Parkside Hotel Restaurant & Bar — Restaurant in Derry Township

Went here last night with my mom who live a few doors down from the place. My mom and daughter are very fair skin, I am a very dark skin Puerto Rican. When we walked in and even my family knew the staff was looking and staring at the odd man out... ME. From the seat we were placed at to the food we were served were treated like lower class citizens. Mind you it is a seat yourself establishment but we were moved because he needed the table. The entire time. No one sat at the table we 1st picked, nor did he use the table for anything else. He just wanted to move us to a table near a neon light where he knew the table would be crawling with millions of gnats. They were crawling all over my arms and clothes. We moved ourselves again to an inside table where we waited for our cold extra greasy bowl of fries and onion rings. When I waited at the bar to pay the bartender she kept walking by me as I didn't exist. Her coworker told her that I was there and the tender was disgustingly rude, rolled her eyes and whole head to be exact and stared at me waiting. She didn't want to wait on me and having to made her ignorant show. Needless to say, just as disgusting as her attitude, was the old fries and old onion rings that they stuck back in the frier after sitting out for a long while. As if I didn't know. I'm not one to complain to a manager who is probably just as racist as their staff. So I wrote this review. All I'm saying if your a person of Color you will get 1980 something treatment. They'll tolerate you, because its the law, but they are wishing they could kick you out, so instead they'll make sure to give you the worse food and sit you in a gnat infested table and say... Is this table good? Would not recommend this place to people who have pigmented skin such as I. You will pay too much financially and emotionally for the aggravation.

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The family and I spent 2 days in Hershey and finally found the reason we came here; it was Parkside all along. This spot will now become a family tradition because it's absolutely perfect. The awesome atmosphere, the super-nice staff, the hottest jams and the food....let me tell you about the food, yall. This was the best food I've had in a long time -- appetizers AND meals. I tried the Parkside Philly (steak, bacon and marinara) and I'm certain that I will not have it any other way going forward. The fried broccoli/cheese bites and fried pickle spears were coated and fried to perfection...I've never had better fried appetizers in my life, for real. Their all-day, every-day special of Shock Top drafts for $2.50 ain't no joke, either...if I didn't have to travel the next day I would have had at least $20.00 worth of those bad boys after a long, hot day in the sun. To sum it all up, Parkside is an absolute gem and I'm so lucky to have found it; quite literally it's "the best food in town" just like the sign hanging out front says. God Bless...

I have to say that the last trip to Parkside in March 2022 was very disappointing to say the least - rude wait staff, cold, tasteless food…I swore I wouldn’t go back. Especially given how much I loved their food in the past

Thank god my fiancé wanted to give them another chance!! Brian the bartender was working (not the tip, just the finger, Brian!😉) I explained to him about the last time we were there and he made a sincere apology on behalf of the establishment, then knocked 10% of the bill!!

My fiancé ordered a cheesesteak and French fries - the cheesesteak was bursting with meat, the fries reminiscent of Ocean City’s Boardwalk Fries!!😋I had a BLT - that’s hard to screw up and I’ve had it happen before! THIS BLT had lots and lots of crispy bacon, juicy tomato and lettuce that was crisp and green. Delicious!!

So if you had a bad experience before, be sure to stop by and give them a try - ask for Brian! He is funny, courteous and compassionate and his sense of humor is...