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New Jersey Monthly Magazine
Collingswood

Just One Way To Skin a Rabbit

Chef: Franco Lombardo, Sapori Trattoria, Collingswood; Nonna: Anna Prestigiacomo, Carini, Sicily more

West Side Gravy

West Side Gravy in Collingswood offers an affordable menu with plenty of comfort classics prepared with precision and artistry. more

25 Best Restaurants 2010

For the best Jersey chefs, fresh, local, sustainable, and farm-to-table are not just buzzwords but delicious keys to creativity, style, and value. more

El Sitio Grill and Cafe

The owners of El Sitio Grill and Cafe bring the South American taste of Quito, Ecuador to Collingswood. more

Another World

Landscape designer Rene Torres transformed his Collingswood yard into a lush retreat, without chemicals or pesticides, and not a lick of grass. more

Spring Getaways: Day Trips

The warm weather is upon us. It’s time to get out and enjoy all that New Jersey has to offer, from craft fairs, to music festivals, to sheep shearing, and yes, even a rodeo. more

Shell Game

Crew is on the rise at Jersey high schools. Here’s why kids and parents love the sport—and the food. more

Game On

When does playing video games constitute a workout? When Nintendo's Wii Fit is involved. Bill Fisher, of Collingswood, can exercise in the comfort of his living room. more

Beat the Director

It’s fall running season. To make his 5k race stand out among the hundreds of races this season, a South Jersey library director is offering a challenge – and is spreading word about that challenge on YouTube.

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Garden for Wellness

You don’t always need to go to great lengths for a dose of rest and relaxation. Sometimes, you can find it just down the block.

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Partying at the Pop Shop

Bill and Connie Fisher didn’t plan on expanding the Pop Shop, their popular Collingswood Doo Wop-style eatery, in a bad economy.  But the restaurant they opened in 2005 (which has won a few “Best of Jersey” awards from this magazine) had gotten too popular for its downtown space.

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IndeBlue

Indeblue in Collingswood does not look like your average Indian tandoor house. Small and snug, with only 31 seats, it retains the shiny-blue and hazmat-orange surfaces of its predecessor, an icy-hip crêperie called 5th Corner. more

25 Best Restaurants 2009

Our experts scoured the state to find elite dining establishments old and new. How did they fare? Read our Top 25 Restaurants list to find out. Feel free to comment on their findings. more

Take A Bike!

Surely you've heard of borrowing books, but how about borrowing bicycles? more

New Faces NJ: Matt Duke

Matt Duke picked up a guitar—and a career. more

Time for Jersey Fresh

Did this week’s spree of high temperatures get you thinking of summer? For me, summer means getting reacquainted with my local farmer’s market.

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Turning a Thumb Green

The steamy weather last weekend brought me to a place that I rarely use but often worry about: my backyard.

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Spring is in this Weekend

You can welcome spring this weekend with something old and something new on the South Jersey festival circuit.

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Where Have All The Record Stores Gone?

Mostly down the tubes, but Jersey still has some great places to shop for music. more

Dog Whisperings: Life with Emily

“Cute dog!” a runner said as he passed my dog and me on our evening walk.

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Best of NJ: Retail

Super shopping and better bargains await at these top NJ retails establishments. more

Best of NJ: Food and Drink

NJ Monthly offers a roundup of the best places to find ice cream, coffee, cocktails, crumb cake, cupcakes and plenty of other delicious food items that don't start with a "C." more

The Chain Gang

Could dinner at a chain stack up to an independent restaurant meal? There is no simple answer.

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Lobianco

If a restaurant is going to defy conventional wisdom and tuck itself away in some obscure spot, it had better be good. more

Sapori

Blackbird Dining Establishment

Chef Alex Capasso’s Blackbird takes wing on nuanced flavors, playful presentation, and attentive service. Would you like shaved black truffles on your entrée? Just say the word. more

Tortilla Press

IndeBlue

Nunzio Ristorante Rustico

Waterlily

Best of Jersey: People, Places and Things

Best of Jersey: Good Eating

Love, Life, and South Jersey

The Pop Shop

Sagami

Food For Thought

Day Trip: Collingswood

Casona

Chef's Kids Eat the Darnedest Things

Quail eggs? Frog legs? Tofu? Bring ‘em on! But leave room for peanut butter on salami. more

Best of Jersey

We in the Garden State need to start demanding more. Here are a bunch who deliver. more

Gotta Have It: April

This Way Up

Cities are experiencing a renaissance as single young professionals,newly weds without children,and empty nester's discover that picket fences,large yards , and McMansions are not to be-all and end-all of luxe living. more

Hot Restaurants

Attention, foodies! Add these gustatory bastions and new sensations to your to-do list. Gentlemen, and ladies, start your forks. more

Crab King

With a little help from his mom, Robert Sliwowski, aka Bobby Chez, bounced back from ruin to sell 30,000 crab cakes a week. more