Stonehouse Restaurant

The Stonehouse is offering great musical entertainment, plays, poetry nights, and open mic events.
Synthetic Unlimited has teamed with the Stonehouse to offer an evening of entertainment.  I have attended three performances.  The acting was superb.  Dinner, music, and drinks are offered before the plays and more musical entertainment after the play.  The food has been excellent.

Absolutely beautiful and professionally run establishment.

I had the opportunity to do a volunteer show for, "The Typsy Gypsy". I really enjoyed performing at the Stonehouse  :)

I was looking into wedding reception venues and stumbled across the Stonehouse Restaurant.  After walking around the outside and peeking in the windows, I was really excited about this venue!  It has a lovely patio area, two floors inside, and a wine cave outside.  It is currently only available for special events, so there wouldn't be other diners present while we held our event.  I emailed Stonehouse and DeAnna wrote back and was initially very friendly and helpful.  Basically, you could rent the space from 10am-midnight, starting at $2900 (includes tables and chairs).  The info on their brochure didn't quite match the info on their website or the info that she was emailing me (some places it said a 12 hr rental, some places 14 hr rental, some places it said no catering available, other places it said that you were required to use their catering), so I asked for a clean copy of their actual contract to make sure of what I was getting.  I also requested photos of the interior of the building, as there aren't many online.  While I was waiting to hear back from DeAnna, I started speaking to wedding planners in the area (to book one of them as well).  A couple of the local ones started warning me that Stonehouse is quite flaky.  Supposedly the owner is attempting to lease the space to a restaurant (their website actually shows that), but they don't really highlight the fact that it may not be under their control in the near future (if a new tenant moves in and your event isn't until next year... you may be out of luck).  One of the planners warned to read your contract carefully with them, as details are often not what they seem.  Anyway, I sent several follow-up emails to DeAnna asking for the updated contract/info and photos.  After a week, she said she had a family emergency and would write back later.  It's now been a month and I've never heard back from anyone again at Stonehouse... maybe they got a restaurant tenant and now don't want to hear from wedding parties??  I don't know, but if they are this unreliable BEFORE they get your money, I can only imagine how it'd be AFTER they get your money.  Be careful if you choose to book with them (though the wine cave and outdoor patio are cool!)...

PS. To those having over about 75 guests: the two dining rooms are fairly small, so depending on your wedding party size, you'll have to have everyone in two separate places, which is kind of a bummer (I was having a small wedding, so didn't matter to me).  There's a youtube video of someone's wedding videography at Stonehouse - gives you an idea of what it looks like inside.  Due to the small size, most weddings are set up to have two dining rooms upstairs and a dance floor downstairs (kind of a negative for us as the older guests would want to sit at their tables after dinner and watch the young people dance).