The Restaurant Guys

Big Night: Dinner and a Movie - Friday, August 14

We show the film Big Night in the private screening room at The Heldrich and then cook up the feast from the film and all dine together in Catherine Lombardi. You can make reservations at 732-828-4444 or [email protected]. More details next week.

This is one of Mark and my favorite nights of the year and Big Night is our absolute favorite Foodie Film. A cult classic, it's a hysterical account of the sometimes heated relationship of two brothers who open a very forward-looking Italian restaurant in not-so-forward-looking New Jersey of the 1950's. It stars Stanley Tucci, Tony Shaloub, Isabella Rossellini, Mark Anthony, Minnie Driver to name just a few. The Italian Feast at the center of the film will be recreated immediately following. We will dine at large communal tables in Catherine Lombardi.

The Private Screening Room at The Heldrich Hotel right across the street is a wonderful place to see a film and the bar remains open during the movie. If you haven't seen the film, you should! If you have, you know you should come. It's just so darned civilized.

The Menu:

Italian Wedding Soup

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Trio of Traditional Risotto

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Timpano Stage Left Style

*

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

*

Flambé Pascal

Dinner and the movie is $99 or $125 with Italian country wines. And you KNOW we have great Italian country wines!

Reservations: 732-828-4444 or [email protected]

Pre-Theater Menu at Stage Left (Quite the Bargain!)

• Beginning Friday, March 13
• Offered Every Night Until 6 PM Sharp
• Just Show Your Tickets

It's been a while since we offered a specific pre-theater menu, so we thought it time to reintroduce one. This menu will be available to theater-goers alongside our regular menu until 6 PM. We would encourage you to check out the schedules at the George Street Playhouse and The State Theater for a whole slew of great shows heading to town.

Pre-Theatre Menu

First Course Selections

Lamb Terrine
Micro Cilantro, Pickled Caraway Seeds
Espelette & Honey Vinaigrette
Grilled Raisin Pecan Bread

Potato Gnocchi
Maitake Mushrooms
Roasted Winter Vegetables

Arugula and Quinoa Salad
Candied Pecans, Pickled Shallots
Duck Confit Butternut Squash
Pickled Apples, Duck Fat Powder
Banyuls-Black Garlic Vinaigrette

Main Course Selections

Scottish Salmon
Charred Onion Soubise,
Pickled Pearl Onions, Shaved Fennel
Blood Orange & Black Garlic Vinaigrette Salmon Roe

Seared Chicken Breast
Fingerling Potato, Bacon & Herb Salad Fried Leeks, BBQ Chicken Jus
Rosemary Slow Roasted Potatoes

Shibumi Farms Mushroom Risotto
Roasted Oyster & Maiitake Mushrooms
Crispy Lion’s Mane, Fried Beet
Truffle Powder

Dessert Selections

Coconut Sabayon
Crème Brulee
Daily Sorbet

$39 per person

Big Night, The Ultimate Foodie Movie: Friday, August 22

Very Funny - Very Jersey

Click image For trailer and info

This is one of Mark and my favorite nights of the year and Big Night is our absolute favorite Foodie Film. A cult classic, it's a hysterical account of the sometimes heated relationship of two brothers who open a very forward-looking Italian restaurant in not-so-forward-looking New Jersey of the 1950's.

It stars Stanley Tucci, Tony Shaloub, Isabella Rossellini, Mark Anthony, Minnie Driver to name just a few. The Italian Feast at the center of the film will be recreated immediately following. We will dine at large communal tables in Catherine Lombardi.

The Private Screening Room at The Heldrich Hotel right across the street is a wonderful place to see a film and the bar remains open during the movie. If you haven't seen the film, you should! If you have, you know you should come.

It's just so darned civilized.

The Menu:

Italian Wedding Soup

Trio of Traditional Risotto

Timpano Stage Left Style

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

Flambé Pascal

Dinner and the movie is $99.

Film starts at 6:30 - Dinner immediately following in Catherine Lombardi. Why not make a night of it? We'll make the hotel reservation for right across the street at The Heldrich Hotel!

Click Here For The Trailer

Dinner and a Movie: Big Night (The Ultimate Food Movie)

This is one of Mark and my favorite nights of the year and Big Night is our absolute favorite Foodie Film. A cult classic, it's a hysterical account of the sometimes heated relationship of two brothers who open a very forward-looking Italian restaurant in not-so-forward-looking New Jersey of the 1950's. It stars Stanley Tucci, Tony Shaloub, Isabella Rossellini, Mark Anthony, Minnie Driver to name just a few. The Italian Feast at the center of the film will be recreated immediately following. We will dine at large communal tables in Catherine Lombardi.

The Private Screening Room at The Heldrich Hotel right across the street is a wonderful place to see a film and the bar remains open during the movie. If you haven't seen the film, you should! If you have, you know you should come. It's just so darned civilized.

The Menu:

• Italian Wedding Soup
• Trio of Traditional Risotto
• Timpano Stage Left Style
• Mixed Family Style Feast: 
  • Roasted Organic Chicken
  • Whole Roasted Branzino
  • Roasted Suckling Pig
  • Zucchini Flowers
  • Roasted Garlic with Broccoli Rabe
  • Our famous Garlic Bread
• Flambé Pascal

Film starts at 6:30 - Dinner immediately following in Catherine Lombardi.

Why not make a night of it? We'll make the hotel reservation for right across the street at The Heldrich Hotel!

