Couple Runs Waterfront Cafe in Catskills

By COLlive reporter
Photos: Sholem Srugo/COLlive

Lunch with lakefront views.

Vacationers in the Catskill Mountain are enjoying the third year of the Starlight Cafe, a kosher coffee shop and dairy restaurant serving up appetizers, salads, wraps, paninis, fish and pasta.

The eatery was opened 3 years ago by Shneur and Yocheved Minsky, residents of Crown Heights, who like many frum families in Brooklyn spend their summer months in the cooler climate of upstate New York.

The wooden-structured restaurant is located at the Starlight Marina in Monticello, overlooking Swinging Bridge Reservoir, a lake that was formed by the damming of the Mongaup River in 1926 for hydroelectric power.

The marina offers fun-filled, action-packed water sports adventurous with rentals of kayak, rowboat, canoe and SUP (stand-up paddle board) alongside speed boat, banana boat and jet ski rides.

Having a kosher restaurant completes the experience where customers can stop to grab a bite in the spacious indoor and outdoor seating on a lovely patio.

The menu is influenced by its setting with full fish entrees that include grilled salmon, salmon ceviche, tilapia Provence, grilled tuna, Ecuadorian tuna, baked St. Peter’s Fish, shallot sea bass and grilled trout with peppers and parmesan.

Omelets and shakshouka are offered for breakfast (until 1:00 PM). Starring on the menu is also eggplant towers, spinach and cheese eggroll, Israeli cheese bourekas “Ziva,” along with desserts, assorted coffees and fruit shakes.

Minsky says he hopes to offer events, such as fundraising or social events, at the popular location. He also offers special excursion dinners for 2 on a small boat he owns near the premises.

Starlight Café
299 Starlight Road, Monticello, NY 12701
Phone: 845 796-0092

Facebook.com/starlightcafemonticello