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County Lines Magazine
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OUR FAVORITE!!!!!!
Delicious fixed price dinner includes a starter, main course, and a dessert.
BYOB.
Not to be missed!! We love this one and it's right up the street!!!
Jeff & Carol Yetter, Kennett House B&B
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Sophistication without pretension at a solid BYOB
After taking over this Kennett Square gem in 2004 after careers in Long Island restaurants and hotels, owners Richard and Evelyn Halka have reinvented a local favorite that heeds its original appeal, eliminates some of its shortcomings, and does a lot to give us all an affordable place to taste well-executed cuisine with an honest, straightforward charm.
Partly, that's because the State Street Grille is still what it was -- a solid BYOB with one of the cheapest gourmet prix fixe menus you'll see. The cheesy country décor of the old State Street Grille has been banished in favor of a cleaner and more modern look. A three-course meal is still a steal -- the optional $32 prix fixe menu buys such simple-but-alluring appetizers as salmon cakes with fennel coleslaw and lemon-caper remoulade, and entrees like an excellent grilled New York strip with heart-stopping mashed potatoes, mushrooms, caramelized onions and demi-glace.
And let's not forget (or forgo) the house-made desserts -- all of them made with a fresh and lush appeal.
That's surely a cheap gourmet experience, but part of its charm is that it doesn't feel cheap. In this small and sometimes noisy storefront dining room, casual simplicity is blended with sophistication.
Eric Ruth
The News Journal
10/21/2005
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Year's hits, misses season critic's palate - and pen
Most memorable: The always-enticing restaurant scene in the "crescent" around Delaware's northern border brought some gems -- Gilmore's in West Chester, Pa., for its impeccable, accessible French food (and certainly not for its claustrophobic dining room); and the State Street Grille in Kennett Square, Pa., for its fine BYOB menu.
Eric Ruth
The News Journal
12/30/2005
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A long list of selections renders the "wonderful" three-course $32.00 prix fixe dinner a "delicious" "deal" at this Chesco New
American BYO; the "open kitchen" may sometimes make the
"spartan" eatery "terribly noisy", but "the quality of the
food" has supporters saying they find it" hard to believe
[they're] in Kennett Square and not New York"; N.B.
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