READING, Pa.- The GoggleWorks Center for the Arts has always had plenty to see. Now there’s plenty for your taste buds to experience as well.<\/p>\n
“Ultimately, we felt that if we wanted to have the right qualities and the right personality and food, we had to do it ourselves,” said Sandy Solman, CEO & Founder of Sweet Street and the chair of the board for GoggleWorks.<\/p>\n
Every detail, every menu item at GoggleWorks’ new Thorn Alley Kitchen was crafted intentionally to create an entire experience.<\/p>\n
“I had a concept for the menu that was based on a very hot restaurant in New York,” Solman said.<\/p>\n
“If you really wanted to go above and beyond. There’s a caviar chicken nugget,” said GoggleWorks executive director, Levi Landis. “It’s our royal nugget, so if you really want to treat yourself. [There’s also] Prosecco on tap but there’s smash burgers and pizzas and all kinds of things that almost anybody can enjoy.”<\/p>\n
Ingredients are fresh and sourced locally whenever possible; some are even grown on campus.<\/p>\n
“There’s so many things that we’re trying to do to create a haven for people who think about what they put into their bodies but want to have fun, want delicious food,” explained Solman.<\/p>\n
“We really wanted to try to incorporate local farmers and that ethos of organic farm to table fresh food but still comfortable and accessible,” added Landis.<\/p>\n
The decor of the restaurant incorporates handcrafted works from various artists including the hand hammered copper tabletops and pillows sewn in their textile studio.<\/p>\n
“We have 16 different learning environments here,” said Landis. “Studios like hot glass, photography, woodworking [and] we wanted to treat the kitchen the same way.”<\/p>\n
It will be open daily with varying hours and have a cafe menu as well as lunch and dinner with a special drink menu.<\/p>\n
“This is about discovery,” said Solman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa.- The GoggleWorks Center for the Arts has always had plenty to see. Now there’s plenty for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[12260,32844,1515,49204,5682,28,128,130,129,73522,73523],"class_list":["post-162789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-delicious-food","tag-farm-to-table","tag-food","tag-goggleworks-center-for-the-arts","tag-menu","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-sandy-solman","tag-thorn-alley-kitchen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}