The Garlic Poet Restaurant & Bar

Reviews about The Garlic Poet Restaurant & Bar

• 5 / 5

  By Brien OToole
  A great treat - a fascinating menu, delicous food, extraordinary beer, wine, & drinks. The walls are decked w/ a wide range of poetry pictures and memorabilia. Come for an elaborate meal or hop off I84 just south of Harrisburg for a soup and sandwich at the bar.
  February 21, 2017
• 3 / 5

  By Alec Jace
  The waiters and bartenders at this place absolutely know their stuff. They are experts on the food and do a spectacular job describing everything.
  
  Having said that, this place is EXPENSIVE, and everything on the menu seems to JUST MISS excellence. If you're going to make your noodles fresh, they should be better than the packaged stuff. I appreciate the effort, but enjoyability is more important.
  
  The soups and sides are all great. Well portioned, fine-tuned stuff there. But the entrees could easily be 33% less in price and still be better.
  
  I've spent a lot of time in fine dining establishments, as a front of house manager, sous chef, and bartender, and this restaurant doesn't seem to know what it wants to be. It should aim a little lower in the hoity toity department and try to be more accessible and enjoyable.
  July 30, 2016
• 4 / 5

  By Tim Wegman
  I love the fact that they choose natural and locally sourced food (including aquaponiclly grown greens). Very creative theme and menu. Great alternative to standard American chain restaurants. Quality and service rivals the best of what Hershey and most of Central PA has to offer. Our problem was that this kind of food is catered to a special niche. Food choices that many people are not used to. Mabye we're just too picky? It was by far the most we've ever paid for a meal. But, it was also the most adventurous time at a restaurant I've ever had.
  July 20, 2016