Charlotte’s Restaurant

What a pleasant surprise ! Haven’t been here in years but was able to get a Saturday night reservation. Everything was perfect from start to finish. The hot sampler appetizer took stuffed mushrooms, clams casino and shrimp lejon to a whole higher level. The steak and cake were cooked perfectly, so simple and delicious. Crab au gratin couldn’t have been done better. Prices were so reasonable, especially since the meal was so good. The staff was pleasant and friendly. We will be back !

Good food. Poor neighbors. They don’t shovel the sidewalk and they dump trash on our property.

I have been to Charlotte’s a couple of times now. Both times were a delight. I had the pumpkin crab cakes. They were delicious. Salad that comes with dinner was excellent. I would recommend a visit to Charlotte’s restaurant

Went there for the first time this past Saturday for a birthday lunch. The crab cake was delicious. I think it’s the best I’ve ever had. The menus were very extensive. Everyone was so nice and attentive. Will definitely be going back. I wish they were on Facebook. Thoroughly enjoyed the experience.

Went here with my family for my dad’s birthday. The service was excellent– everyone was so kind and making us laugh! Delicious food. I had the eggplant parm, which I am super picking about and usually only like it homemade, and it was AMAZING. Definitely coming back!

I have been going to Charlotte’s Restaurant now at least once a week, if not more. I go for their i incredible lunch specials. You receive two menus. One is for the actual specials, which consist of all different kinds of sandwiches and entrees. Depending on what you order, you have a choice of either soup, a fruit salad, or a vegetable, but if you order an entrée from this menu, along with the soup or salad, you also have a choice of a vegetable.
The other menu is huge and there’s a plethora of food to pick from: omelets, burgers, pasta, seafood, soups, appetizers, chicken, beef, etc. I tend to order an entrée from this particular menu, since this is the meal of the day for me. My favorites are the chicken entrees. They are all excellent. If you order from this menu, it’s as if you are eating dinner, because you get soup, salad, and one vegetable with the entrée. Sometimes, I don’t care for the soup that they are serving that day, so instead I’ll have two vegetables.
Great bread with both butter and their fantastic olive oil that comes from Greece are always brought to your table.
The service is immaculate and the waitstaff are VERY accommodating. Chris and James are running the restaurant and they are doing a bang-​up job. In my opinion, the food is better than ever. I have NEVER had a bad meal here.
Hats off to the chefs. A big thank you to Theresa, Matt, Phyllis, Gena, and Bessie for their considerate attentiveness every time I dine here. You make it worthwhile and are the reason why I keep returning.
So, if you’re looking for a great place for lunch or dinner (they’re open Monday thru Saturday), check Charlotte’s Restaurant out. You won’t be disappointed.

Wonderful dinner. Filet was fabulous as was everything else we ordered. Thanks Chris (owner) and Amy (waitress)!! We’ll be back!

The best crab cakes in the area! The place is dated but the theme is Victorian after a great grandmother. They are actually doing some work so no more shag carpet on the wall?!
The food is great and so is the service.

I’m from Maryland and new to the area it was a very snowy day and very limited restaurants were open we were warmly welcomed. Sirloin special was recommend. It was a great cut and cooked to perfection. Chef Jimmy came to our table and asked where we were from when we told him Maryland he offered us a complimentary crab cake to try it was delicious. Not your traditional Maryland crab cake but definitely delicious. Service was great and we found a new spot to visit

Go their once a month. Great service. Food is fresh, nicely presented, hot, and delicious. Very good comfort food with a lot of attention to detail. Service is excellent. It’s what fine dining used to be; cozy, friendly, satisfying, and special!

I don’t know how this restaurant averages 3.5 stars. The ambiance is nice. It is very cozy and warm. The salad was excellent as was the wine and bourbon & water.
The 8oz $ 38.00 Lobster tail was dry and if it wasn’t for the drawn butter; no taste at all
My wife ordered prime rib and it was served like a pot roast. Thought they had the
wrong order… If she wanted stew… it would have been a great looking stew.
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My wife had Shrimp Cocktail… a cup of beautiful shrimp… no taste at all. The vegtables (green beans and potatoes) Green beans… just green beans no taste no secret ingredients… just green beans… the potatoes… just plain old potatoes.
Bread…plain old bread. Appetizer was stuffed mushrooms… lot’s of crab but no taste at all either in the crabs or mushrooms. Wasn’t my taste buds because there were 4 of us at the table and we all ordered them.
It’s been about 10years since I was there last… looks like another 10.
Sorry
You need to prompt your chef to get some imagination.

Their fresh cut fries are to die for! Probably one of the best kept secrets in Newtown Square. Who would have though balsamic vinaigrette and blue cheese would go together? Obviously a genius.

Not surprisingly, I came to Charlotte’s for an 80^th birthday party. The restaurant has an ambiance that seems to cater to the… mature. It seems to be located in what used to be an old house, complete with a drawing room to wait for your table. There are magazines on the table, and it oddly reminded me of a waiting room at the doctor’s.
The menu itself is very seafood-​heavy, so if you’re looking for a nice crab cake dinner then this might be the place for you. I ordered the only vegetarian option, which was a spinach and cheese ravioli. The ravioli was good, but nothing earth-​shattering. It came with a salad, and they did carry raspberry vinaigrette (which many restaurants don’t carry any more). Seriously, what is that about? It’s the best dressing!
The staff seemed somewhat disorganized. They came to get our drink orders twice, didn’t know each other’s names when they went to introduce the other waiter, and made a lot of jokes that made them seem nervous, like they were trying to break the ice… even as we were getting dessert and coffee.
They did a nice job with the cake, bringing it out lit so that we could sing Happy Birthday, and then slicing it up for each person at the table. Then, they made a joke about shots of Jack that fell really flat.
Maybe I just wasn’t the target age group, but I’d probably pick something else if I were going out with a bunch of friends from my own age group.

