Restaurants in Pleasantville

Start off your dinner at The Chelsea with menu signatures such as an appetizer tower of fried onion rings ($8) or sweet potato won tons with ricotta, pecans, sage, and honey ($9). For the main meat attraction, try the buffalo meatloaf with mashed potatoes and green beans ($12) or the fried chicken sandwich, topped with sautéed basil cream sauce and artichoke hearts, capers, shitake mushrooms, and parmesan sided with The Chelsea Grill's crispy mix of white and sweet potatoes ($11). Test the eating waters with a light and satisfying grilled-shrimp spinach salad topped with manchego, kalamata olives, orange segments, and pink peppercorn vinaigrette ($11), or give weary taste buds a reason to taste again with a cup of Raul's chili ($5/cup, $6/bowl).

For the past 20 years, Illiano Cucina Mediterranea chefs have prepared more than 15 kinds of pasta dishes, with sauces ranging from pesto and vodka cream to alfredo and pomodoro. Veal and chicken are dressed 15 different ways, including with a marsala wine sauce with mushrooms. Out in the dining room, pale-yellow linen napkins top each table, folded to look like a blossoming flower. It’s a touch that complements the many scenic pictures of Italy’s coast on the walls, creating a setting that’s ideal for family reunions or romantic dinners.

Within Elements Cafe’s romantically lit dining room, guests nibble on upscale, American-style tapas featuring locally grown and organic ingredients. Fred Kellermann, the owner and mastermind chef behind Elements, creates an eclectic menu that brings together unusual flavor combinations in dishes such as potato ravioli with root beer and short ribs or pumpkin-mushroom soup with rosemary cream. To stay on the cutting edge of the ever-evolving food scene, Chef Fred continually updates his repertoire by experimenting with seasonal ingredients and new preparations. Customers can taste his newest creations every Sunday during Sunday supper, which features with a weekly changing menu of new dishes, old favorites, and a pill that cures the Mondays.

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Housed inside a building originally erected as a log cabin in 1720, Barnsboro Inn has continually operated as a licensed tavern since 1776, pausing only during the prohibition era. These days, chef Joshua Reeves' menu of elegant, fresh American cuisine complements the eatery's lengthy cache of frosty brews, international wines, and meticulously preserved napkin rings. Upscale steaks and seafood entrees such as Creole crab cakes and chargrilled mahi mahi assuage hunger; burgers and sandwiches flaunt such accouterments as Monterey Jack cheese.

Patrons make merry amid two bars and three dining rooms sprawled across Barnsboro Inn's historic digs. Inside, full-wall murals depict idyllic countryside scenes of horse-drawn carriages and straw-covered hovercrafts. When weather warms, staff members also dispense Boddingtons and Flying Fish ales on an outdoor patio, where an additional bar abuts numerous umbrella-covered tables.

At La Posata Ristorante, guests are welcome to bring their dates, families, and bottles of wine to dinner. The family-owned BYOB hosts lunch and dinner menus with homemade pastas as the foundation for entrees of grilled eggplant with sundried tomatoes, and buffalo mozzarella or lobster with sweet peas and roasted red peppers. Homemade tiramisu or crème brulee add finishing touches to meals unless diners request showers of confetti.