My
spouse and I dined at Cheers American Bistro for brunch on a Sunday morning in
late October 2016. We stayed at the Doubletree Reading the previous night, and
as Hilton HHonors Diamond members, breakfast/brunch was complimentary with our
room stay. Cheers is open daily for breakfast/brunch, lunch, and dinner. You
can park in the hotel’s attached parking garage if you dine without staying at
the hotel.
Cheers
occupies a ground-level space of the Doubletree overlooking Penn Avenue. The
attractive expansive space features 25+ foot ceilings and rustic, urban
decorative touches. Seating is available at regular tables, booths (open on
both ends so that no guest is trapped along a wall), and tables that share a
banquette on one side. You can also choose to dine in the bar area. On event
nights, the hotel sets up an auxiliary bar in the lobby to accommodate overflow
guests when the formal bar and restaurant are full. In nice weather, you can
dine outdoors on the sidewalk area in front of the restaurant. A private dining room/meeting room can
be rented to host special events for up to 100 people, or you can also reserve
the Cheers bar area to host events for up to 20 guests.
Cheers
serves American cuisine, and the lunch and dinner menus are similar, except that
the number of main dishes doubles at dinnertime. The menu includes starters
(wings, tacos, flatbread, charcuterie, most priced around $10), soups, salads
(most at $9), burgers and sandwiches (most at $12), sides ($5), and entrees
(filet, duck, short rib, red snapper, crab cakes, tuna, salmon, with many
dishes priced in the low $20s). Cheers also offers 24-hour room service.
We
visited for Sunday brunch, and the all-you-care-to-eat buffet area (located in
its own dedicated room off the main dining area) offers made-to-order omelets
and eggs, fresh fruit, cold cereal, hot cereal (oatmeal and grits), biscuits
and gravy, cold meats and cheeses, French toast, pastries, breads, and juices
(other than orange). Wait staff serves hot beverages and freshly-squeezed
orange juice.
