lewisburg pa restaurants

Lewisburg Restaurants

$$$ Marco’s Tapas at 434 Market Street, Lewisburg, PA‎ 17837
Phone: (570) 523-0023‎
BYOB

This is one of my favorite restaurants in the area, for lunch or dinner. Marco, the owner and chef, is very friendly and down to earth, often waiting tables himself. Lunch is often a little disorganized, with Marco’s friends coming and going, and Marco manning the place by himself. I think this puts off some people to the place, at least for lunch. For dinner, Marco has always had servers who do a good job keeping the tapas coming from the kitchen. It is BYOB so I know I will always have a good bottle of wine to enjoy with his excellent selection of tapas. Marco’s food is the most intensely flavorful of any of the area’s restaurants, loaded with fresh garlic, curry, and spanish spices. Some of my favorites are the Moroccan Clams (not always on the menu), the spicy shrimp and the chorizo in burgundy wine, but the stars of the place are the breaded artichokes. He has often made things for me that are not on the menu. His pizzas are excellent. He also can host small gatherings, dinners and wine tastings for private parties. Service, like almost every restaurant in our area, is not superb but perfectly adequate. I like the coffee here and his homemade flan.

Other Restaurants Worth The Trip

Reba and Paunches – on Rt. 45 W – excellent hand made food, some inspired by Paunch’s Mexican roots. Reba is CIA trained and is fiendishly particular about the fresh fish each day. BYOB. Organic. Vegetarian Dishes. Good service. Very friendly family working in the kitchen that adds to the great experience.

Elizabeth’s – downtown in the “Theater District”. Let me digress for a second – this “district” apparently is the one block around the Campus Theater in downtown Lewisburg. Leave it to Lewisburgers to call it a district – it’s a movie theater! Not THE Theater. OK, out of my system. The restaurant is excellent. It was here long before anyone called it the Theater District. Very good food. Eclectic and innovative. Fancy words on the menu are fun to read, some free range and organic items. Very very good wine list. The Jordan Cabernet is as good as anything on planet earth. Very nice desserts, their own breads including an excellent olive bread. Very good salads. One thing I really like about Elizabeths is that everything is very fresh.

Also in Lewisburg, there are less expensive and adequate places if you can’t get into the above. Vic’s Pub has excellent fish and chips, a good wine and beer list, and a fun atmosphere. Victoria House is the same establishment’s high end dining, next door. It is often a very nice quiet evening there, just right for relaxing. Brasserie Louis is pretty uneven in my experience. The prices are in line with Elizabeth’s but I have never gotten the same level of food. Service is good, wine list is good. Very nice bar. I sometimes have a drink in the bar and then go to dinner elsewhere. For lunch, there are now several nice places in Lewisburg – Pronto, an Italian market cafe, Zelda’s, a cafe-coffee house, Cherry Alley Cafe, a trendy and popular cafe-coffee house. All get you nice food and coffee in nice settings.