Sergeantsville Inn — Restaurant in Delaware Township

7/10/2025 Update: We regretfully returned because we received a gift card and did not want it to go to waste. Bar tender was awesome this visit and the cocktails were good. There was no burger listed on the menu, but we asked about it and, surprise, it was available. This was the only part of our entire meal that was enjoyed. Clam appetizer was a very strange combination. Clams were not in their shells, full of sand, and were mixed with an excessive amount of chopped celery on top of a very soggy piece of bread soaked in a broth with a lip puckering, eye watering amount of salt. Did not finish the dish. Grilled mushroom appetizer was overcooked and just tasted like chewy charcoal. Sausage entree flavors were not cohesive, sausage, beans, chanterelles and roasted red peppers. Edible but disjointed in my opinion. We'd return for drinks at the bar, but the food is a massive disappointment especially at those prices.

10/4/2022 Update: Went back again, this time with my significant other for dinner. Overall, it was a decent experience but what keeps me from increasing the stars is that the overall dining experience and execution does not match the menu and its pricing. For the prices being charged one would expect a fine dining experience or something close but that is not the case. For example, we ordered soup, salad, and bread to start. Everyone loves crusty bread with their soup! Unfortunately, the soup arrived first and by the time the bread and salad showed up 10 minutes later the soup was consumed, or it would have been cold. There is no denying that the kitchen uses fresh high-quality ingredients, but we found a few dishes to be under seasoned and like my previous time here we ended up having to send a dish back to the kitchen. Considering we live so close we likely will be back, just hope that the wrinkles can be ironed out sooner rather than later.

8/25/2022 Update: Under new ownership since July and they are still figuring things out. Have only been back once since the change and it was just OK. I will give them another shot soon but am unable to recommend at this time.

We live right down the road and enjoy coming here for great food and drink. The building is rustic and inviting, the staff is always attentive and friendly. Tavern menu and full menu provide many great and creative options. The house special tomato bisque is fantastic. Ingredients are always fresh and prepared with care. Stop in to see this historic building and enjoy...

When reading reviews of this restaurant you should evaluate whether they are from before summer of 2022 when the restaurant assumed new ownership. The Old Sergeantsville Inn was beloved and received great reviews. The new menu under the new owners is completely different and priced considerably higher than it used to be. The owners are sacrificing the past regulars who have largely abandoned it in order to satisfy their ambition to make this a destination restaurant. Happily, they have not made any large changes on the inside or to the historic building, but there is a definite change in attitude--it is not especially welcoming--as I had experienced there on several occasions and again when I just ate lunch there this past week. There was terrible music blaring inside, so we opted to eat outside, finding that the music was piped out there too. Not the sort of music you would be forced to listen to at a fine dining establishment. The waiter hovered and kept interrupting us--easily 10 to 12 times during the course of the lunch. He has worked there since the takeover and his experience should have made him more sensitive to diners and when they want assistance. The menu was odd for lunch--there was little that I would naturally order for lunch; there were no lunch salads aside from greens (exorbitantly priced for essentially just greens), and no sandwich sorts of food, or lighter fare, with the exception of a hamburger. It appears to be just a version of the dinner menu, which has none of the old favorites, few light options, few interesting appetizers, and not much that is appealing in the non-meat category (fish/seafood). The overall menu is somewhat all over the place, and the restaurant appears to not know what it wants to be. We both opted for the lunch portion of the ravioli, which was indeed very good, as were the sides of grilled asparagus and lightly battered, fried onion rings. However, owing to the general attitude, the service, and the ambiance, the lack of interesting appetizers and lighter entrees, I am doubtful I will return. There is nothing on the menus that I would crave. Under the past owners, it was a place we frequented weekly, so I long for the days when the Sergeantsville Inn was a very personally welcoming neighborhood establishment, with very good food (at a reasonable price), a very diverse menu, and a warm atmosphere. It is not that anymore. For a fine dining establishment, it just somehow...

There needs to be an option for no stars…unless atmosphere deserves a whole star. However, I sure can’t eat atmosphere…

The new ownership/management has destroyed this long time excellent restaurant. If you like spending $60 per person for the amount of food good restaurants serve as an appetizer, with no drinks, no appetizers, no desert and all you care about is atmosphere or if you are trying to lose weight, this is the place for you.

My husband and I decided to try the “new” Sergeantsville Inn for my birthday dinner. I called ahead because I have food allergies and was assured that they would take care of me. I ordered monkfish for $33. Since there was no potato served (first strike against it) with it, I also ordered a side of french fries and water to drink. (They don’t serve baked potatoes😳). When the server brought my dinner, I was so shocked I was speechless… I was served a big white 95% empty plate with a 1.75 inch by 4 inch piece of monkfish with nothing else on the plate. Basically, 6 bites of monkfish for $33.. My $10 order of french fries was delicious…perfect french fries, if your stomach is the size of a squirrel's. It was maybe a half of a cup of fries in total.

I can’t speak for my husband's meal other than it wasn't exactly generous or worth what we paid for it. Our bill was well over $100 and we went home and ate crackers to fill our bellies.

The menu is ridiculously limited. The tavern menu through which every owner of the Sergeantsville Inn in the more than 30 years I have lived locally has served their local clientele with delicious, reasonably priced meals, is now basically the same as the dining room menu, price and all. I know a lot of local people who would go to Sergeantsville Inn regularly and eat in the tavern or tavern overflow AKA: the Library. Everyone I know who has gone there with the new management so far, tavern or dining room has said they will never go back. My husband and I are included.

I don’t believe the new management will be able to stay in business unless they expand their menu, greatly improve the quality of the food, greatly increase portion size and initiate a true tavern menu to serve what would be their regular, local clientele, if it was a decent restaurant. Perhaps the new owners can hire Joe an Lisa, the former owners as consultants to teach them how to...