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A food lover's guide to the York Fair


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With the York Fair fast approaching on Sept. 9., foodies across the county are preparing to take in the variety smells and tastes the fair can bring.

The York Fair has a bit of something for everyone with 90 vendors serving the classic fair items like funnel cake and french fries, or more outlandish options like fried oreos and deep-fried alligator.

Here's a list of vendors and what they serve so you can properly plan how to eat your way through the fair:

Entrees

Athens Grill

  • Gyros, Greek salads, spinach pies, pork doner, chicken

William E./Melanie M. Berndt

  • Fried vegetables, funnel cakes and fried cheese

Bob & Min’s on Cattle Drive

  • Breakfast entrees, soups, sandwiches and beverages

Bricker’s Fries (6 stands)

  • Several stands throughout the fair serving a variety of food including French fries, chicken strips, corn on the cob, gourmet hot dogs, burgers, gyros and drinks

Captain Crab

  • Seafood, soft shell crab, steam and fried shrimp, crab cakes, crab soup and fish sandwiches

Chester’s Gators and Taters

  • Deep fried gator nuggets, bacon dogzilla corn dogs, ribbon fries, gator mac and cheese bowls, barbecue gator sliders and kabobs including gator, shark, chicken and shrimp

Chick n Cone

  • Tempura battered popcorn chicken tossed in signature sauces and served in a waffle cone

Danny’s Fine Foods (3 stands)

  • Stand 1: Root beer, root beer floats, soda floats
  • Stand 2: Sausage, cheesesteaks, chicken cheesesteaks, hot dogs, corn dogs, hamburgers, cheeseburgers, perogies, chicken tenders, french fries and drinks
  • Stand 3: Funnel cakes, fried orioes, fried peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, chicken tenders, corn dogs, french fries and drinks

D.D.A. Foods

  • London Broil steak sandwiches, chicken wraps, BLT’s, sausage wraps and salads

DeChellis Concessions

  • Six varieties of Stromboli rolls

Don’s Sausage

  • Sausage sandwiches, corn dogs, funnel cakes, steaks, ice cream, smoothies, fried vegetables

The Eatery

  • Corn dogs, french fries, cheese sticks, chicken wings and lemonade

Finger Lickin’ Eats-n-Sweets

  • Walking tacos, three specialty grilled cheese sandwiches, mac and cheese bites, onion petals, mini donuts and drinks

Five Happy Lemons

  • Homemade gyros, chicken and pork souvlakis

Grandstand pizza

  • Pizza, hot dogs, pretzels, nachos and drinks

Hammi’s BBQ

  • The Bacon Bomb: Bacon weaved and topped with crumbled bacon, cheese, sauce and sausage served on a roll. They also serve cole slaw, beans, BBQ loaded potatoes pulled pork nachos and drinks

LPC Catering and Concessions

  • Roast beef sandwiches, pulled pork and pit beef BBQ, cheesesteaks, burgers, nachos, walking tacos, soups, roast beef sundaes, monkey bread, deep fried strombolis, mac and cheese balls, butterfly fries, mozzarella sticks and chicken tenders

Island Chicken

  • Island chicken wraps and beverages

Mindi & Tom Koehler

  • Soups, sandwiches and beverages

Mary’s Steaks

  • Sechrist hot dogs, sechrist sausages, Italian steaks, hamburgers and drinks

Merica’s Smokehouse

  • “York County’s finest chicken BBQ”

Mi Adobo

  • Cuban subs, tripleta subs, combination subs, el entregao subs, pina coladas and drinks

Moley Pizza

  • Pizza, cheesesteak subs and beverages

Mr. Bill’s

  • Seafood, sandwiches and soups

New Covenant Community Church

  • Fried fish sandwiches, chicken wing dings and french fries

Olde Original Philly Hoagies

  • Cold subs and beverages

Papa John’s Pizza

  • Pizza by the slice and drinks

Pepe’s BBQ

  • Shish-Kabobs, chili dogs, polish sausage, chili, grilled chicken salad and drinks

Pork Avenue at the York Fair

  • Pulled pork and beef sandwiches, ½ chicken meals and drinks

Rock It Pizza

  • Onion rings, blooming onions, crab dip with pretzels, whimpies and drinks

Rose’s Concession

  • Sausage, cheesesteaks, chicken cheesesteaks, hot dogs, corn dogs, hamburgers, cheeseburgers, perogies, french fries and drinks

Royal Siam catering

  • Chicken fried rice, lo-mein, Thai food and beverages

Rt. 30 West Seafood

  • Crab cakes, oysters, haddock, shrimp, clam strips, crab balls, cream of crab soup, mozzarella sticks and corn fritters

