I give a one star review because the concept this place attempts was poorly executed during my visit and the Farm House had sub par customer service to boot. I received the impression the food here was a few notches less than their attempt at casual/upscale American and was cloaked in golf club pretention. I unfortunately will not be coming back and did not feel the hike to Skippack was worth it. I left feeling BAD for spending a Friday night here!! I do not recommend this place to anyone who dines out frequently and can recognize well-executed food.
Caesar salad: under seasoned dressing and improperly broken down salad. There was head of romaine in the mix. Forgiveable, but still not tasty considering the salad and the dressing ARE the dish. This is a basic litmus test for an American restaurant just like general Tso's is for a Chinese place.
Crab and avocado salad on special: this came out with the avocado molded into a tartare patty-esque shape, with some crab on top, with a salad in some citrus vinaigrette on the side. I really thought I would love this dish since I love every one of the ingredients individually. This dish was actually an interesting concept but was lacking flavor. And I found an external avocado nub hidden in the tartare....by biting into it. The crab wasn't truly lump crab. You know, that beautiful clunky white stuff, but some tasteless, pulled apart, gray stuff. The avocado tartare was tasteless too and hard to eat. And the vinaigrette was too sparse to break up any of the rich avocado flavor or fix the crab blandness. The pit was unnerving to find and the icing on top.
The chicken carbonara was actually made with rotini pasta, not gemeli as advertised in the menu, though this is not a big deal. The dish was tasty and passable except halfway through, we discovered a hair. This dish was sent back and we received zero apologies from the staff.
The lobster ravioli filling was tasty, but it was engulfed by a thick, dumpling-like shell which overwhelmed the insides and defeated their luscious purpose. Sauce was zesty and nice. This dish was edible, but would have been much better if the pasta dough was less thick and enabled the gourmet stuffing to speak.
After all of this, the chef comes out and offers us free dessert. No thanks as weren't sure how we would be disappointed by it and at this point wanted leave. We felt he was a little out of touch with the experience from our perspective, and did the right thing by coming out, but the wrong thing by attempting to fix dishes with dessert instead of a discount or comp.
We had to hassle them to remove parts of the check and were surprised after all of that they didn't without us pointing it out. If it were another place they would have profusely apologized for such a terrible experience just in individual dishes, but overall, and not attempted to make the customer pay anyway.
Atmosphere got busy as the night went on. There was a live band in the bar area. The dining area is freshly painted and pretty standard. Beige walls, with some reddish-painted molding mid wall and top and bottom. Pictures frames with gold frames. Hardwoods covered by rugs. read more