The Brewery crafts a rotating selection of different beer types and serves them through the restaurant’s tap system. The beers are only available on draft within the restaurant due to the size of the current operation. The small size of the brewery ensures that all beers served will be of…Read More
The Cooper family announces another major addition to the landmark restaurant. This time, we decided to build a 45-foot-tall lighthouse connected to the patio deck.
NEED DATE OPENED Inspired by the bars in the Florida Keys the Crab shack bar brings a laid-back beach flare to Scranton’s summers.
A replica great blue whale being delivered to Cooper’s on Oct. 13 1986. The Cooper’s thought of adding the whale to the eatery after seeing a similar replica at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. The Blue Whale is made from 40 blocks of laminated Styrofoam and several layers of…Read More
The Cooper Family, owners of Cooper’s Seafood House, announced something big was coming to North Washington Avenue. We worked with a team of 14 architects to bring a 110-foot-long replica ship to the Scranton restaurant, where the “ship’s hold” would offer room for a bar/lounge, dining room with seating for…Read More
John J. Cooper opened J.J Cooper’s Seafood House restaurant at 701 N. Washington Ave. on April 24, 1948, at the former Erie Railroad Passenger Station, which he bought as the country still was recovering from World War II and the town’s railroad industry had begun slowing down.
The Erie and Wyoming Valley Railroad Depot, built in 1887, originally stood where Cooper’s is located on North Washington Avenue in Scranton. This station still stands and is now the Grill bar and the Train Room.
