Oct. 9, 2025

Breaking Burrito broke ground Wednesday for its brick-and-mortar location in Harrisburg. The site is north of the building that was going to be Starbucks until the coffee chain changed its mind last month as it also closed other locations. Owner Carlos Salgado, who started Breaking Burrito as a food truck in 2016, expects to open next spring.

A fall pie doughnut collection is available at Yonutz for a limited time. Flavors include cherry, chocolate cream, pumpkin and caramel pecan.

Check out the featured menu for October at the Phillips Avenue Diner. That’s the Devil’s Advocate Burger at the top of the page.

M.B. Haskett Delicatessen has a new dinner menu.

Big Sioux Burger’s burger of the month for October has a spicy tie to Halloween. The Ghost Burger is two smash patties topped with bacon onion jam, ghost pepper cheese, spicy chipotle aioli and fresh jalapenos.

The burger of the month at Crooked Pint Ale House is Oh Mama. The patty is topped with white American cheese, bacon, caramelized onions, haystack onions and roasted garlic aioli. It comes with a choice of side for $12.

Check out October’s featured burger at The Alibi Bar & Grill and the featured pizza next door at The Scapegoat.

Lucky’s on Louise is saying goodbye to summer with a Pig Roast Luau Party from 2 to 6 p.m. Saturday. Get an all-you-can-eat buffet for $25. A Homestead Brew is taking over the taps and will be offering samples.

The traveling food truck Lobster Dogs is making another appearance at Glacial Lakes Distillery & Brewhouse this weekend. The truck that makes lobster rolls and lobster dogs was here two weeks ago and noted that this might be the final time of the season. Find it parked along 10th near Dakota while the tasting room is open from 2 p.m. Saturday until the food is gone on Sunday.

Severance Brewing Co. is hosting Almost Home Canine Rescue from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday. The brewery will donate $1 of every pint sold during the event to the organization. Round up your tab this month and that amount also goes to Almost Home. Try a recently tapped variation from the Coffee Shop Playlist: Track 5, a blonde ale with Mexican coffee that was roasted by The Breaks Coffee Roasting Co.

Taste craft beers from around the world at the annual Beervana on Sunday at Monks Ale House. The ticketed event — $50 for regular access or $75 for VIP — features more than 50 brews on tap, breweries pouring their signature creations and a special food menu. VIP ticketholders get one-hour early access, beginning at noon. The event runs through 4 p.m. Get tickets here.

Puptoberfest is from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday at WoodGrain Brewing Co.’s east-side location. Bring your dog for a photo with Kelcey Schroder Photography, compete in Best Trick and Best Dressed contests, enjoy the brewery’s Oktoberfest beer, eat German-style food and shop local vendors.

There’s still time to enter a Halloween cupcake design in the annual Oh My Cupcakes contest. The winning design or designs – last year there were two — will be showcased in the bakery cases for Halloween, and the winner will get a dozen cupcakes with their design. All ages are welcome. Entries are due Oct. 15. Find all the entry info here.

Kids can compete in a Halloween cookie design contest at Eileen’s Colossal Cookies. Two winners in each of the three age groups will get a free 14-inch cookie decorated like their design. Entries are due Oct. 15. Click here for entry info.

Here are the featured flavors for baked goods this month at Breadsmith.

Featured flavors for October at Stensland Family Farms are the Pumpkin Cheesecake Shake and Salty Cow Tracks Sundae. The shake features pumpkin cheesecake ice cream, swirls of caramel, cheesecake chunks and whipped cream. For the sundae, Salty Cow Tracks ice cream is topped with cookie dough chunks, caramel, fudge and whipped cream.

Crisp & Green has several new items on its fall and winter menu. The Verde Chicken Grain Bowl is a Peruvian-inspired dish featuring quinoa, spinach, roasted chicken, roasted corn and poblano, avocado, roasted tomatoes, napa cabbage and pickled onion, tossed in a jalapeno lime vinaigrette and drizzled with Aji Verde, a spicy green sauce. The Ranch Club Wrap, fills a low-net-carb tortilla filled with romaine, roasted chicken, bacon, avocado, roasted tomatoes, white cheddar and creamy ranch dressing. Returning favorites are the #SquashGoals Salad, Wild Child Grain Bowl and the Apple Cider Agua Fresca.

IHOP has a new Ultimate BreakFEAST menu for a limited time with three loaded options.

Ruby Tuesday’s new fall menu features “bold flavor and comfort food reimagined.” Among the offerings are buttermilk chicken tenders with mini-waffles and cheeseburger sliders on mini-waffles instead of buns. New seafood offerings include shrimp scampi and Cajun-seasoned scallops. Hot honey cider wings – traditional or boneless — are tossed in a sauce that’s made with Angry Orchards Hard Cider. Any pumpkin cheesecake is back while supplies last.

While endless shrimp is likely a thing of the past at Red Lobster, the restaurant chain is offering the Ultimate SpendLESS Shrimp for $16. Get three shrimp flavors on your plate with no refills.

Wear your favorite football team jersey to Cracker Barrel this month and get a free side of pancakes with any entree. If you don’t have a jersey, you can bring in a ticket stub from an October game. Dine-in only.

The featured drinks for October at The Breaks Coffee Roasting Co. have arrived. Bumpkin Spice is a combination of pumpkin puree, marshmallow fluff, ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, espresso, steamed milk and chai whipped cream. Carmy is apple cider featuring a salted caramel sauce that’s made from scratch.

Check out the fall drink menu at Central Dakota Perk in Harrisburg.

Also in Harrisburg, Lava’s Coffee has featured drinks for October.

Big Sioux Burger and Dahlia Kitchen + Bar are celebrating their one-year anniversaries at The Steel District by offering all-day happy hour on Wednesday, Oct. 15.

New cocktails for fall at Glacial Lakes Distillery & Brewhouse are Jack-O-Lantern Mule, Candied Hazelnut Espresso Martini, Banana Fall-Lada, Rosemary’s Baby and Cinnamon Apple Old-Fashioned.

Twenty percent of all sales Saturday and Sunday at Jersey Mike’s Sub will go to Best Buddies. The organization works to create a more inclusive world for those with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

This month, Coffea Roasterie is featuring the Cherry Pie Latte to raise money for the Avera Breast Cancer Foundation. The drink is crafted with a housemade syrup of tart cherries, brown sugar, butter essence and spice. It’s served hot or iced. Fifty percent of proceeds will be donated directly to the foundation.

At Blarney Stone Pub, order a Pink Coors Light in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. A portion of every drink sold goes to support breast cancer research.

Scooter’s Coffee has turned its Make-A-Wish fundraiser cookie into a cookie sandwich. Twenty percent of all sales of the Courage Cookie through October go to the organization.

Changes in hours, service

• Chick-fil-A at Empire Place has added delivery using its own staff. Order online or through the app.
• The final day of the season for the B&G Milkyway in Harrisburg in Sunday.
• The final day for the produce stand at Cherry Rock Farms will be Sunday. Hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Pumpkin patch weekends will continue for the “next several weeks,” the owners said.

Here are other food and drink headlines from the past week.

Brunch is back: Restaurants embrace early dining with elevated takes on menus

Marketing firm hosts pop-up coffee shop to celebrate anniversary