![]() ![]() ![]() Sandwich Man will charge you $9 for a full-size sub, but that thing is a monster - I can usually only eat half of one, and I have a big appetite. Some of the downtown bars / restaurants are going to be a little more expensive, but that's because they're downtown - there's huge demand there, and the market continues to happily pay those prices.įor more affordable dining, consider Third St Diner (downtown near 3rd & Cranberry), Colonial Park Diner (I-83 just off the Colonial Park exit), and the places that DixieJo pointed out. $30 per person for appetizer + drink + entree + dessert is pretty amazing, especially when the quality is that high. Perhaps it's all just frame of reference stuff.ĭodge City is among the cheapest independent steak houses I've ever seen. And I do find Harrisburg to be considerably cheaper compared to when I lived in Colorado. Rent, groceries, utilities, restaurants, entertainment - I dont find Harrisburg to be any more or less expensive than other places in Pennsylvania I have lived. And maybe one of these days, I'll take my own advice on this. But this is everywhere, not special to the Harrisburg area. To save money ($2-3 each!), I'd recommend ordering water with a lemon to drink during meals. One thing that has gone up in price at most sit-down restaurants is the price of a soda. Is La Piazza still around? And others that I cant personally vouch for their menu prices, as I haven't been there in a good while. The restaurants on the immediate side of the West Shore are priced a bit high, but if you keep to the East Shore, maybe work your way up Paxton Street around the Harrisburg (East) Mall, you'll find quite a few restaurants that are child friendly and not scary to the wallet: Fiesta Mexico, Neato Burrito, Isaac's, Ruby Tuesday, Applebees. ![]() (Molly Brannigan's has a happy hour special of 1/2 off appetizers, yum!) And a few other places that would be kind of inappropriate to take your 1yr old twins to. I'm thinking: Sandwich Man, Palumbo's, 2nd Wok, Tres Hermanos. But you don't have to go too far to find places that are inexpensive, or give you more than your money's worth. Though for others, you get what you pay for and that $18 steak was quite possibly the best steak I've ever eaten. Restaurants in downtown Harrisburg can be pricey, and some are priced way higher than their food quality and ambiance, I absolutely do agree. I don't pay any more or less for groceries than I did when I lived in Elizabethtown, Lebanon, or Annville. For groceries, I drive to any one of the many nearby Giants, Karns, and the occasional Weis. The convenience stores (Shakti Deli, Downtown News) are marked up all the way to the moon. I don't do my grocery shopping in Harrisburg proper, as there is only one supermarket there that I am aware of. as long as they're child friendly.) Thanks.Ĭolor me somewhat confused, as I've never considered the Harrisburg area to be particularly expensive in the ways of groceries and restaurants. (So, as an aside, does anyone have recommendations for decent restaurants in the area? Ideally close to downtown Hbg, where we live, but we're open to ones further afield. If rents are so inexpensive, why are they charging so much? Plus, from the limited number of restaurants I've been too (don't get out much with twin one-year olds), their food in no way warrents such prices. It'd be one thing if this town was way off the beaten path, but living one block from the rail, I can attest to the freight that comes through (and I believe I read Carlisle is a big transport hub).Īs for restaurants (obviously, there are plenty of restuarants in other cities that are way more expensive, but I'm talking about everyday places), while I don't know much about them, my impression has always been that their biggest cost is rent. I agree that rents (and I assume costs of buying a house) are relatively inexpensive (though I'm not sure how the adjective luxury can be used with a straight face), but groceries and restaurants are as much or more than in those other cities. Having lived in many expensive cities (NYC, Boston, SF, and London), one benefit I expected from moving here was that it would be less expensive. ![]()
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