{"id":308309,"date":"2026-10-16T23:28:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T23:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/308309\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T23:28:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T23:28:06","slug":"bar-none-brings-new-dining-experience-to-marywood-university-and-the-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/308309\/","title":{"rendered":"Bar None brings new dining experience to Marywood University and the community"},"content":{"rendered":"

DUNMORE, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Marywood University<\/a> is bringing students and the surrounding community together with a new dining and gathering spot on campus.<\/p>\n

Bar None officially opened Wednesday, offering a unique mix of gourmet food, drinks, and a welcoming atmosphere designed to connect the university with the greater Scranton community.<\/p>\n

With an outdoor patio, indoor seating, and a full bar, the new space offers everything from specialty pizzas and burgers to sandwiches, soups, salads, and signature dishes.<\/p>\n

Vice President of Operations at Marywood, Wendy Yankelitis, said the idea behind Bar None came from a shared vision between Marywood President Lisa Lori and the university\u2019s students.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur president, Lisa Lori, had a vision of something new and exciting that could tie Marywood not just to Marywood community, but to the greater Scranton area. So, she came up with this pub restaurant idea. So that really was the initial concept. Ironically, our architecture students had a project a year or so prior saying it would be great to have a pub on campus. So, we took Lisa’s vision, worked with the School of Architecture students, and created a wonderful pub,\u201d said Yankelitis.<\/p>\n

Pub Manager and Director of Dining at Marywood Robert Misko and Yankelitis said what makes Bar None unique is that it\u2019s open to the public, bringing the surrounding community together with Marywood students and faculty in one welcoming space.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo one actually has presented this to a university that has a full bar, full restaurant that’s open to the public. So, what our dream is, is to bring something a little different to the community, but then to invite the community on to an amazing campus and an amazing school,\u201d said Misko.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is with Marywood that we want to bring as much people onto our campus to see what we have to offer. So, we’ve created really a unique experience, even within our own company, that no one has anything like this. By doing this, we could kind of join the university with our community and gourmet dining with the university. And then we created something really, really special amongst the area,\u201d said Misko.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt just allows students a place to come and actually meet and have a wonderful conversation. It’s also a pub, so it’s great to have that adult environment, and it allows the community to get to really know Marywood and their students. So, I think that’s what makes the space different,\u201d said Yankelitis.<\/p>\n

Misko said Bar None puts a fun twist on traditional pub food, giving us a taste of what\u2019s on the menu.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s kind of food that you don’t normally see. We have some unique things like instead of the usual mozzarella stick ours is about I don’t know about 9 or 10in. And it’s real thick. So, it’s a giant one. We do a pasta sandwich where we fill a loaf of bread with mozzarella sticks, and then we fill it with pasta, cover it with sauce, two meatballs. We have a turkey club that is probably the size of a half a sheet tray. So, there’s really unique items that are on the menu that maybe are a twist on what we’re used to at pub food,\u201d said Misko.<\/p>\n

Just days after opening Wednesday, Bar None said it\u2019s already welcoming visitors and receiving positive feedback.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo far, the people have been really, really responsive. We give huge portions. So, there’s so happy that they have lunch the next day. And it seems like they really have been taken to the menu above anything else,\u201d said Misko.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were very pleasantly surprised on our opening day. So yes, we do expect to see the community. We’re actually getting phone calls for them to check our hours. So, I do think you’re going to see the community come, which is great,\u201d said Yankelitis.<\/p>\n

Bar None is cashless and accepts Dining Dollars through Marywood\u2019s meal plans. Students 21 and older can also use Pacer Points, a separate spending plan, to purchase alcoholic beverages.<\/p>\n

Bar None is open Monday, Thursday, and Friday, with its full menu available from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. and bar service from 4:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. On Saturdays and Sundays, the full menu is available from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., with bar service from 11 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. Bar None is closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DUNMORE, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Marywood University is bringing students and the surrounding community together with a new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-308309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308309","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=308309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}