• LGBTSR,  Restaurant Reviews,  Restaurants

    Restaurant Review: The Golden Pheasant Inn, 5 Emphatic Yums

    This review is reprinted from LGBTSr.com.

    By Mark McNease

    Restaurant reviews are based on a 5 Yum scale, 5 meaning put it on your must list, 1 meaning avoid at all costs. 

    The Golden Pheasant Inn
    763 River Road (Route 32)
    Erwinna, PA 18920
    (610) 294 9595
    Website: goldenpheasant.com
    Spend Meter: $$$$+
    Service: Excellent

    Another Sunday, another outstanding meal. I don’t expect them all to be this good, but when you go to the Golden Pheasant Inn you can count on the standards being high. Located in Erwina, PA, just about twenty minutes from our home in rural New Jersey, the Golden Pheasant is a nearby taste of excellence. My husband Frank and I rode there with our friends and neighbors Phil and Jim. We were going out with them regularly before the pandemic put a stop to life as we knew it. Now that restrictions are being lifted, spring has arrived, and we’re all vaccinated, it was time for another delightful dinner out, this time indoors.

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    Restaurant Review: Martine’s Riverhouse Restaurant, 3 ½ Yums (New Hope, PA)

    Reposted from LGBTSr.org

    Reviews are based on a 5 Yum scale, 5 being must-go, 2 being save your money, 1 being call an ambulance.

    Where: Martine’s Riverhouse Restaurant, New Hope, PA
    Price: $$$
    Fun new word: Riverhouse

    So it is two words or one? Is the ‘H’ capitalized or not? I found it both ways on their website and their Facebook page. That can happen when you make up words – it’s tough to know which is catchier.

    My husband Frank and I made it across the Delaware River to New Hope, Pennsylvania. We parked in Lambertville, New Jersey, and walked over the bridge, since New Hope decided several years ago there would be no free parking anywhere in town. It’s Delaware River Towns Restaurant Week and both communities are nestled on the river. It’s a spectacular place to live. Art and progressive politics are in the air, but there’s something for everyone. Last night that something was dinner at Martine’s.

  • LGBTravel,  Restaurant Reviews,  Restaurants,  Reviews

    Dining Remains an Event at Marsha Brown: 5 Yums

    This marks the return of my popular restaurant reviews that ran for several years on my original blog.

    Reviews are based on a 5 Yum scale, 5 being must-go, 2 being save your money, 1 being call an ambulance.

    Where: Marsha Brown, New Hope, PA
    Price: $$$$
    Fun new word: Housemade (my use, not theirs)

    My husband Frank decided to surprise me with dinner the night before our 5th wedding anniversary (I usually say marriage, since we didn’t have a wedding). I thought we were going to a Cuban restaurant in New Hope, but he stopped in front of the large sign outside Marsha Brown and said, “Here we are.”