This wine bar is so so great! The ambiance inside is…read moreperfect, great selection of wines, and the owner is absolutely awesome. She is highly knowledgeable on wines & is able to help direct you towards a wine you'll want to indulge in. I was invited here for a birthday celebration for one of our friends & it seemed it was the perfect place to do so. This is definitely a great place for group celebration or even just a place to relax, drink a glass (or a few!!) of wine and even study or read etc if you wanted to. Honestly, would love to come back here & visit with my family/friends when they come to town.

Lovely relaxing vibe. Fun to try new wines. Service was great and customers were very friendly.read more

I had a surprise party there for 50 people. The communication from start to finish with Serge was…read moreso on point. He was so easy to work with and the food and service was wonderful.

Had a great time at Home Base! Came in on a Saturday night, it's definitely a great local spot…read more Great prices, great food, and they even had live music! Got a side of fried pickles and the portions were huge and they were seriously delicious! Knocked one star just because the service was a little chaotic, but the entire staff was so friendly that it totally made up for it!

Fantastic Mother's Day brunch. Expensive but worth it! Had never been in the banquet hall before…read moreand it was noisy! But plenty of room. The buffet held everything you can think of : shrimp, mussels, crab claws, oysters, prime rib & lamb to name just a few.

Mendenhall Inn is a unique place that is more of a complex than just a restaurant and hotel. It can…read morebe a little confusing to figure out where you are going, even with the signage, as the arrows designating where you are trying to head aren't pointing to their correct destinations, and some things, such as the restaurant, are absent from the signs in the parking lot. Once you find the right entrance though, preparing yourself for brunch here still will not be enough to ready you for the awesome experience that you will receive. The value alone for the price is worth coming here repeatedly, and that is without me even knowing if the menu for brunch changes seasonally or based on what is available on the market at the time! The dining room is very well set, minus the goofy china, and we were quickly greeted by our wonderful server. She engaged in my insane ramblings and conversation and told us all about the comings and goings of the restaurant and everything else I wanted to ask about. Our mimosas, champagne, and coffee were kept flowing and full at all times! The actual brunch buffet was outstanding. I was dumbfounded at the quality and variety of the foods on offer, especially the amount and selection of cold seafood. They have unlimited oysters!!!!!!! With all the accoutrement that you could possibly want for them. As well as mussels. So if you are a shellfish or smoked fish fan, get here immediately. The hot foods were also unbelievably good with one of my personal highlights being a banana foster; flambéed right in front of you that you can stack on top of waffles, French toast, or anything you'd like; in my case just eating a huge bowl of the bananas. This is a great brunch buffet in a little town that I never even knew was there despite having been to Kennett Square and the surrounding areas many times. It's actually a small town called Mendenhall. Makes you wonder if it's named after the Inn? Whether it is or not, this is somewhere you should definitely put on your list and come here. I don't know about lunch or dinner, but the brunch is stellar and I will definitely be returning many times in the future.

Excellent food in a lovely atmosphere. The waiter told us this space had been used for businesses…read moresince the early 1800's. I enjoyed a delicious salad with pecans, blue cheese, poached pears, and grilled chicken. My friend enjoyed the mushroom soup and flatbread that looked awesome, too. Would return here often if I lived nearby!

Service great as usual. Food very good as well. We have been going to Buckleys for years. My one…read morecritique this time is price. I get that cost of everything is going up but the MP of $45 for 3 scallops was very disappointing. Maybe throw in 2-3 more or lower the price a little. There were no sides with it as well! Not even remotely full after.

I can't speak for the menu food. We just had the buffet only yesterday. Although I've been coming…read morehere since the 1970s, I even had my 16th birthday party here, and a company Christmas party. I was extremely disappointed in the buffet all around. They list what MAY be available on the buffet. They advertise it as a seafood buffet. Well, there were no crab legs, although you could purchase them in addition to the the already pricey $39 "seafood" buffet (for the meager offerings). No crabs. No rockfish. No clam chowder. No shrimp skampi. No seafood salad. None of the more expensive items. Basically, bottom of the barrel offerings, and nothing that we went there for. I left there hungry and feeling ripped off. The only really good thing where the raw oysters. And theyre damn near impossible to ruin. All of the shrimp were over cooked. Mealey and dry. The creamy seafood bowties were inedible. The fake scallops were dry, tough, and very fishy. And as per the rest of the shrimp, they were cooked to death. I will say the garden salad, while simple, was pretty good. There was no ceaser. The fried oysters were the absolute worst ever. Over cooked, bad batter, dry and tasteless. The roasted oysters with a thick chunk of rubbery bacon, were hard to tell what they were. The clams casino were just ok. So much topping that it was hard to find the tiny little clam under all that. The so called "crab balls" were stuffed with a very dry tasteless crackers or bread crumbs but they should be called bread crumb balls. Even the seafood chowder? It was hard to tell as most things were unmarked or mismarked. The chowder was a very failed attempt. Slightly fishy, overcooked (whatever the tasteless meat was). And disgustly overly thickened. Worst I've ever had. I did try the red bliss potatoes. Were they boiled? Very plain, but edible. The canned green peas were what you'd expect. The cooks haven't ruined them yet. Now for the none seafood dishes. Chicken cordon Bleu? Eh. Roast beef? Dry tough and covered in canned gravy. Stuffed shells? Overly creamy and not very good. I took a small serving of anything I tried so I wouldnt waste much. I gave up after 2 sample plates. I find it hard to believe that a restaurant thats been around this long, could in good conscious, even attempt to pawn that way over priced sub Sysco quality food as a seafood buffet. Overcooked tasteless shrimp, clams muscles and oysters, especially cooked as poorly as all of these offerings do not make up a seafood buffet. I must add, the staff was 5 stars. Very friendly and attentive. No complaints there. In summation, I feel like the generalized menu, lead you to believe there would be some decent choices. But they cheapened it down so badly with very poor quality food that there was no reason to go back up. Poor selection, tiny buffet, very poor quality food, unmarked, mismarked, and very unappealing. I dont know who runs this place now, but its a far cry from what it used to be. I shouldn't have gone. This experience ruined my memories. I still can't get over anybody pawning this garbage off as a buffet, let alone a seafood buffet. For $10 less, I can literally get ten times the options with 100% fresh seafood at several nearby places. Oh, and I almost forgot. Who cooks a beautiful salmon filet so long that you have to gulp down a drink with it so it doesn't get stuck in your throat? 1 star. And thats being very generous. Now if your somebody that enjoys gulping down lots and lots of mediocre food at a ridiculous price, this place my be for you.

