| Author | Message | ||
     vermontgolfer Citizen Username: Vermontgolfer Post Number: 191 Registered: 12-2002 |
Mark, Thanks, that may be the case, but clearly the 'audience' speakers never get close enough to the mike. | ||
| mayhewdrive Citizen Username: Mayhewdrive Post Number: 516 Registered: 5-2001 |
It would seem the SO Grill should first hire a new Chef & also someone to handle marketing. Except for the discussions here, nobody would ever know this place existed. I don't recall even seeing any ads in the NR, SL or any other ways of drawing in customers such as the "Val-Pak" mailers, etc. | ||
| joso Citizen Username: Joso Post Number: 135 Registered: 5-2001 |
A sign of their predestined failure was that their idea of marketing was a series of Coors Lite and Budweiser posters in the window, Attractive to Seton Hall students maybe, but not the average So resident. | ||
| Tom Reingold the prissy-pants Citizen Username: Noglider Post Number: 1048 Registered: 1-2003  |
Is this the place on South Orange Avenue next to the Dancing Goat? I might be confusing it with some other place. I've been to the place next to the DG twice. The first time I didn't order food, so no comment. The second time, the waiter was inflexible about small changes we requested, he forgot our requests for water many times. My wife requested her salad without dressing, and the waiter promised it without dressing. Then he brought it with dressing. She asked him to fix it, and he refused. This was all while smiling. It was the worst service I'd had in a long time. Sorry if I'm talking about the wrong place. Tom Reingold There is nothing | ||
| Brett Citizen Username: Bmalibashksa Post Number: 428 Registered: 7-2003 |
GasLight is on the left of Dancing G. South Orange Grille is on Valley near Toro Loco. | ||
| lseltzer Citizen Username: Lseltzer Post Number: 1903 Registered: 5-2001 |
Sounds exactly like the GasLight, Tom. | ||
| joso Citizen Username: Joso Post Number: 136 Registered: 5-2001 |
Apparently the SOG is going to make a comeback. Curiously, the manager was quoted in the NR as bemoaning the fact that it had turned into a Seton Hall hangout, and saying there was nothing he could do about that because SO in a college town. My suggestion to him: get rid of the Coors Lite posters in the window, add either a classier or warmer, or more family friendly atmosphere, and serve something other than bar food. | ||
| Brett Citizen Username: Bmalibashksa Post Number: 433 Registered: 7-2003 |
If you serve 18 Year old girls booze, you will become a Collage hangout. | ||
| Marc Citizen Username: Bautisma Post Number: 52 Registered: 9-2003 |
they were only serving bar food there? | ||
| SoOrLady Citizen Username: Soorlady Post Number: 154 Registered: 9-2003 |
One other suggestion... don't open the bar weeks before you start serving food. | ||
| Hlime Citizen Username: Hlime Post Number: 7 Registered: 11-2003 |
Also: Just because you can turn a jukebox all the way up doesn't mean you should. | ||
| vermontgolfer Citizen Username: Vermontgolfer Post Number: 202 Registered: 12-2002 |
I'm sure I'll get blasted for this, but we've been there twice and the food and the service were fine, not great, but wouldn't have chased me away! | ||
| mayhewdrive Citizen Username: Mayhewdrive Post Number: 532 Registered: 5-2001 |
why doesn't this surprise me?  | ||
| vermontgolfer Citizen Username: Vermontgolfer Post Number: 208 Registered: 12-2002 |
hey, you have to have a sense of humor here, or else go somewhere else!  | ||
| mrosner Citizen Username: Mrosner Post Number: 783 Registered: 4-2002 |
By the way, Pappillion is now open. | ||
| mayhewdrive Citizen Username: Mayhewdrive Post Number: 541 Registered: 5-2001 |
and according to the BLOG on nj.com, it gets rave reviews.... http://www.nj.com/weblogs/southorange/ | ||
| Soda Citizen Username: Soda Post Number: 1086 Registered: 5-2001  |
Stopped by Papillon this afternoon to check it out, and here's what I found out, FWIW: *Katie, behind the bar, worked briefly at S.O. Grille, and told me that the Grille's owners were very wealthy garment center types with NO concept of how to do a restaurant; they overspent by $80K when they bought the place, then spent $3 million on it over 3 years, and have walked away without blinking an eye. *I met Al, who runs the front of the house at Papillon (Yanick runs the gorgeous kitchen), and he told me that they'll soon be getting in some lovely artwork for the very bare walls in the dining room. The bar is already one of the coolest in any of the Oranges. *The menu is very lengthy and ambitious, as are both the mixed drink and wine lists. *They'll wait to get themselves pretty well set up as a smooth-running restaurant before they begin a strong ad campaign to announce the place to surrounding communities. SO... My advice is to go soon, and often, and get to know the place and the folks. You'll wanna become a regular. -Soda | ||
| ral Citizen Username: Ral Post Number: 68 Registered: 10-2001 |
is the grille back open? i've seen lights on... | ||
| mayhewdrive Citizen Username: Mayhewdrive Post Number: 649 Registered: 5-2001 |
According to an ad in today's News Record, the "new" South Orange Grille is celebrating their "grand-reopening" with new management, a new menu & a strict 21 & over policy. Anyone been there to see if it has in fact improved? | ||
| Brett Citizen Username: Bmalibashksa Post Number: 550 Registered: 7-2003 |
I have been there a few times under the new management. There hasn’t been much of an improvement yet. For now they’re just opening the bar at nights to keep some money flowing in. They have an extremely limited menu. Give them some time to really get started before you try it, the decor is still nice and they do look like they have some good ideas. |
