Northwest River Trail, so you can roll in off the trail sweaty and un-showered and nobody so much as blinks. Homemade soups, fresh sandwiches, and a dessert case engineered to talk you out of whatever willpower you walked in with. Open since early 2024, it's the gathering spot downtown Columbia didn't know it was missing — big, central, and built for lingering. Grab whole-bean coffee and tea to take home, or rent the space by the hour when you need somewhere to actually get things done. Order the matcha, claim a table, and let the river trail wait.
A downtown Lancaster institution on North Prince Street — a bustling community coffeehouse and brunch spot with a permanent, low-key buzz. Good coffee, a proper brunch, and event space in back make it equal parts caffeine stop, meet-up, and morning ritual for the whole neighborhood. It's the flagship of a small local group (with Columbia and York siblings), and the downtown location has the busiest heartbeat of the bunch. Roll in for a latte and a table, settle in with your laptop or your people, and let the room's easy hum do the rest. The sacred ritual of a little treat, downtown edition.
A speakeasy-style cocktail bar sitting under 30 North Queen, and the only tell is a small Proof sign over a metal staircase heading below the sidewalk. Down there it's rustic stone walls against sleek modern furniture — a basement that drinks way above its station. The cocktails take swings and land them: the South Frog runs gin with tomato, basil, parmesan vermouth, and pepper oil. LNP's bar writers said the food alone is worth the trip even if you're not drinking cocktails, which is about the highest compliment a bar kitchen gets. Walk slow on Queen Street or you'll blow right past the sign.
Millersville's own brewery, opened in September 2019 by Sean and Sarah Raney in the old Original Nino's Pizza building at Manor and George. Sean earned it the long way — three years as head brewer at Mad Chef in East Petersburg plus brewery time in Colorado before hanging his own name on the door. There's always a kolsch on, plus nine rotating taps and barrels aging down in the actual stone cellar the name promises. The taproom is tight — about 40 seats inside, 30 more on the deck — so it fills fast on a nice night. Food trucks handle dinner; check what's parked outside before you commit.
The bar inside Rocky Springs Entertainment Center, a 39-lane bowling house rolling since 1954 on ground where the Rocky Springs amusement park ran from the 1870s to 1967. Owners Fred and Sherry O'Neill built Red Pin in a $1.9 million 2017 expansion — 90 seats, its own entrance, and soundproofing so good LNP's critic couldn't hear a single pin fall from the dining room. Mondays mean music trivia, 7 to 9, with host Chuck Colson, and live music takes the patio when the weather cooperates. LNP's incognito reviewer called the filet mignon exquisite, and the 4-Bagger sampler — mozzarella sticks, pierogies, buffalo chicken, meatballs — is built for a table that just bowled three games. The TVs over the bar keep the game on while your league wraps up.
Gallery Row's heavy hitter, a longtime anchor on North Prince Street showing 40-plus local and regional artists across a rotating, well-curated space. It's one of the reliable cornerstones of Lancaster's First Friday scene — the kind of gallery that takes its art seriously without taking itself too seriously. The monthly First Friday opening is as much a social ritual as an art event, equal parts gallery-viewing and people-watching, and refreshingly come-as-you-are. Swing through on a crawl or make it the destination; either way there's always something new on the walls. Dress however — nobody's checking.
An 1864 railroad hotel that's been feeding Reinholds since the Reading & Columbia line ran past the door. Bobby Angelo and Michael Nix bought it in December 2024 and put real money into it — new kitchen line, TVs at the bar, and heat in the second-floor dining rooms that used to sit empty all winter. The move here is the deck, which the new owners tripled in size to run as a summer bar with live entertainment. Kitchen holds until 10 on Fridays and Saturdays, so you're not racing the clock on a second round. Between the bar, the pub room, and the upstairs dining rooms, the whole building's finally in play year-round.
A locally owned roadhouse on Ridge Road outside Elizabethtown whose own tagline is 'Did your wife kick you out? Welcome home.' That tells you exactly what you're walking into — a no-pretense bar built for staying a while. Live music runs Thursday and Friday nights, and pool and darts cover the rest of the week. The bar pours until 2 a.m. Monday through Saturday, with a late-night menu until 12:30 for when the show ends and you're still hungry. This is the last kitchen standing in the area on most nights — plan accordingly.
