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TomR
Citizen
Username: Tomr
Post Number: 802
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Friday, November 18, 2005 - 12:26 am: |     |
We're heading down to the area in a few weeks and were looking for recommendations for a white linen restaurant.
We usually hit the Sergeantsville Inn for our gastronomical high point of the trip, but are always ready to try someplace new.
Anyplace within a fifteen, or so, mile radius of Stockton is reasonable.
Thanks for any suggestions.
TomR |
Mrs T
Citizen
Username: Netjack
Post Number: 316
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Friday, November 18, 2005 - 8:35 am: | |
Absolutely go the Swan Hotel in Lambertville, one of my favorite restauraunts ever. They have a cool bar with food as well as a dining room.
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TomD
Citizen
Username: Tomd
Post Number: 333
Registered: 5-2005
| | Posted on Friday, November 18, 2005 - 10:09 am: | |
It's on the PA side, New Hope, I guess, but very close. We loved the Inn at Phillips Mill when we last went there. Small, revolutionary war era place with a few rooms and a great restaurant. Romantic, big fireplace, great food. |
User58
Citizen
Username: User58
Post Number: 363
Registered: 8-2004
| | Posted on Friday, November 18, 2005 - 10:27 am: | |
hamilton grill lambertville hard to get a reservation call early normally starts to take a reservation one month in advance |
TomR
Citizen
Username: Tomr
Post Number: 803
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, November 19, 2005 - 12:05 pm: | |
Thanks for the suggestions. I'll look into them.
Thanks again.
TomR |
sk8mom
Citizen
Username: Sk8mom
Post Number: 386
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Friday, December 2, 2005 - 9:38 pm: | |
I love the restaurant at, or behind, the Lambertville Inn. |
aquaman
Supporter
Username: Aquaman
Post Number: 593
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Friday, December 2, 2005 - 10:45 pm: | |
MrsT,
The Swan Hotel's Chef is local boy Chris Connors, who grew up on the literal border of Orange/South Orange. The front door is in Orange, thus the Orange address, but his room was in South Orange.
Went to Our Lady of Sorrows. Tell him you're from M/SO.
Chris Connors |
Mrs T
Citizen
Username: Netjack
Post Number: 331
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, December 3, 2005 - 8:42 am: | |
We're actually moving back to Bucks Co. for a few months, we have a cottage, while we find a house in Tampa. The house closes next week, so we should be able to get there for dinner, we never go near New Hope during the tourist season. One of the absoulte best meals I've ever had was at the Swan, maybe 10 years ago...lobster with garlic mashed potatoes with a sauce to die for. Yummmmm... |
steel
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Username: Steel
Post Number: 888
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, December 3, 2005 - 11:08 am: | |
Myself and my girlfriend, (of the time) were actually kicked out of the Swan thirty years ago. Apparently you CAN'T wear overalls in there, -who knew? -although the guy wouldn't just tell me that up front, -he oddly let us spend some money at the bar while he seated other people. It got a little ugly and I finally told him to send me a postcard when he got a table. (I'm still waiting for that BTW). It worked out well in the end since my girlfriend thought it was cool that I made a scene. (Ah, those were the days).
-Anyway, I have heard good things though. -and it LOOKED nice.
PS: There is also the "Hotel du Village" just north of New Hope which has a very nice romantic restaurant apart from the small hotel. I was not kicked out of there, (although I was much older and dressed nice). |
Mrs T
Citizen
Username: Netjack
Post Number: 332
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, December 3, 2005 - 1:19 pm: | |
I love the bar at the Swan, very cool and you can get really good bar food there. In the summer they have seating in the courtyard. But the bar is really cozy in the winter, nice big chairs to sit in, it's a really nice place to sit, have a dring and talk. I'm having a vage memory of a guitar player one evening. |
tulip
Citizen
Username: Braveheart
Post Number: 2861
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, December 3, 2005 - 1:56 pm: | |
Try the Golden Pheasant in PA near Erwinna. Great French food. The chef is from St. Malo.
At Christmas, they open the glassed-in patio, and with lights and folksy decorations, they are not "white linen" but certainly lots of fun, food and hearth. Blackened Bass is OK, too, but food is better at Golden Pheasant. |
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