Baxter’s American Grille

Very good live music on Thursdays, Friday’s and Saturdays. Relaxing atmosphere… Music is never too loud. Food is the best around, get the wings :)

Baxters really is a three-​star place as another reviewer already mention but deserves for stars because frankly the food was great and the service/​bartender was outstanding. All Baxters really needed was a fun crowd. This bar has the makings of a great upper scale dive bar. It clearly has a following of the «older set. We were absolutely delighted to find out our friend Jeff Dominik was the guitar player so we had to come out and have a good bar food and great tunes. I am adding Baxters back to the rotation for sure. Can’t wait to try their lollipop lamb chops on the appetizer menu. I enjoyed the Philadelphia platter consisting of chicken salad and fried oysters.
Let’s keep this place alive… With some business

Very disappointed and hope they get back on track.
Will give it another try in a few months.
Once my favorite area tavern.

I enjoyed my meal, everything came out as expected. The waiter was nice during the meal. The food was nothing to shout for joy about, no character to it.
What really ruined my night, was the end of the meal. Right before getting the check the waiter and a hostess were venting frustrations within ear and eye shot. The waiter leaned over a recently emptied table and noted to the hostess «The D (meaning DIC*) left a blahblah tip on a big bill» (dont remember amounts). The hostess grunted and walked away. You should never complain in front of customers, vent in the break room. Especially first time customers who you just delivered the bill to… trying to get a big tip? Think again…
Also the hostess came back to the area, set a table. She dropped a clean napkin/​silverware on the floor and still placed it. Not very appetizing.
I won’t be returning. Also… some credit fraud was noticed on my account a few weeks later. The police have had a few complaints, all residents from the Philly area. This was ONE of ONLY TWO places that handled my card in a month. Not saying they did it, but be careful people… waiters/​waitresses can carry card scanners!

Met some friends here for lunch one day, purely for the convenience in location and because they had a couple of vegetarian options on their menu. While waiting for my friends, I ordered a Bloody Mary, which was the best part of the meal. They make their own mix, which was fantastic! The vegetable wrap I had was just okay, with not a lot in it as far as volume or substance, wrapped in a plain white tortilla. I had the option of having fries for an additional charge but just went with the chips instead. For some reason I assumed, not having read the description carefully, that the chips were house-​made like they are in so many other restaurants. They were not and I think came from a bag of Ruffles. All in all, very mediocre and I wouldn’t eat there again.
This also seems to be the local hangout for a lot of older people, and to give you a point of reference, my friends and I are in our fifties and were the youngest people in the place except for the staff.

This is a solid 3 start place but i am giving it 4 as the food I had happened to be excellent — but i ordered a special. Lobster Salad on an English muffin with hollandaise (from a mix? — I got it on the side and it came cold — so that part wasn’t excellent).
Very good service for a relaxing lunch. Not cheap — but not expensive either.
Medium price, medium food, and mediocre décor (needs a re-​fresh from 1992).
Lots of older folks eat here — but they often know where the nice quiet places are.
I will definitely be back.
Very good service from our friendly female server. (Can’t remember her name.)
And a full bar!

I’m still trying to figure out why my first review was removed. I love Baxter’s. The food is awesome and the staff is extremely friendly. They even hug the regulars on their way out. Ed the owner is always stopping by to make sure everything is just right. Always a great experience.

I will admit I have been to Baxters several times and have yet reviewed the place yet… my bad! The place is not much to look at, but they have great food and friendly service. Larry the bartender is always ready with a trivia question and really makes you feel welcome.
I have come with business colleagues for lunch about 6 times and have never been disappointed and I recommend the cheese steaks, chicken salads, and turkey plate. You won’t be disappointed if you look past their appearance of just another bar!

Cozy bar and grill with strong local following. Great steaks, along with a broad (if somewhat) standard menu selection. This is a nice place to go when your looking for a nice place to eat that is not your typical big box restaurant.

Food is good. People are friendly. But the music scene there is snoozeville. I’m tired of all the same acts. I swear that every place in Chester County only knows like 4 music groups. Free yourself from the tired music!!!

Lunch; Good Service, tasty food but SMALL PORTIONS for the Price…
I ordered the Roast Beef Carvery Sandwich with Cheese $ 9.50 and. Paid the extra $ 1.00 the fries instead of Coleslaw or chips. The sandwich was a small Club roll and maybe 20 fries. The plate was big with alot of open space. With an iced tea and tip, I spent $ 15.00 for a few fries and a tiny sandwich. Mind you it was tasty what I had, but not worth the price. I will go to the other baxters for a bigger sandwich and slightly lower price.

