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Daily Record, Morris County, N.J., Friday, December 4, 1998 C3 Restaurant Talk 94th Bomb Group is perfect place to take the kids Restaurant features a wartime but fun atmosphere, fabulous buffet By jean graham Daily Record 94th Bomb Group We found the food to be good to excellent, and, at $17.95 per person, reasonable. ADDRESS: 195 Passaic Fairfield PHONE: (973) 882-5660 HOURS: Open Monday through Thursday 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., Friday and Saturday to 11 p.m., Sunday brunch 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., dinner 3:30 to 9 p.m. Reservations accepted.

CREDIT CARDS: Major credit cards accepted. ACCESSIBILITY: Fully accessible. SMOKING: Smoking and nonsmoking sections. SPECIAL DIETS: Vegetarian items on the menu. The chef will accommodate special dietary requests.

WINE: A nice-sized list of reasonably priced wines. SERVICE: Excellent FOOD: Good to Excellent OVERALL RATING: RATING (based on the total dining experience) Poor No Fair Good Very good Excellent Extraordinary -k-k-k-k The 94th Bomb Group regular menu continues the World War II theme by designating appetizers as Engine Warm Ups, including munchies like a rib sampler ($4.95) and mozzarella cheese sticks Salad Formations features a Tuscany salad ($8.95) and chicken Caesar salad while On the Italian Front includes shrimp and scallop penne ($16.95) and chicken fettuccine Victory Entrees offer seafood, chicken, and veal prepared in a variety of ways crab stuffed flounder veal Oscar and cashew chicken stir fry for example. Culinary Crusades focuses on beef, including prime rib (full cut stuffed filet mignon and a mixed grill that includes filet mignon, barbecued ribs, and chicken Rickenbacker's Regiment offers roast turkey ($11.95) and flame-grilled pork chops while specials are designated Top Secret Rations of the Day. covered in white over burgundy cloths and surrounded by comfortable carved ladder-back chairs with upholstered seats. There are fresh flowers and green plants, lighting is subdued, and dining on different levels combined with huge picture windows give every table a view of the airfield.

Service is pleasant, efficient, and very child friendly (our guest received a box of crayons, a picture to color, and stick-on "junior pilot's We visited the 94th Bomb Group for the Sunday brunch, which is nothing short of fabulous. An entire room is given over to the buffet, which included an omelet station, a Belgian waffle station, a carving station featuring country ham or roast beef, mussels, platters of smoked salmon with onion and caper garnishes, shrimp in the rough, crab legs, warm pasta (fet-tuccine, bow tie, ziti) with a choice FAIRFIELD TWP. Quite awhile ago a colleague recommended the 94th Bomb Group restaurant at the Essex County Airport as a fun place to take children. When we found ourselves looking for ways to entertain a very tiny house guest, we remembered the suggestion, which turned out to be a fun place for grownups as well. Part of the Specialty Restaurants chain owned by David Tallichet, the 94th Bomb Group has been at this recreational airport for 14 years.

Our window table allowed our little guest a perfect view of the small prop planes and a couple of helicopters taking off and landing on the busy airstrip. When we arrived, some older children were enjoying the vintage World War II jeeps and trucks parked outside the building. of sauces, cold pasta salads, fresh fruit and a variety of cheeses and crackers, cold marinated vegetable salads, cold cereals, bacon and sausage, home fries, scrambled eggs, eggs Benedict, chicken breasts, beef stew, bagels, and pastries. The dessert table offered petits fours in several flavors, chocolate chip banana cake, lemon strawberry cake, and chocolate peanut butter cake. We found the food to be good to excellent and, at $17.95 per person, reasonable.

Our guest was charged the "baby brunch" price of 99 cents. The wartime atmosphere prevails inside as well, with posters, photographs, model warplanes, and a bomb inscribed "for And vintage music. The building itself suggests the French or Italian coun tryside, with lots of brick and stucco, beamed ceilings, and multiple fireplaces. One end displays mock bomb damage, and the tail of a war-plane juts from the roof. Rather closely spaced tables are Television Catch a visiting star as celebrities make some cameo TV appearances i I KEVIN hrh 'A! MCDONOUGH -tt TUNE IN I I Tnui'UT are Actor Pierce Brosnan and sportscaster Lou Holtz are guests on "Late Show With David Letterman" (11:35 p.m., Jay Leno hosts boxer Prince Naseem Hamed and musical guests Hanson on "The Tonight Show" (11:35 p.m., NBC).

