Stopped in while running errands with my daughter. Â We were greetly warmly and quickly ushered to our seats and wobbly table outside on a beautiful day. Â AFter constructing the folded napkin wedge, a guy, believed to be our waiter, stopped over and mumbled something along the lines of drinks. Â We went out on a limb and told him we'd have a couple sodas. Â Sure enough, he came back with them so we went under the prmise, he was our waiter. Â We had already read the menu and took another risk and told him what we wanted for lunch. Â He mumbled (literally) a couple unintelligible things so we had to ask multiple questions. Â He really seemed like he was either forced to be there, perhaps on some "work/release" program or he was having a really, really bad day. Â He showed NO emotion, NO caring and NO personality. Â All of the really important qualities of a good waiter. Â Eventually we received our food and it was pretty goo. Â I had the burger that was cooked the way I ordered, crispy, fresh fries. Â My daughter ahd a sandwich that she picked apart. Â Said it was good but I think she was distracted by the waiter's sullen mood. Â We had also started with the bacon cheese fries which were very good.
I give the service a very low 1 star on this visit and the food was a 3 star (what I expected from a pub like stop)
He chose the Bacon Philly Cheese Steak with Shoestring fries, which looked just like regular fries. They were delicious and seasoned perfectly. I chose the Reuben sandwich as my splurge with their house chips. I had to wait to eat my food so I snacked on chips as I fed the baby and then ate the sandwich while Ryan held her.
The chips were delicious and perfectly crunchy and hardly oily at all. The Reuben was delicious but messy. I wished I had ordered it as a wrap.
There was music playing in the background and there were lots of families and friends with their dogs.
We will definitely be back. It took use 15 minutes to decide what we wanted to eat because the restaurant has such an extensive list. Ryan definitely said he thought we found our pub. Good thing because it is in our area and it is a quick drive.
If you are in town for a visit it is worth a try!
Appetites on Main is located in Exton in a very nice shopping area, which is nice to be able to walk off some calories after you've eaten. Parking is ample and outdoor seating is available.
I recently had lunch with my sister there and ordered a grilled buffalo chicken sandwich and added the egg. The salad was large, the chicken was cut into bite sized pieces. The mild sauce had a nice kick, but it wasn't overpowering.
Our server was very sweet. She was training and did a great job. She was very attentitive. I've eaten there a couple times when I'm in Exton shopping. They have a great beer selection, drink specials just about every day and they also have entertainment ranging from poker, trivia, and a live DJ. I've never been there at night, so I'm not sure what the night scene is like, but it seems that they offer entertainment for their patrons.
Great overall experience and I imagine I'll be back when I return to Exton for a shopping excursion.
Me and my girlfriend went to this place just last week to try out some bar food. We actually live in Manhattan but work in PA and this restaurant had a pretty good look and feel... after sitting on their uncomfortable plastic chairs, the only hope and joy that I was waiting to get was from their food.
The lady ordered a crab cake and I ordered a pastrami sandwich... both were extremely horrible. The pastrami sandwich was so greasy that I felt nausea-tic by the time I finished half the sandwich. My girlfriend couldn't finish her crab cake either.
Ambiance is alright but the food is horrible.
Generic for a sports bar; generic for a pub. Â Generic food. Â Service is alternately
aloof and incompetent. Â Unbelievably loud. Â Overpriced. Â I can't see this place doing business if it didn't have its Main Street location but, then again, this is Exton, the wasteland of quality dining in Chesco.
Not a fan.
I have been there several times and there were no surprises.  If it is a bar and grill food you want, you come to the right place.  It's outdoor patio dinning is wonderful especially on a nice evening.  However, you would expect a short wait on Friday night. The indoor decor is quite present with plenty of TVs to keep up with the latest sport events.  The music/speakers were a little loud probably because they were set for both indoor and outdoor. The wait staffs were very efficient and quite pleasant.  Drinks and food were served promptly with no mistake even on a busy night.  Our group of 4 order drinks and sandwiches and they are decent portion for the price. Overall, it's a quick in-and-out place if you don't want to hang around drinking or chatting with friends. Within an hour  you could be on your way to a nice stroll around the Exton Main Street to work out what you just ate.
