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Two Rivers Steak & Fish House
Location: Lakeshore Plaza Pasadena, MD 410.360.1919 www.tworiverssteak.com
Sometimes things are just better as part of a team, like Laurel and Hardy, or Batman and Robin. Or maybe steak and seafood.
This team concept is critical to the success of Two Rivers Steak & Fish House at Lakeshore Plaza in Pasadena, Maryland. Work- ing with St. John Properties has also proven to be a successful move for the restaurant’s owners. In the four years since Tony Toskov first approached Mark Morgan about opening a restaurant together, Two Rivers has experienced tremendous growth. Today the restaurant employs approximately 100 staff members and has become a favorite dining destination for many in the area, with a bur- geoning catering business. “Our concept was to make a place where someone could bring the wife and kids and somewhere people could go on date night,”Toskov said. Both Morgan — a member of the restaurant’s ownership team as well as the executive chef — and Toskov point to the quality of Two Rivers’ food as a major factor in its success. The restaurant serves only Certified Angus Beef, and, in September 2013, Morgan was named the brand’s nationwide Restau- rant Marketer of the Year. “The consistency of the product is excellent,” Morgan said of the beef. “We felt that the additional expense for Certified Angus Beef would help maintain our food’s consistency and keep customers coming back.” And come back they do — two and three nights a week in many cases, according to Morgan. The partners recently reached out to St. John Properties to expand outward another 3,500 square feet to accommodate Two Rivers’ growing restau- rant and catering clientele. As with many successful collaborations, the partnership between Two Rivers and St. John Properties shows no sign of slowing down. “We think very highly of St. John,”Toskov said. “After our lease was signed, the relationship just got better as time went on. The hospitality they showed us at the beginning just continued and kept getting stronger.”
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