Welcome to JP Stephens Restaurant & Tavern
My name is Lisa Record, owner and operator of JPStephen's Restaurant and Tavern.
JPStephen's is named after my two wonderful sons whom I cherish and love very much. Sadly my oldest son Stephen was tragically killed in a car accident in 2007 at the age of 16. Stephen was an amazing 3 sport athlete at Conant High School. Stephen embodied all that we value in the youth of our community. He was an honor roll student and member of several different organizations. He was a Captain of his basketball team and he treasured his back to back championships in basketball at Conant. He and I and his father Ron Record would often razz each other to whom had the most championships as I had 2, Ron had 1 and Stephen already had 2 his sophomore year. Of course the basketball team went on to win two more championships after Stephen had passed, of which he would have been part of. There is now 3 Stephen Record awards handed out every year one at the 5th grade level, 8th grade step up and a scholarship award presented by the Stephen Record Scholarship committee to a graduating senior that maintains, athletic, academic and leadership qualities as Stephen represented his years at Conant. Most importantly Stephen gave back to the community. On any given day you could find Stephen working with Jaffrey's youth, on the ball field teaching and coaching for Cal Ripken, on the court doing the same for the recreation department, or down at the beach having fun from a day of working pure shot camps. Leadership in academics, and athletics, building character, remaining humble, giving back to the community that was Stephen's make up.
JP is a wonderful young boy who is following in Stephen's footsteps: he too is a 3 sport athlete, team player and a leader. You may see him from time to time running through the restaurant. I am not trying to tell you this story to be sad but my boys are my inspiration to following a dream that I have always wanted to do and somehow I wanted to keep Stephen's legacy alive because this is what he would have wanted.
Family, friends and good times and just everyone getting together and enjoying themselves. I hope your visit here at JPStephen's is wonderful and we hope that you come again real soon.