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With Langosta Lounge on the Asbury Park boardwalk closed for storm repairs, owner Marilyn Schlossbach and her partners have regrouped across the street in another restaurant they own — the Dauphin Grille in the Berkeley Oceanfront Hotel.

“We call it couch surfing,” Schlossbach said. “We’re taking all the best sellers from all the other restaurants and putting them on the menu here. So it’s Langosta Lounge, Dauphin Grille, the Labrador Lounge and Trinity and the Pope.”

The Dauphin Grille is open seven days a week for dinner, with lunch on the weekends, said Schlossbach [in photo with husband and partner Scott Szegeski and their five-month-old twins]. In addition,  a “Southern Comfort brunch” is planned for Sundays with live music and some southern comfort food menu items, she said.

“We’re fortunate to have this,” Schlossbach said of the Dauphin Grille. “The hotel fared well up here.”

Schlossbach took a big hit from the storm. Not only is Langosta Lounge in Asbury Park closed for storm repairs, but the Labrador Lounge restaurant in Normandy Beach she owns with husband Szegeski is also closed.

Schlossbach and Szegeski are partners in the Asbury restaurants with her brother Richard Schlossbach. She and Szegeski opened the Labrador Lounge  in 2003. Langosta Lounge on the Asbury boardwalk opened in 2008.

“This is a fresh start for us,” Schlossbach said of reopening the restaurants after storm repairs are completed. “We’re treating our entire world like we’re starting it over tomorrow. It’s all going to be fresh and new and different. And the things that weren’t working we’re going to fix and the things that were working we’re going to keep. We have to feel positive in times like this that everything happens for a reason.”

[Updated December 2, 2012]

 

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