Lancaster County's oldest continuously operated tavern, pouring since 1814 — back when a retired riverboat captain built it a stone's throw from the Susquehanna. The Shank family has run it since 1930, and third-gen Bob still works the bar — tapping beers, running food, even washing dishes when it comes to that. Come for the beer — eight rotating craft taps plus a year-round German Hefeweizen — and stay for a menu that swerves from Beef on 'Weck on Thursdays to pho on Tuesdays to hand-rolled sushi on Fridays. Tuesday's acoustic open mic and Thursday's electric jam keep the place loud, and there's a patio when it's not. Closed Saturday nights, because Bob likes to go out and drink beer too.
A 1770s grist mill on Pequea Creek that's now Lancaster County's best excuse to drink outside in a bathing suit. Joe Devoy, the guy who built Tellus360, bought the 12-acre site with his wife Dana Paparo in 2021 and turned it into a tubing-and-live-music compound. The float runs about two hours, and the bar's waiting when you climb out of the creek. Head straight for Jimmy's Place, the tiki bar named after the owners' late dog, and order the Jimmy Juice — the house drink the whole creek talks about. It's also a satellite of Thistle Finch Distillery, so the rum situation is handled, and bands play Friday and Saturday nights. Bring your dog; they're welcome here.
The downtown Lancaster outpost of South County Brewing — a restaurant and taproom that brings the brewery's house beer into the heart of the city at 26 West King Street, just steps from Penn Square. If the sprawling York flagship is the destination, this is the walkable city cousin: same beer, downtown energy, no drive required. Post up for a fresh pour and a full menu without leaving the walkable core — an easy pre-show, post-work, or middle-of-a-crawl stop. It's one of the newer additions to Lancaster's downtown drinking lineup, and a convenient way to get South County's beer right in the city. Grab a seat, order a round, and let King Street do the rest.
One of Lancaster's craft-beer originals, brewing since the late 2000s and pouring out of a restored warehouse taproom on Hazel Street. Spring House does its own thing — a lineup that swings from easy-drinking staples to big, characterful brews — backed by a full kitchen and live music, in a roomy, unfussy space built for settling in. It's Lancaster brewing done right and refreshingly unbothered: come for a flight, stay for a plate and whoever's playing. The warehouse bones give it space and character, and the beer's got the track record to back up the reputation. An easy pick whether you're a regular or just passing through thirsty.
SRCC is a nonprofit creative collective in Columbia — rehearsal rooms, podcast and photo studios — that doubles as one of the river town's best small stages. Bands, DJ sets, comedy nights and film showcases rotate through all year, and ticketed shows like Songwriters in the Round run about ten bucks. The anchor is Open Mic Wednesday: a real stage with the backline provided, five-dollar suggested donation, and it's BYOB. Bring your own drinks, bring three songs, and tip the nonprofit on the way out.
A low-key neighborhood brewery in the rivertown of Columbia — the kind of small, welcoming taproom that feels more like a friend's living room than a business. House beer poured without pretense, a warm room, and just enough going on to make it a destination rather than a quick stop. The calendar keeps it charming: live music on select Fridays and a monthly folk open mic that leans right into the community vibe. Grab a pour, settle in, and let a mellow Columbia night unfold. Low-key and genuinely lovely, exactly as advertised.
Ephrata's established craft brewery, a northern-Lancaster-County staple pouring solid drafts and filling growlers since the early 2010s — with its beer showing up on taps all over the county. The taproom has added food service, so what started as a beer-first stop now keeps you around for a plate, too. It's the kind of dependable, no-nonsense brewery that earns a loyal following the honest way: good beer, poured by people who care, in an unpretentious room. Swing by for a pint and a growler to go, and settle in for one more round than you planned. Worth the trip up to Ephrata.