Bill Maher's guests include actress Lisa Ann Walter, Mark Dornan and Art Alexakis on "Politically Incorrect" (12:05 a.m., ABC). Actor Rob Schneider, actress Maria Bello and comedian Nick DiPaolo are scheduled on "Late Night With Conan O'Brien" (12:35 a.m., NBC). KEVIN McDONOUGH is a syndicated TV columnist Eric's real-life TV series proves a little too revealing for Rachel on "Boy Meets World" (8:30 p.m., ABC, TV-G). Ossie Davis narrates the documentary "The Rise of Christianity: The First Thousand Years" (9 p.m., TV-G). Scheduled on "2020" (10 p.m., ABC): an interview with Michael J.

Fox. On back-to-hack episodes of "Homicide: Life on the Street" (NBC), a local high-school basketball star is found murdered (9 p.m., TV-14), and private eye Mike Kellerman (Reed Diamond) returns (10 p.m., TV-14). The first episode is a repeat. Oscar-winning filmmaker Barbara Kopple profiles courageous children on "Friends for down an escaped vigilante on "Brimstone" (8 p.m., Fox, Alice considers boycotting the debutante ball on "Legacy" (8 p.m., UPN, TV-PG). A man in a raincoat comes in dripping wet on a perfectly sunny day on "Candid Camera" (8:30 p.m., CBS, TV-G).

Sabrina has to choose between two boys on "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch" (9 p.m., ABC, Doc dates twins with very different personalities on "Love Boat: The Next Wave" (9 p.m., UPN, TV-PG). Porter thinks his mother favored Bobby when they were small on "Brother's Keeper" (9:30 p.m., ABC, TV-G). Late night "Late Show" and "Late Night" Life: Living with AIDS" (10:05 p.m., Disney Channel, TV-PG). Cult choice Director Tim Burton spins a moving fable out of the Frankenstein story and a dozen other horror themes in his 1990 fantasy "Edward Scissorhands" (10:15 p.m., TBS, TV-PG), starring Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder and Vincent Price. Series notes "Brimstone," "Candid Camera" and "Brother's Keeper" are Youngsters show off their expertise on "Kids Say the Darndest Things" (8 p.m., CBS, The twins scheme to keep their young, perky babysitter on "Two of a Kind" (8 p.m., ABC, Stone tracks Sweeps may be over, but the celebrity cameos never stop.

On "Buddy Faro" (9 p.m., CBS, TV-PG), an obnoxious teenage star (J.D. Daniels) with crude backstage parents hires Buddy and Bob to protect his millions from would-be robbers and kidnappers. Just how rich is this boy? He can get Hanson (Isaac, Zak and Taylor Hanson as themselves) to perform two songs at his 16th birthday party. The episode was postponed from last month. "Nash Bridges (10 p.m., CBS, TV-PG) features two sports superstars who are not playing themselves.

Nash and Joe take a Central American baseball player (Jose Canseco of the Toronto Blue Jays) under their wing when he becomes the target of an overzealous immigration agent (Karl Malone of the Utah Jazz) who wants to see him deported. With the NBA still embroiled in a labor dispute, this may be the only chance for fans to see Malone perform this season. Frank encounters his estranged father (Darren McGavin) on a' repeat of "Millennium" (9 p.m., Fox, TV-PG). A real veteran of TV dramas, McGavin had the title role in the 1957 detective drama "Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer." He also starred in the 1974-75 series "Kolchak: The Night Stalker as a wisecracking reporter who became entangled in supernatural intrigues involving zombies, Aztec mummies and even a man who sold his soul to the devil. Sounds Although the show only lasted one season, it proved inspirational to TV writer-producer Chris Carter, who went on to create "The X-Files" and "Millennium." If you think "Antz" started the recent trend in bug movies, you're wrong.

Who can forget the 1997 sci-fi action adventure "Starship Troopers" (8 p.m., Showtime), in which handsome and beautiful young gung-ho soldiers from Buenos Aires High take on an evil race of giant insects in outer space? Some considered this movie quasi-fascist, others merely ridiculous. But you can't blame director Paul Verhoeven for not creating an eye-popping spectacle. Tonight's highlights Scheduled on "Dateline" (8 p.m., NBC): a report on child migrant workers who do farm work for less than the minimum wage. Peter Falk, Lauren Holly and Timothy Hutton star in the original cable drama "Vig" (8 p.m., Cinemax, TV-MA), set in the world of bookies, loan sharks and Morristown High School Saturday December 5 at 8 p.m. Benefiting A Place to Call Home Community center for: Interfaith Food Pantry, Interfaith Council for Homeless Families, "Our Place" homeless drop-in center, Mental Health AssociationMorris Social Club, Common Thread Playback Theatre, FOUr AA ReCOVery GrOUpS TUMayBe Purchased the Door Enchanted PCayers.

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