Muddy Waters Gastropub

06/29/2026

BREAKING: It's Monday and I am dangerously close to my World Cup limit. Still watching every single game. I think there's a word for this. Starts with "addict," ends with "ion."

Weather's perfect out there. Patio's open if you need a tan. Inside's nice and cool if you'd rather watch a game and not look like a lobster tomorrow.

BREAKING: It's Monday and I am dangerously close to my World Cup limit. Still watching every single game. I think there's a word for this. Starts with "addict," ends with "ion."

Weather's perfect out there. Patio's open if you need a tan. Inside's nice and cool if you'd rather watch a game and not look like a lobster tomorrow.

The honorable Regina is presiding over the bar tonight. Please, for the love of god, show up in droves. If this shift goes badly she is never doing a Monday again and I'll be stuck back there alone, googling "how do you make a vodka soda" for the four hundredth time.

Tuesday is Paint & Sip. Last week I advertised it for the wrong day, which tells you everything you need to know about my brain. Apparently kitchen guys make better schnitzel than schedules. Reservation required, spots kept small so Kim can actually pay attention to each of you "artists."

Wednesday — special line dancing night for the nation's birthday. Red, white, blue. If you show up in all black we're turning you away, I don't care how good your boot scoot is.

Thursday, Open Mic returns. Apparently some musicians who've never played here are finally showing up. No idea what changed. Therapy, probably.

No bands this weekend, so go bother your own family for a change. And if your grill's busted, or you're just lazy, come see us — we'll cook for you, catering packages too. Just don't tell anyone the schnitzel came out of my kitchen and not your backyard. Our secret.

06/26/2026

BREAKING: Totally Taboo — allegedly the most energetic, most fun band on the planet — returns tonight for their first full headlining gig with us, after two prior appearances helping turn our Thursday Open Mic into the legendary success it's become.

We will be cooking up some specials to match the chaos.

Also today: it's Chelsea's last day with us. She's leaving to go work in the field she actually went to school for, which we're told is a thing people do. Stop by and wish her good luck — tell her she'll be missed (she will).

Heads up for tomorrow: we just got hit with a late cancellation, so as of right now we have no band booked. Unless magic happens between now and then, you'll be looking at us taking turns entertaining you ourselves — juggling cabbages, doing whatever idiotic improvised bit we can muster on short notice. Use your imagination, then lower your expectations.

Come for the band, stay for Chelsea's send-off, brace yourselves for tomorrow.

06/24/2026

Let's Go Enzo!!

SUN KING at Grace Bay: https://vrbo.onelink.me/ItNz/jz...

06/23/2026

BREAKING: Calling all kind-hearted art lovers and "I-have-no-talent-but-I'll-try-anyway" artists.
Come paint something you'll actually hang on your living room wall — not shove in a closet. We supply the inspiration in liquid form (one fine adult beverage of your choice), and Kim Lauton supplies the actual guidance, because left to your own devices that flag is going to look like a fever dream.
Perfect date night. Perfect solo mission, no judgment. And while you're here — ovens are fired up, schnitzel's doing what schnitzel does, plus a few specials that have no business being this good for a Tuesday.
Bonus reason to show up: come meet Sofia, the newest face behind our bar. She lives in Bloomsbury, she's a senior at Moravian studying marketing, and rumor has it she took this job because she heard our guests are wonderful — not for the money. I'm a simple man. I believe what I'm told.
Paint -n- Sip
Tuesday, June 23rd — 6 PM
$40pp, all supplies + one drink included
Space is limited. Just show up — no reservation needed.
"Let Freedom Ring." Or at least let the brush do something interesting.

06/21/2026

BREAKING: It's Father's Day, the sun is out, the ovens are fired up, and somehow we still convinced 30+ vendors to show up at Muddy Waters.

Doors open in exactly one hour — 12pm sharp, running till 4pm. This is our first-ever Monthly Bazaar and yes, we're already planning to make it a regular problem for your Sundays.

Bring your dad. Bring his dad. Bring the neighbor. Bring your weird uncle — we don't ask questions, we just feed people.
Gary Reed's on site to keep things lively while you shop local, weird, and wonderful. Kitchen's hot, staff's in a great mood (for now), and there's no excuse — you're an hour away.

Muddy Waters Gastropub. 1090 Route 173, Asbury NJ. 12-4pm. Today.

06/21/2026

06/20/2026

Mud Ball 2.0 is officially on. Get down here — the music’s awesome, the beer’s cold, the food’s hot, and somehow even the weather got the memo.

06/19/2026

BREAKING: Muddy Waters declares a three-day surrender to dear old Dad, whether he asked for it or not.

TONIGHT (Friday): No live music — just the patio (genuinely gorgeous right now, we said it once), a full menu, full bar, and the rare gift of hearing the person across the table.

TOMORROW (Saturday) at 1PM: The Great Mud Ball 2.0. Last year got rained out; this year the weather's behaving and the lineup's stacked — The Outcrops, Tony & The Trees, Ruby West, Mike Frank & The Gypsy Tribe, Garden State Line. Bring Dad, he'll tell you he was "basically at Woodstock."

SUNDAY — Father's Day, 12 to 4PM: Our first-ever Monthly Community Bazaar. 30+ vendors for the last-minute gift hunters. Bar's outside in the grove, food and A/C inside, getting out is on you.

Dad gift certificates: 25% extra value, until Sunday. After that he's just a guy you love at full price.

https://app.upserve.com/b/muddy-waters-gastro-pub/gift-card

All weekend, the kitchen's working overtime to make sure every dad, grandad, and great-grandad within 20 miles leaves happy as a clam.