Restaurants near St. James Church and Rectory

This Restaurant is always consistently Great! This was maybe our 6th visit. Tonight's experience was Exceptional.

We had the shrimp & scallop stuffed mushrooms which made a nice start to the brook trout & pork chop. Disturbingly, no effort was made to debone the trout & the menu makes no mention of it. This aside, we enjoyed the meal paired with a nice Argentinian Malbec & finished with the gingerbread cake. If you're in the area, worth a stop for a pleasant meal.

Lets start with the good. From the start. 8PM res. they needed a few min to get us a table so we ordered drinks. We both got the Seasonal Mules my daughter got the Esspresso martini. All excellent. The APPs we got the Burratta. Amazing. I got the 8OZ filet. It was small but on point. Cooked and seasoned perfectly. The house steak sauce is outstanding. Seemed like a demi with some balsamic. My wife and the 2 kids got the NY strip 2 of the 3 where good. One was honestly not up to par. It tasted like a piece of meat from shoprite. Very little marbling and it had a large fat cap. None to me where what I would consider high end aged "prime" beef. More like butcher grade choice. I would have complained but my wife and kids ate it and enjoyed it for the most part. But I had a NY Strip from outback last week that was far better. The loaded potato was great. The waiter Tim made the expierience a great one.Had it not been for him I would have demanded a new steak at least for my wife. Since I ate half of it. After the filet. It was a huge let down. Dessert was great. Marscapone Cheesecake was great. Although I dont believe it was made with marscapone except the shot they put on top. Regard less it was great. The chocolate cake my kids said was outstanding.

Service, ambiance and food was fantastic. Disappointed that menu was reduced for choices but food we ordered was still wonderful. Will be back again.

Great food. Our only complaint was there wasn’t a space left in the parking lot. That tells you something…..