A Walk Around the Block; a walking food tour of one block in Lancaster

It was a cold windy Saturday in December. 

Himself and I decided to head out to a friend's charity market thing. Already on the way, we found out... not only had she left, it closed in an hour! 

Refusing to give up, we decided to go on a walk and try some new places we had heard about in town. We parked near Central Market, which had closed a half hour earlier (Of course... sigh), and began our walk. (Herself fails to mention the near Arctic conditions, with blasting freezy winds and the occasional polar bear stalking us) First stop...

Super Bread Colombian Bakery 47 North Queen Street Lancaster. There we had an empanada each with the house made salsa, split a Coconut bun, and I had a cup of some of the strongest coffee I have ever had. The whole thing cost about $6.00?! It was wholesome,

homemade and delicious. The shop is small and clean. It is set up a little weird, and we caught them towards the end of their day, they closed at 5. The baked good selection was slim, but that coconut bun was outstanding. It was a soft glossy bun, with a creamy coconut filling swirled through. The empanada was piping hot with a crispy shell, the inside was a filling of meat and potatoes. The salsa was very fresh, and a perfect compliment. I was very impressed. We will definitely hit them up again, and maybe try some of the other offering they have.   

A goodly snack, or quick meal.  The place seems authentic, and the food sure tastes like it is.  It's not a fancy place even by small street shop standards, but the food is good and the folks there are nice. It's the kind of place I wouldn't have been shocked to find on anycorner, in PR.

Our next stop was the Tea and Spice Exchange that we blogged about last week. (We actually stopped in there again today.) It's a

great little locally owned shop! When we were in today they were drying orange peels for the citrus salt blend (And it smelled $#@!%#$ fantastic!)

After we warmed up there, we stopped by Cocina Mexicana for a taco or two, and a Mango soda. Another place we have reviewed, and enjoyed. This visit I had one of the daily special tacos (Chicken in a green chili sauce) and the Al Pastur (Pork and Pineapple), hands down my favorite taco here!

Finally we finished up at Sugar on Top, a small coffee and doughnut shop, for our sweet treat.This is a locally owned franchise, with the main office in Strasburg, PA. Here you can have a fully customized cake style doughnut. They have some that you can choose from pre-made, and you can get some from their recommended combination. They are honestly the best cake donuts I have ever had! 

They have vanilla, chocolate, and red velvet; Go for the chocolate! They also sell scrappies, donuts that didn't pass quality control (I like these.  Always willing to munch the underdog...lol). Those are pretty outrageously tasty too. The donuts we had this day were Maple Bacon on a vanilla cake doughnut, and a Chocolate Cannoli doughnut. The Maple Bacon doughnut was tasty. It's a vanilla doughnut they covered with maple icing and then dipped into a crock pot of crunchy bacon bits. The cannoli doughnut was a chocolate cake doughnut with

cannoli filling, a sprinkling of mini chocolate chips and a dusting of powdered sugar. They are rich, sweet, decadent, happiness in your mouth! The coffee here was good, nothing fancy, but a good hot cup of coffee.  We will keep going back!

To be clear on the doughnut thing.... Herself was the driver on that. I was there more for the hot coffee, and the getting out of the freezing wind, and the not being frozen solid on the street.

The doughnuts were nice, though.