Feel the taste of Europe
At Muddy Waters Gastropub, we take simple Austrian and Hungarian peasant dishes and elevate them with care to restaurant level, by using wonderful ingredients, refined cooking techniques and our palate to turn those ingredients into something that brings us, and hopefully you, joy and happiness.
Who We Are
After spending over 3 decades in the hospitality industry in four countries on two continents we have recently opened our first gastropub concept in beautiful Asbury in New Jersey.
Nora Ephron, the famous writer, and film director who we served on numerous occasions once said: ‘Owning a restaurant is the kind of universal fantasy everyone ought to grow out of, sooner rather than later, or else you will be stuck with a restaurant.’
We proudly state that we did not heed her advice, and we cannot be happier.
What is a GastroPub?
The term gastropub has only been in use since the 1990s. It was first used in Great Britain where pubs are common.
A quick search on the internet about gastropub yields the following explanation:
A gastropub is a pub or bar that serves alcoholic beverages as well as high-end, excellent food. A gastropub has a relaxed atmosphere, but is also refined. Foods commonly served at gastropubs are gourmet hamburgers, flatbreads, fish and chips and charcuterie platters. The word gastropub is a combination of the word gastronomy, which means the art of choosing, cooking and appreciating good food, and the word pub, which is an abbreviation of the term public house. Occasionally the term is rendered with a hyphen as in gastro-pub, but the unhyphenated form is more popular by far.
Our gastropub is no different.
We take simple Austrian and Hungarian peasant dishes and elevate them with care to restaurant level, by using wonderful ingredients, refined cooking techniques and our palate to turn those ingredients into something that brings us, and hopefully you joy and happiness.
Bon Apetit!
