Restaurants & Bars

Chatham's Serenade Named One Of NJs Best Restaurants

The high-scale American restaurant was recognized by NJ Monthly as a top restaurant.

CHATHAM, NJ — Chatham's Serenade has been named one of the 30 best restaurants in New Jersey by NJ Monthly Magazine.

The restaurant, located on Roosevelt Avenue, serves New American food and is known for it's high quality ingredients. Some current menu options include roasted lamb, vegetable panache, and sweet corn chowder.

Here's what the magazine had to say:

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Tenderness is a term of praise usually applied to meat, not to the temperament of chefs, either in person or on the plate. It does spring to mind, however, when eating at Serenade. All good chefs prize great ingredients and handle them with care. But in chef James Laird’s New American food, one detects an exhilarating sense of care that goes beyond respect for ingredients to an almost loving tenderness for their essence.

This is not the first time Serenade has been honored as a top restaurant. It's been nominated for the Garden State Culinary Award, the Restaurant Wine List Award, and Chef James Laird has been awarded the Champion of the People Award. All that comes at a cost: it's been named one of the most expensive restaurants in the state.

You can read the full review here.

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