The popular downtown Asbury Park French eatery Pascal & Sabine were host to a couple of unique patrons Saturday. “A young man named Pascal drove two hours with his girlfriend, Sabine, to dine with us. He proposed and she said yes! Cheers to our real-life Pascal & Sabine,” read the Monday Instagram post.  A spokeswoman […]

Smith, the Asbury Park-based creative collective and hospitality group behind Porta, Brickwall Tavern, Pascal & Sabine, and Little Buddy, has hired a new Chief Operating Officer. Suzanne Hanna, a former TGI Fridays and Yum senior vice president will oversee business operations for all Smith restaurants, officials said in a written statement. “We couldn’t be happier […]

[Clarification: Design regulations included in the city’s Central Business District redevelopment zone govern what color a building building can be painted.] Many know the mixed used building that house the downtown’s popular French brasserie Pascal and Sabine as the former NJ Natural Gas building, built in 1927. But what appears to be uncommon knowledge is […]

Two Asbury Park restaurants owned and operated by Asbury-based Smith Group are on a path to achieve accreditation from the National Foundation for Celiac Awareness in gluten-free food service training. Gluten-Free Resource Education and Awareness Training, or GREAT kitchens, provides restaurants with training for all front-of-house and back-of-house personnel on safe gluten-free food preparation and handling […]

Vegan restaurant Goldie’s, one of the four restaurants in Asbury Park owned and operated by the Smith group, is the subject of a laudatory review in tomorrow’s New York Times Sunday edition. The Times Fran Schumer cites Smith junior partner Mark Hinchliffe, a vegan who was instrumental in the creation of Goldie’s, as aiming for […]

A local group of entrepreneurs that own several successful restaurants in Asbury Park will grand open their fifth venture in the city, Pascal & Sabine, Friday night. Pascal & Sabine takes its name from two characters in Albert Lamorisse’s fantasy featurette, “The Red Balloon”, according to Mark Hinchliffe, spokesperson for Smith, a partnership of local investors. Smith […]