I like the food, I live near by and order to go, but I am disgusted at how often they get the…read moreorders wrong. Tonight, they forgot half my order. I'm equally mad at myself for not double checking the bag, because I know they don't. I drove back and got stupid excuses with the rest of our dinner. Then when I got home and opened boxes a discovered that they got nothing right, except a one side order. ....very sad.

Amazing ambiance! Lots of seating options inside and outside with a projector screen inside and a…read morelarge TV outside. Very casual as well, order your beer at the bar and grab your seat. Then scan a QR code to purchase food. They will send a text when it is ready and you can pick it up nearby. The food was okay, nothing too exciting. The beer options were plentiful and the staff super friendly!

We stopped here before our visit to Longwood Gardens. We all throughly enjoyed our meals. I had the…read moreButternut Squash flatbread, my daughter had the Pulled Pork Sandwich and my husband had the Smash Burger. We also ordered a basket of fries which were great too. Plus the homemade chips on the side were crisp and perfectly seasoned. While we were waiting I had a Cranberry Mule which I would also recommend. Fun atmosphere with TV's showing the football game. On our next trip to Longwood Gardens we will stop in for a meal again.

Had to visit this very historic restaurant on my trip to Delaware! We had the corn and crab…read morechowder and the short rib grilled cheese. The grilled cheese was different than what other places offer and it did not disappoint- Both were great! We had a reservation and were seated immediately. Loved the atmosphere here. Had great service and it was a very relaxing evening. The place was full of college students and was a little noisy at times. Would go back to this restaurant again.

Don't use the online ordering via their site. I placed an order at 5:43pm for a 7:15 pm pickup…read more Arrived at 7:15pm and was told the kitchen was jammed and that it was going to be a bit for the food. Waited 30 minutes sitting at the bar, no update or apology offered during the wait. I then asked how much longer and was eventually told a few more minutes, but they have a "new manager," so things were backed up. I've worked in a restaurant before, I understand mistakes happen. To not receive an apology stunned me, honestly. I asked to speak to manager and he told me that I needed to understand they received the order at 7:15pm and they were hosting a private event so it's not their fault. I was more stunned. I showed him on the receipt the 543pm placement time and the 7:15pm pick up time. He told me again they did not receive the order until 7:15 despite the website, receipt recording all this information. Unsurprisingly, some stuff was missing and needed to be added to complete the order. I was given an apology as I walked out by manager, but very poor experience overall. Avoid the online ordering.

I've gotta give a follow-up review…read more This place has skyrocketed in a great direction under GM Jimmy. Nick, also great manager. Bartender Kenzie is fantastic. One of the best. Sidnee, too. It's a great spot and very well managed now. Go there.

This place was recommended on Eater. It's the first place we've gone to from an Eater that we were…read moredisappointed in. There is duck bowling, which means they're small balls and pins, but they're only four lanes, so if you don't make a reservation, you won't be able to bowl. The families that were playing were enjoying themselves. I would come here to bowl and have specific, easy-to-make drinks. We grabbed seats at the bar because the restaurant seemed full, and sports were on the TVs. The bar seats were comfy, with backs on them, and there was a bar to rest your foot. It took a minute to get service, as it seems the bartender is the only one for the whole place. Maybe they need another bartender when the bowling alley and restaurant are both complete. I had an espresso martini, which was too sweet for me. My husband had a mule and thought it was good. My second drink was a tall Titos vodka soda. The bartender informed us that the menu changes on Tuesday, so they have no more crab, which is what I wanted. I was going to order the crab dip and the seafood mac & cheese. We pivoted to fried green tomatoes that were a little too breaded and cooked for me, but the sauce was good. We did get the seafood mac & cheese, but it did not have much shrimp on it. The shells were overcooked and combined, so you had to separate them and cover them in sauce, or the bite didn't have enough flavor. Also, the cheese sauce was a little soupy.