Mountain View Chalet

Owners Jimmy and Demos along with their staff make dining an experience. The food is delicious the service outstanding. The recent renovation is the cherry on top for atmosphere. Whether you’re having a party or simply dining out; I highly recommend this restaurant.

The owners have renovated the restaurant and banquet facility and it really looks great. Best of all they still provide great food in a friendly, neighborhood environment. Full bar, good wine list, and a diverse menu offering are why my clients and I enjoy dining at the Chalet. If you haven’t been here in a while it’s well worth another visit.

Came here for Thanksgiving. Made a reservation and was still told to wait 30mins although the place wasn’t packed. Finally sat down and everything was expensive. The $ 30 thanksgiving dinner special came with a soup, salad, Turkey (or ham or duck), dessert, and a coffee. Portions were small. Food was decent but could’ve been much better.
There was a questionable substance in the iced tea, so do not order.
Service was meh. They seem understaffed and not very nice. It may be because of the holiday… but I don’t know.
Overall I wouldn’t come back under any circumstance. Food is not worth the money. Just go to the Clinton Diner down the road. Better prices, better food, bigger portions.

We make reservations for 13 people for 4pm and told we have to wait for our table. Thirty minutes late and we enter a half full room. Then we wait to order drinks. Then wait some more to get them. When they get here there is some garbage in our drinks. All we get is a mumbled sorry. No manager to ask if there is something they could do. Nothing. Strike two.
Finally get to place our orders, at $ 30.00 a plate. Wait some more to get the soup. I got cream of turkey 2 small pieces of meat and a watery soup, in a tiny bowl. My salad was bitter, with a lot of brown pieces.
Dinner finally hits the table, an hour after sitting down. Mind you business is still light. Most of us gets the turkey. When my plate hits the table, last. All I could think about is «Where’s the meat? «Thankfully the bread was good. I visit entire meal for drink refills.
Let’s talk about the food, canned gravy, salty. Canned cranberry sauce (jelly). Mashed potatoes, with water. Green beans were great. Waited for coffee and dessert and no drinks on the table.
Can we say «Understaffed?» Strike three! If you go here often and like it. You need to go anywhere else, then you will see a better place to eat.
I don’t mind spending good money to eat. But I do expect the food to be really good and the service to be great. Neither of those things did I get here.

Great food and fast service, nice people… Dawn is the best, great drinks and the Cheese Cake is the best.

An okay restaurant. Drinks were watered a little
Appetizers were ok
Salad was good
Entrees — not so much.
Scallops were small and Brussel sprouts bland
Salt inboxes came out lukewarm and was returned, and came out nuked made it chewy. The veal was too thin and it was way to salty.
Potatoes were not right. Too light to be totally real.
No reason to return

Found this place driving through NJ looking for substantial food to eat. Mom had the blue cheese steak (she read about it here) and I had my tried and true fav seafood fra diavolo.
This place made it the best I have ever
tasted outside of Italy.
Beth, our server, was polite, friendly, knowledgable and awesome. The service was perfect and without a hitch an the atmosphere was really perfect, quiet and secluded feeling.
Beth left us with almond cookies (YES!) and enough mints to tame my noxious garlic breath.

The filet is awesome. And I’m a picky New Yorker. Dawn is also awesome. She hooked us up with some amazing desserts! Ask for Dawn’s desserts, even the little tiniest cute ones will surprise you. Great rest stop on our road trip. Highly recommended.

Service was great, food was decent, décor was tragic! This place needs an extreme makeover. If you can get past the tacky brass chandeliers all over, the outdated dingy green carpet, and the tacky wallpaper then you’ll love it. The menus were dirty (and not to mention outdated as well), and the tables were much too close together.
Food was so/​so nothing to write home about– drinks were ok. Dessert though was amazing… we got the steamed chocolate pudding with coconut ice cream. Overall I gave it 3 stars because of the location, the view and the service. Hopefully they’ll do a little re-​vamping in the near future to bring in more customers.

We have been going to the Mountain View Chalet for many years now for all our special occasions. We got engaged there in 2005 and have gone for every X-​mas and Valentines Day. The food is reasonably priced and Jimmy, Hulio, Megan, and Dawn always make you feel like your family. My personal favorites are the Mozzarella/​Red Pepper Appetizers, Filets and of-​course the Surf and Turf. The food should never be a concern all the restaurant lacks is the rustic feeling of a real chalet… So stop by and experience their great food and attention to detail!!!

Waitress was forgetful, food was good. Portions are huge. The Filet with blue cheese was very good. The chicken parm could be split between two people. Décor is lacking. It needs an overhaul. It still has the separate glassed room for when they allowed smokers inside. Thankfully those days are gone.

An old-​style restaurant with a grey haired crowd. The menu is very heavy on the classic seafood options. The selections are like an upscale diner menu minus the sandwiches. The bar seemed like it could accommodate any request and the full wait staff (host, busboy, server, and waiter) were all very professional. My main complaint was the atmosphere. It smells like a banquet hall. There are separate rooms for parties and the entire restaurant smells like a catering hall. The décor doesn’t match the price of the dishes. The quality of the dish is worth the money, but not the atmosphere. With a renovation of the layout and diner-​esque décor, this place could be a high scale restaurant.