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Brothers
Moon
7 W Broad Street
Hopewell, NJ 08525
609-333-1330
www.BrothersMoon.com
Chef Will Mooney is the co-owner and Executive Chef of
The Brothers Moon. He has an extensive background in fine food. A Culinary
Institute of America – CIA graduate, he has worked at The Hotel Pierre
(NYC), Forsgate Country Club, The Frog and the Peach, Stage Left, Patina
(Los Angeles), the Peacock Inn, The Stockton Inn, Wild Oats and Bon Appetit.
Brothers Moon is an 80-seat full-service restaurant featuring a seasonally
changing menu as well as daily specials. On the other side of the same
building is take out cases filled with the freshest salads, cheese, specialty
meats, olives and breads as well as special goodies from their ovens. Health
conscious and vegetarian foods are always available.
Brothers Moon has won rave reviews from papers, critics, the Zagat Report
and diners. One review sums it up: Brothers Moon glows with glorious cuisine.
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Catherine Lombardi
3 Livingston Avenue
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
732-296-9463
www.catherinelombardi.com
Catherine Lombardi Restaurant is owned by the same partners who brought us the award-winning Stage Left: Lou Riveiro, Mark Pascal, and Francis Schott.
This more casual and Italian American restaurant is named after co-owner Mark Pascal’s grandmother and is located on the second floor of the building occupied by Stage Left Restaurant. Both restaurants recently became among the first Green restaurants in the State with the addition of solar panels on its roof.
Opened in 2005, Catherine Lombardi Restaurant has won legions of fans and was named The Best Italian Restaurant and Best New Restaurant in the New Jersey Monthly Magazine Readers’ Choice Poll in its first year of business. The restaurant, which shares an extensive wine list with its sister restaurant Stage Left, also was awarded the prestigious Wine Spectator Award of Excellence.
The restaurant features two large fireplaces, an elegant bar and bar room and
21 new windows overlooking downtown. The windows along George Street and Livingston
Avenue offer a dramatic bird's-eye-view of The New Brunswick Theater District.
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High
Street Grill
64 High Street
Mt. Holly, NJ 08060
609-265-9199
www.HighStreetGrill.net
Our goal is to achieve and maintain the standards that
have always been important to us. Food quality, ambiance, efficient service
and creative wine offerings are our top priorities.
The High Street Grill is a friendly place where the locals can meet and
feel at home, where strains of blues and jazz fill the bar, where fine
dining aficionados will want to frequent, and everyone will enjoy a meal
at a fair price.
The restaurant has received high marks from the Artful
Diner of nj.com, the Trenton Times, diners, as well as the following review
from the Ed Hitzel's Restaurant Newsletter:
“The moment I walked through the door and entered into the lower-level dining
room/bar area, I suspected that something magnificent was about to happen. And
it did. The High Street Grill in Mount Holly is aptly named not only with regards
to its address but because the meals turned-out in this 150 year old establishment
renders an absolute and intoxicating high. Chef/ Owner John McDevitt performs
what can only be described as masterful feats when it comes to presentation,
creative pairings of ingredients, and in ultimately palate pleasing dishes.”
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Nomad Pizza
Hopewell, NJ
609-651-1974
www.NomadPizzaCo.com
There is pizza and then there is PIZZA. One taste of Nomad Pizza and you will see the difference.
Nomad Pizza features a traveling wood fired brick oven mounted on the back
of a 1949 REO Speedwagon truck. The brick oven is preheated for at least
5 hours to bring it up to the temperature needed to make the perfect pizza.
Owner Tom Grim, founder of the famous Thomas Sweet ice cream shops, uses only
organic, locally sourced and fresh ingredients including seasonal, home-grown
basil, herbs and tomatoes.
They make their own dough in small 5 lb batches
at least 24 hours in advance, allowing the dough to rise slowly during
refrigeration. Slow rising dough makes for more subtle and complex flavors.
In the tradition of Italian pizza making, they use few toppings. Tom focuses
on great crust, amazing tomato flavor, delicious locally made cheese, organic
extra virgin olive oil, sea salt and fresh basil.
The authentic imported
Italian wood fired brick oven achieves cooking temperatures of 750 to 1000
degrees. Each pizza cooks fully in 2 minutes or less. Hard wood, usually
cherry or apple, is used to heat the oven. The hard wood fire gives the
pizza a subtle and delicious smoky flavor. For fine pizza, there is no
other way to cook it.
Nomad Pizza makes every effort to be environmentally conscientious. Whenever
possible they source vegetables and cheese from local and organic farmers.
Buying from local farmers saves transportation fuel, supports the local
economy, and helps preserve New Jersey open space. Buying local also makes
for fresher and more delicious ingredients.
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Stage Left Restaurant
5 Livingston Avenue
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
732-828-4444
www.stageleft.com
The East Coast Food and Wine Festival is a great opportunity to sample foods from some of the best restaurants in the State. Stage Left Restaurant is certainly in this elite list. The restaurant was recently voted Best Overall Restaurant in Central New Jersey by New Jersey Monthly readers, sweeping almost all the relevant categories in Central Jersey. That’s more than any restaurant ever (except when Stage Left won six categories in 2004). The restaurant was honored with:
- BEST WINE LIST
- BEST AMERICAN RESTAURANT
- BEST BUSINESS DINING
- BEST DATE SPOT
- BEST BURGER
- BEST STEAK
Stage Left was also one of only 11 New Jersey
restaurants to be awarded the prestigious AAA Four Diamond
Award by AAA Clubs of New Jersey in 2009. Less than 4% of the
58,000 properties evaluated by AAA each year achieve this high
standard.
Lou Riveiro, Mark Pascal, and Francis Schott (also
partners of Catherine Lombardi Restaurant) opened Stage Left
in 1992. The restaurant offers upscale, contemporary American
dishes complimented by a 1,000 bottle wine list. The owners
are serious advocates of sustaining a healthy food system and
source as much food as possible from local venues.
Owners Francis
Schott and Mark Pascal area also known on the radio and the
Web as “The Restaurant Guys” (www.restaurantguysradio.com)
and can be heard every weekday from 11:00 am to Noon on WCTC-1450AM
in Central New Jersey. The show (and its podcast which draws
listeners from around the world) includes discussions and
interviews with famous chefs, restauranteers, wine and food
writers and critics.
Tre
Piani
Princeton Forrestal Village
120 Rockingham Row
Princeton, NJ 08540
609-452-1515
www.TrePiani.com
Tre Piani Restaurant has been in business since 1998 in The Princeton
Forrestal Village. The restaurant opened to acclaimed reviews under the direction
of Chef Jim Weaver, a New Jersey native. He has trained in Italy and the Caribbean
and led some of the top restaurants in New Jersey. Among the awards that he has
won are; Chef of the Year for 2002 from Share our Strength, 5 Star Diamond Award
from the Academy of Hospitality Sciences, Dirona-Distinguished Restaurants of
North America and stellar reviews from many newspapers, food critics, television
and radio hosts in New Jersey and New York. Jim also serves on the board of directors
for The New Jersey Restaurant Association, is the Restaurant Liaison for the
Governors Counsel on Tourism, is a director for The Hunterdon-Princeton Chaine
des Rotisseurs and is President of Slow Food Central New Jersey.
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