The Restaurant Guys

Labor Day Weekend Sunday - Steel Drums and A Gin Garden Party

Labor Day Weekend Sunday
Steel Drums and A Gin Garden Party
This Sunday, September 1

 

 

 

Sunday, we'll have delicious gin cocktails, party games, and prizes. The music will be the steel drums of Rick Dalgetti and his band Fusion! Steel drums sound great on the streets of New Brunswick. Come down and help us make some noise!

 

Music : 4:15pm - 7pm

The Stage Left Butcher Shop

 

The Stage Left Butcher Shop

is open for business! 

 

 

 

Simply Put, We Get The Best Meat
Now you can too

If you're cooking at home on Labor Day weekend, you may as well cook with the best. At Stage Left Steak, we get the finest. As we often do on these holiday weekends, we are offering a selection of our meats for your home grilling.

• 45 Dry Aged Prime ~ 3 Lb Porterhouse                                   $85
• 45 Day Dry Aged Bone-In Prime Filet Mignon ~ 1.5 LB      $49
• Whole Flat Iron Steak 1.5 - 2 LB                                               $16/LB
• 45 Dry Aged Bone-in Strip Steak - Prime ~ 2 LB                  $59
• Stage Left Burger 10/11oz                                                           $12 each
  • with 3-yr Cheddar, Roll, Chipotle Mayo   
• Amish Bacon (slab or sliced)                                                     $8/LB
• 12 oz. Pork Chop                                                                           $14
• Wagyu Flatiron (~7 oz)                                                               $29

Place an order: [email protected] or by calling 732-828-4444. ext 0
Best to order by Thursday 8/29 by 5 PM to ensure availability.
After that, we will fill orders as possible.

Wine Dinner with White Rock Vineyard

 

Wine Dinner 

September 5th, 2019

6:30pm 

 

White Rock Vineyards has produced some of the most well-balanced, age-worthy, delicious Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay in the Napa Valley since the 1970s. We have had White Rock on our wine list, every single vintage, since 1993.

We first visited the property waaay back in 1996. This was a time when California wine makers were pursuing ever more powerful wines, and ever bigger scores, throwing balance out the window. Henri was different. He brought a European sensibility to this extraordinary California terroir. He was right of course. We followed him through many vintages and now we buy the wine from his sons. For twenty-six vintages, we have seen these wines perform great when young, and age gracefully for years.  

Walk Around Tasting 6:30 - 7 PM
Dinner at 7 PM

Hors d'Oeuvres & Tasting
Chardonnay 'Reserve' 2016
Cabernet Sauvignon 'Laureate' 2014
Cabernet Sauvignon 'Laureate' 2009

Lobster & Black Truffle Manicotti
Chardonnay 2016

Duck Pastrami on Rye Toast
White Rock 'Claret' 2016

Wagyu Beef Tasting
Flatiron Steak, Cheese Steak, Beef Tartare
Cabernet Sauvignon 2014

A Tasting of The Honeys of Mario Bianco
The Best Flora-Specific, Vintage Honey In Europe
Acacia Blossom 2017, Chestnut Blossom 2017,
Cherry Blossom 2018, Eucalyptus 2016, Dandelion 2016
Served with Goat Cheese, Nuts, Apples and Vanilla Ice Cream

$199 per person plus Tax and Service
[email protected] or call 732-828-4444

 

White Rock is a 35-acre naturally farmed vineyard, boasting a unique terroir of white volcanic ash, nestled in a small valley at the base of the Stag’s Leap Range. It has never been farmed any other way.  The estate has never been subjected to herbicides, pesticides, or fumigants. 

The original parcel was purchased by a Dr. Pettingill in 1870. Dr. Pettingill planted the property to Riesling and Zinfandel, one of the earliest plantings in Napa. In 1871, using only a hand saw to cut the white rock he quarried from the property, he constructed a winery in which he would process 7,000 gallons of wine per year.  It was renowned to be of high quality.

One hundred years later, the property was reclaimed by Henri and Claire Vandendriessche.  He came to America from France to study at UC Berkley in 1967.  He met Claire, they fell in love, started a family and then set about restoring the White Rock Estate to its former glory.  They moved into the old winery and made it their home. The White Rock estate used to boast a formidable cellar of these age-worthy wines, but they lost much in the fire, including the family home.

After graduating UCSC with a degree in Physics, Christopher achieved a degree in oenology from The University of Bordeaux. After working at some great European properties, and then working under John Kongsgaard in California, Christopher took over as wine maker at White Rock in 1999. Today, he and his brother Michael have taken over the business.

Do come and enjoy an evening with Christopher, a comprehensive selection of his wines and an extraordinary dinner at one of your favorite restaurants.  

