My girlfriend and I stopped in here after taking a beautiful long drive through the hunting valley. Â We sat outside on their spacious patio and enjoyed their french onion soup as if it was truth medicine...
Next time we are in town and in the area, we will come back and try to repeat our experience and our emotions. Â Just kidding. Â We are smart enough to realize that you cannot force an experience. Â
...I live in California.
My name is Rick
Go get em'!
I agree with another reviewer; kinda wish there was a 3 and a half stars. But I've only been there once, and I am planning on going back, so 4 stars is the winner for now.
I really liked their friendliness, and casualness, while receiving good service.
I also love that they have liver and onions and stuffed cabbage on the menu. Reminds me of my mom's cookings.
The menu is pretty good but the food quality was pretty mediocre.
Still, I really enjoyed the atmosphere and a place that makes me want to come back is worth 4 stars in my book.
Kinda out of the way and not the best place to have drinks if your not close by. The food is great. The setting is great. Just the drive home on the dimly lit streets in chesterland can be a little unnerving so, be a D.D. or catch a cab and head there when they are having live music and it might be one of my favorite places. Â The outdoor patio randomly has a live band, we always call before going, and if you can get there on a night that they are having one your in for a great time.
Review Source:I, once again, struggled between 3 and 4 stars. Â As Max stated the wings are fantastic. Â I've also tried the pizza and the french onion soup. Â The soup was 4 star and the pizza was 3. Â Given that Chesterland is really limited on bar / restaurant options, I could see myself making this my weekly hang-out. Â They really do care about their food quality and making your experience enjoyable.
Good place to watch the game or if you wanted to hide from the wife for a while. Â If it was just a little closer to SOM then I could see myself bringing friends and family to the Chesterland, but until then, I will make it my usual stop when I decide to take a drive, which turns out to be about 3-4 times a year. Â Really friendly place so do yourself a favor and stop in.
Chesterland Tavern has the best chicken wings I've ever eaten in my life. No joke. They are huge and beautifully fried. On Tuesday nights, they are $5 for a dozen. Highly highly recommend checking these wings out, especially if you're used to the little crappy wings from places like BW3's, Quaker Steak & Lube, etc.
Review Source:I went here 2-3 times last year, don't remember anything significant [good or bad]. I play in an ultimate league nearby and we occasionally go here after the games. Experienced teammates who has stopped by the chesterland over the past 10 years said they've gone through 5-6 owners in that time.
During my first and only visit so far this year almost a month ago, about 15-20 of us showed up around 8:45, very thirsty and hungry. The patio, which is very nice, does not bring back memories of a typical sterile, suburban patio. Probably built long before the smoking ban, the patio is large, with over a dozen tables, amid mature trees [and shade] with trellises[SP?], secluded from the main building and relatively quiet back there.
Our server was friendly although ostensibly, he was newly hired. We've ordered pitchers in the past, and our server said they didn't do pitchers there. Fortunately, one of my teammates, a regular there, informed the bartender at the patio bar of our scenario. Pitchers, arrived, one by one, several minutes later. In response to our asking whether they had any IPAs, the server was unfamilar with the term. I felt a tad sorry for the chap [And I was in a good mood that night, from our studly 20-7 win !], since he was suddenly slammed, and only had an older couple and their dog on the patio before we arrived.
We also asked for a couple pitchers of water and waited about 10 minutes to get waters.
After waiting for 10 minutes or so, I went inside, saw the place was at least 75% capacity. I asked for a pitcher of water, and tons of cups. As I waited, I was making small talk with the lady next to me, whom I later found out was the owner [Luckily, I was pretty diplomatic stating that our server was inept and overburdened. She immediately went to the kitchen and turned things around. They dispatched 2 extra servers for us, and our service improved as the night wore on and the owner came out and apologized for the scenario and the things they were out of [pulled pork and Great Lakes], as they had been slammed Memorial Day weekend and didn't have things back in stock yet.
The menu is of a typical tavern. The fish sandwich, breaded, but not very oily, hit the spot after the game. Fish sandwiches, as my teammate said, they're hard to be very good although hard to be bad. I concur, and this was on the better side [less than $10] for the less oiliness and came with a small cup of pasta salad.
Despite our mediocre service on this last visit, I'd go here again if I found myself in the area, definitely for the patio, and relative reasonable prices.