Front Porch Cafe

Went for breakfast, got the French Toast and the girlfriend got the quiche of the day (scallops, asparagus, and portobello), everything was delicious! The sauce that came with the french toast was perfect, and I couldn’t get enough. The quiche was cooked extremely well, and had a delicious savory flavor. Will definitely come back.

Terrific lunch for three. Delicious burger, gourmet grilled cheese, chicken soup (really flavorful) and grilled pastrami. Cheesecake for dessert was rich and creamy and was generous enough for three to share. (All this for $ 45) We will definitely be back!

Stopped in on a Friday morning. Wait staff had not yet arrived so the chef took our order. Got talking about the habaneros growing in his kitchen garden and I asked him to throw one in my omelette. Delicious!
Classy place. Have only eaten breakfast there. Limited menu but all good. Especially good coffee.

Loved some things and some things were odd… Out of scallops and risotto at 7pm on a Saturday night. Repeatedly told the mashed potatoes our friends got was parmesan polenta?

We had a Baby Shower at the café this weekend for 64 guests. The staff was amazing and very helpful. They were gracious and worked very hard to accommodate my large party. The food was amazing and I love the look of the restaurant. You can only imagine the history in the building. If you need a great place to have an event please consider this restaurant you won’t regret it!

Very nice atmosphere with pictures of Paris throughout the downstairs room. The potato soup special was wonderful. Just the right consistency with chicks of potatoes and minced bacon. My seared scallops with farro was delightful. The scallops were seasoned well and the farro was cooked perfectly.
My husband was not as lucky. His tomato bacon soup was extremely thick. It almost seemed like it had been sitting on the stove too long. His swordfish was cooked well but underseasoned.
Dessert however was sublime. I would highly recommend the crème brûlée.
I would have given this restaurant 4 starts but my husband needs more convincing.

Finally got to go for dinner… special occasion :) 5÷30÷15
As you may know it’s BYOB, they provide an ice bucket with ice water to chill your bottle quickly.
To eat…
Maryland crab cakes with whipped (says purée on menu) sweet potato and I decided on zucchini. The crab cakes were {{fabulous}} and I’m very picky in fact… the fact I even tried the crab cakes shows a certain trust in this resturant. They did good. :) Obvious butter flavor in the sweet potato purée and zucchini which was grilled.
Sea Bass Special… He doesn’t remember beyond… It was good. hehehehe
Over all I think the staff was young and a bit unpolished, nothing particularly wrong just… a bit off. We checked out the second floor and one of the rooms look disheveled most likely a party cleared out and the room wasn’t put back properly… no one was up there we were just checking it out but I think it should have been tiddied up
Double checked… Saturday night piano player with a vocalist.

We two chaperones and five high school seniors stopped for dinner as we returned home from Baltimore. At first look, the menu was pricier than what we wanted. Some ordered appetizers, others, burgers. All of us were VERY pleased with our selections. Our server was very good. The bus boys were attentive, too. Linen tablecloths and napkins, were an indication of the fine creations from the kitchen. Best wishes as you celebrate your first year!

Great place for a variety of delicious food. Great service, friendly staff, wide selection of menu items.

We used Front Porch Café for a staff appreciation event for 100 people. Food and service was excellent. The chef is passionate about his trade and skilled at what he does.
The price was very reasonable considering that we had a cheese tray, appetizers, soup, multiple choices for the main entrée and dessert. I was blown away by the accommodations that were made for us.
The atmosphere is warm and a wonderful repurpose of a historic home.

Food was great, not many places like this in York. Server was charismatic and handsome. Will definitely be back.

Horrible service from Jordan. Food was great. Loved the building. He has no personality and rude. He rolled his eyes at us!

This is a wonderful old house that the owner fixed up as a café the food is nothing short amazing I had a short rib braised pannini with carmalised onions and arugula as a side a orizo pasta salad for desert I had a lemon creambrule I would definitely go back again

The atmosphere is charming, the food is delicious and the service is equally amazing.
This is a must try, for the foodies of York county.
Reservations are preferred

Tea and breakfast was a-​okay. Cheeseplate needs non-​deli cheese options and more choices with tea please. I’d love to try their dinner one day, but breakfast/​brunch needs a bit more paying attention to.

I absolutely loved this place! The food was incredible, and the service was great. The atmosphere is warm and welcoming. I recommend the sugar cookies for dessert!

We came for restaurant week. A great time to find and try new places. When we came in we where ignored and after a while asked by two different members of staff if we had a reservation. They had trouble finding our reservation. A server complained about not wanting us in her section because there where only two of us and she wanted more so that she could make more tips. In front of us!
I had tomato soup. Bland and I have made better from can and the same goes with the vegetable grain soup that my friend had.
I had a chicken pesto sandwich also bland. Couldn’t taste the pesto and the chicken was dry and over cooked. Friends sandwich was braised short ribs. All it tasted like was nasty fat.
We had long waits for our food and our water ran out. It was clear from the tables next to ours that we were not the only ones not enjoying our meal or lack of service. The unprofessional icing on the cake for me was a man who appeared to be at least shift manage calling out to us as we where leaving (half way out the door) thank you for coming. New and claiming to be upscale I expect more. Haven’t been back and won’t good back.

I brought my girlfriend here for a nice lunch. The lunch was delicious and our server Dan was great would recommend to anyone.

Not many quality BYOBs in York, so I’m glad this restaurant opened. I had their crab cakes tonight and they were amazing. $ 20 for 2 large lump crab cakes is a fair price as well. The décor is great, and the atmosphere is better that 99% of the eateries in York. The restaurant is handicap accessible, the food was great, and the staff was very professional.
I will definitely recommend the restaurant to other friends that are looking for a quality restaurant that has the feel of a Philadelphia BYOB.

My girlfriend and I had dinner at your restaurant a few weeks ago and were pretty pleased with the food but extremely disappointed in the service.
Our server got us our soup/​salad and entrees quickly but everything was downhill after that. We were told our options for desert were blueberry cobbler or cheesecake. We both enthusiastically said cheesecake and were really upset when we were told that they just gave the last slice of cheesecake to the table beside us. We were shocked that a popular restaurant would run out of something like cheesecake during Restaurant Week. We reluctantly took the blueberry cobblers and I only ate the ice cream since I hate blueberries and my girlfriend ate the very bland cobbler.
We finished eating our desert around 7:00. We didn’t get our check until 7:45 and that was after asking the waitress for it and waiting 10 minutes for her to «come right back.» While we were waiting to get our check, your manager was standing in the room having some small talk with another person, completely oblivious to everything going on around him. One of the members of our group saw our frustration and was kind enough to get the manager to help us at last.
As we were about to leave, the same gentleman who got the manger to help us asked for cheesecake for desert. I started laughing because I expected the waitress to say that they were out unfortunately. I was shocked when she said that they just had some come up and that it would be right out. I asked 45 minutes earlier and was told that you were totally out. Another diner in the same room asks 45 minutes later and all of a sudden you have an entire cheesecake. To say that I was a livid was an understatement. It’s not the cheesecake that I care about. It’s the principle and business practices of the Front Porch Café. You don’t offer something to diners in the same room that you denied to one just a table away.
I’m not sure that we will ever return to the Front Porch Café which is sad because we love to support local businesses like yours.