Review Source:Very slow. Â Very poor service. Â They brought my 2 year-old nephew warm soda water, instead of a Sprite. Â It took nearly an hour and a half to get our food. Â The manager was hitting on a table of girls. Â I would not go back. Â Go somewhere else. Â Or stay home. Â Not worth the money.
Review Source:Food is actually pretty good but wow this place sucks if you actually want too talk to the person sitting a ft away from you crappy live bands that sound like they are drunk and small area does not help! You could sit outside but not much better. if it wasn't for everything else I would give this 31/2 stars
Review Source:This is a decent place to hang out on a weekday or weekend night. Especially when its warm out on the outside patio. The food is tasty...I like to get a few rum and cokes and then have buffalo chicken tenders. . The cocktails and drinks are made right with plenty of alcohol and are decently priced. The server ladies are nice and cool to chat with. I don't understand the negativity here.
Review Source:When you step into this place, it looks like every other sports bar in the country. Â Drab decor plastered with beer signs and lots of TV screens. Â All the TV's were running with the volume off so that the bar could play music. Â None of the TV's had the text that you see at the bottom of the screen for the hearing-impaired. Â So the TV's were basically useless, since no games were on. Â
A lot of locals apparently hang out here, and unfortunately the bartender did not treat me like one. Â Service was adequate, however. Â She brightened up a LOT when the check came, smiling and thanking me, etc.
Had a burger with an onion ring on it and their "special" sauce. Â Sauce was ok, burger was underdone, but in a place like this I don't sweat it because it is likely that if I sent it back, the bartender would return with a charred hockey puck. Â The fries were not hot and not salty. Â You can apply salt to a fry if it's greasy, but if it isn't, the salt just bounces off. Â Such was the case here, bouncing salt. Â But no grease, which is good.
Nothing horribly wrong here, but there are so many more interesting places to eat in this mall.
Exton is a quiet little suburb, just west of the main line and north of West Chester. Route 100 (Pottstown Pike) is a busy commercial strip that cuts through the heart of Exton, and at the southern end of town there is a shopping plaza designed, apparently, to re-create a "Main Street" feel of an imagined yesterday. It is a rather pleasant place to shop and dine, even if it is kind of "Disney Does a Mall."
Almost two years ago, I visited "The Shops at Main Street" for the first time with my daughter. Â We were tired and hungry and saw no inspiring choices; we chose Appetites on Main more for the outdoor seating than for the promise of its menu; it looked like one more indistinctive hash slinger trying to re-create the food and atmosphere of a sports bar.
Against my better judgment, I ordered a cheesesteak. I had been eating at all the best places in Philly, such as Chink's, John's Roast Pork, and Tony Luke's, as well as the very fine local fare at West Chester's The Pepper Mill. Well, much to my astonishment, it was excellent! The roll was authentic, with some crunch and some chewiness. The meat and cheese (I think I got aged provolone) blended smartly with the grilled onions. With a side of freshly-made crunchy hot thick potato chips, it was a terrific if high-calorie meal.
About six months ago, I went back and dined inside. Once again I ordered the cheesesteak, and once again it was excellent. Someone in the kitchen knows the value of good ingredients and quality fresh bread. Bravo!
Over the July 4 week, we returned again. This time, I ventured out and selected the roast pork sandwich with broccoli rabe and aged provolone. My daughter ordered a deli sandwich and substituted a side of deep fried green beans for the standard chips. She enjoyed her sandwich and was kind enough to share the beans. Served with a tomato-ey mayo dipping sauce, they were a decadent delight.
The roast pork sandwich, alas, was a failure. The foundation was good -- a nice Philly style roll, lightly toasted. Sadly, that ends the highlights. The broccoli rabe was laid in the sandwich in long stalks. If you aren't going to chop it up, you have to cook it tender. But I could not bite through it, and it just pulled out of the roll on each bite. Â I had to remove it and eat it with a fork. Sin number two was that they used conventional deli provolone, not the sharp aged stuff I had on my cheesesteak in a prior visit. Could that have been intentional? Worst of all, though, was the fact that the pork tasted, errrr, old. Â It was not spoiled and I did not become ill later, but I guess it had been in the freezer too long. They must not get many orders for the roast pork. This was such a sharp contrast to the roast pork sandwich at John's Roast Pork in South Philly, where there is a simmering pot of incredible pork going all the time and it turns over like mad. On the plus side, the chips on the side were excellent.
