The Restaurant Guys

The Restaurant Guys Contact information, map and directions, contact form, opening hours, services, ratings, photos, videos and announcements from The Restaurant Guys, 5 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ.

Restaurateurs Mark Pascal & Francis Schott
OG Food & Wine Podcast since 2005
Chefs • Bartenders • Wine Pros
Hospitality from the Inside 🎙️

New episodes and vintage conversations.

Great chefs, local legends and fantastic conversations .
05/04/2026

Great chefs, local legends and fantastic conversations .

05/01/2026

Want to open a restaurant?

Mark Pascal has some advice from the other side of the bar: “Call me, I’ll talk you out of it.”

Follow for more food, wine, hospitality stories…and the ridiculousness of restaurant life!

Tom Colicchio on kitchen leadership: if you want people to buy into your vision, you have to take care of them.Great kit...
04/11/2026

Tom Colicchio on kitchen leadership: if you want people to buy into your vision, you have to take care of them.

Great kitchens are not built on fear. They’re built on trust, standards, and people who believe in the work.

This is from Tom’s 2006 conversation with The Restaurant Guys, during the first season of Top Chef. Some ideas do not go out of style.

04/07/2026

A subject this good shouldn’t be boring. Paul Clarke of Imbibe Magazine thinks drinks writing should be as lively as the drinks themselves

Comment “fun” and we’ll send you the link.

04/07/2026

If you’re not going to the NJ Wine & Food Festival at Crystal Springs (May 1–3)… what are you even doing?

Three days.
Top chefs.👨‍🍳
World-class wine.🍷
The Grand Tasting everyone fights to get into.🍾

And right in the middle of it all—
The Restaurant Guys. Live. Unfiltered.

Real conversations. Real stories. Real insiders.
No scripts. No fluff. Just the good stuff 🥂

🎟️ Tickets are going. Events will sell out.
Link In Bio for Tickets
Don’t be the one hearing about it after.

Come for the wine. Stay for the stories.
See you at Crystal Springs.

04/05/2026

Mark believes Francis is personally responsible for getting Calvados onto back bars all over the place.
Doug Frost had a name for that: God’s work.
See comments for the full conversation.

04/03/2026

More restaurants are eliminating the phone. That’s a mistake.

A reservation platform can book a table but it can’t answer every real-life question.

Can one guest arrive late?
Can they join after you order?
Will a 91-year-old be comfortable in the room?

That’s hospitality.

Agree or disagree?

03/30/2026

This was supposed to be a 40-minute podcast.

Then Mark, Francis and Lisa Laird Dunn did what friends do best: kept talking.

A little behind-the-scenes proof that the best conversations don’t always know when to quit.

Laird's Applejack

03/17/2026

No formulas. No trend-chasing. Just heart, soul, and a mission to create something great for late-night New York.

Bruce Bromberg on the thinking behind Blue Ribbon. Mission accomplished, Bromberg brothers!

To hear the full story, check out the episode link in the comments.

03/15/2026

Sauced Podcast gave the recipe. Francis added a few notes.
French onion soup, with instructions and opinions.

This is the short version. The full 8-minute video is on YouTube. See link in comments.
Original inspiration from Sauced Podcast.

A few notes from Francis. A full bowl of soup on YouTube.

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5 Livingston Avenue
New Brunswick, NJ
08901

Telephone

+17328284444

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