Stone House Restaurant featured on "The Food Chain": A+ Patio

A+ Patio

Here’s another example of a great outdoor wining and dining space: the new Star Room Patio at the Stone House at Stirling Ridge in Warren. Owners Jeanne and Frank Cretella have enhanced their already spectacular venue with a multi-sectioned outdoor space that offers landscaped gardens with individual tables, marble benches, hideaway cabana booths and an 18-foot-long water table with floating candles, nestled under a gently lit pergola. Guests also may toast after-dinner marshmallows around the fire-pit table (especially on National Marshmallow Toasting Day, Aug. 30).

As work proceeded on the patio earlier in the season, guests clamored to be seated in the new space, with its Watchung Mountains backdrop, even while it still was being built by Frank Cretella’s Black Dog Construction Company. At the recent launch party, more than a hundred people enjoyed passed hors d’oeuvres from executive chef Jerry Villa, cookies that sprang from “garden” platters, sangria punches, paella and Stone House’s newest cocktail, the Orange Fennel Martini.

Stone House at Stirling Ridge is part of Landmark Hospitality’s group of restaurants that also includes Liberty House, Crave Caterers and Snug Harbor Cultural Center. Stone House is at 50 Stirling Road, Warren. For more information, visit http://www.stonehouseatstirlingridge.com/

Source: http://blogs.mycentraljersey.com/foodchain/2010/07/28/a-patio/