This Spanish - Portuguese restaurant is not your typical Ironbound restaurant of glitz, flashing neon lights, and packed crowds who have come for the huge potions of food. Overall, it's the best fine dining experience in the Ironbound section of Newark.
This restaurant is more upscale, cozy, and romantic than the typical Ironbound restaurants.
The decor is done up with soft tones of yellow, stone fireplaces, wrought iron wine cellar gates, soft candlelight, and coves with upholstered sofa seating.
While the acoustics are good, this is a vibrant place and if you prefer a quiet intimate dining experience, ask for the larger rear dining room, it's quieter.
The food is well prepared with fresh ingredients, and served in large portions, and reasonably priced.
The popular starters are: Chorizo Espanhol, Spanish chorizo sausage thinly sliced
and sauteed with garlic. Cogumelos com Lagosta, baby mushrooms and lobster,
sauteed in garlic and butter. And the Pernas de Carangueijo do Alaska Grelhadas,
Broiled King Crab Legs.
The popular dinner entrees are: Paelha Marinheira, aA pan of slowly cooked Paella Marinera; saffron rice and select seasonings with lobster, shrimp, clams, sea scallops and New Zealand mussels. Rabos de Lagosta em Molho Verde, baby lobster tails simmered in green sauce, served with saffron rice. And the Filet Mignon Flambe, broiled filet mignon finished in a brandy flambé with mushrooms,
served with crisp Spanish style potatoes and sauteed seasonal.
Save room for the desserts, they are are sumptuous.
The wine list at Adega Grill is extensive and the staff is very friendly and attentive. Great
Free parking is available around the corner on Madison Avenue.
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