One of my favorite parts about working at The York Daily Record/Sunday News — and no, nobody’s asking or hinting for me to write this — is that we photographers also do the art for our other publications. Like Smart Magazine. And Spaces (another magazine). And FlipSide.
FlipSide is a weekly arts/living/food/features pub that’s inserted into the paper every Thursday, and for today’s edition, I was assigned to shoot the art for the centerfold “Date Night Guide.” So I went to Glen Rock Mill Inn on two separate occasions to make pictures of the nighttime dining experience.
The first night I went — a Thursday — was rainy, which was great for some exterior shots but not much else.
© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. This photo didn’t run – obviously.
So I returned on Saturday and got to make some pictures before the rain came and chased any would-be patio diners indoors. This photo ran on FlipSide‘s cover:
© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. (Left to right) Fred Cockey of Seven Valleys and Roland Miller of Monkton, Md., listen as their wives Carolyn Cockey and Patricia Miller chat while waiting for their food in the patio of Glen Rock Mill Inn on Saturday, June 11, 2011.
Check out the full Date Night Guide write-up, too.
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Wow that place looks really nice, great job Chris!
The Mill is old and unkept. Needs some love to be a nice place. I will never go there again.
Chef Matt is an asshole. I was there for dinner, and the chicken I ordered was overdone and dried out. I was told that it couldn’t have been cooked more perfectly.
For about 3 years now, we’ve been going to the Mill once or twice a month for dinner, sometimes just drinks and munchies in the bar. I can only think of a few times when service was slow, due to being extremely busy and/or shorthanded. Our food has always been very good.