Fork and Bottle at the Desmond Hotel

The staff was more than accommodating - wonderful food will def be back!!!

Had Valentine's dinner there. Very good menu and the food did not disappoint. Everything was prepared perfectly and looked very good. Excellent value. Very good service.

I can't say enough great things about the Fork and Bottle. From the hostess and waitstaff always make you feel special and welcome. The manager always checks in to see that all your needs are being met. I highly recommend for business lunches .

The restaurant is quiet most of the time and the food is quite good.

We celebrated my birthday. Had a 12:00 reservation - food at the stations was dried out. Took 20 minutes to get 1/2 a Belgium Waffle - it was cold and dry. Not worth the calories. The smoked salmon was perfect.

The food was mediocre at best. Many of the buffet items were the same as frozen food items I could have bought at the grocery store for less money. The service was fine.

This is a great place for a lunch get together. The salmon was moist and flavorful. Our waiter was excellent. We had 8 people in our party and it was hard to hear each other. The next time, I will request a round table or a small room if available.

We went for Sunday brunch. It was delicious and a great atmosphere. Had to wait a bit for more water, and unsure if they had a brunch cocktail menu- but it was very good overall.

We thoroughly enjoyed our birthday celebration lunch at The Fork and Bottle. The restaurant re-model is gorgeous! The staff was very friendly and helpful. We were not at all rushed and our food was delicious!

The staff was very courteous & accommodating. The updated dinning room is very refreshing & serene.
The menu was varied & Prie Fixe had very good choices & combinations.
Overall a very enjoyable & delicious leisurely dinner

Was nice. The waitress serving table next to us had a small hole in the back of her pants and smelled like cigarette mixed with Kitty litter and needed to put a brush in her hair. I wanted to say something for the younger adults she was serving, but my husband told me not to speak up.

My husband and I dined on New Year's Eve for dinner. I started with the pear & beet salad which I had to send back because it was not what I expected. I ordered the salmon, which I thought was ok and the presentation could have been better. The salmon was partially black and placed on the side of the plates with a large amount of rice placed in the center of the plate with the toppings thrown around the rest of the plate. We have dined at the restaurant before and the food I thought was better. The only good thing was the flourless chocolate cake.

So good and everyone is friendly :) I am looking forward to our next time there)

Fine for brunch but definitely not my first choice. Bacon was soggy but omelet was perfect.

Loved the new decor. A much needed update looked great and comfortable atmosphere. We had lunch on this visit. The food was good and the service was outstanding.

We all enjoyed the excellent food. The miso salmon was so moist and tender, it melt in your mouth!!
Some were disappointed that there was no sweet potatoes fries, just regular fries.
Our waiter was very accommodating and friendly. Great place to eat!

It was a great time at the Christmas brunch today! We look forward to it every year! Good luck to all the gingerbread creators!

Celebrated a special person 100 birthday
Service was excellent

Food was very bland. Service was ok. Noisy without many people there. Disappointed with new menu and rebrand. Probably won't come back

The food was amazing (OMG the crab cakes... the root vegetables... the TURKEYYYY... ) The service was very nice and attentive, and we never had a glass go empty. Even the two disabled people with us were very well accomodated, with plenty of space for mobility equipment and ramps into every room. This may become a Thanksgiving tradition to eat at the Desmond, especially given the excellent value.

2nd year we have attended the the Thanksgiving Day Buffet. Food was very good and selection was plenty. My only criticism is they again had no sugar free dessert. My family member is a diabetic and there was nothing available.
More than 100 million U.S. adults are now living with diabetes or prediabetes, according to a new report released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The report finds that as of 2015, 30.3 million Americans – 9.4 percent of the U.S. population –have diabetes. Jul 18, 2017
Please consider adding to your menu sugar free options.

Thank You

Accommodating seating in bar area for Thanksgiving Brunch. Turkey and side dishes were tasty and plentiful. Beef was very rare not suitable for composition. Wait staff was excellent, pleasant, and professional.

We have had Thanksgiving dinner at The Desmond for two years in a row. The buffet is spectacular, including a delicious array of fresh meats, vegetarian dishes, local foods, soups, and desserts. We particularly like the "little" table, where kids can get their own mac and cheese, chicken nuggets, and curly fries.

The food was great and we were able to have a family brunch in a quiet, peaceful setting.

This was a great experience - the food was outstanding - Jackie our waitress was terrific and very attentive. We have every intention of coming again and inviting our family.

Have enjoyed brunch in the past. First time for dinner. Pleasantly surprised. Nice date night.

Very nice experience as we wound up our 25th Anniversary weekend with Brunch here on Sunday before heading home. We enjoyed it !

