State College / Penn State : Top Ten Restaurants

ITALIAN
Mario and Luigi's (fine dining, full service bar)
North Atherton St. near Blockbuster

Faccia Luna (large wood fired oven, wine)
South Atherton Street (near intersection with Allen St.)

THAI and VIET

Cozy Thai Bistro (bring your own beer/wine)
Allen Street
Galaga Thai cafe - on East College Avenue

My Thai
Westerly Parkway

Pho 11  (*new*)
North Atherton (near Greyhound bus terminal)


Lemongrass Cafe (*new*)

TEX-MEX FOOD (my friends would kill me if I use the word Mexican as they feel none are authentic enough)

Qdoba: http://www.qdoba.com/
State College #211
206 West College Avenue
State College, PA 16801
814-861-3288

Chipotle Mexican Grill
Heister Street (opening Sep 11th)
Chipotle - Penn State University
116 Heister St.
State College, PA 16801
814-231-0442 (phone)
Open 11am - 10pm

Baja Fresh
Downtown (on Garner Street and Calder way) open till 10pm usually

Rey's Azteca  (*new*) By the Nittany Mall on Benner Pike (next to Office Depot) open till 11pm weekends

Jalisco (coming soon)  (*new*) - on North Atherton


AMERICAN CUISINE
The Deli on Heister Street
Great beers, wide menu, great desserts; They are also connected to Inferno - restaurant and bar

The Tavern Restaurant on College Avenue

INDIAN

Kaarma (on Beaver Avenue close to x-tion with Allen St)

India Pavilion (on Calder Way) close to Pugh Street - between Beaver and College Avenues.


Spicetruck Indian Cooking  (*new*) -  Cooking demonstrations and customized dinners at site of your convenience (where possible)- Please contact Nari at psusaver@gmail.com or call 814 753 4459 for more information. Both South and North Indian cooking available.

MIDDLE EASTERN CUISINE & CREPES

Pita Cabana Grill 
Next to Chipotle on Calder Way

Joie De Crepe
East College Avenue - next to Penn Stae McLannahans Room-
 in Basement next to Big Bowl Noodle House

ALTOONA
El Campesino (Altoona, PA) http://elcampesino.net/


and more will be added as time goes on!

Pita

Courtesy Flickr User

For those of who know me, you know by now that I really like love taking pictures of food, of prepared food as well as of raw material under preparation. One of the foods from a non-Indian cuisine that I love = pita. So when I heard that a friend of mine was into pitas and is going to France, I quickly googled out restaurants serving pita based foods in Paris [I was procrastinating] and whipped up this post.

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I also ran a youtube search on Pita sandwich recipes and found the one that is not too boastful about their recipe. I dislike sites/video that overpromote their recipe as BEST BEST BEST, whatever. lol.

Pita making videos

New Orleans 2008Food Food

The first two pics are of my quesadilla from our favorite tex-mex restaurant - The Green Parrot (or something like that) in NOLA.

The last two pictures of food that we ate at an Indian restaurant "Nirvana" in New Orleans, LA. The interesting story behind this eatout was that myself and my friend took the street car to reach the locality where Nirvana was located (several miles from Downtown NOLA), but on the way back we walked back the entire distance on the streetcar track. The weather was great with a cool breeze blowing in from the Gulf, making this walk one of the most memorable.