Evening everyone…..
I had mentioned yesterday that I had ended work early because I was meeting a friend and his wife for dinner and a show with my girlfriend.
I bought these tickets in early January. Glad I did because they sold out less than a week after I had bought them. I only know this because another couple was going to join us after the fact. But there weren’t any seats available.
My buddy Jeff made the reservations for dinner, since I was the one that bought the tickets. The reservation was for a steakhouse named “Rails”. It’s a highly rated steakhouse in New Jersey, continually in the top ten every year. It is named “Rails” because it was built in a new development that is next to a train station.
They really did a wonderful job on the project. It’s in a very affluent area, and is hard to get a reservation for prime times.
Here is what it looks like:
They have two seating areas outside that have fireplaces. They are completely covered, so you can sit outside in all weather.
Dinner was fantastic, the dry age all of their own meat in house. Two got the twelve ounce filet, one got a dry aged fourteen ounce wagu ribeye, and I had a peppercorn and chile rubbed twenty two ounce porterhouse. It my favorite steak hands down.
After dinner was the show. The show was a comedy show. We saw Aries Spears, he is a fairly big headliner and it’s the first time he’s been in New Jersey since I’ve been back stalking the comedy shows. Which has been just over five years now.
The opener was just ok. I haven’t really seen a good opening act in many years now, and I do go to a fairly good amount of comedy shows. Aries was absolutely hysterical, he not only did his planned performance, but took time in between parts to interact with the audience and the two hecklers that there alway are. He roasted them both really good.
The show was at a very old and historical hall named “The Wellmont Theater”. It was built in 1922, and has hosted just about everything including vaudeville and ballet to modern day concerts as well. It seats nearly 2,500 people and as I stated was completely sold out.
It was a great night out.
