Help! Restaurants New Year's Day for lunch/dinner?

[mduda]

Hi everyone...

A last minute opportunity has arisen...Could the wise and kind minds here suggest a restaurant that would be open New Year's Day (preferably for lunch, but dinner is OK as a fallback plan) in the Montclair or Rutherford, N.J. area for a date?

Thanks for your help!

-Matt

Edited December 29, 2004 by mduda (log)

[Rosie]

Check Restaurant News on Table Hopping With Rosie.

http://www.njmonthly.com/rosie/rosiemain.html

[Curlz]

Matt-

Montclair is chock full of good restaurants...not sure about what's open on NYD, or what kind of food or atmosphere you're looking for. You could call any of the following (and find threads about them on eG if you do a search), depending on your taste/wallet and see if they're open:

Sesame (Chinese)

Indigo Smoke (BBQ-great food, BYO, nice atmosphere, mediocre service)

Epernay (French/$$$)

Aozora (Sushi)

Dmetris or Greek Delights for the obvious

Holsten's is an old-fashioned ice cream parlor that also serves food...that might be a fun, quirky date spot! It's technically in Bloomfield--at the intersection of Watchung Ave and Broad Street, not far from Brookdale Park or the GSP.

In Rutherford, I think your options are FAR more limited:

Village Gourmet, which has a great atmosphere, is BYO, and the food is decent

Cafe Matisse ($$$)

Park & Orchard, which has a great wine list, huge bar, and can get rather noisy

Hope some of these help!

[mduda]

Thanks Rosie and curlz; your informationw was very helpful!

[Curlz]

Happy to help. Let us know where you end up and how it went!

[Lreda]

............and be sure to give us a report.

Curlz and I are angling for Rosie's job.