This is a fantastic restaurant that I've eaten at several times. The family that owns it is extremely nice, and they are extraordinarily talented at what they do. I apologize for not knowing how to spell any names.
All skills worth having are secretly just art, and all art is secretly communication, and all communication is secretly just math. And math just consist of proofs and proofs are just sources of epiphanies. Eating here causes epiphanies if you have the sort of mind that is likely to have epiphanies.
What kind? Lilly's cookies are correct, and they explain what everyone else whose ever made a cookie with fruit in it does wrong. I believe she uses cranberries not raisins, but that's not the important part. I realized when I tried Lilly's cookies that I'd never had a good oatmeal-raisin cookie before because all of the other ones I've had have been too sweet. When the raisins are sweeter than the cookie, the whole cookie just works better.
The first thing I learned from Philip: Philip has figured out that one way to have much better fish at an Italian restaurant, particularly much better scallops, is to just source them like you're a sushi restaurant. If you want to know why their scallops are so good, it's because they use the kind of scallops that are much more likely to be used in sushi than cooked in an Italian dish. I don't usually like scallops except at sushi restaurants, and talking to Philip I learned why that is. They have good scallops here.
Po Le doesn't realize how innovative he is. I had to eat here several times to figure out why they consider this to be normal Italian food that is not fusion. Their food is extremely good and extremely neutral. What does that mean? You know how British food is bland, that is because, British people try to cook neutral food, but they fail at it. The only people I know who cook good European food that tastes neutral cook Eastern European food, and are Jewish. This food violates some of Europe's strongest food taboos that are so ingrained in Western culture that I didn't even notice they were there. (That's what most taboos are like.) Philip tried to tail me it was just normal Italian food, not any fusion. When I raised my eyebrows, he asked me if I'd been to Italy, and then I explained to him how the combination of flavors in these meals did not match with any combination of flavors that I would expect to encounter in Italy, and he agreed with me that my description of differences were correct. I know. Italians spent much of their history trying to be as anti-Jewish as possible. That's a big part of European culture. This is what Italian food would have tasted like if Italians didn't spend most of their history persecuting Jews to bother to try any Jewish cooking. And it only seems Italian because it's Italian-Italian fusion in a Jewish style. This is aristocrat-peasant fusion. Once I finally figured out the range of meanings stored under "good Polish food" in my head, I was able to figure out why it tasted more like good Polish food, than Italian food. I strongly recommend this restaurant. At first when I tried the food, I assumed it was very, very hard to cook like this because I had never eaten food that tasted like it. But having gone home and experimented a little, I discovered that by just violating all my instinctualized pairings, I could also cook neutral food that tastes good after eating here. Also, ... on a related note... do you know who really, really likes to eat neutral-tasting food to show off how much more sophisticated they are than everyone else? Hereditary billionaires. This is what the food that hereditary billionaires eat taste likes. That's why British people are so fond of bland food; they're trying to pretend to be hereditary billionaires, but they don't know how because they don't realize that hereditary billionaires are always secretly bragging that thre
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Chris H
If you were thinking of between this place and another option, go for the other option. Not really sure how this place has a rating so high. Once my party and I were seated, it took the staff 20 minutes just to tell us the specials of the day and another 20 minutes just to order. Once we ordered, the food did not come out for another hour. What was supposed to be a 1.5 hour dinner turned out to be 2.5 hours.
Not only were we disappointed with the service, but also the food as well. I had the Bolognese, which was liquid-y, my partner had the Gnocchi that had no texture to it. That said, we barely touched our food. The only redeeming thing about this place was the Tiramisu.
Needless to say, look elsewhere and stay away.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
H L
I’d advise others to stray away from this restaurant. The service was atrocious. And to think that was bad, the food was definitely worse. Will not be coming back
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 1
Service: 1
Jess T
Sadly I had to cancel my reservation due to unexpected and unforeseen circumstances that I could not control, and they wouldn’t honor waiving the cancellation fee despite it was 2.5 hours prior to the reservation time. Apparently if within 3hrs they charge you. Really unfortunate - especially since it’s a first time offense. I will not be dining here in the future and will be sure to advise others to choose wisely.
Montana Graboyes
Went on Sunday for my husband’s birthday. The staff immediately made us feel at home. Some of the best restaurant service we’ve had in years. Above that, the food was great! I had the pho and my husband had the penne with shrimp. We both loved our dishes. They were very accommodating of my vegetarian diet. A local gem. We will be back.
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Tiramisu
Susan Wallace
I've always enjoyed the food and welcoming vibe from everyone at PoLe. I've recently gone for Pho on Sunday. The Pho is the best I've had in America and it's a great value as well.
