The Private Dining Room

A door that closes changes an occasion. Birthdays where people want to make a toast without an audience. Business lunches where the conversation is the point. Showers, team dinners, the quieter end of a celebration. The room is not enormous and we would rather be straight about that than oversell it. Small occasions done properly is the thing it is genuinely good at.

The kitchen does not change when you book it. Same scratch kitchen, same house-made mozzarella, same brunch board if your event happens to want pancakes at two in the afternoon.

Their own private dining request form takes party sizes in bands: 1–9, 10–19, 20–29, 30–39, 40–49 and 50+. A room that publishes a 50+ option is a room that has done 50+ before.

Where exactly your number lands depends on layout. A single long table and a set of smaller ones hold very different counts in the same square footage. Call (201) 238-2484 with your headcount and they will tell you what the room does for it, including when the honest answer is the main room or the patio instead.

The booking form's own list: birthday party, corporate, wedding, fundraiser and other. Weddings on that list mean rehearsal dinners, receptions and cocktail hours rather than the ceremony itself. The catering side of the business names those three explicitly.

It is a small room and it does small occasions properly. That is a real strength and we would rather say it than oversell the square footage. If the room is not the right fit, the patio and catering are the other two ways to do it.

Two anchors work for almost every group. The Whole Rotisserie Chicken Family Meal ($36.00), local organic chicken, adobo or classic, with rice and beans, is designed to be shared, and needs 45 minutes from noon onward. Steak Frites ($26.00), an 8 oz Vrola hanger steak with roasted garlic and fries, is the plate for a table that wants an occasion.

Start the table on Jumbo Mutz Sticks ($16.00) with fresh marinara and Jumbo Chicken Wings ($18.00). Finish on the Baby Bread Pudding ($12.00) with Tuaca caramel, which is the dish guests name most often in their reviews.

Old York Wines, from New Jersey, comes by the half bottle and the full, a short list from one producer, which makes choosing for a table considerably easier than a long one.

Call (201) 238-2484 or email antiqueat112@gmail.com. Useful to have ready: the date, a headcount you are reasonably confident in, the time it starts, and any dietary requirements in the group.

For a regular table rather than the private room, Resy handles it directly.

The dining room runs a split week: two services Monday to Thursday, morning and evening, a straight-through Friday, and one long service each on Saturday and Sunday. An evening booking on a weekday lands in the second service; a daytime one belongs to the morning side or to a weekend. The footer of every page carries the exact hours.

One genuinely unusual option this kitchen can give a private event: the brunch board runs to 4 PM, so a Saturday shower or a Sunday birthday in the early afternoon can put pancakes and burgers on the same table instead of forcing lunch on everyone. Call (201) 238-2484 with the date and we will confirm which service it lands in before you send invitations.