{"id":7442,"date":"2016-01-27T00:42:27","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T05:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=7442"},"modified":"2016-01-27T10:25:07","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T15:25:07","slug":"new-ownership-for-former-riverwatch-pilot-house-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2016\/01\/new-ownership-for-former-riverwatch-pilot-house-restaurant\/","title":{"rendered":"New Ownership for Former Riverwatch, Pilot House Restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7443\" style=\"width: 628px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_4957.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7443\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7443\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7443\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_4957-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"The former Riverwatch restaurant in Brick, N.J. (Photo: Daniel Nee)\" width=\"618\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_4957-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_4957-240x180.jpg 240w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_4957-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_4957-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_4957-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7443\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The former Riverwatch restaurant in Brick, N.J. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A new owner\u00a0has purchased the liquor license for the former Riverwatch restaurant on Route 70, known previously for years as the Pilot House restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>The riverfront restaurant, which overlooks the Metedeconk River and a nearby marina, has been closed since the middle of 2015. Its liquor license was the subject of a state seizure at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant lost the license May 28 after the state Department of the Treasury seized it due to a judgment of $41,654.33 in taxes to the state, said Christopher J. Santarelli, treasury department spokesman. The license was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/2015\/06\/riverwatch-restaurants-liquor-license-reinstated\/\">reinstated in June<\/a>, but the restaurant never reopened.<\/p>\n<p>The township council voted unanimously Tuesday night to transfer the license to a new owner \u2013\u00a0KB & RD, LLC \u2013 which will operate the restaurant under the name \u201cBeacon 70.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to a licensing notice, the owners of the restaurant are\u00a0Karl L. Blum and\u00a0Rajesh Dheri. Attempts to contact Blum and Dheri were unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2016\/01\/new-ownership-for-former-riverwatch-pilot-house-restaurant\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new owner has purchased the liquor license for the former Riverwatch restaurant on Route 70, know previously for years as the Pilot House restaurant&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,1649],"tags":[1887,24,1886,1407],"class_list":["post-7442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","category-local-business","tag-beacon-70","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-pilot-house","tag-riverwatch"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_4957.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-1W2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}