“Casual polished dining” meets the summer breeze on the patio at Ott’s Good Earth Garden, the renamed Octopus’ Garden in West Creek that the Schmid family, owners of the Dutchman’s Brauhaus just off the Causeway Bridge in Stafford Township and Mickey’s Pub Port of Call in Tuckerton, bought in 2016. They have kept the best of “The Garden,” and branched out.
What can always be expected is artistic flair perfected on the plate, whether or not the white tablecloth is outdoors, as the Summer of 2020…
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