This restaurant has been totally redone recently and the result is very nice. Very nice ambiance, service was very good and the menu is varied with some unique choices and some old standbys. I was there for a business lunch and it was a nice setting for that type of a meeting. It's a little pricey for lunch, but in line with what you'd expect for a hotel restaurant. All in all, we were all very pleased with the experience.

Enjoyed the evening. Our waiter was very gracious, and friendly, and on the ball. The grouper was a little overcooked, but still fine, and the children loved their meals. I would have preferred brussels sprouts, not shredded, but whole, and the lamb was excellent. I think the starters could have had more choices.

We we're given a gift certificate for this Sunday Brunch, so we had nothing to lose.
Therefore, I was pleasantly surprised.
There's something for everyone at this classy brunch buffet in the Desmond Hotel's Fork and Bottle restaurant.
For the breakfast purist there are the traditional eggs made to order, thick French Toast, Belgian waffles, bacon, sausage, cream chipped beef, Danish and doughnuts.
If you haven't had enough sugar, the dessert buffet is decadent with chocolate- covered strawberries and other delicacies.
And for those smartly watching their "bad" carbs, there are vegetable crudites, a beautiful salad bar, fresh- cut fruit, omelets with egg substitutes (egg whites etc), a carving station, V8 and tomato juice.
The dining room is beautifully appointed and the service friendly and attentive.
We'll be back.

I do a training session every year in the area and stay at The Desmond - where the restaurant is located. So, for 4 days, I eat 3 meals/day at the Fork and Bottle. The food and service is always exceptional. The staff greets everyone warmly. Highly recommend the duck entree for dinner.

Food wasn’t amazing. I wouldn’t recommend the chicken with noodles. Tasteless noodles, weird combination. Chicken was good tho. My mom had the special which was flounder stuffed with lobster and she loved it. My husband liked the filet mignon. The place is nice, quiet. Good for dates or a group.

Overall good experience. The Chef seems to be trying a bit too hard to be innovative. I had the rice pasta as part of my meal and it was both tasteless and impossible to eat with one hand. Recommend avoiding this.

Always fantastic service and food!

My complaint is simple and to some may seem trivial. Its about water. I drink a lot of water at dinner and so if I have to request a refill every single time it is awkward. No matter how discreet I try to be it is always disruptive to the conversation. The gentlemen at the table try to intercede for me. They start looking around the room for service. They stop eating, talking. All over a simple glass of water. This happened twice during our visit. I didn't dare go for a third round. At the Kimberton Inn I never have to signal or ask. My glass is never less than 2/3 full. I can relax and enjoy my friends and food.
Regarding food - I had the octopus appetizer which was excellent. The swordfish was good but very small.

The Fork & Bottle Restaurant of the Desmond is an elegant venue. The tables are far enough apart to provide privacy of conversation. The atmosphere is quiet. The décor is formal with subdued tones of grayish blue and orange offset by the complimenting blue-gray napkins. The chandeliers and artwork add to the touch of class. Instead of waiters and waitresses, you expect a butler to attend to you. The comfortable chairs are the old-fashioned type I associate with my grandparents’ and aunts’ formal dining rooms when I was a child. See the picture on their website. The entire room experience makes you sit back and relax, knowing something good is coming. We ordered our wine and bread was served with a trio of gourmet cheese spreads. My wife ordered the Seared Albacore Tuna appetizer, served with guava-cranberry sauce. I chose the Summer Lettuce Salad with strawberry balsamic vinaigrette, almond, strawberry and buttermilk blue cheese. Both were delicious. For entrees, my wife ordered the Miso Glazed Grouper. I opted for the Moulard Duck Breast. You can check the preparations on the menu. They are too long to enter here. Both entrees were outstanding! My wife had to take half of hers home. The duck breast was perfectly cooked (I asked for medium). It was tasty, served hot and visually appealing. It was a meal to savor! Although tempting, we skipped dessert and ended with coffee. The Fork & Bottle is one of the few truly “fine dining” offerings in the area.

Been to Fork and bottle several times. Every time the food is amazing. Our waitress Karen was over the top! She was cheery and gave us good recommendations. We will of course be going back again soon.

Went for lunch this past Friday. I was looking forward to trying the Peach and Arugula salad. Unfortunately the salad was very disappointing. It was really just argula with a few tiny slivers of extremely thin sliced peaches, of which did not have any flavor. The dressing did not have any wasabi flavoring and there were gobs of it through out the salad. I have always enjoyed my meals at the Desmond but was very disappointed in this one.

We met our granddaughter there, as she was staying at the Desmond Hotel for an interview the next day. We had a lovely meal with great service. The steak dinner was delicious.

Despite the updated decor at the Desmond, the quatity of the food has not changed. The food is basically hotel food. I did enjoy the scallops which was a starter but my fillet came with asparagus which were old and over cooked. I ordered the fillet since nothing else appealed to me. Very ordinary menu.