Brandywine Prime - Chadds Ford

I%26#39;d been waiting with great expectation for Brandywine Prime to open, as they sent out numerous breathless updates and newsletters via email. If only the reality were as sound as they%26#39;d hoped--the food was very good, no doubt about it. But the service was appalling!! We were served by the most obtrusive, irritating, pushy waitress I have ever had to endure--no exaggeration.

We were celebrating my daughter%26#39;s graduation--four of us, obviously enjoying each other%26#39;s company and a good evening out together. But we should have known how it would play out when she introduced by saying, %26#39;We%26#39;re going to have some FUN with the menu tonight!!%26#39; and spent a good ten minutes holding our hands through a not-complicated menu. She %26#39;jokingly%26#39; told my son off for something (he%26#39;s a well-behaved 17 year old with fine manners), she reached across me to put a cork in my bottle of wine half way through the meal, %26#39;so I could take it home with me%26#39;, she brought our dessert menus for three of us and started describing the sweets in great detail when the fourth of us still had half their meal in front of them...all the while interrupting, regaling us with her personal life, doing the atrocious, %26#39;We%26#39;--as in %26#39;And are we enjoying ourselves?%26#39;, %26#39;How%26#39;s our salad?%26#39;, %26#39;What are we celebrating tonight?%26#39; etc.

I finally told her to back off, in utter exasperation (I believe this was over the dessert menus). But I wish I%26#39;d set some limits for her with at the start. My mistake!! I%26#39;d never go back again--after spending $200, we were left with a bad taste in our mouths.

Brandywine Prime - Chadds Ford

The whole point of this forum is to give an accurate representation of your experience so that others can form an opinion. Unfortunately it has become a place for unreasonable people to vent. I was sitting at the table adjacent to this woman and her family and she was down right rude. At one point ,after she yelled at the waitress there was a really uncomfortrable silence from her entire family. That should have told her something about her behavior. Bradywine prime is a good place to go for a casual meal and you don%26#39;t have to spend alot. I%26#39;m sure if you get a nice bottle of wine and something off the steakhouse menu it will cost more. My advice to this woman is to head up the street to the Dilworthtown inn. The food is average at best, you can%26#39;t get out of there for less that fifty bucks per person, but you will have your ';silent service'; from waiters in gorilla suits. A neighborhood restaraunt is meant to be a friendly place to go for a consistant, good meal. That%26#39;s why I like it.

Brandywine Prime - Chadds Ford

How funny......it was a Monday evening and there was no one sitting next to us, in an almost empty dining room.....could the previous poster be an employee of BP perhaps??

Given that A%26gt; Single poster, and B%26gt; 1 month delay and they still remember a somehow otherwise unidentified person, I%26#39;d go with bogus. That said, I encourage the poster to defend his or her position ;)

I%26#39;m leaning towards poster #2, bogus or not, much complaining about nothing. All I got from the first post was that this person had a personality conflict with their waiter. The fact that you can%26#39;t get along with another human being tells me nothing about the establishment. Did you complain to the appropriate forces that be? Did you ask for a different server? How was it handled would have been useful. Did they buy you drinks, dessert or something to try and make you happy? How was your meal, food wise? How the establishment handled your issue would be the proof in the pudding.If you didn%26#39;t say anything at the establishment , write a letter post dining and give them the opportunity to make it right, then you have no business making such a useless post. not providing any truelly useful information is a waste of this tool. Give me something I can use.

Generally, I don%26#39;t post, just read, and I really mulled my decision to post for a while, but the way the waiter was treated weighed really heavy with me and because it was a slower night as phillyuk stated, it was really visable. No bogus posting, just like to think things through before I act. My goal was not to get into a playgroung scuffle with other posters, just do the right thing and provide info that I hope someone finds useful.

eclectic - thanks for coming back and defending your view. The reason a lot of us wonder is that you see people come in and post one and only one post, often as either a great negative, or a great positive, so we tend to be wary of such, especially in response to a negative.

Those posts (as you can see) are taken with a grain of salt in most cases. I certainly agree with your contention at the very least they should have asked for another server.