Have had Italian and Pho. Best pho I’ve ever had. Stock is obviously carefully prepared. Meatballs are exceptional.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Rae Sung Jung
Thank you so much guys all ways great food and wonderful service. see you soon and have a wonderful night
Harris Walters
Last night was my first visit to Po Le. It certainly will not be the last. Service was excellent and not over bearing. The Caesar Salad was fresh and dressed just right. Main course was simply excellent.
My absolute favorite dining restaurant where the food has always been top notch. Po Le Cucina is my only go to place to take friends, family, and visitors to for a special dining experience. This is a must go to dining experience when you find your way to Spring House, PA
Clifford Ehrlich
Truly delicious food! Our waitress could not have been nicer or more accommodating! The owner checked on us to assure our complete satisfaction!We just had terrific takeout meal: Grilled calamari, marinated artichokes, perfectly prepared Dover sole, and homemade rum raisin gelato.We were back to Po Le Cocina again tonight. Fantastic fresh oysters; tomato, pepper ? and mozzarella: and the best sea bass ever!!We went back last Sunday, when the menu is Vietnamese Pho or Italian pasta. I had a perfectly done shrimp roll, followed by amazing vegetarian pho. It was truly a taste of Vietnam! My wife had Pappardelle Duck Ragu which was also yummy! You should definitely check out the Sunday menu at Po Le Cucina!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Andrew Chiang
3/31: I had a marvelous experience. Today I tried, I decided to order the Pappardelle Ragu, which featured duck and mushrooms. The sauce was a light creamy sauce with a very subtle note of tomato. To top off today's lunch - cranberry scones with elephant ear pastries (not pictured).----On sundays, they serve pho, and it's delicious. Gourmet food for a very reasonable price.The meatballs used in their pho stood out to me! We ordered spring rolls, and those were delicious as well.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Sherri Salamone
We were very disappointed. I ordered Chicken Picante - chicken was very dry and thick, and later that night disagreed with me.Our friend ordered a pasta dish. He was disappointed as the sauce was more a red thin broth. I think it was a special. Our meal started out well..fig appetizer was delicious. Bread was very dry and bland. Overall, we were very disappointed.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 2
Service: 4
Marilyn Padnes
Everyone loved their food. Expensive but delicious. Excellent service. The dover sole was delicious. The vegetables tasted like they were just out of the garden. The desserts were fantastic. Cozy atmosphere. Will return soon.
This is a fantastic restaurant that I've eaten at several times. The family that owns it is extremely nice, and they are extraordinarily talented at what they do. I apologize for not knowing how to spell any names.
All skills worth having are secretly just art, and all art is secretly communication, and all communication is secretly just math. And math just consist of proofs and proofs are just sources of epiphanies. Eating here causes epiphanies if you have the sort of mind that is likely to have epiphanies.
What kind? Lilly's cookies are correct, and they explain what everyone else whose ever made a cookie with fruit in it does wrong. I believe she uses cranberries not raisins, but that's not the important part. I realized when I tried Lilly's cookies that I'd never had a good oatmeal-raisin cookie before because all of the other ones I've had have been too sweet. When the raisins are sweeter than the cookie, the whole cookie just works better.
The first thing I learned from Philip: Philip has figured out that one way to have much better fish at an Italian restaurant, particularly much better scallops, is to just source them like you're a sushi restaurant. If you want to know why their scallops are so good, it's because they use the kind of scallops that are much more likely to be used in sushi than cooked in an Italian dish. I don't usually like scallops except at sushi restaurants, and talking to Philip I learned why that is. They have good scallops here.
Po Le doesn't realize how innovative he is. I had to eat here several times to figure out why they consider this to be normal Italian food that is not fusion. Their food is extremely good and extremely neutral. What does that mean? You know how British food is bland, that is because, British people try to cook neutral food, but they fail at it. The only people I know who cook good European food that tastes neutral cook Eastern European food, and are Jewish. This food violates some of Europe's strongest food taboos that are so ingrained in Western culture that I didn't even notice they were there. (That's what most taboos are like.) Philip tried to tail me it was just normal Italian food, not any fusion. When I raised my eyebrows, he asked me if I'd been to Italy, and then I explained to him how the combination of flavors in these meals did not match with any combination of flavors that I would expect to encounter in Italy, and he agreed with me that my description of differences were correct. I know. Italians spent much of their history trying to be as anti-Jewish as possible. That's a big part of European culture. This is what Italian food would have tasted like if Italians didn't spend most of their history persecuting Jews to bother to try any Jewish cooking. And it only seems Italian because it's Italian-Italian fusion in a Jewish style. This is aristocrat-peasant fusion. Once I finally figured out the range of meanings stored under "good Polish food" in my head, I was able to figure out why it tasted more like good Polish food, than Italian food. I strongly recommend this restaurant. At first when I tried the food, I assumed it was very, very hard to cook like this because I had never eaten food that tasted like it. But having gone home and experimented a little, I discovered that by just violating all my instinctualized pairings, I could also cook neutral food that tastes good after eating here. Also, ... on a related note... do you know who really, really likes to eat neutral-tasting food to show off how much more sophisticated they are than everyone else? Hereditary billionaires. This is what the food that hereditary billionaires eat taste likes. That's why British people are so fond of bland food; they're trying to pretend to be hereditary billionaires, but they don't know how because they don't realize that hereditary billionaires are always secretly bragging that thre
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
If you were thinking of between this place and another option, go for the other option. Not really sure how this place has a rating so high. Once my party and I were seated, it took the staff 20 minutes just to tell us the specials of the day and another 20 minutes just to order. Once we ordered, the food did not come out for another hour. What was supposed to be a 1.5 hour dinner turned out to be 2.5 hours.
