WABC Channel 7 | Neighborhood Eats Segment

Watch WABC's Lauren Glassberg's Neighborhood Eats segment featuring Restaurant Serenade.

Published March 16, 2003

"So has Serenade earned the right to charge Midtown prices and number itself among the Bernardins and Babbos of the world? For the most part, it has. Mr. Laird sets the right tone with opulent amuse-bouches..."

Published July 13, 1997

"And I can't think of anyone who wouldn't enjoy the food. It's the kind of light, modern French cooking perfected by restaurants like Jean Georges in Manhattan..."

Hitting all the high notes with surveyors, this "magnificent" New French in Chatham (from the union of "husband-chef" James Laird and "wife-in-front" Nancy Sheridan Laird) is "fabulous from start to finish", with "breathtaking" food, an "incredible wine list" shepherded by a "very user-friendly" sommelier, "understated service" and a "magical setting"; all-in-all, this one will "impress" "even people from NYC."

Robert Mondavi Culinary Award of Excellence

"His highly acclaimed cooking style, often described as light, modern French, uses fresh ingredients and a myriad of light seasonings..."

Eat Drink Man Woman

"In the month leading up to February 14, says Nancy Laird, co-owner of the ultra-romantic restaurant Serenäde in Chatham, “The phone is ringing and ringing and ringing and ringing…That’s what we all do, is answer the phone."

Top Chefs' Dream Picnics

"It's hard to visualize a chef outside his or her kitchen. In our mind's eye, they are tethered, in their whites and clogs, to their restaurants..."

Serving Up Advice

"Six years ago, Richard Maglin and Barbara Miskiv met with a young couple who ran an upscale restaurant in bucolic Chatham, New Jersey at the urging of a client. At that time Nancy and James Laird, the owners of Restaurant Serenade, were looking for a team that could give them better financial planning advice."

Fall Feast

"Chef James Laird and Nancy Seridan Laird, co-owners of Restaurant Serenade in Chatham, like to keep entertaining simple in their New Vernon home."

M.A.R. Magazine | Kitchen Confidential

"One of the top in the state, Restaurant Serenade in Chatham, NJ was named by master Chef/Proprietor James Laird's wife, partner and front of the house manager, Nancy Sheridan Laird..."