Old school décor with modern classic dishes.
Yum: Hot sampler (bacon shrimp is awesome!), Trout good, Ahi tuna good.
It was Aight: Cream of broccoli soup, Sweet potato mash.
Your waiter: A bit strange, and not willing to man-​up to mistakes, keep a close eye on him.
Atmosphere: Intimate, good date place.
Value: Worth every penny, plenty of quality food for the buck.
I can tell the kitchen takes pride in the food and that’s why I’m there. Will return for sure.

Overpriced subpar food! Chose restaurant on a whim based on overall decent Unilocal reviews. First off décor was an outdated attempt at French Victorian comprised of flea market vases and paintings. Major updates are needed. Now on to the food… it was valentines day so menu was scaled down. I started with the snapper soup which was a brown gelatinous mess which had the consistency and taste of beef gravy. Disgusting! House salad with iceberg lettuce no field greens at this supposed fine dining establishment. Balsamic vinaigrette was watered down and bland. I had the swordfish which was blackened but salty. Haricot verts were mushy and laden with butter. My boyfriend’s prime rib was full of fat and gristle. Wait staff is very indifferent bartender avoids eye contact so your left waiting to order. Appetizer and bread plates left to pile up. I should have left after I overheard the lady at the next table say her stomach was bothering her. The worst dining experience ever. 2 people 3 drinks 2 appetizers and entrees with tip $ 125. So not worth it…

You have to like old world dishes to enjoy this restaurant, but if you do the food is good.
Service was very good and friendly. Snapper soup, which I love, was a little watery, but had good taste. The specials come with a lot of choices for sides so make sure you’re hungry when you go there. The Roast Beef was seasoned well and was juicy.
Not a lot of places serve this any longer. The crab speical was ok, could of used a little more crab, but outside of that the entire was good.
Thier food tends to be on the heavy side, but nice people and a good spot.
Plenty of free parking in the back.

All u can eat crabs every Monday!
One of the best values on the Main Line for a full dinner with specials.

They call it Delaware County’s best kept secret… which I can totally see. I came here with my large Italian family after a funeral, so we took up the entire back room which I believe they called the Peacock room. (I could be making that up, but I remember seeing a sign…) anyway that’s not very important.
The servers were all very nice and always willing to get us anything we needed. We had a banquet style menu. Started off with the escarole soup… aka Italian Wedding Soup. Yum. The tiny meatballs were good. Then we went on to the salad. And salad is just salad. Nothing special there. For the entrée I had the crab cakes. Not the best crab cakes I had, but the sauce they use was very good. I think the problem was they had too much breading. The sides were delicious. The almond string beans were so good. Probably because they are cooked in butter.
Speaking of butter, our table polished off 3 baskets of bread. Yay carbs!
For dessert, and this confused much of my family, my uncle chose rice pudding. I never had rice pudding before, but I tried it. It was creamy… and the cinnamon made it better. My one uncle at my table said he hated the cinnamon. I thought I didn’t have enough! So I guess to each his own on that one.
I think under the circumstances of the day (it was a funeral but also my birthday) it was a nice place to go for a big group of people. I don’t see coming back here unless we were in the area again. Still they did a good job and I would recommend it to others that are in the area.

Outstanding dinner with out-​of-​town visitors. We had a full table of nine, so it was a bunch. Yet the waitstaff did everything to make our dinner a memorable one. From the appetizers to the broiled mixed seafood platter I had that could have fed a platoon of Marines, it was succulent.
Yes, the décor probably dates to the Eisenhower Administration and seems anachronistic in today’s world of Swedish-​styled décor and modernistic inclinations. It needs some serious updating… But again, looking at the clientele, it was understandable. Amazingly so, the beers and wines tend do receive seasonal updates and we had some great Stella Artois beer on a seasonally warm day. Other than the outdated décor, the ambience was superb.
All in all, a super evening in a great place. I don’t think I’d make this a regular, it’s a bit stuffy décor-​wise, but for a once-​in-​a-​while dining outing, it’s superb.

I was debating giving Charlotte’s 5 stars, but I just can’t justify 4! Everything about our experiences here has been positive. The restaurant itself is charming, old fashioned and clean. All of the staff, including the dining room manager, Jim, has been more than kind to us. Our waiter the last time we went, JR, was a treat — bringing us anything we needed, consistently there to fill our water glasses, offering extras along the way, as well as chatting with us and cracking jokes late into the evening. I felt bad that we were his very last table left at 9:45, but he didn’t seem to mind one bit.
My boyfriend and I had come here once before for crab legs (they have snow crab and dungeness), and had vowed to come back for their Monday all-​you-​can-​eat crab night. It lived up to all the glory we’d imagined! The plates we started with had at least 3 – 4 huge clusters of crab legs, and they were prepared expertly, steamed to perfection, served with melted butter and steak fries (which I believe can be substituted). Boyfriend got 2 more big clusters before he threw in the towel. Before we even got our crab legs, we were served some incredible warm, crusty bread, olive oil and ratatouille, and we each got a salad that came with our meal. The house Greek dressing was superb! They seem to also have a great wine selection, though, I just went with the house Cabernet, which was great for me. I’d love to try a bottle there sometime, there were lots of great ones.
Everything about our dinners here have been fabulous, and even though the crowd’s a bit on the older side, I’d encourage young people looking for yummy crab legs to come on out. The two all-​you-​can-​eat platters came to less than $ 30 each, and they had no issues with us lingering over our drinks. I don’t think they are open too much past 10PM, so it’s more of a dinner time place, than a late night hub, but if that doesn’t bother you, check it out!