for outdoor dining GREAT PLACES 10 Your al fresco table awaits ...

Stay in the Lehigh Valley and choose among a growing number of establishments that offer outdoor dining, from pretty views to pretty people.

[SmokersAreLosers]

Sure...eat outside where the smokers sit!!

No Thanks!!

[mcall misses again]

no mention of the limeport inn??? best outdoor dining in the valley, not on a street or adjacent to shopping center parking lot(pistachio)..give us all a break mcall and actually write a good article

[JimThorper]

You got it right. The view from atop Penns Peak is awesome. At night, check out the PPL building through the gap. The outdoor eating area is many large decks. Smokers not a problem. Food is well priced and well prepared.

[radical moderate]

It is great that this type of dining recreation exist but enough with the comparisons to other places. The Al Fresco headline is corny. Let all these places stand on their own merits. In the past I have read headlines that would state "NY style dining coming to the Valley" or other similar proclamations. I say enough with the silliness!

[Dennis]

People must be made aware that dining in rural Pennsylvania where restaurants are on wellwater and made to sign off of non-community water supply to remain open like they did to me until I caught on to Dep and lies to protect Agriculture in which high nitrates of 22.7mgl was in the wellwater that I could have remained open to serve pregnant women and children this cancer water to my customers but I chose to force Dep to close my business down after I signed back on non-community water supply to protect my customers and my family in which after fight them for over ten years I lost my health license and liquor license . I fight today because it is wrong to protect farmers that dont care about there neighbors or the environment in which the drinkers here are dead wqith cancer while our politicians coverup the crimes.

[Bob]

mcall misses again wrote:

no mention of the limeport inn??? best outdoor dining in the valley, not on a street or adjacent to shopping center parking lot(pistachio)..give us all a break mcall and actually write a good article

We were just there last Friday night and sat outside. They have really done a great job with their outdoor seating area, and you can get away with a very reasonable tab depending on what you get.

[Right Said Fred]

SmokersAreLosers wrote:

Sure...eat outside where the smokers sit!!
No Thanks!!

Please find something else to whine about already.

[Floyd]

Most people are scared to sit outside because of the bugs... "Ew ew! Icky icky bugs!" They have to be in a "hygienic" (i.e. sterile/boring) environment to be "comfortable."

[RonMania]

Sit outside among the flying annoyances, crawly things & hot weather! That I reserve for a picnic - not something I'm going to pay for. Eating outside has one advantage - it deafens the sound of womens chatter!

[Dennis Mac]

They should have included the Spring Valley Inn

http://www.thespringvalleyinn.com/

[JimThorper]

RonMania wrote:

Sit outside among the flying annoyances, crawly things & hot weather! That I reserve for a picnic - not something I'm going to pay for. Eating outside has one advantage - it deafens the sound of womens chatter!

Deafens the sound of women's chatter...I feel so sorry for you.

[want fries with that]

brew works in bethlehem ALWAYS has tables outside. who wants to sit by the intersection and have all the fumes from stopped cars choking you?

[Mihovolk]

I have been to all of the first 5 restaurants and must say that none of them comes even close to an outdoor eating experience in Europe. It is sad that sitting on a parking lot of a strip mall made the list.
What is even worse, some of the better places in the Lehigh Valley have been left out. e.g. Spring Garden Inn, Bellissimo Ristorante

[One Old Hungarian]

Limeport Inn is definately the place if you want to ENJOY eating outside. Who wants to eat outside in the city anyway. If you want to eat outside in the city go to NY and enjoy choaking on the fumes and drinking their clorinated water. Give me country atmosphere and well water anytime.

[Dennis Mac]

One Old Hungarian wrote:

Limeport Inn is definately the place if you want to ENJOY eating outside. Who wants to eat outside in the city anyway. If you want to eat outside in the city go to NY and enjoy choaking on the fumes and drinking their clorinated water. Give me country atmosphere and well water anytime.

FYI, NYC's municipal water consistently ranks very high among the best-tasting and cleanest public water supplies in the country. When Ed Koch was mayor, it took top honors nationwide.

I hope your well isn't too close to a farm, or those two Amish idiots with the outhouse.

[Michele of Bethlehem]

They should have included the spring valley in on this list. I always enjoyed sitting out with the trout stream in the country.