Reprinted with permission,
Courtesy, Asbury Park Press, a Gannett Co. newspaper.
BY
VINCE MILLER
ASBURY PARK PRESS STAFF WRITER
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- The
former Joe & Maggie's bistro in uptown Long Branch has
been transformed into what its owners plan to be a hip restaurant
and lounge.
CASK 591 at 591 Broadway, at Branchport Avenue, is sporting
a new exterior and interior — and a new menu featuring
steaks, seafood and other meats roasted on wood panels from wine
casks flavored with bourbon, cognac or wine.
The public is invited to sample selections by chef Peter J.
Fischbach and sous chef Vincent Tafuri at a fund-raising grand
opening starting at 6 p.m. Friday.
Iva Komitski, the restaurant's promotor, calls CASK 591 "an
upscale-casual dining establishment with a jazz-era lounge, where
patrons will enjoy the luxury of dining in a classy and comfortable
setting at affordable prices."
Menu entrees range from $6.95 to $12.95 for lunch and $9.95
to $35.95 for dinner.
Fischbach and Vincent Tafuri's brother, Dennis, bought the restaurant
in November 2004 from Joseph Romanowski and Maggie Ludeke. Dennis
Tafuri is a certified sommelier, or wine steward.
Fischbach and Vincent Tafuri placed second among 18 Jersey Shore
chefs Jan. 29 at the first Jersey Shore Best of the Best Chefs
Cook Off in Toms River, Komitski said. The three finalists were
challenged to use a mystery ingredient, wild boar.
The pair won with spicy orange-glazed wild boar, sliced over
mesclun salad dressed with a sesame-thai vinaigrette; wild boar
with bok choy and enoki mushroom spring rolls with a spicy plum
dipping sauce, over Asian slaw; and roasted rack of wild boar
with smashed yucca and grilled Japanese eggplant finished in
a citrus reduction.
Fischbach trained at the Academy of Culinary Arts, Mays Landing,
and is a member of the National Culinary Federation. His recipes
have been featured in Gourmet magazine and local publications.
He and Tafuri decided to use their grand opening to help raise
money for the new Brain Tumor Center at Monmouth Medical Center,
Long Branch, according to the restaurant's news release.
"I have a history of cancer in my family," Dennis Tafuri said.
Sumul N. Raval, a neurologist and neuro-oncologist trained at
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, will be introduced
as the center's section chief.
The center will coordinate neurologists, neurosurgeons, medical
and radiation oncologists, neuroradiologists and pathologists
to find strategies to treat brain cancer, the release said.
At the grand opening, the restaurant will feature live jazz
entertainment in the Broadway Blues Lounge, on the restaurant's
second floor.
Donors expecting to attend are asked to call the restaurant
to register.
Donations can be accepted at the event or by mail at Monmouth
Medical Center Foundation, 300 Second Ave., Long Branch, NJ 07740.
Checks should be made out to MMC Foundation.
The restaurant will be open for dinner from 5 to 10 p.m. Mondays
through Thursdays, 5 to 11 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 4 to
9 p.m. Sundays, and for lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily.
Call (732) 571-8848.
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