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Chrysis Altholz & her father, Mitchell AltholzThis just in from France: Mitchell Altholz, executive chef of Highlawn Pavilion, has been invited as a guest chef to cook one night at Michel Guérard's new Relais & Châteaux restaurant La Bastide in France.
They still got it! After years of accolades and a bustling celebrity chef lifestyle, CulinAriane has retained the je ne sais quois that made the Montclair restaurant one of the finest in New Jersey!
Read about my recent meal at CulinAriane on Montclair Restaurant News.
A swanky restarurant makes for a promising date. But when the restaurant is located inside a luxurious hotel, that's the path to a great date . . . and then some!
Established in 2003, the Westminster Hotel has the honor of receiving the AAA Four Diamond rating for nine consecutive years. Michael Polese, general manager at the Westminster Hotel showed me around the exceptional Livingston poperty which boasts over 16,000 square feet of banquet and meeting space, and 183 luxury guest rooms.
We've all heard the stories of people leaving children or pets in cars with tragic results. These stories grab headlines but usually occur during a period of extreme heat leaving many to think that if temperatures are not of the record breaking variety everything will be just fine. Wrong!
Does the name David Burke ring a bell? It should. He’s everywhere in the culinary world.
Burke has competed on both Iron Chef and Top Chef, won countless awards and accolades, and has amassed quite the collection of restaurants that he owns and operates, from Las Vegas to Chicago to NYC to our very own New Jersey.
Visit the Chef's Table to read more . . .
On March 11, 2012, the Sunday Business section of the Star-Ledger published an ad announcing a "Business Opportunity" at "Eagle Rock Reservation." It read:
"The County of Essex is seeking a fine dining restaurant operator for the Eagle Rock Restaurant, located in the Essex County Eagle Rock Reservation in West Orange, NJ[.] A Request for Information (RFI) has been issued to find an operator interested in developing and operating a fine dining restaurant."
The rumor mill went swirling! The most important question proffered was: is Highlawn Pavilion, the renown fine dining and banquet establishment, closing? The Knowles Family, owners of Highlawn Pavilion, responded to the buzz on the Highlawn Pavilion website: