Ferndale Inn

Great food & great atmosphere! Celebrated my bday there and they took my two year old son back to the kitchen and let him serve me my bday cake with candle! So sweet and really appreciated the extra effort and special touch. Great service!

Higher end restaurant, but the food is wonderful and reasonably priced for the menu. Great service. We go several times a year, mostly on special occassions, and I would recommend them without reservation. Best in its class in the area, IMHO.

The best restaurant in upper bucks. If you are in the area this is the place for a meal. The food and drinks are first class. Rob will take care of you in the restaurant and Tammy will take care of you in the bar. This is where the locals eat and bring their friends. Karen is a great cook and everything is made fresh.

Awesome place hidden. Only locals know about it but it is often packed. Good food good service

Every time I am in town I go here. Amazing food from the zucchini bread to the fresh selection of entrees. I always get the crab cakes that are so delicious and my boyfriend gets the prime rib which is always cooked to perfection. The portions are a good size and the sides an appetizers are a great addition. The staff is always so responsive, helpful and attentive to your every need!

In my opinion this is one of the best kept local secrets. We’ve been going there regularly for more than 10 years and it’s always been great.
They’ve managed to stay passionate about serving great food, at reasonable prices, with a caring a friendly attitude.
The bar is a local hangout of sorts and can fill up quickly on a busy night.
Whether you’re visiting the area or residents, you can’t go wrong for a lovely Bucks County dinner than the Ferndale Inn.

Went back June 2014. Still excellent. The ONLY downside was that the bread was stale. Otherwise, I would have given 5 stars. Service was excellent, my crab meat was excellent. Would order it again.

Really nice atmosphere and food. My husband and I had a drink in the bar while we waited for our table. There were no seats available so we just stood. The people sitting around the bar were obviously all regulars and were having a good time. After a few minutes a man stood up and offered me his seat while he walked around and talked to his friends. So nice! We had a delicious dinner in the dining room, the potatoes au gratin were amazing!
Next time we will eat int he bar with all of the friendly regulars.

A quaint country restaurant. The food is absolutely fantastic with huge portions for even the hearty eater. We dine here frequently and never get tired with the variety of menu and specials they provide.

My first experience at the Ferndale Inn was very positive. It’s a quaint old building and the inside is nicely decorated with lots of paintings. It’s a spacious place so the tables aren’t on top of one another as is sometimes the case at older inns. We were seated by the host immediately upon entering (we had a reservation) and he took a drink order from us right away. They had a younger server filling water throughout the night, so that was always taken care of.
The food was excellent. I had the scallops and my husband had one of the Inn’s specials that night which was called the Hunter’s Plate and he loved it. It included pork and spaetzle as the main features and was perfectly done. We split an apple crisp for dessert and it was good, but nothing too out of the ordinary. Overall, we enjoyed the food, atmosphere and service. The only minor service snafu we experienced was in between the time we received our first round of drinks and ordered. The wait was so long that we asked the person who refilled the water to send our server over. The water re-​filler came back a moment later and said that the server was delivering food to the table and would be right over (she was very polite). When the server did arrive, she apologized for the long wait and service was good after that. I think the issue wasn’t so much an issue with the server so much as the staffing. It seemed like a pretty busy night at the Inn and I think they would have been better off to have another staff member available for waiting tables.
So, all told, we would go back. It’s way out on 611 north, so especially this time of year, it’s a beautiful drive. Dinner at the Ferndale Inn would be great end to a day spent in Doylestown and Upper Bucks County.

We ate at Ferndale Inn tonight and my husband I both thought it was mediocre at best. The staff is young, not particularly knowledgeable, but polite. We started with corn chowder, which was didn’t have the layered flavor I’d expect and was heavily based with potatoes and thickening agents (cornstarch/​flour). The skirt steak was good, but the pork tenderloin really lacked flavor and what a miss by not seasoning and crisping the outside of the meat. The baked potato had been reheated and was dry and the steamed veggies were just that. I will say the chocolate covered strawberries gratis that came with the check was a nice touch.

Excellent food. Seriously.
AND… they offer takeout!!! This is actually the closest restaurant to me, which is convenient :)
I do like the atmosphere… it’s nice but yet casual. I guess it’s because for the prices, people think they have to dress and act more formally, haha. Visits average about $ 50/​person.
Service is superb. What would make it a 5 star? Friendlier staff. The only thing stuffy about this restaurant was the staff. It’s okay to laugh and smile, people!

Have to agree with Martin — the Ferndale Inn somehow manages to be a place where evening dresses and suits with ties can mingle appropriately with tourists stopping by in shorts and T-​shirts, but no one feels out of place. I’m sure it has to do with the amazing food — not cheap, but completely in keeping with the rest of the area, and FAR better in quality and flavor than most — and the friendly staff that goes out of its way to make everyone feel welcome and appreciated.
It’s a fine dining establishment, owned and operated by a CIA-​trained chef who’s nevertheless friendly and accessible. You can often find Karen mingling in the dining room a bit. It’s not a sports bar, so don’t look for TVs or video games. This is a place to come when your focus is on food and good conversation in a warm atmosphere surrounded by beautiful original paintings by the owner’s accomplished father.
Ambience, though always nice, changes with seasons and times. In spring, it’s mostly locals running the gamut from informally dressed folks who just want to enjoy some great local food and generous drinks in the old tavern-​style bar. From Memorial Day to Labor Day, it gets busy with a regular stream of tourists who’ve heard about Chef Karen’s wondrous ways with pasta & seafood (but there’s so much more on the menu, not a single bad option). Fall is a mixture of locals and late vacationers and leaf-​peepers. And Winter brings the locals out for some company when they get cabin fever, along with those on their way to or from the Poconos ski resorts. During warmer weather, check their website — you may find yourself being treated to some live, low-​key jazz from the Eric Mintel Quartet — the perfect way to extend a truly enjoyable meal into a long afternoon or evening with friends.

We eat at Ferndale Inn several times a year and have been doing so since moving to Bucks County many years ago. The food is always consistently well-​prepared and delicious. The menu is selective but covers most of what one looks for when dining at a fine — yet casual — restaurant. You can dress up or down and feel comfortable here. They have a lovely dining room or you can sit in the bar area where it can be a bit noisy but in a fun kind of way. I always get the duck — or the curried scallops if they have them. Good and reasonably priced wine list.

Some places that are really old stay in business mostly because they are really old, and not much else. Fortunately, that’s not the Ferndale Inn. Here is a place that has earned its longevity by providing a place that is both dignified and friendly, a rare combination that is all too lacking in places that have a long history. My wife and I went there for a special night out, a place where we could dress a little nicer and eat a little slower than we would with the kids. Everything was good — the food, the service, the ambiance. In some ways I felt like I had gone back to a more civilized era, one where men stood up when a lady entered. But it’s not a stuffy place at all. The menu is adventurous in places, and even on the edge of trendy. We really liked the place and would go again.