First Friday is always a great time. You will always find me in attendance for this food, wine, and art walk. Fortunately, with the warm weather, attendance has gone up, and with it, the number of venues who host.
I always start my First Friday jaunts at Backyard Alehouse, a Scranton
From there, with the First Friday map torn from the newspaper in my back pocket, I started the gauntlet of downtown locales. As usual, most venues featured hors d’ourves, small snacks, fruits, cheeses, crackers, and crudités platters. However, the cigar shop offers more succulent foods like hoagies, fried chicken, meatballs, and mack and cheese.
Art works and Afa gallery closed early due to the Arts of Fire festival at the historic iron furnaces. NEPA Power was painting white clothing outside the galleries while DJs were spinning beats, jugglers tossed fire-filled batons, and teenage girls twirled batons.
At the furnaces, $15 gave you entrance to another array of cheeses and fruit, along with catered food from Chicanos. They brought all of their meats, a shredded chicken that was heavily spiced, the carnitas was in larger chunks rather than shredded like you might find in Pancheros or other burrito restaurants. The steak, to my personal distaste, was more like steak’ums rather than strips or chunks. The salsas that accompanied the meats were all spicy speaking to the authenticity of the cooks. In all honesty, this is most authentic, though Americanized, Hispanic food that one can find in the area.
The wine and beer was all lowest shelf, and after all of the drinks I had had prior, I stuck with soda. To end the evening, the first 150 customers got free ice cream from Ms. Moo’s ice cream truck that was on site. The scoops were generous and the flavors plentiful, a wonderful and cool ending to the evening.
No comments:
Post a Comment