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    The Express Casual Dining

    4.2 (20 reviews)
    Closed 11:00 am - 7:30 pm

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    V B.

    Ordered the wings last night for take out. The menu says 1 pound for $11. I opened the container and there was 6 wings, and as you can tell by the picture it was just over 1/2 pound. $11 for 6 wings is an absolute rip off. I sent them a message via Facebook messenger, they read the message and said nothing in response. This experience on top of them not taking credit cards anymore after next month will not have me returning. *Update. I received this following response from them on 9/24: "Just saw your message this morning. Sorry for your disappointment but, we do weight our wings prior to cooking them. As you can see in the attached image, six of our wings weight approximately one pound. I hope you were satisfied with the other food you got in your To-Go order." As a customer, this is a completely ignorant response from a business owner addressing a complaint. And to have the audacity to send me a picture of 6 random frozen wings to try and justify themselves is unacceptable. They will never get another penny from me and I hope they don't get yours either.

    Kind of over fried coating, thick juicy chicken
    Sushiplease ..

    Nice big parking lot. Super Duper friendly staff that checked on us a lot! Everyone smiling, very pleasant. We went there because we heard original chicken on a stick guy on the restaurant and serve chicken on a stick! That's what we had. it was pretty delicious. Thicker than the new Grange Fairgrounds chicken on a stick. $10 not bad. Some of the prices are incredibly high. They have a basket of fries with barbecue and so forth on it and chicken I think... $17. That's high! All of their appetizers were pretty high priced. The coleslaw... Not good! The baked beans have green peppers in them, and were very sweet, but were delicious. The lemon cake and apple dumplings were great!! The Cesar salad was good, crisp greens, plenty of Parmesan cheese, but it barely fit in the bowl, hard to add dressing and stir it around so it covered. Adorable restaurant. Again, lovely staff. I'd go again to try the catfish and the burger.

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    The food is good and the service is exceptional. If only I could get Greg (one of the owners and cooks) to make those delicious carrots!

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    Great wood fire pizza! Thin crust. Unique location and friendly service. Take out available.

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    Excellent service. Cheeseburger fries were amazing! A hidden gem in small town nowhere.

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    Prospector's Mount Nittany Rib Company - Hickory-Smoked Pulled Pork

    Prospector's Mount Nittany Rib Company

    4.0(58 reviews)
    6.9 mi

    Cute joint a bit outside of campus. The atmosphere is quaint and great for a date or family/friends…read moreouting, and the staff and attentive and friendly :) My cousin and I ordered their bbq ribs, beef brisket, cornbread, and some sides. Their ribs are tender, saucy, but a bit on the dry side. We enjoyed the beef brisket, however. It was succulent, moist, and fell apart with each bite, melting in our mouths. Definitely recommend getting the brisket! The cornbread was decent with the butter, but nothing super extraordinary to us. The mac and cheese and beans were also alright. Overall, a good place to try out if you're looking for something outside of downtown campus. Get the brisket!

    The texture of the pulled pork was fine, but it was a tad flavorless. I do think the pork had…read morepotential to be pretty good, I'd say as is, a 4.5/10 for the pork on its own without any sauce. But for pork being a salty meat, we felt we needed more just to give it some flavor. Unfortunately, their salt packet container was filled exclusively with pepper (this is easily correctable and does not factor into our score). The brisket texture was OK and had a decent color and smoky flavor to it, though it may have been slightly overdone, as it was very dry. If I were to describe the flavor it would be Jack Link's Beef Jerky. The sauces were, to be blunt, not great. The mustard based sauce was pretty much just mustard. There was a ketchup based sauce that didn't offer much else. There were 2 other sauces, neither of which paired well with the 2 meats, and frankly I'm having a hard time even coming up with words to describe them. A way to improve would be a vinegar based sauce for the pulled pork (Carolina style), and offer up a reasonably spicy sauce. The biggest issue was we felt like we were chasing flavor and unable to find it, even mixing and matching sauces and meats. Prices were very reasonable for the quantities of food.

