GRCC In The News

Reports of formal dining’s demise at club and resort properties have been greatly exaggerated. Many chefs report that the tradition is still alive and well, with proper nods to today’s eating preferences. 

 

Just 50 feet for $10,000.

As part of the 17th Annual Nose Tackle Classic—a golf outing at the Glen Ridge Country Club in New Jersey with the money going toward the Anthony P. Marotti Memorial Scholarship Foundation—Anthony Carnevale found himself with one shot to earn quite a bit of cash.

When hiring a new cook, Glen Ridge Country Club executive chef James Haberstroh sometimes tests prospects by giving them a few ingredients to work with and seeing what they can create on short notice. While attending the recent Chef to Chef Conference presented by Club & Resort Business magazine in Seattle, Haberstroh was on the other side of the challenge: He was one of four contestants in a mystery basket competition.

This past September, Harris Coble, Sommelier and General Manager of GRCC, participated in a two-day sommelier camp at DeLoach Vineyards in Sonoma County's Russian River Valley to learn more about the winery’s vineyard partnerships and experience a full day “on the job” during harvest.

For an increasingly busy food operation, Glen Ridge (N.J.) Country Club needed a kitchen that could keep up with incoming orders. This past February, the club unveiled a new a la carte kitchen, as part of a $13 million, property-wide renovation, that put an end to a logistical challenge that had been plaguing its food-and-beverage team for quite some time. 

Born out of necessity, the club’s kitchen was needed to provide better service in “1894,” Glen Ridge’s brand-new, 210-seat restaurant. 

There’s only one 2017 Club of the Year, according to the New Jersey Professional Golfers Association.

It’s in Glen Ridge.

The Glen Ridge Country Club, located on Ridgewood Avenue, received this top award from the NJPGA earlier this month for its hosting of various golf tournaments and educational programs.

In addition to that honor, the GRCC’s pro, Tommy Monteverdi, has received the NJPGA’s Horton Smith Award, which is bestowed on a New Jersey PGA golf professional who contributes to golf education for area golf professionals.

A breathtaking $13 million renovation of the Glen Ridge Country Club has resulted in the creation of a state-of-the-art kitchen, a new 150-seat a la carte restaurant, for the interior, and another 150 seats outside, as well as a new 250-foot ballroom, tennis pro shop, driving greens, pool facility, and fitness center.

The Met Area is in the heart of winter, yet for more and more local clubs that doesn’t mean golf is out of season thanks to indoor facilities and golf simulators. 

“You’re really seeing clubs aiming to keep their members at the facility twelve months a year,” says Tommy Monteverdi, head golf professional at Glen Ridge Country Club in Glen Ridge, N.J., which is enjoying its first winter with “The Bunker,” the club’s new golf performance facility. 

The Glen Ridge Country Club is nearing completion of an almost total renovation of its clubhouse, not to mention the erection of a new pro shop for golf and tennis, and other attractive amenities.

Glen Ridge recently celebrated the opening of its brand new 200-seat restaurant and bar, as part of the second phase of a three-phase, $12 million construction project that included its new 4,500 square foot golf and tennis pro shop that is open to member year round.

The third phase of construction, the Pool House renovation and state of the art fitness center addition will be completed by summer 2017. The project is the work of Donnelly Construction of Wayne, which has renovated clubhouses at Baltusrol, Canoe Brook, Essex County, North Jersey, Fiddler’s Elbow, Winged Foot and many others. Interior design is the handiwork of Judd Brown Associates of Rhode Island.

#18 - Chili 
Glen Ridge (N.J.) Country Club

Anybody can mix up some ground beef, beans and pre-fab mix into a serviceable chili. Glen Ridge's version incorporates bits of primesteak cuts and simmers for more than 24 hours. Order it on its own, or it'll make you want to lick it off the top and trow away the underlying hot dog.

...In the next presentation, James Haberstroh, Executive Chef of Glen Ridge (N.J.) Country Club (and formerly with Trump National Golf Club, Bedminster, N.J.), dazzled the Conference - and provided tasty samples - with his demonstrations of how liquid nitrogen can be used to create crowd-pleasing items such as "dragon's breath popcorn," "Jack Daniels Cracker Jack," "adult root beer floats" and "smokin' sangria." Haberstroh also described how the technique can be used to create a variety of "lollipops" - including cake batter, red velvet, chocolate and "fun-fetti" - that are especially popular at kids' events.

From now until the summer of 2016, Glen Ridge Country Club is embarking on an $11 million renovation that will tie together its many facilities with a brand new 40,000 square-foot clubhouse and pro shop.

The project includes a new golf and tennis pro shop overlooking the tennis courts and the new first tee, with a golf training facility that has two interior hitting bays for foul and winter weather.

“The clubhouse will undergo a major renovation, including a new wraparound exterior porch installed on the back of the building overlooking the golf course and New York City to the East.  The historic characteristics of the 100-plus  year-old clubhouse will be maintained,” said Rod Donnelly, president of Donnelly Construction which will perform the renovation.

One of the oldest country clubs in New Jersey is getting an upgrade that managers say will strike a balance between the club's history, and the changing country club landscape.

The Glen Ridge Country Club's 40,000 square foot clubhouse still retains some of the original structure from when it was built in 1894, according to Jim Kirkos, the club's president.

The Glen Ridge Country Club is celebrating the groundbreaking for an $11 million project that will include a new state of the art golf and tennis pro shop and renovation of its 40,000 square foot clubhouse and pool house facilities.

The event takes place Sunday, Nov. 8, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.,  at the club at 555 Ridgewood Avenue in Glen Ridge. The event is open to all current and potential members.