Chef’s Garden at Crystal Springs Resort, their outdoor restaurant set amidst a working organic garden, is now open for the season with an all-new menu and an expanded opening hours – now open five days a week. The restaurant is set on an acre of organic gardens that grow herbs, lettuces, vegetables and more for the restaurant (and its sister Restaurant Latour, also on the property). All the restaurant’s

This year, Crystal Springs’ Executive Chef Anthony Bucco has introduced an entirely new menu (View Menu), with all  cooking done in wood fired ovens and grills. Chef Bucco and Crystal Springs work closely with local purveyors and farmers from the surrounding Skylands and New York’s Black Dirt Region, in addition to sourcing from the garden and the resort’s nearby farm. Also new to the fold, Mixologist Carlos Ruiz (Ryland Inn, Agricola) crafts cocktails with a focus on locally sourced spirits from New Jersey and New York.

The Chef’s Garden is open from Thursday to Monday from 12:oopm – 10:00pm.

Chef’s Garden at Crystal Springs Resort 3 Wild Turkey Way, Hamburg, NJ Website

[photo source: Crystal Springs]