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CULINARY CULTURE

Guided by Food

“To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.”

François de la Rochefoucauld, Author

Introducing
Table & Banter

Food is the cornerstone of The Park, and The Connell Company created the on-campus event group, Table & Banter, to facilitate our diverse array of unparalleled food and beverage offerings. The team — Brian Bistrong, Corporate Executive Chef and Culinary Program Director, Ashley Davis, Director of Pastry and Baking, and Louis Bayla, Executive Chef for Grain & Cane Bar & Table, (The Park’s premier restaurant) – are leaders in the hospitality, restaurant, and catering industries. Together, they have spent years working with some of New York City’s most renowned chefs.

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New Culinary Concepts

Headed up by these visionaries, Table & Banter is responsible for all things food at The Park. It creates the campus’ newly curated restaurant concepts, handles all indoor and outdoor on-campus restaurants, designs grab-and-go café offerings inspired by the “fast casual” organic food movement, and heads up a commissary kitchen that handles corporate and social catering services for the event spaces and customized tenant meal plans. Table & Banter also has a 1,000 SF Chef’s Test Kitchen designed for tastings, private events, and parties.

Appetite-Whetting Offerings

Among the diverse dining options at Table & Banter is Counter Market, an elevated office dining concept that includes pre-order and easy grab-and-go meals; Grain & Cane Bar & Table, a restaurant offering innovative American cuisine and craft beer, wine, and vibrant cocktails, the Grain and Cane Food Truck, an elevated food hall-style café providing hot and cold breakfast and lunch options; and RT Farm, an RTS members-only restaurant serving healthy breakfast, lunch and dinner options. On the horizon are Blue Rose Taco, a Southern California-style taco stand, a brewery and beer garden with rooftop event space; Foundation Alley Duckpin Social, a duckpin bowling restaurant and bar gaming concept; and The Spot, a 1950s-inspired burger restaurant, located next to The Park’s new interactive dog park.

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Events for Everyone

The Park offers a broad range of inspired venues for every occasion, from an outdoor event at The Grove; to a private dinner in a campus restaurant or training room; to corporate events and weddings in The Glass House solarium at the Embassy Suites Hotel.

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