Published July 1, 2009, 12:02 AM EST

by KEN HOFFMAN

LANCASTER COUNTY, PA - This week I reached out for a new Fiery Hawaiian pizza, the latest addition to Domino's upscale, innovative line of American Legends specialty pizzas. It's like a beachside luau with fire twirlers, hula dancers, flowered shirts and grass skirts, except round, and with provolone cheese. An......

Published July 1, 2009, 12:01 AM EST

by CHAD UMBLE

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - Kyma Seafood Grill opened Tuesday in Denver, marking the transformation of the former Silk City Diner into a sleek, new seafood restaurant.Owners Nick and George Barakos closed the Silk City Diner in January for major renovations. The brothers tore down most of the former diner at 1640 N. ......

Published June 27, 2009, 12:01 AM EST

by STEPHANIE WEAVER

LANCASTER, Pa. - Brief drizzle Friday afternoon served as the perfect remedy to the day's humid weather, creating a comfortable atmosphere for the city's 11th Celebrate Lancaster! festival.The party started with food vendors opening along North Queen Street at 11:30 a.m., selling hot dogs, french f......

Published June 25, 2009, 12:53 AM EST

by STEPHANIE WEAVER

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - Celebrate Lancaster is back for its 11th year, returning to Binns Park on Friday with the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra to kick off the Independence Day holiday week.The celebration, sponsored by the Mayor's Office of Special Events and Fulton Bank, begins at 11:30 a.m. with numerous fo......

Published June 24, 2009, 10:19 AM EST

by E. MARTIN HULSE

LANCASTER, Pa. - Not sure if you heard, but a convention center opened the other day. There might have been something in the news. You may have seen it in person, if you actually brave the mean streets of Lancaster City. It's the building that's taller than downtown's former grande dame, the Griest Bu......

Published June 24, 2009, 12:01 AM EST

by Ken Hoffman

LANCASTER COUNTY, PA - This week I reached out for a Vanilla Soft Serve cone at Baskin-Robbins, the world's biggest ice-cream chain, with 6,000 stores across America and around this crazy blue marble.Let's make sure we're on the same page. It's called "Soft Serve" — not "Soft......

Published June 18, 2009, 9:28 AM EST

by BERNARD HARRIS

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - Call it comfort food. People wowed by the interior of the Lancaster Marriott at Penn Square that lies just behind the familiar Watt & Shand facade may take some comfort in a few menu items of the hotel restaurant, the Penn Square Grille. Amid the "Eastern Shore cioppino" and ......

Published June 17, 2009, 5:07 PM EST

by GREG CALDWELL

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - Correction — The price of Yia Yia's Poppy Seed Salad Dressing at Stauffers of Kissel Hill locations is $6.75. An incorrect price was reported in the article below, posted on LancasterOnline Tuesday. Also, it was Sue Myers' daughter-i......

Published June 17, 2009, 12:01 AM EST

by Ken Hoffman

LANCASTER COUNTY, PA - This week I reached out for a redesigned, bigger'n before Cinnapie dessert pizza from America's No. 3 pizza twirler, Papa John's — the "Better ingredients, better pizza" people, with 2,600 restaurants coast to coast.This ain't pizza, though. It's round, ......

Published June 10, 2009, 5:00 AM EST

by SUSAN JURGELSKI

LANCASTER, Pa. - When it comes to soft-shell crabs, the sweet, briny flavor is as much inside the shell as it is in the shell. Unlike the hard-shell crab, the soft-shell is a crustacean seafood that can be eaten entirely whole — if cooked shortly after the molting of the hard shell, which happens ......