Mercer County's Salt Creek Grille in Princeton, New Jersey, offers live jazz music with exceptional dining fare that includes the restaurant's award-winning mesquite grilled steaks. Specialties also include seafood, barbecue ribs and pork chops along with salads and pastas. Or, guests may choose from more classic menus that offer lunch foods like burgers. The restaurant also offers a wide variety of wines and cocktails.
Jazz is the main feature in the evenings Wednesday through Sunday. Bands or artists featured on those nights are listed on the clubs Web site. Lunch time diners enjoy piano daily.
The Salt Creek Grille has the option of dining on the patio or in private rooms; it also has private banquet rooms, bar dining, a lounge area with fireplace and a full bar that features happy hour, all in a wheelchair accessible environment. Takeout is also provided at this non-smoking restaurant.
Salt Creek Grille
1 Rockingham Row
Princeton, New Jersey 08540
609-419-4200
saltcreekgrille.com
The Candlelight Lounge in Trenton, New Jersey, features the Jazz Disciples, a group of people whose focus is the preservation of real jazz in Mercer County. The group is led by Larry Hilton and their Web site is a place to go to find out what is being offered at the Candlelight Lounge.
The restaurant features a "Real Jazz Night" and offers live performances on Saturday nights. On Tuesdays there is an "Office Party" where a free buffet is available; Wednesday and Thursday there is a happy hour from 5 to 7 p.m. with a live deejay.
Candlelight Lounge
24 Passaic Street
Trenton, New Jersey 08618
609-695-9612
candlelightevents.way.to
The Hopewell Valley Bistro in Mercer County's Hopewell, New Jersey, has a jazz music background with a country dining atmosphere. The bistro offers home-style cooking that includes a lot of Hungarian and European dishes. It has both a restaurant and bar and free Wi-Fi is available.
The club features jazz artists like Darla and Rich Tarpinian who favor the music and songs of older artists: Cole Porter, Johnny Mercer, Duke Ellington and Irving Berlin, who are icons in the world of jazz and swing.
Hopewell Valley Bistro serves beer, wine and cocktails in the bar or with meals. Specialties such as Chicken Hungarian, beef goulash and stuffed cabbage focus on the restaurant's owners' Hungarian roots.
Hopewell Valley Bistro
15 East Broad Street
Hopewell, New Jersey 08525
609-466-9889
hopewellvalleybistro.com