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BIG NIGHT

The Ultimate Food Movie: Very Funny - Very Jersey

Private Screening Room at The Heldrich

Dinner at Catherine Lombardi

Friday, August 10th

 

Click Here For The Trailer

If you love food, you must see this film!

 

This is one of Mark and my favorite nights of the year and Big Night is our absolute favorite Foodie Film.  A cult classic, it's a hysterical account of the sometimes heated relationship of two brothers who open a very forward-looking Italian restaurant in not-so-forward-looking New Jersey of the 1950's.  It stars Stanley Tucci, Tony Shaloub, Isabella Rossellini, Mark Anthony, Minnie Driver to name just a few.  The Italian Feast at the center of the film will be recreated immediately following.  We will dine at large communal tables in Catherine Lombardi. 

 

The Private Screening Room at The Heldrich Hotel right across the street is a wonderful place to see a film and the bar remains open during the movie.  If you haven't seen the film, you should!  If you have, you know you should come.   It's just so darned civilized. 

 

The Menu:

Italian Wedding Soup 

---

Trio of Traditional Risotto

---- 

Timpano Stage Left Style

----

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

---

Flambé Pascal

 

Dinner and the movie is $99 or $125 with Italian country wines.  And you KNOW we have great Italian country wines!

 

Call 732.828.4444 or just email me back.  Film starts at 6:30 -  Dinner Immediately Following in Catherine Lombardi.  The Heldrich Hotel is offering a special rate for the evening $75!!!.  Why not make a night of it?  We'll make the hotel reservation for you as well!

On the Town with Dale DeGroff

One Show: Sunday April 29 at 4 PM In The Restaurant

Many of you know that Dale is probably the person most responsible for the renaissance of The American Cocktail.  He is the bartender equivalent of "the shot heard round the world," a noted author and cocktail historian.   As with any great bartender, he's also a fantastic teller of stories.  Come let Dale regale you with tales of the cultural history of American drink, told in story and song by America's preeminent cocktailian. 

We will serve you era-appropriate cocktails as Dale takes you on a tour of the evolution of our shared drinking culture.  Afterward, we'll move the party up to The Cocktail Bar at Catherine Lombardi, where our generous sponsor Pisco Porton, will host a pisco cocktail party.  

The cost for the evening is $50 per person and a portion of the proceeds will go to The Museum of The American Cocktail.

Make Reservations by Calling 732-828-4444 or email [email protected]

Dinner and a Movie: Big Night

Screening at The Heldrich - Dinner at Catherine Lombardi - Friday July 22nd

Click image For trailer and info

If you love food, you must see this film!

This is one of our favorite nights of the year and Big Night is our absolute favorite Foodie Film.

A cult classic, it's a hysterical account of the sometimes heated relationship of two brothers who open a very forward-looking Italian restaurant in not-so-forward-looking New Jersey of the 1950's. It stars Stanley Tucci, Tony Shaloub, Isabella Rossellini, Mark Anthony, and Minnie Driver to name just a few.

The Italian Feast at the center of the film will be recreated immediately following. We will dine at large communal tables in Catherine Lombardi.

The Private Screening Room at The Heldrich Hotel right across the street is a wonderful place to see a film and the bar remains open during the movie. It's just so darned civilized.

The Menu

• Italian Wedding Soup
• Trio of Traditional Risotto
• Timpano Stage Left Style
• 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
• Flambé Pascal

Dinner and the movie is $99 or $125 with Italian country wines.

Film starts at 6:30 - Dinner Immediately Following in Catherine Lombardi

The Heldrich Hotel is offering a special rate of $99 for the evening. Why not make a night of it?

Reservations: 732-828-4444.

A Live Radio Play in Stage Left: Sherlock Holmes

What's that?  A radio play performed in front of a live audience of diners with cocktails in hand?  It's elementary, my dear readers.  Those Stage Left fellows are always blazing new trails to entice their guests. 

THE FINAL PROBLEM by Arthur Conan Doyle
Theatrical Adaptation by Alex Dawson

Holmes asks Watson to accompany him on a Continental "holiday" designed to thwart the relentless pursuit of the Napoleon of crime himself, Professor Moriarty. The story culminates with a fateful square off at "a dreadful cauldron of swirling water and seething foam" known as Reichenbach Falls. Period Costumes! Theatrical Lighting! Sound Effects! Period Cocktails!

On July 7, we will gather in the bar of Catherine Lombardi at 6:30 PM and be served a Victorian punch.  At 6:45 we will retire to a secret dining room to view the spectacle of the great detective.  Afterwards we will sup on a luxurious dinner with choices in each course that might well have been shared by Mr. Holmes and Dr. Watson.   

First Course

Choice of:

• Oyster Pan Roast
• Pate de Foie Gras 
• Quail Stuffed with Black Lentils
• Summer Pea and Mint Soup 

Main Course

Choice of:

• Huffed Pheasant with Apples and Gooseberries
• Roast Beef & Yorkshire Pudding
• Trout with a Hasty Pudding 
• Duck with Onion Tart, Blackberry and Ginger
• Scottish Salmon with Fingerling Potatoes  

Dessert

Choice of:

• An English Trifle
• Blueberry Crumble  

This is a price fix dinner for $75 per person, plus tax and service.  Pre-dinner punch is included in this price. Other beverages are not.

Advice will be offered on what beverages would be appropriate to the period.   

Period attire including houndstooth anything and deerstalker hats are welcome. 

Pipe and cigar smoking on the sidewalk cafe afterward.  

Reserve: 732-828-4444 extension 200