Picnic Named Top 25 Restaurant in NJ

In the two summers since Christine Nunn and Annabel Schlair opened , the upscale Radburn eatery located in the Plaza Building, it's been heaped with accolades and rave reviews.

New Jersey Monthly added to the list earlier this month when the magazine named Picnic one of New Jersey's Top 25 Restaurants, one of only two Bergen County restaurants that made this year's list. It is the second straight year Picnic has earned that honor.

"It has been an amazing couple of years," said Nunn, a former food writer turned Ultimate Chef Bergen County competition winner. "When you own a restaurant, it is all-consuming, and to get all the great recognition we have is a testament to my entire cooking team and front of the house staff."

Nunn, a third-generation Radburn resident, said that in addition to putting "fine fabulous food," on the table for her guests, she's also recently been consulting on menus for another more casual restaurant that's opening in the fall.

In August, Nunn will travel to Maine as part of a photography expedition undertaken to complete her first book, "The Preppy Cookbook," due out in September. The project has been time consuming, but also a lot of fun, she said.

Picnic, whose menu features a daily rotating array of items made from fresh, local ingredients, is open for dinner Tuesday through Saturday and lunch Tuesday through Friday. The restaurant is BYOB and reservations are strongly recommended.

If you've never been to Picnic and would like to read about the recent first visit of one local blogger, check out .

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