The House of Blues has a Gospel brunch on Sundays. Great music and the food isn't bad either. Its a good idea to make reservations a week in advance. ***************************************************************************
Boston, MA
Brunch in Boston
Stuart L. wrote:
For fancy bruch (Sunday) try Hyatt Cambridge, or Mariott Copley Place. Both are about $19.95 a person - and great food!!!
Here's another plug, for a recommendation that I got off ne.food:
Turner Fisheries in the Westin Hotel in Copley Square. It cost about
$22 a head, but it was worth it...quite an experience to stand there
with a plate in your hand saying, "Hmm, I wonder if they have any--"
and then see whatever it was you wanted. And then doing it again, and
again, and again...
Another good option, if you want a long schmoozy sort of meal around
brunch time, is to go to Chinatown and have dim sum. China Pearl is
tops in my book, but I've heard good things lately about the Imperial
too. New House of Toy, alas, is gone - replaced by a Japanese
restaurant, if you can believe that.A wonderful brunch experience is the Gospel Brunch at the House of Blues in Cambridge. The brunch is in "sittings" and they do have reservations but it is not necessary. The sittings are about 3 hours in length. One half of the brunch is for eatting and the other is for handclapping, stomping and singing. This is quite an experience for anyone. Karen Christians reply to
This is a heck of a time to remember to post this, but use the info for next week. If you are in the Boston area, try the Westin Hotel Turner's Fisheries for brunch. It is sensational!!It costs about $20 per person, and you can eat wonderfully prepared food, raw seafood, chowders, etc. until you burst. Janice
Janice S. wrote: > If you are in the Boston area, try the Westin Hotel Turner's >Fisheries for brunch. It is sensational!! The Marriott Long Wharf also does a really nice brunch...
Someone wrote: :I could bang my head all day trying to recall the name, but :the place above The Bull & Finch (Cheer's bar) has a great Sunday brunch. : :What's the name --- Bostonians ???? The Hampshire House.--Rob
The Frog and the Peach in New Brunswick NJ is pretty good most of the time, though I'm not wild about their winter menu, which draws on Germanic influences.
I've had consistently excellent food at the Green Gables in on Centre St. in Beach Haven. (That's on Long Beach Island, for the geographically challenged.) You don't order, they just bring you one yummy dish after another. About $50/pp bring your own wine, never been disappointed.
Someone wrote: >From: [email removed] (avram.r.vener) >Subject: very Fine Dining in New Jersey (NJ)- Where? >Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 04:49:03 GMT >Hi, >I've just won a Dinner For Two from my company which will basically let >me voucher a disgustingly large sum for a twosomes dinner at a >restaurant of my choice (or I can buy new tires...they really don't >care how it is used...) In any case I'd like to get some reviews >from people who have had Fabulous Dining Experiences in any NJ rastaurant. >Please give the location along with the name. If you have rapturous >memories about a place, I'd like to hear 'em :-) >Thank you. >Rudy If you like Italian restaurants, Alfonso's in Teaneck is very good. I went there with my fiance, his brother and his brother's wife. The food was so good that it immediately became our favorite restaurant. This is a very big compliment since my fiance and his brother are first generation Italian-American and tend to be very picky about eating Italian food in restaurants. Also the Sicilian Sun in Ho-Ho-Kus is very good, but they don't have a liquor license so you have to bring your own. (I think Alfonso's has a liquor license, but you might want to check that.) I hope you and your guest have big appetites so you can run up the bill!! Have fun! Susan
The Iberian Peninsula is a great place for Portugese Rodizio. Rodizio is a medly of skewered meats. They are braught to your table one at a time. This is a accompanied by black beans and spinich or kale. Its fun and tasty and they keep coming back until you say stop. They are located on Ferry Street in Newark. Park and Orchard is an exlectic natural food restaurant in East Rutherford. Its intresting and uneque and has quite a following. If you are into wines the owner is a connoisseur and the place is always crowded. These arn't fine dining but they are fun and good food. for fine dining I would recommend any of the three restaurants owned or operated by the Knoweles family. They are all well known three and four star restaurants and have wone many awards. The Rams Head in Absecon, The Manor in West Orange and the Highlawn Pavilion also in West Orange. The Highlawn pavilion is on a mountaintop overlooking the New york skyline the food is good and the view fantastic.
Highlawn Pavillion in Upper Montclair NJ is WAY good. It is also quite expensive, ah but it is worth it. Fantastic 180 degree unonstructed view of NCY, elegant dining room and excellent service. Try the duck with cranberry and pineapple with a nice cabernet. This place was a winner all the way from the coat check girl to the bus boys. This is one of the best restaurants I have ever eaten at. I found it far superior to mil fleur (sp) in Rancho Santa Fe CA. which the locals here rave about.
SteveTimothy B. wrote:
>influences.
weve never been there,but la fontana in new brunswick is supposed to be great.The two best restaurants in New Jersey are White House Subs in Atlantic City and Webers Drive In in Cherry Hill. The other best restaurant is Anthony Wayne on Route 46 in Wayne, NJ. It's been my experience that there are no other good restaurants in New Jersey.