Not only were we disappointed with the service, but also the food as well. I had the Bolognese, which was liquid-y, my partner had the Gnocchi that had no texture to it. That said, we barely touched our food. The only redeeming thing about this place was the Tiramisu.
Needless to say, look elsewhere and stay away.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
I’d advise others to stray away from this restaurant. The service was atrocious. And to think that was bad, the food was definitely worse. Will not be coming back
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 1
Service: 1
Sadly I had to cancel my reservation due to unexpected and unforeseen circumstances that I could not control, and they wouldn’t honor waiving the cancellation fee despite it was 2.5 hours prior to the reservation time. Apparently if within 3hrs they charge you. Really unfortunate - especially since it’s a first time offense. I will not be dining here in the future and will be sure to advise others to choose wisely.
Went on Sunday for my husband’s birthday. The staff immediately made us feel at home. Some of the best restaurant service we’ve had in years. Above that, the food was great! I had the pho and my husband had the penne with shrimp. We both loved our dishes. They were very accommodating of my vegetarian diet. A local gem. We will be back.
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Tiramisu
I've always enjoyed the food and welcoming vibe from everyone at PoLe. I've recently gone for Pho on Sunday. The Pho is the best I've had in America and it's a great value as well.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Pappardelle Duck Ragu, Risotto
Have had Italian and Pho. Best pho I’ve ever had. Stock is obviously carefully prepared. Meatballs are exceptional.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Thank you so much guys all ways great food and wonderful service. see you soon and have a wonderful night
Last night was my first visit to Po Le. It certainly will not be the last. Service was excellent and not over bearing. The Caesar Salad was fresh and dressed just right. Main course was simply excellent.
Food: 5
Service: 5
Amazing every time
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Restaurantji Recommends
My absolute favorite dining restaurant where the food has always been top notch. Po Le Cucina is my only go to place to take friends, family, and visitors to for a special dining experience. This is a must go to dining experience when you find your way to Spring House, PA
Truly delicious food! Our waitress could not have been nicer or more accommodating! The owner checked on us to assure our complete satisfaction!We just had terrific takeout meal: Grilled calamari, marinated artichokes, perfectly prepared Dover sole, and homemade rum raisin gelato.We were back to Po Le Cocina again tonight. Fantastic fresh oysters; tomato, pepper ? and mozzarella: and the best sea bass ever!!We went back last Sunday, when the menu is Vietnamese Pho or Italian pasta. I had a perfectly done shrimp roll, followed by amazing vegetarian pho. It was truly a taste of Vietnam! My wife had Pappardelle Duck Ragu which was also yummy! You should definitely check out the Sunday menu at Po Le Cucina!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
3/31: I had a marvelous experience. Today I tried, I decided to order the Pappardelle Ragu, which featured duck and mushrooms. The sauce was a light creamy sauce with a very subtle note of tomato. To top off today's lunch - cranberry scones with elephant ear pastries (not pictured).----On sundays, they serve pho, and it's delicious. Gourmet food for a very reasonable price.The meatballs used in their pho stood out to me! We ordered spring rolls, and those were delicious as well.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
We were very disappointed. I ordered Chicken Picante - chicken was very dry and thick, and later that night disagreed with me.Our friend ordered a pasta dish. He was disappointed as the sauce was more a red thin broth. I think it was a special. Our meal started out well..fig appetizer was delicious. Bread was very dry and bland. Overall, we were very disappointed.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 2
Service: 4
Everyone loved their food. Expensive but delicious. Excellent service. The dover sole was delicious. The vegetables tasted like they were just out of the garden. The desserts were fantastic. Cozy atmosphere. Will return soon.
Parking: Outside the restaurant.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Fish, Gnocchi, Spinach Salad, Seafood Ravioli, Dover Sole, Salad, Lobster Bisque
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