Two Restaurants Close in Basking Ridge (UPDATE)

Negotiations reportedly underway for replacements for Doon Indian Valley Restaurant and Fresh restaurant's locations in two malls.

Two Basking Ridge restaurants, Fresh restaurant and Doon Indian Valley, have closed within the past few months, although only one space has been cleared out. However, agents say that negotiations are underway for new tenants for both properties. Fresh restaurant, located at the Highlands Village Center in The Hills section of Basking Ridge, has not been open since the end of 2012. "We are in discussions with a couple of restaurants to take over the space but want a theme that is a good mix with the other tenants and with the local area," Peter Wisniewski, executive vice president and principal for Coldwell Banker Commercial, Feist & Feist Realty Corp., said on Thursday morning. Wisniewski, who said the firm is leasing agent for the Village…

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Carol

9:00 pm on Friday, June 7, 2013

I agree, an authentic Mexican restaurant is sorely missing in Basking Ridge!   more ›

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'Fresh' Restaurant Also Serves Healthy Ice Cream Choices

'Green' restaurant offers such goodies as handmade ice cream sandwiches.

Not all of the popular ice cream spots in the area are official ice cream parlors. Take Fresh restaurant, off Allen Road in at the Village Highland Center in The Hills section of Basking Ridge. Fresh is one of New Jersey's few certified "Green Restaurant Association" eateries. Fresh wasn't always a semi-organic, health-conscious restaurant, with such touches as bamboo floors and wooden window shutters recycled from an old barn. In fact, a few years ago, it was a Dairy Queen that served up such specialties as burgers, fried chicken and fries along with DQ's trademark ice cream. After it's remake, Fresh may look like a totally different shop, but it still has one major leftover from the space's previous life as a Dairy Queen — a large soft-…

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