The Red Onion Restaurant & Bar

Specialties

The Red Onion Restaurant & Bar is a full-​service casual fine-​dining restaurant serving dinner six nights a week and brunch on Sundays. The Red Onion prides itself on its menu of fresh, handmade food, properly made cocktails and well-​chosen beer and wines-​by-​the-​glass.

House-​made pastas, desserts, ice ream and sorbets. Daily seafood specials, delicious soups, sauces and individualized vegetable garnishes. Along with consistency of preparation, these are some of the things that have established The Red Onion as a Hudson Valley dining destination for over seven years.

History

Established in 2002.

Kevin Katz, his Wife Rochelle and business partner Dr. Jamal Mahdavian opened The Red Onion in 2002 in an historic pre-​1850 farmhouse on the main road between Woodstock and Saugerties, just six miles from the NYS Thruway. While the building has served as both business venue and private home over the last century and a half, it is mostly remembered for its resident ghost. In the late 19^th century, the building was known to be a «house of ill repute». One winter day, one of its women of the evening was discovered dead in a snow drift. It is conjectured that she is the spectre that haunts The Red Onion to this day!

But most people come for the great food, drinks and relaxed ambiance.

Meet the Business Owner

Kevin K.

Business Owner

Kevin began his cooking career in Woodstock at the legendary Bear Café. He went on to cook for the likes of Chef Yannick Cam at Le Pavillon, Chef Jeff Tunks of Passion Fish Restaurant Group and Chef Gianni Scappin of Bice Group in the early ‘90s in Washington, D.C.

Kevin moved to San Francisco working as sous chef for mid-​nineties star chef Reed Hearon at both Restaurant Lulu and Café Marimba. Returning east, Kevin did a season in East Hampton, NY at The Maidstone Club, one of the countries’ oldest and most esteemed golf clubs as Dining Room Chef.

Kevin returned to the Hudson Valley in ’97, working for the owners of The Bear Café as catering chef and as chef of their second restaurant, The Petersen House. In 2000, Kevin was asked to help develop the dining room at The Red Dot, an early comer to the explosive revitalization of the City of Hudson. After receiving accolades for his work there, Kevin, his then fiancée and old friend thought a place of their own was in order.