The Club Car Grille Arrives in Irvington

From the Hudson Independent

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By Shana Lieb­man

Irvington — On May 16, the much-an­tic­i­pated Club Car Grille of­fi­cially opened in the for­mer River City Grille space in Irv­ing­ton.

By 5:00 p.m., the restau­rant (which seats around 70 in the din­ing room and 25 at the bar) was bustling with en­thu­si­as­tic din­ers – many of whom were River City reg­u­lars. In fact, the new restau­rant feels like a slightly more re­fined and mod­ern se­quel to River City.

Owner Matthew Kay, who also owns the Hud­son So­cial in Dobbs Ferry, says he that when he took over the space, he kept many of the same wait­ers and kitchen staff and made very few struc­tural changes to the space (which was once a 1900s train car). “We only made mi­nor cos­metic changes,” he says, which in­cluded ren­o­vat­ing the wood floors, paint­ing the walls dark blue, and adding train-themed decor (i.e. pic­tures of rail­road tracks and old pho­tos of club cars.) Also, the bar area, which once felt like an ex­ten­sion of the din­ing room, now has a more dis­tinct, club­house feel with wooden ta­bles, a leather ban­quette and a larger, nat­ural con­crete bar.

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