This Trenton restaurant has been serving up delicious Italian food for generations

With mouthwatering pasta dishes, and steaks served in Grandma’s mystery sauce, you can really truly feel the like at Sibley Gardens in Trenton.

“It’s an Italian steakhouse, but it is much a lot more than that,” explains co-operator Nick Piunti. “The ideal compliment, and I have listened to it so many situations by way of my career right here, is ‘I’ve hardly ever experienced a bad food [here].’ The consistency, I believe, is what we’re really acknowledged for.”

It was initially built in 1935 on the other aspect of the avenue, near the place a lot of Italian immigrants in the spot kept their gardens, therefore the identify. The Piunti family members acquired it in 1944, but remaining the operations to somebody else. In 1961 Mary and Sam Piunti, Nick’s grandmother and father, took it about and built it their possess.

“So my Dad would tackle the entrance of the dwelling, and Grandmother managed the back of the dwelling,” states Nick. ” She immigrated to the country when she was 15, uncovered from the chefs that she worked with. It was variety of like a minimal Italy in this area.”

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Lots of of her recipes are continue to served now, such as their famed Steak Sammy. Sam, Nick’s father, would request his mom to make the dish when he was operating. It was steak cooked in a pink wine and garlic au jus. Clients would come by and see him consuming it, and commenced inquiring for it, so they set it on the menu.

So significantly, 4 generations of Nick Piunti’s family have worked at Sibley Gardens. Sam Piunti however stops by the restaurant every day, Nick is also there jogging the position, and Jake, Nick’s nephew, heads up their bar application.

The cafe has an intimate, classy environment wherever everyone’s taken care of like relatives. Nick states they have some regulars that come a few moments a week, whereas other individuals couldn’t picture owning their birthday celebration wherever else.

“We have kitchen staff that commenced below as dishwashers 20 a long time ago, and are now the sous chef. So I am happy of the reality that men and women want to operate below for that lengthy,” suggests Nick.

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Even though the menu has improved over the decades, they even now provide loads of steaks and Italian favorites. If you are in the temper for pasta, consider their Mediterranean pasta with creamy goat cheese sauce, olives, tomatoes, spinach, and a tiny little bit of parsley. For a twist on Chicken Piccata, attempt their Chicken Sonoma which is a sautéed rooster breast in a white wine and lemon sauce served with artichokes, sunshine-dried tomatoes, and capers.

For the complete tale and much more of what’s on the menu, watch the online video above.

Sibley Gardens is situated at 916 W Jefferson Avenue in Trenton.