Joel Palmer House: Restaurant Review
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Joel Palmer House: Restaurant Review
Joel Palmer House: Restaurant Review. Linda and I have been wine tasting on a few different trips and the last one which was several years ago we went to the Joel Palmer House. Linda and I both love mushrooms and were in mushroom heaven. We decided to celebrate her birthday here and were excited to see if anything changed. Here’s a little history of the family I pulled from their website.
Joel Palmer House: A Family business
1916 -
The family business took shape in 1916 when Joseph Czarnecki, the great-grandfather of our current chef-proprietor Christopher Czarnecki, opened Joe’s Tavern in Reading, Pennsylvania. The simple menu catered primarily to Joseph’s fellow Polish immigrants and featured bowls of wild mushroom soup for 20 cents.
Joseph’s son, Joseph Jr., carried on the tradition but transformed the original tavern into Joe’s Restaurant, shifting the focus to fine dining and wine with wild mushrooms (a family passion and Polish tradition) as the centerpiece. He also adopted the European-style service charge, rejecting the inequitable, tip-based model of most American restaurants.
