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 For a step away from the everyday Sasha's Hideaway may appeal to your untamed side. Sasha's has design reminiscent of lands far away from the Central Pennsylvania. The large A-frame design features a large stone fireplace, lots of bamboo, and a large bar with animal print accessories. Additionally, Sasha's has a large deck overlooking their country setting and a banquet room for your private parties. |
 The menu echoes their exotic atmosphere. Appetizers include selections such as Lobster Black Bean Spring Rolls (two hot crispy spring rolls filled with chunks of lobster, rice noodles, kimchee and black beans, served with chili dipping sauce and Asian cucumber slaw), Black Magic Olives (Asiago cheese and black olives, breaded and deep fried, and served with ranch dressing), and a PuPu Platter (one lobster black bean spring roll, two coconut shrimp, two panko scallop skewers, and fried plantains, served with sweet chili sauce and mango sauce). |
 Their entree menu continues with the exotic theme and is broken down into the categories of Primal Cuts, International Seas and Vegetarian.
Pictured here is a Grilled Duck Breast which is a marinated skin-on duck breast pan-seared and roasted in the oven to medium-rare temperature. It is then finished with blackberry-zinfandel sauce and sided with mashed sweet potatoes with crushed pineapple. |
 Sasha's Hideaway has plenty of choices for the less adventurous also. This image features their Chicken Saltimbocca which is a thinly pounded boneless chicken breast roulade stuffed with Italian fontina cheese, prosciutto, and sun dried tomatoes, lightly pan fried then baked and served with pan juices and chef's marinated grilled vegetables. |
 If your tastes are for the more extravagant Sasha's has you covered. What could be more decadent than a Filet Mignon with Lobster Tail? This 8 oz., tender, grass-fed Herford beef cut is grilled to your liking and draped in wild mushroom demi glace then paired with a 7 oz. broiled Canadian Lobster tail with drawn butter and sided with Yukon Gold mashed potatoes.
Vegetarians will delight that the menu has a section set aside specifically for their enjoyment, but the dishes are aimed to please vegetarians and non-vegetarians alike. The selection includes dishes such as Black Bean Lasagna, Butternut Squash Ravioli, and Vegetable Strudel. |
 Desserts at Sasha's are all homemade by Sasha herself and worth a perusal. Pictured here is a white chocolate cake w/ raspberry filling and butter cream garnished with a white chocolate butterfly.
Sasha's is open for dinner Tuesdays through Saturdays 5:00 PM to 10:00 PM. |
 Sasha's Hideaway
6791 Linglestown Road (Rt 39)
Harrisburg, PA 17112
717-651-9493
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 If you aren't from the Linglestown area, you may wonder as you drive through town why so many of the businesses use St. Thomas in their name. St. Thomas Roasters is one such business, and it took owner Geof Smith to shine a light on the mystery for me, but more on that later. St. Thomas Roasters is a quaint little coffee house that takes coffee to the next level by roasting their own beans.
Here freshly roasted beans are stirred to help quickly cool them off. |
 In this picture Geof releases freshly roasted beans from the roaster into the cooling hopper.
Roasting coffee beans is a bit of an art. Geof uses multiple indicators to help him reach the perfect roast for each batch. Time, temperature, visual color, smell, sound (of the popping beans) can all help determine when the beans are done roasting and the same beans can be roasted different amounts for a different finished product. |
 After roasting Geof mixes beans with flavoring agents to create the specialty coffees that they also have available.
St. Thomas Roasters sells their roasted beans both retail and wholesale and their coffee can be found in several local coffee houses and restaurants. |
 In addition to their freshly roasted coffee, St. Thomas Roasters has a selection of food items for breakfast or lunch.
Breakfast items include a selection of Croissants with egg, various pastries like the Danish pictured here, muffins (pictured below) and more. |
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 Lunch includes a selection of Paninis named after levels of coffee aficionado. Choices include The Grammy, The Master Roaster, The Barista or The Apprentice (pictured here) which is ham, Swiss, baby spinach, and dill mayonnaise served with chips.
Other choices include Tuna or Chicken Salad on Croissant, Soup of the Day, and Quiche. |
 There is also a selection of pastries available at lunch. Here their Pretzel Pastry is pictured with a Latte and some freshly roasted coffee beans.
Oh... and I almost forgot the Linglestown story. The town founder Thomas Lingle named the town after his first name, thus St. Thomas. People however always referred to it as Lingle's Town, and later after his death the name of the town was officially changed to Linglestown. |
 St. Thomas Roasters
5951 Linglestown Road
Harrisburg, PA 17112
717-526-4171
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