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    Bonfire Old Fashioned BBQ

    4.5(23 reviews)
    6.8 mi

    The foot was amazing. We had the half rack of ribs, macaroni and cheese french fries pulled pork…read moredinner with baked beans. Alll was amazing. Our waitress was absolutely fabulous. Andriy and several other waiters and waitresses checked on us throughout the meal. We couldn't have had better service. The sweet tea was absolutely exceptional. The ambience of the restaurant was amazing to logo football town so there's some football memorabilia and what not around the bar, but it was very clean and very inviting and it has a sweet bar so when you leave, you can grab a small handful of candy to take with you on the road. We are not from this area. This is our first time visiting there, but we would definitely return given the opportunity. FYI, there is no alcohol though.

    1st: The service was really great! From the time we walked in, every team member was very friendly…read moreand receptive! Quickly seated and had our drinks in minutes. The server explained the dailies well and answered our questions about the menu. Excellent! 2nd: My wife has celiac and their menu is marked well in regards to GF. She had numerous options! 3rd: The chicken meal was very good (decent smoke) and the wings (bone in) were good. Really good sides. The brisket meal was good. Caught me off guard, though. 1st time I've seen brisket sliced on a meat slicer in a meal. No problem with it. Plus, the leftovers made for great sandwiches . Nice stop, especially for lunch!

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    BBQ By Clem

    5.0(3 reviews)
    7.0 mi

    If u see his truck STOP. Best bbq, service and vibe I've ever had the chance to enjoy. drove from…read morecali to ny stopped on the way. hit me exactly how I wanted it to. I will drive from the NYC just to come here.

    Their main web site is: https://www.facebook.com/ClemsPub/…read more Clem has been around, and even spawned other BBQ places. Happy Valley BBQ used to work with Clem and is cordial with him (I think). If you like midwest/kansas city BBQ, it is a thick sauced bbq. it is very good. the ribs are great, the country ribs are great (but slightly less great), the pulled pork is pretty good, the chicken is pretty good (but less great), the sides are all good to great (but the macroni salad used to be crazy good, now it's just good). they move around. check the facebook site for hours. they cater, a lot and well. They sometime appear at Meyer's Dairy in state college, and currently are by the Bellefonte highschool. I hope to be back again and again. This is a gem and deserves to be found. He also needs to settle down and have a restaurant, but he seems better at BBQ than at management (somehow, he seems like he would be great as a manager too). Perhaps he prefers front of house. WooHooo! as good as it gets! He can't hit the consistency to be in the le Guide Michelin, but the food quality for what it proposes to be, is that good. Service is Clem, what could be better? ps Clem, remember that poor, late, lost guy who showed up after you were closed but before I99 went in, and you gave a huge sample to because you were too lazy to charge him (or kind)? And you thought he would clean the pan instead of you having to clean the pan? Well I ate that for two meals and this is just payback baby.

    Ard's Farm - Ard's Farm Restaurant.

    Ard's Farm

    3.6(67 reviews)
    38.3 mi
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    They have completely changed. We have been going here for 10 years with our kids. Enjoying a hay…read moreride to the pumpkin patch to pick an age appropriate sized pumpkin. Then we would enjoy food trucks while kids played on the playground. It now costs $10 for a kid to play on the playground. Not worth it. Ruined tradition. Was nice while it lasted but won't be back.

    Where to start?? Took the grandchildren there that are 4 years old. The customer service where you…read moreenter was horrific. They were not pleasant at all! No one explained where anything was or directed us to things. Pricing in my opinion is a bit high especially for the very few things to do there. They have a nice corn maze but, it's not for their ages really. The attractions they have there are very outdated and for the price they charge they could use it to do a few upgrades. It's been over 9 years since I've been there and it's definitely gone down hill from then and uphill on that cost. Though have to say their restrooms outside were more up to date than the environment there for sure. If I was pricing things I would have it as follows Adults ages 13 and up $15 Ages 5-12 $8-10 and 3-5 $5 and 3 and under Free. That's just my opinion for the attractions. But as you see in pictures I have sign of pricing from there. And last note we had to put our own wristbands on so we could've just walked in and said we lost them in maze if we wanted to do that but we didn't but that shows how much the people pay attention at the point of entrance. And as for a petting zoo there that's a few ducks and one goat. And no food to feed them as those machines had a post it note on it stating "Out of Order!" So, to say we will be back is more towards the NO unless they were to update things and that's update it a lot.

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