Ridgewood Herald-News from Ridgewood, New Jersey • 57

EVENTS Page 15 Dining out is an EVENT From My Perch By Dean Trencher Two young attractive entrepreneurs have just opened Vt'yckoffs newest restaurant rolled Steaks Stuff. Located on Greenwood Avenue in i he Stop and Shop center, o.vners Joe Chcrnalis, 26 and a bachelor, and Roger Heere-ma, 27, hope to make this the first of a senes of Steaks Stuff chains. Both are life-long residents of. Wyckoff and knew each other, casually for ten years. 'I hey became friends when both ended up working forv motivation courses (such as Dale Carnegie), and discovered a mutual interest in the restaurant business.

Joe, whose brother Tony Chernalis owns the Market Basket in Wyckoff, worked in his fathers butcher shop in Midland Park from the age of eleven. When the Market Basket opened, he rounded out his knowledge of cooking and catering, and decided the time was ripe to open his own business. Roger, who was an assistant collector at a bank in Paterson, joined him as a partner and they opened their first venture in July. The building is brand new and beautifully decorated and designed by the partners. They built it with the help of Rogers brother and imported the weathered 150-year-old barnsiding from Nova Scotia.

The floor is quarry tile it was some job putting down 8000 tiles," remarked Joe. "It took us five days to cement them into place.) Bam beams act as room dividers and are hung with horse collars, chained lanterns, and antique curios and artifacts. Old prints of Wyckoffs early days are framed above the chopping block tables and brightly patterned banquettes. The entire atmosphere is warm and charming and perfect for a family-style restaurant that stresses wholesome, home-style cooking. All the meat is prime beef and butchered right on the premises.

Considering the reasonable prices of prime beef at Steaks n-Stuff, it is certain the quality does not suffer. Both men act as butchers, sauciers and chefs, but Joes mother provided the recipe for both the homemade potato salad and the creamy cole slaw served here, and Rogers mother is the baker who rises bright and early each morning to make the creamy rice pudding and other A special breakfast menu is served beginning at 9 a and the $1.10 special is gas-house eggs (hollowed out buttered bread holds the eggs hnd both are fried). Flap-jacks, fresh farm eggs with bacon, ham and sausage or cheese and western omelettes are some of the choices ranging from $.75 to $1.65. Joe Chernalis and Roger Ileerema are the owners of Steals Stuff, IVyck-ofT newest restaurant. The luncheon and dinner served with french fries af menu are identical in choice and price.

All the steaks are aged on the premises and an excellent choice is the open sliced steak sandwich served with toast points, French fries and lettuce and tomato for $3.45. The club steak (also known as Delmonico) is New Continental Menu Plano Entertainment SPECIAL BUSINESSMANS LUNCHEON DAILY JUS Happy Hour Every Evening From 3-6 p.m. 9 SO PROSPECT GLEN ROCK Closed Sunday and Monday 445-3200 sandwiches, fried 'flounder and tasty extras round out the menu, and theres a lovely variety of rich sundaes (dusty road or hot fudge), milk shakes and Ice cream sodas to complement the pie, and dessert menu. No cocktails are served, and all items are available for take-out orders. Steaks Stuff is open for breakfast, luncheon and dinner from 9 a.m.

until 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday; from 9 a.m. until 11 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, and closed on Sunday. luncheon or a baked potato at dinner, and is $4.90.

Listed as Our ''Special Stuff are eleven choices of beefburgers, cheeseburgers and giant burgers, all mixed from prime beef and chuck and steak trimmings. The Giant Beefburger platter is a jumbo burger with homemade potato salad, lettuce and tomato. There is a generous chefs salad made with freshly grated imported Danish bleu cheese or the house Italian dressing. Club D1NNFR BREAKFAST SERVED LUNCHEON TEEPEE 21 HOURS A DAY AT0TEM "es- Rt. 17 Southbound Maliwah, N.

J. Tom Sawyer has a good thing going Were Talking About the TOM SAWYER FAMILY DINER Si ire ''T "'UV" AL. I 7 iff A Ms 1 Sunday DSnmcli YOUVE TRIED THE REST NOW TRY THE DAILY LUNCHEON and DINNER SPECIALS returns to the ELEGANT CATERING FOI XU OCCASIONS TIE RECENCY lUCRENE RASS LAMP (IIC IF IEICEI tOOITIS FINEST lEJTmWJ Will NOOEIATC facts Mo-Mo-Kus Inn the 19th season for this exceptionally popular meal. Venison and kidney stews, creamed mushrooms with tarragon, vchicken hash, scrambled eggs with sausage and Canadian bacon, hominy grits, chipped beef with almonds, finnan haddie, kippers theres a buffet loaded with tempting things to eat on a Sunday midday. From Noon til 2:30 P.M.

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