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grand reopening welcome to Australia
located at 978 River Avenue right across
OK Vine yep anybody that lives in
Lakewood knows about Australia one of
the first restaurants that opened up in
Lakewood they were recently closed for
the last eight months and just did
beautiful Renovations in the
BL first
of he's the guy that is going to be the
manager at
AA beautiful look nice the ambience
Shina wooden ceiling with the sh zus in
the back and all of furniture baboose
the
owner all righty tell us a little bit
about your history I know Australia goes
back I think 12 years ago when you
opened up one of the first
ones Restaurant Lake
H actually I U in the restaurant
business for more than 12 years I opened
up about 15 16 years ago um uh a place
called remone Steakhouse for the guys
that are here in town for a lot of years
what it remon remon steakhous wow never
knew that um it it was located in the
corner of chestnut on Route 9 UM exactly
where Four Corners is right now um it
was an old old shopping center there was
no other Jewish uh store over there was
all a bunch of G um I took it over from
an Israel guy who opened up uh a
Mediterranean style um restaurant which
um I don't even know if I had a he uh
but uh he didn't do so well and he was
and he was moving uh he was working he
was working with a son together and his
son was working out of town he was
moving out of town so he just he gave it
to me for real cheap you know that I
could I could just take it over and
uh you know I I took it over and uh I
focused a lot on it we had it for about
3 years and then uh by the way I think
that time you also had the store
superstop you owned that store that's
right that's right well superstop I
opened uh it's about 18 19 years ago so
you a real Pioneer doing yeah yeah I
mean those days there wasn't much going
on in this side of town forget about Oak
Vine even uh I mean Chateau was just
being finished being built uh Elwood
wasn't here hot stone there was almost
no Jewish people what was this place
before before you came in uh uh this
place was a bar for going used to be a
hangout uh every single night there was
uh you know the lak police keeps on
thanking me that I took over this place
because they were here every night
arresting people um uh uh so uh so you
took it over you renovated then I took
it over I took me about a year year and
a half We R the whole the whole building
the whole place you opened up a a two
one upstairs one
downstairs we have a kitchen downstairs
we have kitchen upstairs we do a brist
we
do
V shabas events in house caring days you
know we have a busy kitchen over here
fine now let's talk about the restaurant
first of all how big is the place this
kick TOS how many seats do you have over
here uh approximately uh 65 to 70 seats
in this room um we also have a private
VIP room uh holds about 10 to 12 people
oh I didn't see that where's that in the
back uh right over
here oh wow
nice it's shiny to go wow who designed
this place this
design we have a li license uh and uh we
have a nice variety of wines uh mixed
drinks
gal fine Yuda I think you should uh come
over here and explain us the dishes so
we have a brand new menu as uh rip told
you people were looking for a more
affordable option with a little bit more
Mediterranean style so we have over here
we start off with a nice complimentary
house spread p with matuka Amur is Asian
type of salad he got the beautiful humus
plate over here we tapped it with wow
looks good the grilled chicken there's
many different options you could have
with that this is what I like because a
lot of times you
know Dimension this are appetizer I like
this I like that over here we have all
different you have one plate you can
share everybody can take one of the
stuff and one of our biggest sellers the
starter board which comes with the
popcorn chicken the Asian beef spring
rolls our sh rib wols and our St beef
stuffed mushrooms
okay this is the soup soup this is the
night beef soup which is a very big
seller people love
it this is our it's an appetizer starter
but it's lamb chops people uh love that
too today steak this is our 14 oz
classic ribey very well priced that's a
great option affordable
option so this 14 oz riby cost $75 and
comes automatically with two sides with
the french fries as we said before
grilled
vegetables wow this is a 24 oz cowboy
with our batter dip onion rings with
Yuka mashed potatoes over here now let's
continue with today this is our scoes so
we have three different options we
showed a showcase over here too our lamp
scores our RI scores we also
have the grilled chicken scers also okay
what's this over here here's our SLE
sandwich with our house fries very nice
very full and here's our Caesar salad we
have many different options over here we
topped it with our grilled chicken fan
we forgot to show you one more thing
there's many different options that we
not show you but this is a beautiful
gisha plate that people love this is our
short ribs with a bed of mashed potatoes
crispy onions and also our grilled
vegetables again it comes with other
options of size guys this is only part
of our menu
um all right guys now let's finish it
off with the Z his son naali green helps
out the father a lot naali what's the
what's the phone number address if
somebody wants to make a reservation
sure you can call anytime from 9:00 a.m.
I'm available anytime in the phone 732
9947861 9 78.com uh anytime even evening
morning that will answer what's you have
a website uh we do have a website
www. estrea
978c that's the same spelling and the
address is 978 River 978 River Avenue
you got it any questions give me a call
I'm here the whole day anytime reach out
and you open every day from 5: to 11:
from 5 to 11 any day yeah if you have to
to reach me anytime if you want to do uh
we have prefix menus even earlier in the
day for 20 30 people whatever whatever
the the amount the people whatever the
time you give us a call we'll work it
out