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REVIEWS

New York Times

I KNEW we were in for good food when we parked the car a block away from Matt’s Red Rooster Grill and the aroma of grilling meat led us there...

Star Ledger

There's more than one Matt involved with Matt's Red Rooster Grill. Culinary Institute of America roommates Matt McPherson and Matt Green teamed up to open this delightful restaurant last fall, adding instant flair to Flemington's dining scene...

MyCentralJersey

Matt McPherson has a special fondness for the color red. "I grew up in Flemington and my grandfather had a farm in town that I loved visiting," McPherson says. He always remembered the farm's red tractors, red barns, red trucks and, of course, its roosters...

ICON

Matt McPherson has come home to roost. The talented chef — the “Matt” in Matt’s Red Rooster — grew up in Flemington, NJ. After graduating from Hunterdon Central High School, he flew the coop to earn a culinary degree at the prestigious Culinary Institute of America...

CentralJersey.com

Every now and then, you enter a restaurant and know at once that you're going to have a fine meal and a good time. Perhaps it's a genuine welcome, or the happy buzz of diners, or the clink of glasses and aromas from an open kitchen, or a well-designed dining area with pleasant appointments and well-dressed wait staff...

Artful Diner

Several weeks ago, while dining at Matt's Red Rooster Grill, I experienced what could only be described as a sybaritic epiphany. For there, lurking unobtrusively beneath my tender filet, I discovered a sensuous pillow of whipped potatoes that prompted the most overwhelming sense of gastronomic déjà vu I have ever experienced...

Pat Tanner

Matt’s Red Rooster Grill has many reasons to crow: a menu that is easy to love, experienced hands at the grill, personable staff, and a setting that manages to be thoroughly modern yet warm and relaxing. Flemington – and all of us - can ask for little more...

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