Perona Farms

"Family owned and operated for over 90 years"

Still Serving!
(800) 762-8569
350 Andover-Sparta Road
Andover, NJ 07821
www.peronafarms.com

Hines:
Here they have a famous duck press table (the only one of its kind in America). Specialties: hors d'oeuvres, onion soup, lobster and game in season. [Prices] a la carte.

Well, this is a promising start to our adventure! We begin in New Jersey, where we live, and first on the list is Perona Farms, coincidentally the closest to us. Amazingly, today it is not only operating under the same name, but the same family as well! No longer a general restaurant, it is now only open to the dining public for Sunday Brunch and Holidays; otherwise it appears to have built a solid reputation as a premiere banquet hall and off-premises caterer.

Back in Hines' day, Perona Farms was a "country get-away" for fancy city folk and quite a few celebrities including Groucho Marx, Eva Gabor, Burgess Meredith, Joe DiMaggio, Ethel Merman and many others. It was even a popular boxing training camp inspired by the request of Jack Renault, a frequent guest. Successive generations have focused and expanded on the restaurant side of the business.

We hope to visit for brunch soon :)

Read more on the history of Perona Farms:
www.peronafarms.com/ourstory.html