This Week at Casa Dante

   737 Newark Avenue, Jersey City, New Jersey 07306 - (201) 795-2750

www.casadante.com       See us on    FACEBOOK  or Casa Dante Facebook Dear Friends: A few weeks of summer remain. Hope you're having a great one this year. Amid all the turmoil in the stock market and such we all really need to relax. If you aren't heading to the shore this weekend, come on by. Entertainment, without cover charge, great food, drink and company. Check our schedule below for entertainment, food, wine, funny quotes and surprises. See you at Casa Dante! Dom & Toni Marino Proprietors Reserve a spot on Open Table or call direct. Casa Dante 3.5/4 stars Star Ledger 2010, Wine Spectator Award 2009, 2010 & 2011, Best Italian in NJ by AOL, Top three Italian Restaurant inNJ, Inside Jersey Magazine Check out the specials and discounts below and join our  FACEBOOK  fan page. www.casadante.com/entertainment or other events at www.casadante.com/events Rooms for small or large parties up to 140. Valet parking. Entertainment this weekend!    The Champain Fulton Jazz Trio ...great music and vocals    Friday August 12, 2011              Saturday August 13, 2011  "Anthony & Taryn"  Great food, fine singers and wonderful songs! Come in for a musical evening!

 See the full entertainment schedule at www.casadante.com/entertainment

Happenings at Casa Dante     Thanks to all who helped us garner another Wine Spectator Award for 2011. As a thank you for your support and for reading this, print this out and show it to Louie this Friday or Saturday night ( August 12 & 13 ) and he'll let you have any bottle of wine at 1/2 price ( aren't you glad you read this far down!). Thanks again for your patronage!     Coming in September "Dance Night". Haven't done one in a long while. Music, Dance instructors to give us some steps and lots of fun!   Believe it or not we are getting ready for the holiday season and taking advance reservations for our annual New Years Eve Bash. Our entertainment bookings are not completed yet, but if you've been here for past celebrations you know its always a blast. Because of limited space I hope you take advantage of this early notice for our regular attendees. Remember Thanksgiving Day celebration, Christmas Eve   Holiday Parties welcomed. Plenty of room for large groups. Valet parking in our lot.    Great & Healthy Recipe Chicken Breast with Artichoke-Olive Sauce We were intrigued by the ingredients and taste and want your input whether we should include this as an "special addition" to our menu here at Casa Dante. Write us! 1/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil 3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice 2 teaspoons finely grated lemon zest 3 garlic cloves, minced 1 tablespoon chopped oregano One 10-ounce box frozen artichoke hearts, thawed and patted dry 8 pitted kalamata olives, halved 1/2 cup coarsely crumbled feta cheese Salt and freshly ground pepper Four 6-ounce skinless, boneless chicken breast halves 2 tablespoons chopped parsley Preheat the oven to 400�. In a bowl, whisk 1/4 cup of the oil, lemon juice, zest, garlic and oregano. Fold in the artichokes, olives and feta; season the sauce with salt and pepper. Season the chicken with salt and pepper. In an ovenproof skillet, heat the remaining 1 tablespoon of oil. Add the chicken, skinned side down, and cook over moderately high heat until browned, 3 minutes; turn and transfer the skillet to the oven. Roast the chicken for 10 minutes, until white throughout. Transfer the chicken to plates and spoon the sauce on top. Garnish with the parsley and serve.

quote of the week   " My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four; unless there are three other people." Orson Welles -- If you have a quote you think worthy, please email to me at info@casadante.com with your name and I will approve, post it here and give you mention   Did you know?  potato crisps were invented by a North American Indian called George Crum in 1853. orange does not rhyme with any other word. Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots. honey is the only edible food for humans that will never go bad horseradish was the first product sold by Heinz in 1869 Kopi Luwa from Indonesia is the world's costliest coffee, at USD$700 a kilogram, thanks to a unique taste and aroma enhanced by the digestive system of droppings of palm civets, nocturnal tree-climbing creatures about the size of a large house cat, which eats ripe robusta coffee cherries for treats. The coffee beans, which are found inside of the cherries,remain intact after passing through the animal. Plantation workers track them and scoop their precious poop.  ( if you've seen the movie "The Bucket List", you know this one! ketchup was originally a fish sauce originating in the orient. Two words from the Fujian region of China were used to describe a fish brine / sauce and a tomato sauce – ke-tsap and kio-chiap. Wrigley's gum was the first product to have a bar code. Ringo Starr appeared in a Japanese advertisement for apple sauce. Ironically his name means "apple sauce" in Japanese olive oil has lots of anti-oxidants and anti-inflammatory activity to fight rheumatoid arthritis. and is the only vegetable oil that can be created simply by pressing the raw material lemons contain more sugar than strawberries lettuce is the only vegetable or fruit which is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh Casa Dante  40th Anniversary since 1971.  We would love your participation. If you have a story, photo or just a blurb of a memory involving Casa Dante, please forward it for inclusion in this section. Send it to info@casadante.com   Looking forward to hearing from you!  July 30,1978. New York Times review of Casa Dante. Two stars, not bad! B H Fussell, of the NY Times described the then newly relocated Casa Dante  "....like a boisterous Italian embrace....in a Fellini movie".    I agree with the comparison. I don't want to post the entire review here, but if you're interested in seeing it, just email info@casadante.com and I'll send it to you!