Best Restaurants with a Fireplace in Mountain Lakes

Terrific special Valentines Day four course fixed price menu. Individual lighting at each table is a great improvement.

Delicious! Fresh bread, great pastas and loved the wood fired pizza/flatbread with figs!

The meal was excellent. We started with Mediterranean Mezedes. Entrees of Beef Gyro and Combo Souvlaki platters were plentiful. We took home the Baklava cheesecake dessert. The dining room upstairs was cozy with the fireplace going. All was good until the band started playing downstairs. Then it was too noisy. I didn't need to hear "Shake your Boodie" while I was eating dinner on Valentine's Day.

I had heard about Rails from numerous people who have always raved about it. So, I was very excited in anticipation. The restaurant is beautiful right alongside the Towaco Railroad Station. Plenty of help valet parking but a bit of a walk to get inside. The ambiance is nice with an extensive top notch wine list. But our waitress was not as knowledgeable about the menus that might have been a good opportunity for an upsell for our order. And it was kind of hard to get over that my guest’s lobster tail arrived raw. In sending it back when I asked the waitress about it she said oh! I didn’t talk to them, they’re very busy with it being the holiday. . . Not a very good first impression. Not even an apology. I would go back though. And I understand you can take a tour and go through the secret door to the bar in the cellar. The menu is a la carte which make it seem expensive, but the prices are actually quite reasonable.