Basil T’s Brewery and Italian Restaurant is preparing for the a celebration of local restaurants, Jersey Shore Restaurant Week. Running from November 5 -14, 2010, Jersey Shore Restaurant Week gives locals and visitors a taste of the food and drink offerings of various New Jersey restaurants and pubs along the Jersey Shore.
The first Restaurant Week in November 2009 drew 56 restaurants, the second in April 2010, 75. Thousands came out to enjoy specially priced 3 course meals at the Shore’s best restaurants and all Special Events sold out. November 2010 will be the third Jersey Shore Restaurant Week.

Basil T’s is no stranger to great beer and delicious food. The results of the 27th Annual Readers’ Choice Restaurant Poll recently honored the Red Bank brewery and Italian restaurant as it won best in Central NJ in both the Best Beer and Best Pub categories. The Italian restaurant in New Jersey offers six handcrafted beers (which includes a seasonal offering) by the Pint, Mug, Growler or Basil’s Sampler. Basil T’s is ready and excited to participate in this year’s Jersey Shore Restaurant Week. You can expect a full array of beer, wine and great Italian meals to be on hand during the entire event. For more information on Jersey Shore Restaurant Week or to buy tickets to the event, please visit this link: http://www.jerseyshorerestaurantweek.com/

Learn More About One of the Top NJ Restaurants

The Original Basil T’s is all about tradition. Everything is homemade, from the sauces and dressings to the mozzarella cheese, as well as the spectacular desserts and award winning beers. Visit this Italian Restaurant in New Jersey and experience truly unequaled culinary delights that only generations of dedication can produce. To the Rallo family, the Original Basil T’s is much more than a restaurant. . .it is life itself.
To view menu options or to make a reservation, visit Basil T’s online here: http://www.basilt.com/

Praises continue to pour in for Red Bank brewery and Italian Grill Basil T’s.  The restaurant and its hand crafted beer received high reviews in recent restaurant rankings from the readers and writers of two leading New Jersey magazines.

New Jersey Monthly’s 27th Annual Readers’ Choice Restaurant Poll awards the brews of the Red Bank brewery and Italian restaurant as the winner in the Best Beer and Best Pub categories in Central Jersey.

Inside Jersey’s Best of N.J. Restaurants feature listed Basil T’s as the winner for Best Brew Pub in New Jersey.

Basil T’s continues to impress critics and guests with its fresh Italian meals and homemade beer.  The 24-year-old restaurant has become a local favorite and one of the best restaurants and bars in Red Bank.  The Red Bank microbrewery features a minimum of six hand crafted ales each season.

All of the beers are brewed by Gretchen Schmidhausler, who is only the second Head Brewer in Basil T’s history.  She has been brewing beers for over 14 years and is a graduate of the American Brewers Guild’s Craftbrewers Apprenticeship Program, in Woodland, CA.

Basil T’s was recently featured in Draft Magazine’s Online Exclusive: Top 10 Beers Brewed by Women, honoring Basil T’s brewer Gretchen Schmidhausler.

Gretchen and Basil T’s have also received recognition for The Original Basil T’s Maxwell’s Dry Stout:

• Gold Medal Winner, 2006 Great American Beer Festival (GABF), “Classic Dry Irish Stout”
• Bronze Medal, 2003 GABF, “Coffee Flavored Beer”
• Gold Medal, 2002 GABF, “Coffee Flavored Beer”

The next time you’re looking for an evening out, Basil T’s will not disappoint you.  Plan an evening in Red Bank to enjoy a fresh, authentic Italian meal and a refreshing, cold, award-winning beer at one of the finest restaurants and microbreweries in New Jersey.

We love talking to all of our customers through our blogs, Facebook and Twitter. Basil T’s is always looking for new ideas and feedback to make your experience at our Red Bank Italian restaurant a better one. Well, you spoke and we listened.

Our customers asked us about Basil T’s famous pasta fagioli, so we decided to film Victor Rallo making his famous Italian dish. An addition to Basil T’s video recipe series, Victor Rallo shows Red Bank Italian food lovers how he puts together his pasta fagioli in under six minutes.

Using only the freshest ingredients and a top notch extra virgin olive oil, Victor explains which ingredients give you the best flavor and insists to cook like an Italian by not being shy with your basil or sea salt. Victor is committed to using homemade ingredients for his pasta fagioli, but offers alternatives to Red Bank Italian food fans as well.

Once you watch Victor Rallo prepare his pasta fagioli, how about try it yourself? We would love to see pictures or your own version of homemade pasta fagioli. Send pictures to BasilTmail@gmail.com, or post them to our Facebook page.

Red Bank Italian Food Fans Are Buzzing About Basil T’s

Get a glimpse of Victor Rallo doing what he does best and watch him make his famous pasta fagioli through Basil T’s video recipe series. Come by Basil T’s restaurant in Red Bank to taste it for yourself and see why our customers are raving about all of Victor’s Italian dishes.