[email protected] or 732-828-4444

 

Summer Sunday - The Spirits of Japan

The Spirits of Japan
Sunday, August 18

You may not know that Japanese spirits are on the rise. Some of the Japanese whiskies are as impossible to find as rares scotch or bourbon.  There's a reason.

The art of distilling western style spirits in Japan dates back before WWII. Click here for one of the greatest whisky love stories ever lived. After living in Scotland, learning the trade and taking a Scottish wife, Masataka Taketsuru moved back to Japan in 1920. That is the birth of Western spirits in Japan.  Then followed 10 decades of meticulous devotion to detail, that the West is only noticing now.

Spirits
The merger of Jim Beam and Suntory has resulted in a lot of positive things. One of them is the creation of a new bourbon. It's a collaboration between Suntory Master Distiller Shinji Fukuyo & Beam Master Distiller Fred Noe. It's called Legent and it will be available for tasting and in discounted drinks on Sunday.  We will also have some rare Yamazaki Whisky available for purchase AND the exciting new releases by Suntory of Haku Vodka and Roku Gin.  As you can imagine, these spirits are clean, elegant and exactingly precise. They will also be available for tasting and in discounted cocktails.

Poetry: Haiku Contest!
We will also run our first annual Haku Haiku contest!.  All entries must be read that day and the winner gets a bottle of Haiku or Roku or a certificate for a burger at a future date.
 

 

Food

We'll have our regular menu but also we'll be offering Miyazaki (better than Kobe by a lot) steaks, cut to order at $18 an ounce (you don't want too many ounces). We'll also be bringing back a dish of Miyazaki Steak and #1 Tuna sliced raw to be cooked on our Himalayan salt brick, table-side. 

Music

Akiko Tsuruga  will bring her quartet, courtesy of the New Brunswick Jazz Project. It's going to be a great day!

 
Music 4-7:15
Reservations click here.

Big Night - Dinner & a Movie

Big Night:

Dinner and a Movie

Friday, August 23 - 6:30pm

 

Our favorite food film of all time, Big Night, came out in 1996.  A cult classic, it's a hysterical account of the sometimes heated relationship of two brothers who open a very authentic Italian restaurant in not-so-worldly New Jersey of the 1950's.

 

Tony Shaloub, Stanley Tucci, Minnie Driver, Isabella Rossellini, Liev Schriber, Marc Anthony, Allison Janney

 

The music, the dialogue, the cinematography, are just perfect.  At the center of it all, is the food: A huge feast and all the love and care and drama that goes into it.

We will screen the film in the private screening room at The Heldrich across the street, beginning at 6:30, truffled popcorn included. Immediately afterwards, we will recreate the feast from the film in the dining room of Catherine Lombardi.  We will dine at large communal tables and great fun will be had by all.
 

 Menu
 

Italian Wedding Soup 
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Trio of Traditional Risotto
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Timpano Stage Left Style
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Mixed Family Style Feast
Roasted Organic Chicken, Whole Roasted Branzino,Roasted Suckling Pig,
Zucchini Flowers, Roasted Garlic with Broccoli Rabe and our famous Garlic Bread
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Flambé Pascal
 
Movie with a glass of wine and dinner $99.
[email protected] or 732-828-4444 ext 0

A Tomato Celebration!

A Tomato Celebration Burgers, Bloodies, Snappers and Danielle Illario!!! Sunday, August 11  ★  Music 4 - 7

It's Time! Jersey tomatoes have arrived and are in full swing. We're celebrating Tomatoes and Corn and everything else fresh and Jersey on Sunday, August 11th. One of the highlights will be a The Cannaught Bloody Mary, invented by Augostino Perrone.  It was in London years ago, that I came across the best Bloody Mary ever created. Sometimes made with gin, sometimes made with vodka, sometimes called a snapper, the definitive history of The Bloody Mary and The Snapper was written by our friends Jack McGarry (of Dead Rabbit fame) and Simon Difford. The burger is best when topped with fresh local tomatoes, accompanied by local corn, and that can only happen this time of year. By the way, we did win Best Burger in NJ Monthly's Readers' Choice Poll AGAIN!!! And all of this is best enjoyed while being serenaded by Danielle Illario, a returning favorite. Click her image to see and hear her music. Then make a reservation and come our way.   Burger Tomato Menu Appetizer Caprese Salad: Tomatoes and Mozzarella Entree Stage Left Burger with Local Tomatoes and Cheddar or BLT with Slab Amish Bacon and Basil Aioli Dessert Candied Tomato with Basil Ice Cream $29.95 Reservations Hendricks Gin and Reyka Vodka are sponsors (and also delicious). Danielle comes to us under the auspices of The New Brunswick Jazz Project.