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Type of Business: Restaurant
Cuisine:
Italian
Price: $$$
Rating Criteria
1. From Scratch: Serves mostly (i.e., more than half of the menu) fresh food, prepared from scratch. Does NOT rely primarily on kits or prepared/partially prepared foods from commercial food services.
Yes
2. Local/Organic: Offers at least some locally sourced and/or organically produced food and/or wild-caught seafood.
Yes
Comments: All of the entrees I have had had been delicious, although I usually order wild caught fish and am very pleased that all their fish is wild caught.
3. Pastured: Offers at least some pastured animal foods.
Yes
Comments: My husband like veal and it is also good to know that their veal is pasture raised and not factory raised.
4. Organs: Offers some dishes made with organ meats (liver/paté, sweetbreads, heart, kidney, brains, etc.).
Yes
5. Cooking Fats: Cooks (sautés) in natural fats such as butter, lard, tallow, duck fat, coconut oil, or olive oil; uses lard, duck fat, or tallow for frying.
Yes
6. Bone Broth: Makes own bone broths/stocks for use in soups, stews, gravies, and sauces (does NOT use canned broth or powdered soup bases).
Yes
7. Seasonings: Makes most of its own seasoning mixes (does NOT use flavoring packets or MSG).
Yes
8. Salad oils: Makes most of its own salad dressings using olive oil or cold-pressed sesame oil.
Yes
9. Breads: Offers genuine sourdough bread.
No
10. Beverages: Offers lacto-fermented beverages (such as kombucha or kvass).
No
11. Condiments: Offers lacto-fermented condiments.
No
12. Desserts: Offers desserts made with natural sweeteners (such as raw honey, maple syrup, maple sugar, molasses, date sugar, palm sugar, coconut sugar, sorghum syrup, or malt syrup).
Yes
Rating Created by:
Carol Dimitriades
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Location & Contact
67 Broad Street
Red Bank, NJ
Monticello's strives to provide the best and freshest ingredients possible. They have their own organic garden on site from June to October. They do not serve only non-GMO, non-processed foods, grass fed meats, free-range eggs, fresh wild caught seafood, organic produce and homemade stocks.