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True North Osteria
Categories: Restaurants Pizza Restaurants American (New) Restaurants Vegetarian Pizza, American (New), Vegetarian
345 Bloomfield AveMontclair, NJ 07042
(973) 744-4960
- Hours:
Tue-Wed 4 pm - 9 pm
Thu 11 am - 9 pm
Fri-Sat 11 am - 10 pm
Sun 12 pm - 8 pm
- Attire:
- Casual
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Price Range:
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$$
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- No
- Delivery:
- No
- Take-out:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Alcohol:
- No
- Noise Level:
- Average
- Has TV:
- No
5 reviews for True North Osteria
5 reviews in English
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Review from Michael K.
Scotch Plains, NJ
1/8/2012 1 photo
Upscale Montclair, NJ has no shortage of pretentious, expensive restaurants, so the owners here have taken a different, understated approach, and have hit it out of the park. This place instantly reversed my jaded attitude about going out to eat. The food here has a rustic, irresistable home-cooked appeal, with flavors that are unexpectedly bold, and distinctly modern.
Start with one of their artisanal bruschettas ($4-$7), all served on a homemade, crusty, olive-oil-rich Italian bread, which is baked fresh every day. Some of the toppings include wine-braised Kalamata olives with herbed ricotta, fig paste with prosciutto, and cumin-infused compound butter with juilliened radishes.
Tapas-style, vegetarian small plates are $4-$6. I enjoyed both a special of the day, delicious, caramelized brussell sprouts roasted with pistachio nuts, and the roasted fennel, chickpea, and parmesan soup ($5).
The main event here is a grilled, thin-crust pizza ($10-$16), the foundation of which is their homemade crust, which is slow-risen for three days, and is flavorful, light, crispy, and chewy, all at once. Choose your own toppings, or order one of their signature pies, such as the "Jersey Devil": homemade mozzarella, caramelized onions, oven-roasted New Jersey tomatoes, and pepperoncini.
Desserts are not an afterthought here, either. The cranberry-lemon compote panna cotta was fantastic, and a butterscotch cupcake garnished with crunchy sea salt was good, too.
As I have alluded to, many of the ingredients used here are sourced from local NJ farmers, and virtually everything on the menu is prepared from scratch. There's a lot of love in the food here, and it shows.Listed in: Good local restaurants
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Review from Life I.
West Windsor Township, NJ
4/9/2012
BYOB
Pro:
- Friendly staff
- Good to meet friends to catch-up
Cons:
- Expensive for the size and quality -
Review from Eric P.
West Orange, NJ
1/7/2012
Service? It's counter service! This is essentially a pizza joint with a "point-of-view". It was tasty but overpriced pizza. The bruschetta was also tasty. But nothing was excellent. It was fine, but $95 for pizza for 5 people was pretty steep for a counter service place. The desserts (cold dry cupcakes from the counter case refrigerator) were dry, cold and terrible. I don't think this restaurant knows what it wants to be. I doubt we will be back.
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Review from Mia R.
Montclair, NJ
1/25/2012
I had an excellent, casual meal at this restaurant last night. It was empty, hopefully just because it was a Tuesday night. The pizza was divine. I ordered their wood-fire grilled "foundation" pie with an addition of prosciutto. It was very thin, crisp with some chew, slightly smoky, just the right amount of sauce/cheese, with a large thin slice of prosciutto per piece. $12.00 was fair. The only other Montclair restaurant whose pizza is of the same quality is Ah, Pizz'! I also had the house soup: fennel with a base of tomato with parmigiano, spiced maybe with cumin or curry. While prepared well, it was too acidic for my personal taste. I had a "small plate" of beets in a warm maple cream--interesting and yummy. Desserts were a chocolate butterscotch cupcake finished with sea salt and a cranberry panna cotta. I find that dessert is the one course that often changes my opinion of a meal by being stale and/or overly sweet. In this case, the desserts were spot on. I am already planning a return trip to this friendly restaurant which uses top-notch ingredients at a fair price.
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Review from Mitch L.
Montclair, NJ
10/27/2011
I have been here twice and both times the food and service has been Excellent! Fresh and bursting with flavors the pizza,brushetta and soup were outstanding!! Also the desserts are pretty awesome!