A group of four to six of us meets here once month or dinner. The food is usually just so-​so but something was different last night. I had one crab cake with sugar snap peas and cole slaw. The peas were cooked just right and the slaw was delicious. I don’t usually like fries but a friend had fries that tasted as good as they looked. The crab cake was just OK.
Service. No smile. Not very attentive. Ongoing experience here that the servers just arrive at the table and start talking without any sensitivity about the table’s occupants engagement with each other. It would help if the server would appear and pause for just three seconds to allow us to finish a sentence and turn our attention to her naturally. Aaarrrgghh! She can find this nine seconds in the time she saves by not coming back to offer refills on water and iced tea and coffee.
Yes. We ask for separate checks. Yes, it is annoying to server and it shows. What the server doesn’t realize is we do it for her benefit as one of our group is a very, very poor tipper and would bury her money in to hide that fact.

Obviously, this isn’t a place where you will get a three Michelin Star meal. However, for what they are, Baxter’s is a wonderful little place tucked away in Paoli. Their prices are reasonable, and even though, as some have mentioned, the food is standard pub fare, it is quite good.
Also, they have an awesome trivia night on Tuesdays!

Lizzie was a polite and attentive server. Our brunch was exactly what we ordered, served hot and flavorful, on a recent visit this past Sunday. Menu has standard fare nothing really jumped out but what our party ordered was executed well. It had been many many years since my last visit only because I don’t live in the area anymore… Brought back some memories. The décor is dated and «close» but our server was a pleasure to look at! Will I be back maybe some day but to many restaurants between here and home! We did enjoy though!

Seriously good down home food, you feel like your an American eating in there with meat and potatoes, chili, wings, and awesome french onion soup. It’s a nice laid back kinda place. Its always a little dark in there, I could definitely see a few people meeting there if they were having an affair type place, but it can just as easily be a great place to meet a business partner for lunch. I cannot speak for the bar, only the food, but I’ve been there dozens of times throughout the years and I’ve never had a bad meal. It is what it is… and that’s just plain good!

Baxter’s is the epitome of the age old question… if a mediocre bar fall in the forrest and no one is around to care… does it make a sound?
Baxter’s isn’t good. It isn’t bad. It just is. There are some things I like and somethings I don’t…but even those things I just don’t really care about too strongly. It is like when I walk inside all ability to give a fuzzy crap about anything just suddenly disappears… but not in a good way… in a very disorienting and upsetting kind of way… like seeing Tilda Swinton naked. It isn’t good. It isn’t bad. It isn’t hot. It isn’t not. It is just there.
The atmosphere is nothing special. Brown wood walls, Nondescript carpet that I don’t even remember the color. I think green. Who cares? I sat down to eat with my ex-​girlfriend. She had just gyrated half naked for a bunch of Elk Lodge hornballs from Cleveland. She was hungry. I was hungry. We had a very ho hum meal. I had prime rib, a specialty, and it was good. It wasn’t special, it wasn’t memorable except to say that I kind of remember liking it. I can’t tell you what Molly Mounds had to eat… but I remember her thinking it was okay.
Second time I just wanted a beer. It was a long day at the underwater basket weaving plant and my hands were killing me! I sat down at a table near the bar and waited 10 minutes to get my first beer and 24 to get my second. I asked for the check at the same time I ordered my second beer. In 24 minutes I should have at least 4 beers. Everyone walked around in slow motion. The energy sucking demon had possessed them so thoroughly I am sure that when they go home at night from their shift that there is a visible hole in their chest from where their soul has left their body.
To make the experience even more shallow… there was an older man playing a guitar that I swear if I stayed any longer I would have fallen asleep. I kid you not. He was like Dave Matthews less talented older uncle… if you can think of someone less talented than Dave Matthews. I know… it’s horrifying. But even that didn’t give me the ability to care. Normally i would have smashed his guitar over his head and been led out screaming until the police or the PCP got a hold of me.
Would I go back… I am honestly not sure. Dinner wasn’t memorable. The bar isn’t memorable. Right now as I type this I am wondering why I wasted the few minutes.
I want to feel something… anything…great…thanks Baxter’s…I guess it is back to cutting… I need to feel… I need to feel…

Baxters has the atmosphere where you will find the same people there everyday. I’m not saying thats a bad thing, it’s a nice laid back place where you can watch a game at the bar. I’ve had lunch their a couple times and although it sports a decent area for people sitting down to eat, the food is pub-​ish and greasy, which isn’t really my taste. I know plenty of people that enjoy Baxters, but it’s not first on my list for places to eat.