By Filonia LeChat
Get ready for a meal at one of Pittstown, New Jersey area restaurants.
Pittstown, New Jersey is home to the Peaceful Valley Orchards, a 150-acre farm boasting fruits and vegetables, cut your own flowers, a petting zoo and special festivals throughout the year. When travelers are visiting Pittstown and work up a hunger, they can dine at one of the city's neighboring towns, offering a variety of cuisine from traditional New Jersey diners that never close to historical drinking spots.
Clinton Station Diner
If visitors worked up an appetite exploring Pittstown, they can head just a few minutes north to the neighboring town of Clinton to the Clinton Station Diner, a traditional New Jersey diner open all day, every day. Especially hungry travelers may be interested in the diner's extraordinary 50-lb. burger. For slightly smaller fare, guests can start off their day with breakfast items including omelets, pancakes, French toast, egg sandwiches and Belgian waffles. Lunch options include wraps (buffalo chicken, turkey, feta, chicken fajita), burgers, sandwiches (reuben, grilled cheese, pastrami, hot dog, Philly cheese steak) and panini. The diner offers appetizers, including mozzarella sticks, shrimp cocktail, pot stickers, nachos and potato skins. Entrees include prime rib, beef liver, chicken marsala, baked ham, eggplant parmigiana, broiled flounder and fried crabcake. Clinton Station also offers salads; guests can opt to create their own at the restaurant's large salad bar. To complete a meal, diners can sample one of more than 40 different desserts, all made on-site. Clinton Station also offers a full bar. The restaurant decor features model trains gently rolling around tables, a fireplace and a large fish tank. The attire is casual.
Clinton Station Diner
Rt. 173 and Bank Street
Clinton, NJ 08809
908-713-0012
clintonstationdiner.com
The Ship Inn
Visitors can combine sightseeing with a drink at the historical The Ship Inn, where they can enjoy a beer at the very first restaurant in New Jersey to brew beer after Prohibition. Guests can take a tour of the restaurant's brewing areas which provide specialty beer varieties every day for the bar. Menu items include salads, such as ribbon fries and Stilton skins, and entrees such as crab cakes, fish and chips, vegan shepherd's pie and Indian chicken curry. The Ship Inn is open for lunch Monday through Saturday and for dinner every day. Travelers who enjoy the restaurant's beer may purchase kegs, boxes and bottles to go. The attire is casual.
The Ship Inn
61 Bridge Street
Milford, NJ 07646
908-995-0188
shipinn.com
The Frenchtown Inn
The Frenchtown Inn serves lunch and dinner Tuesday through Sunday, offering entrees including rack of lamb, yellowfin tuna, sliced duck, New Zealand venison, Chilean sea bass and grilled filet of beef. Diners may start with split pea soup, lobster bisque, sausage and poultry pate, oysters or smoked salmon. The Frenchtown Inn's lunch menu offers options, including hamburgers, ham and brie wrap, penne with chicken, crab cake and salmon with spinach. In seasonal weather, guests may opt to dine outside or enjoy music from the restaurant's piano room. A bar offers wine and beer to accompany the meal. Attire is business casual to elegant.
The Frenchtown Inn
7 Bridge Street
Frenchtown, NJ 08825
908-996-3300
frenchtowninn.com
About the Author:
Fionia LeChat is a technical writer whose major skill sets include the MS Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Publisher), Photoshop, Paint, desktop publishing, design and graphics. LeChat has a Master of Science in technical writing, a Master of Arts in public relations and communications and a Bachelor of Arts in writing/English.
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