Best Restaurants for Local Ingredients in Cliffside Park

Wonderful lunch all around! A great table by the window overlooking Central Park. Our waiter was perfect - interesting and attentive but not intrusive. The food was delicious - squash soup, arancini with white truffles, the cauliflower steak, little gem salad with chicken, and an incredible hazelnut mousse. Just a perfect lunch.

Louis was our server last night but I believe he’s a manager? He was off the charts perfect! Thanks for accommodating us upstairs in the big booth. Everything was awesome!

Wow. This may have been one of the best meals of my life… seriously. We had the tasting menu. And we love tasting menus - have had them all over the world and this rivaled a Michelin star restaurant in Rome (Imago - definitely check it out). Service impeccable. We had a 7pm show to attend and I asked ahead of time (on Open Table) if with a 5pm res (when they opened), could we make the show without a problem? And - they were totally on board - waitstaff were efficient, informative and friendly. Almost everything was on skewers, and I found out the next day (talking to a Korean friend about this gem) that “kochi” is Korean for “skewer!” Standouts were the beef (skirt steak I think) and the octopus but nothing tasted less than excellent.

The food and service are perfection! If you want a quiet place to go and talk - this is not the plane. Very loud! But worth the loudness for the food!

Jojo’s is JeanGeorge’s home grown restaurant. Jojo’s was the name his mother called Jean George as a child. Jojo’s is thus a treasure in this neighborhood. A lovely townhouse filled with amazing professionals who love & live food, a kitchen that consistently produces beautiful, delicious, fresh and interesting food consistently every night with low key comfortable panache. The salads are amazing. - warm seafood salad has often been a source of comfort and nutrition alongside a proper glass of fine wine to wash away the days worry for this diner. All the seafood is gorgeous - like the lettuce cup tuna tartar. Pastas always deliver - lovely textures & intense flavor combinations to die for. Entrees like the lobster, salmon and sea bass simply sing. Meats, like my Duck tonight, are some of the best cuts of met I’ve ever known. Wines are carefully selected with not a bad bottle in the bunch. Desserts are divine. The bread pudding I had one Christmas evening was a true gift with my Sauterne. However, my favorite is the most decadent rich butterscotch pudding I’ve ever had - another holdover from Jean George’s youth no doubt and a wonder of my world as well as all of those dozens whom I’ve shared it with. Jean George does so many things well. - ABCV, haute cuisine, fine French food as well as amazing steaks and more. It is perhaps his most elegant and pure expression of his love for food at Jojos that brings me back even after moving from the east side to the west. Joyeaux Noel and merci beaucoup Jojo & company.