Not just your garden variety herb!
Gretchen and I, for the past 20 or so years have had a tradition of going out on Valentine’s Day, dressed to the proverbial “nines” to a restaurant to which we have never, ever gone before. That was always a challenge for me as I am charged with picking. That meant research and chance…but as my track record will show…I’m pretty good!
Covid put a damper on that tradition, but we decided to come back strong.
We live in Ridley Park, PA, a lovely little community with a lot of history, just passed the Philadelphia International Airport. We downsized from Swarthmore…old people will do that.
In our lovely little community, a business shut down and something most wonderful took its place; Rosemary, not just your garden variety herb.
We decided that we would restart our tradition with this new place, as of course, we had never been there before. New, not many have. But that has certainly changed.
So, we got dressed to those proverbial “nines” and went on February 14, 2024. The interior could not have been more well thought out. It can be whatever you want, dressed up or casual depending on the occasion. It was absolutely lovely, and we were hoping the food and service would follow suit. Well, one was better than the other. The food was no less than excellent, and the service followed suit. In short, we had a wonderful, wonderful evening and we didn’t even have to “click our heels” or follow the yellow brick road.
Today, Sunday, July 21, we went for brunch. Again, nothing short of exquisite. Our “babysitter” Helen (waitress) was lovely, personable, knowledgeable and I’ll stop there before I get into trouble. And it all started with a greeting at the door that made you feel like family. Smiles were the uniform of the day.
We had Bourbon French Toast…lovely, and to start off we did perfectly executed strawberry Bellini’s. And we went back for a second one of those. If we didn’t worry about taking up space, we would still be there.
The owner (the man behind the curtain) came over to check on us and wound up pulling up a chair to chat. Who does that? and what fun it. It made the whole experience that much better. Owner Philip Breen, is young, smart, talented and has the chops to make a good restaurant great; restaurant, bar, greenhouse, outdoor seating…what’s missing? YOU! Just go: https://rosemaryrp.com/
Who knows, maybe we’ll see you there. What a great place to meet old friends and make new ones.
Ciao!
October 19th, 2024 at 9:37 am Hi Ralph, Yes, I loved Rosemary, too! Fantastic that the suburbs arefinally getting quality restaurants. We’re going to the new Fond restaurant(right by Wallingford post office) tomorrow night. I have high hopes! Nozomi