Who We Are


We are passionate about providing authentic food and flavors that are handcrafted and personally designed by our chefs for our guests. Our recipes come to life every day in our kitchens using the best ingredients prepared in the freshest ways possible. On the plate, we showcase our passion for food with meals that are fresh, wholesome, and hand-crafted by talented and passionate chefs. We don’t shy away from investing time into our craft, knowing that our hand-tossed pizza dough, fresh soup stock, and hand-breaded chicken and fish set us apart and help to define our who we are. Building upon this strong foundation, our culinarians embrace trends, seasons, global flavors, local ingredients, and novelty food experiences to bring robust variety to our menus. Learn more about our food philosophy here.



Meet Our Team


Stephen Andrade

General Manager



(845) 569-3485
sandrade@parkhurstdining.com

With over 45 years of experience in the Food Industry, 22 years in the United States Navy and 23 years in Higher Education. Steve has 33 years as the Leading Food Service Director and General Manager and District General Manager. Experiences include fine dining, retail innovations, business development, team building and labor management training and Culinary Training. Steve is a graduate of the Southeast Institute of Culinary Arts and Total Management Instructor School. His teams have won the Malcolm Baldridge Award, a three time winner as the top programs coordinator in the nation USN and a three time winner of the Captain F. Ney award for the best food service program in the USN. Steve’s passion is to provide excellent customer service, daily communication with students to satisfy their needs and quality food as well as creating smiles for all of our customers. On his off time Steve enjoys golf, discovering new wine and spending time with his wife and visiting with his sons.


Louis Russo

Executive Chef



(845) 569-3367
Lrusso@parkhurstdining.com 

Formally trained culinary professional with a degree from the Culinary Institute of America with a distinguished career encompassing 40 plus Years fine dining and high-volume catering services as well as a pastry chef. Louis’ career has spanned from West Coast, where he was employed by Jackie and Joan Collins at their private club, Tramp, in Beverly Hills and back to the to the East Coast to Manage First-Class Catering which encompassed three Golf Courses with full service Catering options, as well as an Executive Chef in higher education in NJ. At present time Louis is the Executive Chef with Parkhurst Dining setting high standards of culinary food service based on scratch cooking and local sourcing. Louis enjoys cooking Italian food and baking in his spare time, he enjoys spending his time with his wife and son on their boat.


Dominica DiDio

Director of Operations



(845)569-3588
ddidio@parkhurstdining.com 

Dominica DiDio is the Director of Operations at Mount Saint Mary college she comes from an expanded background in hospitality, fast food management, and kitchen management. She has worked in a variety of management rolls in the culinary field and enjoys taking care of customers and providing them with quality from scratch food. In her spare time she enjoys spending time with her 3 beautiful children. She enjoys watching her oldest son play high school football, her middle child, Joseph, is a national junior honor society inductee and heavily into the performing arts, and her youngest, Scarlett, her little firecracker who keeps her on her toes daily. She is very excited to be a part of Parkhurst and Mount Saint Mary College.

Mount Saint Mary College Dining
330 Powell Ave
Newburgh, NY 12550
(845) 569-3368