>Someone wrote: >The two best restaurants in New Jersey are White House Subs in Atlantic >City and Webers Drive In in Cherry Hill. The other best restaurant is >Anthony Wayne on Route 46 in Wayne, NJ. It's been my experience that >there are no other good restaurants in New Jersey.> I go to Morristown NJ every so often for business... I _love_ "Il Mondo Vechio" in Madison for Italian. They do not have a liquor license (but, conveniently, there's a liquor store on the next block with a nice selection of wines...) but they let you bring in whatever you want to drink (they supply you with the ice buckets and pour...) The food here is wonderful... Olga
Holly M. wrote: >From: [email removed] (Holly Moore) >Subject: Re: very Fine Dining in New Jersey (NJ)- Where? >Date: 23 Mar 1995 14:44:22 GMT >Yo Larry - >I'll confess. I have not eaten in every restaurant in New >Jersey. White House Subs, Weber's and Anthony Wayne may not be >the only decent restaurants in the state. I just haven't found >any others. >For one thing, Jersey restaurants are mostly patronized by >suburbanites. That, alone, is often enough to kill the dining >out occasion. . >Then there are the diners. Thanks to the Philadelphia's Melrose >Diner, we city folk know what diners are about. Real diners >don't have salad bars. Real diners don't have cocktail lounges. >Diners don't have ferns. Real diners don't attempt to serve the >cuisines of the world. South Jersey diners have gone through an >unfortunate metamorphosis. While their owners surely believe the >diners have evolved from sow's ears to silk purses, in fact, >they've taken the classic Chevy Impala and transformed it into a >gaudy Ford Edsel. They've hired interior decorators, quadrupled >the number of seats, thrown in slews of plastic plants and miles >of wood grain formica, and in the process have forgotten the >importance of fresh food, freshly prepared. >So where are these fine Jersey restaurants at which you dine in >peace? >Holly Well, you "city folks" (I use that term lightly since Philly is a second rate city hopelessly aspiring to obtain some sort of credibility) don't know everything about diners. For instance, the Bendix Diner is the epitome of what a diner was meant to be. It is located on Rt 3 in North Jersey and always has dozens of trucks parked outside. And as they say, if you want to know where to get good, hot food, ask a trucker! Incidentally, this is not one of those diners that was built to look like a 50's diner, such as Jackson Hole Wyoming in Queens, but it's been there for years. As for your question about where are those "fine Jersey restaurants", if you've been reading any of the posts in this thread you would know. And if you have no interest in really finding out (as seems to be the case) why don't you just stay and dine in your "city" and save yourself the toll and gas money. Susan
The Dining Room, The Hilton at Short Hills in Short Hills, NJ -- New Jersey's only AAA Five Diamond restaurant. Great food, excellent wine list -- if you don't mind the prices $55 three course prix fixe
-> From: [email removed] (JJK)
-> Subject: Re: very Fine Dining in New Jersey (NJ)- Where?
Holly M. wrote:
-> >
-> >Yo Larry -
-> >
-> >I'll confess. I have not eaten in every restaurant in New
-> >Jersey. White House Subs, Weber's and Anthony Wayne may not be >the
-> only decent restaurants in the state. I just haven't found >any
-> others.
Is this the Anthony Wayne on US 46 in Wayne? We live 15 minutes
from there and last ate there 3 years ago, it wasn't that good. But if it is the same, did you know that actor Michael J. Pollard's parents once operated it over 30 years ago. (Who is Michael J. Pollard you ask, well he played the goofy guy in Bonnie and Clyde for one credit).
Rich Dean
-> >Then there are the diners. Thanks to the Philadelphia's Melrose
-> >Diner, we city folk know what diners are about. Real diners
-> >don't have salad bars. Real diners don't have cocktail lounges.
-> >Diners don't have ferns. Real diners don't attempt to serve the
-> >cuisines of the world. South Jersey diners have gone through an
-> >unfortunate metamorphosis. While their owners surely believe the
-> >diners have evolved from sow's ears to silk purses, in fact,
-> >they've taken the classic Chevy Impala and transformed it into a
-> >gaudy Ford Edsel. They've hired interior decorators, quadrupled
-> >the number of seats, thrown in slews of plastic plants and miles >of
-> wood grain formica, and in the process have forgotten the
-> >importance of fresh food, freshly prepared.
North Jersey diners have been like that for years, where elese
can you order a full course dinner at 3 am with items to pick from like prime rib or surf and turf?
In response Jen wrote:
-> Go North, woman!
->
-> Diners: Matthew's Diner, Waldwick
-> Tiffany Diner, Rt. 17S, Ramsey
->
-> Fine Restaurants: Claude's HoHokus
-> Park and Orchard, E.Rutherford
->
-> Good (unpretentious) Restaurants: Sicilian Sun, Hohokus
-> Marra's, Ridgewood
-> La Trattoria, Ridgewood
->
-> There's a short list to start you off, happy eating!
->
-> Jen
Some more excellent places, not too expensive are:
Diners: Pompton Queen, Route 23 north, Pompton Plains
Tiffany Diner, Route 46 west, Pine Brook
Butler Family Restaurant & Diner, Main St., Butler
Good Restaurants:
Bernhard's Red Mill (Austrian), Route 23, Wantage
The Phone Booth, Route 23, Hamburg
Miranda's, Route 23, Wayne