I won't let this one failed sangawtich spoil this place for me. They've done such a nice job overall that I can overlook one bad meal. Â I will drop them down from 9 stars to 8, and see what my next visit brings.
I am Pizza Quixote!
I went here a little while ago. The food was OK. It has that obvious really American style of food, like hamburgers and fries and stuff. It wasn't bad fast food quality but I didn't prefer it. The hamburger tasted really well done, almost burned when I asked for it to be more on the medium-well side, it tasted just too cooked, period. The waitstaff was just OK, they weren't very attentive and not very helpful.
Also, the outdoor seating is pretty awkward and from what I remember, pretty crowded too. I felt like my outdoor table was so close to everyone else, there was little to no privacy. Also, just to forewarn people who think you'll be getting a better seat outside away from the bar rather than inside, the outdoor seating is not only crowded but all you can see are the cars passing by 40 feet away and all the other stores on Main street.
And when we first walked into the place, we weren't even greeted or helped immediately - since I guess because there is a sports bar in the front of it, they were too busy there to bother helping us right away. Oh well.
This place has a great happy hour that I believe changes on a daily basis. We came to try the cheesesteaks (I'm on a mission to try as many different joints during my 10 day stay in Philly), but the Nola fries were the star.
The front of the restaurant/bar was packed from fans watching the Eagles game. Fortunately, there was seating in the very back that was much quieter and not so claustrophobic. I guess if your a huge sports fan, this place would be the shiznit.
Service was not bad - but could have been better (again, I attribute this to the Eagles game). We ordered the full order of Nola fries - chunks of crab and cheese all over crispy fries. Fries don't get better than this. I'm sorry carne asada fries. I've found a new friend.
The steaks were pretty good - we ordered the gourmet cheesesteak and a plain chicken cheesesteak. These were large enough to share between 3 hungry people and then some. They came with incredibly addictive housemade potato chips. The tab came out to be 40 bucks. Stick to the Happy Hour menu - cheesesteaks for $5. Happy Hunting.
I have never seen a set up reviews so uniformly correct on Yelp. The only great thing about this place is the wonderful outdoor dining area that is charming on a nice night. Unfortunately, I do not like eating outside, nor did I like the smoke (which you can smell from inside this restaurant since the doors are left open and people come in and out often). Although I personally do not enjoy the outdoor dining, it was the only reason I rounded my star rating up to 2. But it barely made the round up. :p
The noise level was very high, and the place was packed (seriously, it baffles my mind to no end). The tables were tiny, it was barely big enough for 2 takeout containers and 4 cups. By the time we had dessert, we had to eat over our takeout containers, which were hanging half off the table. The service was half decent. Our waitress was very attentive and was not impatient with us even though we asked for more time to order 3 times (we had <a href="/redir?url=http%3A%2F%2Frestaurant.com&s=c5fe485af4df376130bee54f875814d79c4d7913e1258123b1206d2bdbf4873b" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://restaurant.com</a> coupons and had to do some serious math). However, the food was terribly slow getting to us and brought by a random other person and not by our waitress.
Now to lambast the food. My friend ordered shoestring fries and a jumbo chicken steak (no cheese). I tried his food (I know the rule of no 2nd hand reviews :) ), and the fries were not really "shoestring" thin in my opinion. About as thick as your average Burger King, McD or Wendy's fries. However, they were fried very nicely and crisp. That is where anything really positive about the food ends. The chicken steak was huge, but the chicken was rather dry and completely not seasoned.
