They'll come in and have a cocktail, and then they'll sit down and have dinner. "When people come in, they just don't dine. "It's a mix, it's not your ordinary dinner experience," Mulligan said. Business has only gotten better since then, he said. The community, Mulligan said, has responded in-kind, filling Rails with foot traffic from its first day. "Almost like a time capsule, they wrote their names and little stories underneath.
"We actually invited local families to come and help us," Mulligan said. Mulligan explained the intricate design elements of each nook and cranny of the restaurant, including the Library Room and the Mosaic Room, which features a one-of-a-kind floor containing 5,000 pieces of trees felled on the property or in the area during superstorm Sandy. Sides and salads ($5 to $15) range from a variety of potatoes and vegetables to forest mushrooms with shallots and thyme, and roasted cauliflower with capers and raisins.Ī catwalk on the upper Rafters Lounge level connects separate dining areas and a bar offering plush chairs and red leather Chesterfield couches. The raw bar features West Coast and East Coast oysters ($2.50 each) and lobster cocktail stuffed with half a Maine lobster ($17) Personally I think we do it better than anyone."Īppetizers include double-cut, maple-pepper-glazed Berkshire bacon, smoked and cured in-house ($9).
"I won't serve a steak that hasn't been aged for at least 30 days," Mulligan said. Selections range from $29 for a marinated skirt steak to $42 for an espresso-rubbed bone-in New York strip. Prime, dry-aged steaks, though, are the meat-lover's magnet here. Full entrees range from $22 for pan-roasted chicken breast to $38 for a 14-ounce grilled veal chop. "We have fresh local seafood, Cape May scallops, dayboat seafood, we have different pasta and chicken dishes," Mulligan said of the extensive Rails menu. The entire facility, connected to a visible server room, qualifies as a "smart" restaurant, empowering Mulligan to control light, heat and other elements of building operations from his phone.
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