Reading: Cheers American Bistro at the Doubletree Reading (October 2016)

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.

The brunch food at Cheers was good, and the dining room offered an attractive atmosphere in which to eat it.