The Find It Friday series features our top five favorite finds of the week, ranging from dining & food news and people doing cool things to events and new businesses in and around the Lehigh Valley. Essentially, if it’s cool and we found it, we’re telling you about it.
This week, our Find It Friday series features a private museum dining experience, a seasonal ice cream sandwich, a holiday harvest experience, a music showroom and cozy fire tables.
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1. Private Museum Dining Experience at The Sun Inn
History buffs and foodies alike, you’re going to love this experiential dining opportunity in Historic Bethlehem. The Sun Inn is giving guests a night to step back in time and dine in their own private museum room. To begin your experience, a docent guide will take you through a 15- to 20-minute introduction on the history of the Inn from the 1750s to its modern revival. Following this brief history lesson, you’ll get a three-course prix fixe dinner from Chef Billy Grunewald of the Tavern at the Sun Inn. While the whole concept is such a unique way to experience history, we think the most exciting part may be picking your museum room in which to dine. You can choose from The Guest Parlor that seats four, The Colonial Kitchen that seats six or the Martha Washington Suite that seats eight where you’ll dine in a traditional colonial atmosphere filled with artifacts from a traditional Moravian homestead. Reservations will be extremely limited with only six seating times on Wednesday and Thursday nights throughout the month of December, so make your reservations now as this is truly a one-of-a-kind experience!
The Colonial Kitchen courtesy of The Sun Inn
2. Apple Cider Doughnut Ice Cream Sandwich
We’re not ready to say goodbye to apple cider doughnuts just yet, and Owowcow is fueling our dessert fire with this too-good-to-be-true combination. They’ve taken two apple cider doughnuts from Solebury Orchards in New Hope and put their classic House Vanilla smack in the middle to give you an ice cream doughnut sandwich. Who needs real sandwiches?! And in case you didn’t know, Owowcow prides themselves on hand-crafting their ice cream from scratch daily, using only the finest local ingredients that support local agriculture (so you know you’re not only getting the most delicious products, but they’re also supporting our local farmers—talk about feel-good!)
3. Holiday Harvest Experience
Known as the Valley’s Best Pumpkin Patch, Grim’s Orchard and Family Farms is debuting an entirely new experience this holiday season. Every weekend from November 7 to December 20, they will be offering a whole variety of seasonal fun. You can enjoy fire pits with smores kits, hard cider, mulled cider and wine, apple cannons and paintball, fresh cut fries, pick-your-own veggies, lawn games, holiday shopping and more. They also offer $7.95 packages if you’d like to bundle a variety of activities for your day on the farm experience. Open 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays, you’re welcome to stop by the farm and enjoy the grounds and scenery, you only have to pay for the activities you want to enjoy. Basically, their farm is your playground, so grab some friends or the kiddos and spend a sunny winter weekend on the farm.
4. Music Showroom
You can just feel the artistic vibe flowing out from behind the doors of this modern space created by The Sound Parcel. What began as an online resource for new, boutique and rare music gear in late 2015, offering at home trials for customers to demo pedals, synths, controllers and the like, has now opened a concept store in Easton’s Silk Mill. The Sound Parcel still has a massive online inventory in which you can rent or buy, but this new concept location ties their whole mission together of serving as a discovery platform for professional musicians, recording engineers and gear enthusiasts. Set up as a gear gallery of sorts, they stock a highly curated selection of guitars, amps, effects and accessories in a relaxed but creative setting, and to tie in the local community, they host events, seminars and workshops. Currently operating by appointment only in-store, the soundparcel.co is always available for the discerning musician’s gear needs.
5. Coffeehouse Fire Tables
As if the Secret Garden atmosphere of Three Birds Coffee house wasn’t cozy enough, they went ahead and added fire pit tables to their outdoor garden space for the winter season. Due to COVID-19, they have temporarily suspended indoor dining, but these fire pit tables and outdoor seating are first-come, first-served and are available during their hours of operation on Saturdays and Sundays. Known for their specialty pour over and drip coffees, Three Birds also has a variety of herbal and special teas as well as 32-ounce and 64-ounce iced coffee growler to-go options.
