The Summit Tea Room

We had our wedding reception here and it was A NIGHTMARE! Let me start with the worst…
1) I’m currently in the US Navy and had been trying to plan my wedding from Hawaii before I transferred to Maryland. It wasn’t going so bad since I was working directly with a guy that worked there. Super nice, always willing to answer calls from me, my mom, and the grooms mother. It’s not like we had a lot of options in New Milford, PA, my hometown being Hallstead. Well, a DAY before my wedding they ended up firing Kevin. So my point of contact was poof, gone. They couldn’t have waited one day?
2) The reception was nicely decorated and accommodating and decorated well, which I liked. What I didn’t like was how quickly they whisked away the buffet food. Most people like to eat and drink and go back for seconds, but there was no chance. There was also a lot of complaints that they were taking half drank drinks. That’s no bueno when you’re paying an arm and a leg for alcohol.
3) It became very clear WHY they were taking the food away so quickly when, the next morning, we rolled in for a Mother’s Day Brunch and they were serving the food from my reception the next morning! Low and behold, there was our baked zitti and mashed potatoes and God knows what else. What’s more, they wouldn’t even give us a discount for re-​selling our food the next morning!!! Or re-​using our centerpieces!
This place is completely shady and takes severe advantage of their customers. I wouldn’t expect places in the city with higher stars on their restaurant descriptions to do this to their people and I certainly wouldn’t expect my home town to take such advantage of two service members. Stay away from this place, you can find something better in Binghamton and certainly more reasonably priced.

Weve been here twice; once, last summer for lunch, and again this past Saturday night, for dinner. Honestly, the main reason we returned was because my wife found a
$ 20 free coupon.
The establishment is really three different venues… a bar, a dining area, and a banquet hall. I can sat the banquet hall looks very nice and would be a great option for post-​nuptual receptions. The bar? Can’t say. The Tea Room dining area has two rooms, about 12 tables, plus some outdoor seating. The main room’s décor is a tad bland, with frosted glass windows that look nowhere… and as I remember from last visit, for a smaller dining area, the volume of the music– classic rock– was oddly loud. The rear, smaller dining room exits to the rear deck area, which contains 4 more tables and overlooks the D&L railroad tracks. If railroads are your thing… you’ll like it. Tonight, the deck smelled like the burning trash and plastic the neighbor across the tracks was burning.
The menu was pretty broad in its offerings, and was themed in 1920-​s personas. When the manager told the neighboring table that they had a newly-​hired three-​star chef in the kitchen, I was hoping the food would be a bit livelier than our previous visit. In fairness, it was, to some degree. The chicken bruchetta was decent, and my wife’s crab cakes were decent. Mom’s salmon had too much butter sauce on it, and likewise, the vegetables were soaked in butter, and my mom– in her septagenerian wisdom, noted that the salad was from a bag… whether this is true or not, who can say. Service was good. Prices were $ 14 for two crabcakes/​veggies/​salad; $ 15 for chicken bruscetta with the same.
Overall, decent. A-​ok as in «eeh, ok»…not, «A-​OK! (with accompanying enthusiastic thumbs up)». I’m not sure the second service would bring me back… or, at least, not without a doubletakedeal coupon! If you offer it, they will come!