April 9, 2026, 12:05 p.m. ET
- Celebrity chef David Burke is taking up The Station restaurant in Bernardsville.
- The restaurant will characteristic a brand new tavern-style menu with gadgets like a beef tallow-cooked burger and rotisserie rooster.
- Burke has redesigned the inside to boost its classic railroad station theme.
- The Station will formally relaunch underneath Burke’s administration on April 18.
Two and a half years in the past, movie star chef David Burke — identified for designing his whimsical eating places himself and serving artistic New American fare — baked new life into the previously sleepy Bernards Inn in Bernardsville, now generally known as the Red Horse on the Bernards Inn.
This month, Burke will do the identical to a different Bernardsville landmark.
The Station restaurant, throughout the road from the city’s prepare station, will relaunch underneath Burke’s stewardship — however with the identical informal, tavern-style environment that has outlined the spot for many years.
The Hampshire Companies, which owns The Station, tapped Burke to infuse new vitality into the 44-year-old restaurant following his success on the Bernards Inn.
The Station will debut a brand new, hotter look and a seasonal menu on April 18, increasing on the restaurant’s classic railroad station lounge theme. The restaurant has not closed — and won’t shut — throughout the transition.
The new menu is designed to be smaller and simpler to navigate, that includes gadgets equivalent to a $17 burger cooked in beef tallow; $17 rotisserie child rooster ready in a rotisserie constructed into the bar; a $24 crispy pork cutlet Cordon Bleu with mashed potatoes and broccoli; steak frites with chimichurri; and Bavarian pretzels. The meals is ready in a newly opened kitchen, whereas holding The Station’s costs comparatively modest.
The 20-seat bar will characteristic 12 beers on faucet, together with seasonal signature cocktails and mocktails, plus boozy milkshakes.
Housed in an 1860s constructing that started as a non-public house earlier than changing into the Claremont Hotel in 1878, The Station has additionally obtained a Burke-designed facelift. White partitions at the moment are darkish blue, accented with crown molding, pink faux-leather cubicles, murals of steam trains, brass sconces, prepare engine bells and a classic Union Pacific Railroad chandelier with Mason jar-style lamps.
Burke’s favourite design component, nevertheless, is a framed 1970 New York Times story that includes his father, additionally named David Burke — generally known as Red — who labored as a prepare motorman.
Go: The Station reopens underneath Burke on April 18 at 45 Mine Brook Road in Bernardsville. Call 908-204-1227 or go to stationtavernbydb.com.
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