Sensenig Meats and Catering

  • Smoked turkey legs, pit turkey, pit beef, pork barbecue, french fries, hot dogs, barbecue ribs, pit ham, loaded BBQ potatoes, chicken sausage kabobs and drinks

Stoltzfus Catering

  • Ham and cheese sandwiches, Pennsylvania Dutch food entrees, salads and desserts and beverages

Taqueria El Pariente

  • Tacos, tortas, burritos

Tom’s Vegetable

  • Fried vegetables, kettle corn and sugar coated nuts

Tubby Tommy

  • Baked potatoes and beverages

Wilson Enterprises (2 stands)

  • Stand 1: Pizza, calzones, cheesesteaks, sausages and sodas
  • Stand 2: Funnel cakes, fried dough, fried cookies and lemonade

Wok Runner

  • Fast wok cooking: Pick one meat, three vegetables and one sauce

York Jaycees

  • Baked potatoes, nachos, and drinks

York Little Theatre

  • Steaks and beverages

York Paid Firefighters Association

  • Steaks, hamburgers, hot dogs and drinks.

Desserts

Becky’s Fudge

  • Homemade fudge

The Broken Cookie

  • Assorted flavors of cupcakes and cookies, cookie dough dip, whoopee pies, brownies, lemon bars, icing shots and cookie sandwiches

Emanuel’s Italian Ice

  • Italian Ice, pizza and drinks

Fliehman Concessions

  • Ice cream, milk shakes, floats, sundaes and flurries

Fudge-O-Lutely

  • Pre-packaged, homemade fudge

The Gobblin’ Gourmet

  • A mixture of funnel cake flavors including pineapple upside down, red velvet, chocolate brownie, french vanilla and pumpkin spice. Roadhouse steak sandwiches, pineapple lemonade and the BBQ Sundae

Guthrie Gals

  • Hot apple dumplings and pre-packaged gourmet popcorn

Kohr’s Orangeade (2 stands)

  • Orangeade and frozen custard

Mister Ed’s

  • Snowballs, sandwiches, caramel apple wedges, peanuts, popcorn, fudge and drinks

Mr. Sticky’s

  • Cinnamon buns, frappes and coffee

New York City’s finest dessert

  • Cheesecakes, pastries, Italian ice, gelato, deep fried sweets and drinks

Old West Cinnamon Rolls

  • Cinnamon rolls and beverages

Rita’s Water Ice

  • Water ice and custard

Rutters Dairy

  • Ice cream, milkshakes and sundaes

Santillo’s Concessions (6 stands)

  • Stand 1: Fried dough, funnel cake, deep fried candy bars, funnel cake fries, deep fried twinkies, blooming onions, deep fried oreos and drinks
  • Stand 2: Fresh squeezed lemonade and cold drinks
  • Stand 3: Cherry, strawberry, orange and grape floats, milkshakes, chocolate covered strawberries and bananas
  • Stand 4: Soda and root beer in refillable cups
  • Stand 5: Italian and polish sausages, hamburgers, hot dogs, corn dogs, philly cheese steaks, meatball subs, mozzarella sticks and drinks
  • Stand 6: Cheesesteaks, hamburgers, corn dogs, mozzarella sticks, French fries, chicken fingers and drinks

Savory’s Pumpkin Funnel Cake

  • Pumpkin flavored funnel cakes, plain funnel cakes with toppings and drinks

Shoo-Fly Place

  • Shoo-Fly pies, fudge, cheese, candy, beef jerky and drinks

Shorty’s

  • Funnel cakes, fried oreos and lemonade

Three L Concessions (2 stands)

  • Stand 1: Lemonade
  • Stand 2: Waffles and ice cream

Snacks

The Almond Tree Nut Company

  • Roasted almonds, pecans, peanuts and cashews in a variety of flavors

Tory D. Burkey

  • Cotton Candy

Corn Cribb

  • Kettle Corn, shaved ice and drinks

Dale’s Concessions

  • Cotton Candy, snow cones, candy apples, caramel apples, popcorn, caramel popcorn and drinks.

Dutch Country Soft Pretzels

  • Hand rolled, fresh baked soft pretzels

Uncle Paul’s Stuffed Pretzels

  • Stuffed Pretzels and drinks

Validity Marketing

  • Amish donuts served by cast members of “Breaking Amish”

Wolfgang Candy Company

  • Candy

Drinks

Armstrong Concessions

  • Fruit flavored smoothies, lemonade, chocolate dipped treats

Schenck’s Amusements

  • Drinks

Schnaeder’s Concessions

  • Milkshakes, funnel cakes and beverages

Wild Windy’s Homemade Root Beer

  • Homemade root beer, root beer slushies and floats

Anthony J. Machcinski is the Food and Drink reporter for FlipSidePA and the York Daily Record. Follow him on Facebook and Twitter, or email him at amachcinski@ydr.com.