I ordered their chef's special of Italian Sweet Sausage with special aged provolone, roasted peppers and onions. I also ordered a side of sweet potato shoestring fries. The fries (and come on, who doesn't like sweet potato anything?) were mealy, and tasteless. There were no seasonings, not even salt on this. The Italian Sweet Sausage sandwich was similarly and eerily totally tasteless. No, seriously, completely tasteless. The onions and roasted peppers had no taste and were very sloppily wet, which caused the bread to get soggy. Even the cheese wasn't salty. And the big crazy question is how do you screw up sausage?!?!?!? I can't imagine that the sausage was not pre-made. Every sausage I had ever tasted has been extremely salty to me, this had no seasonings and no salt. My dinner companion did not believe me, that the sausage was bad, until I cut off a small piece and let him try it. He was stunned by how tasteless it was.
We ordered the chef's specialty of waffles and ice cream for dessert. It was HUGE. It had about 6 scoops of ice cream and it was huge. We ran into the 2 people eating next to us later when we ran over to Walmart and they even remarked on how we should have offered to share it with them. Yes, it was that big! Hahaha Unfortunately, this is the perfect dessert for 5 people, none of whom has any taste buds. The ice cream was okay, nothing special. However, there was too much hot fudge and not enough caramel on the sundae. The biggest turnoff though was the waffle. The thing was like a giant dried cookie. There was no softness to the waffle, which to me is the best part of a waffle, and it was stone cold. One had to chip and break off pieces with the spoon.
The final insult to injury was how expensive everything was. Honestly, there are about a million places that you could get much better food for about 40% less on the price. It needs to be repeated that it completely confounds me as to why so many people eat here. Well, in the future I certainly won't be one of them.
This is a typical sports bar with "eh" food, except it's in the middle of an upscale shopping complex. Â It's ALWAYS packed and loud. Â It's not the worst place I've eaten, but is overpriced for what you get. Â It's nice if you want to just sit outside in the summer, have a beer and a burger, but otherwise, you can do the same thing 10 minutes away in West Chester and get better food for your money.
Review Source:Good bar to sit outside and enjoy the breeze (though the view is nothing much to speak of - the side of another store). Food is overpriced and underquality and the taps are nothing to write home about. Crowded, loud and smoky inside. Lots of TV's if you don't dig conversation.
Basically the same deal as Applebee's or TGI Fridays as far as I'm concerned. If you want better food and outdoor seating head over to Brickside, Kooma or Teca.
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Alright, so the other night we were beginning to cook dinner and the lights went off, then on, then off, and then they stayed off. Â So we dumped out the not quite boiling water for the pasta and headed out to dinner. Â We selected Appetite's on Main in Exton. Â Years ago when I worked full-time my department used to call the original Appetite's in Wayne and get order after order of chicken fingers(with real white-meat chicken!) and waffle fries, with a delish honey mustard.
So we had our 4 year old daughter in tow, and we walked into a pretty smoky place - we sat away from the bar, but it was still kinda smoky - butcha can't worry about everything. Â I had the ol' chicken fingers and fries, which was $9?!?! Â That's crazy. Â My husband had a chicken cheesesteak, which had a mystery item in it - we believe(hope!) it was chicken skin. Â He enjoyed it after removing the offending bit. Â My daughter didn't enjoy her grilled cheese(although I did), but had no trouble scarfing some of my chicken fingers. Â The honey mustard used to be tangy sweet - this time it was just sweet. Â It needed a bit of dijon to kick it up. Â The raspberry iced tea was a bit sweet for my taste, but not bad overall.
The service was very attentive - so good points for that.
Our bill was $39 - for a kids grilled cheese/fries, chicken fingers/french fries and a cheesesteak, oh and one beer. Â Sigh - that is ridiculous for bar food in the suburbs.
And yes, the power was back on when we got home - hurrah!
It gets one more star in the summer when you can sit outside. Â This bar is smokey and the crowd can be trashy. Â Personally I think the food is terrible, but they serve it late so sometimes it is convenient. Â If you do go, go when it is warm out, but don't expect too much of a view, as the "patio" is basically a walkway between other stores.
Review Source:while their tap includes magic hat no.9 (my all-time favorite brew), i can't really say that i like this place all that much. some pluses include: they typically have live entertainment, though its not always the best... they have a ton of tv's to watch whatever game is going on. and good bar food. the minuses: typically way too crowded, and always too loud. don't plan on having much conversation. all in all its a fairly typical sports bar for this area.
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