A gallery and eight working artist studios on the second floor above Columbia Kettle Works, named for the building's past life as the United Telephone Company's switchboard. The house policy is the good kind: it's open during Kettle Works hours, and you're encouraged to carry your beer up from the brewery and drink it in the gallery. Second Fridays are Jazz Club Night with the Jazz Connection, 7 to 10. Fourth Saturdays bring the Brewery Comedy Tour, and there's open figure drawing on second and fourth Thursdays if your sketching improves with a pint in reach. Order downstairs first, then head up — that's the whole system.
Four floors of "we're not going home yet," right on East King Street in the middle of downtown Lancaster. Tellus360 is an Irish bar, a live-music powerhouse, a basement speakeasy, a weekend dance floor, and a rooftop for catching your breath — sometimes all in one night. Reclaimed wood, good pints, and a genuine community streak run through the whole building. It's the beating heart of a downtown night out, with a stacked live-music calendar and enough different rooms that the evening keeps evolving on you. Start with a pint, follow the music, end up on the roof — the place practically writes its own story. Downtown's anchor for the kind of night you don't fully plan.
Lancaster's original craft beer destination, pouring on North Mulberry since 2011. The setup is simple and right: ten rotating drafts, over 400 bottles and cans in the namesake fridge, and house-made flatbread pizza that got voted best in Lancaster City. Tuesdays are music bingo, Thursdays are trivia — both 7 to 9, both taken seriously by the regulars. Get a flatbread, work the bottle wall, and grab a 32-ounce crowler of whatever draft you liked on the way out. There's also a rentable garage space if your crew of 30 needs a room of its own.
Jack and Amy Thorn pour small-batch California wine — Napa, Sonoma, and Lake County fruit — in a Fruitville Pike tasting room they run like a coffee house for wine. Amy's the winemaker, and everything is 100 percent varietal, bottled unfined and unfiltered. Friday is the night: live music most weeks and the room stays open until 10. Trivia lands the last Wednesday of the month, and a light-bite menu keeps you upright through a second glass. Grab one of the glass-topped French oak barrel tables and drink Napa without the flight.
Brothers Steve and Jeff Heckman opened this Elizabethtown standby in 1997, and the name's a dodge — it was going to be Rockwell's with a Norman Rockwell theme until copyright lawyers loomed. Nearly three decades later it's one of the most recognizable bar names in Central PA, with a second outpost in Mechanicsburg. The deck is the point: 300-plus seats, its own bar and kitchen, one of the biggest in Pennsylvania, plus a four-season Atrium for when the weather turns. Live music runs Friday and Saturday nights all summer. Order the Rhino Fries — smothered in cheese and bacon with ranch — famous enough that the Facebook handle is literally RhinoFries.
An estate winery on farmland the Waltz family has worked for six generations — tobacco fields turned vineyard after Jan Waltz planted his first vines in 1997. They're best known for doing what most Pennsylvania wineries can't: real dry reds, with Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc that actually ripen on a consistent basis. Tastings come as a rack of test tubes you pour yourself, cheese plate optional. Saturdays bring Music on the Lawn at the Manheim estate, 1 to 4, and their Lampeter Corner outpost runs live music Fridays if you can't make the drive. Book ahead — the estate tasting room runs on reservations.
People have been eating and drinking on this Leola corner since 1775 — the building did time as the Oregon Hotel and the Catfish Wayside Inn before brothers Dino and George Papazekos took over the old Reflections and made it Wayside Public House. Dino ran restaurants, George plays music professionally, and this was the spot they'd hunted for years. The play here is fine food and spirits without the fuss: seasonal menus, a proper bar, and the lunch service the brothers added when they took over. If you want the whole room to yourself, they book private events on Sundays with their catering partner Plated by Evan.
Weathered Vineyards is a Lehigh County winery run by Richard and Dana — he's a meteorologist and winemaker, which explains the name — with a tasting room attached to Ephrata's Historic Smithton Inn since 2017. The list runs eleven wines, crisp Chardonnay through full-bodied Merlot, plus drafts from St. Boniface and Lancaster Brewing if your crew splits on wine. Saturdays get live acoustic music from 5 to 8 with a $10 food-and-drink minimum you'll clear without trying. In season, Friday and Saturday nights add wood-fired pizza out of the brick oven. Order the crispy fried rice balls — the recipe's a family secret and they're not sharing.