Anniversary flowers in Yardley

Yardley has an odd advantage for an anniversary: almost every room worth booking here is older than the marriage. The Yardley Inn stands on East Afton Avenue where the road meets the river and the Delaware Canal, close enough to the water that the dining room is part of the reason people drive in from three counties. A hundred yards up the hill, Vault Brewing pours inside the old Yardley National Bank building and uses the bank's vault as a room. The Continental Tavern anchors the corner of North Main and Afton in a building that has been serving this bend of the river since the canal was working freight. Charcoal BYOB draws reservations from Princeton and Newtown into a borough of fewer than three thousand people. That density of old rooms in nine-tenths of a square mile means an anniversary order in Yardley is usually one of two jobs: a table or a doorstep. The doorstep is easier and, on a long marriage, often better — flowers waiting on the kitchen table when two people come back from dinner beat flowers a waiter carries over between courses. Decide which one you want before you order, because the two need different arrangements and very different timing.

If the plan is a night away rather than a dinner, the radius does the work. River Road — Route 32 — runs north out of Yardley along the canal past Washington Crossing and reaches New Hope in about ten miles, which puts the Logan Inn on West Ferry Street, serving since 1727, inside a 25-minute drive of Main Street. The Bucks County Playhouse sits on the river in a converted grist mill at the bottom of New Hope's Main Street, and a pre-show delivery is a genuine local tradition; Marsha Brown occupies a former stone church a block up the same street. Across the free bridge, Lambertville holds the Lambertville House on Bridge Street and Hamilton's Grill Room down by the old canal lock. Inland, the Brick Hotel on State Street in Newtown is five miles out, Peddler's Village and the Golden Plough Inn in Lahaska about thirteen, and the Washington Crossing Inn sits where Route 532 meets River Road. On the New Jersey side, the Nassau Inn on Palmer Square in Princeton is roughly thirteen miles, and Rat's at Grounds For Sculpture in Hamilton is nine. Any of those will hold an arrangement for an arriving guest if you call the front desk first — and calling first is the rule, not a courtesy. We deliver to the address you give us; we cannot promise what a room will accept.