Eat & Drink

A New Day at the Office

November 24, 2014

The future of the Office Beer Bar & Grill, a North Jersey chain, can be seen in the transformation of its flagship from ho-hum to very happening....
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Calling All Cooks!

November 7, 2014

Start your ovens! As the holiday entertaining season gets under way, this new kitchen gear will help make light work of your culinary chores. ...
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The Lee family maintains a 75-year tradition, raising broad-breasted birds with a personal touch. ...
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Who Owns Sriracha?

October 21, 2014

Chefs are challenging the famous “rooster” brand with their own versions, as Mama takes the sauce back to its Thai (not Vietnamese) origins. ...
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When top-tier chefs need an exotic ingredient of impeccable quality from anywhere on Earth—and need it fast—they turn to Markus Draxler of North Bergen’s Solex Fine Foods....
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Monmouth County will be a much spicier place October 11 and 12, when the 17th annual Screamin' Country Jamboree and Chili Fest returns. ...
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Fifty years after launching the sandwich chain in Hoboken, Tony Conza happily manages his lettuce (and we don’t mean the edible kind)....
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By creating custom chopped-beef blends, Pat LaFrieda turned the lowly burger into a status symbol and himself into the first celebrity butcher...
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The Applebee’s of China” brings hot pot—Inner Mongolia’s signature style of communal cooking—to Edison, and the place is packed....
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My Schnack Attack

July 28, 2014

In reviving Schnackenberg’s, a vintage Hoboken luncheonette, new owners set out to make doughnuts that wow. They succeeded....
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The votes have been tallied and the results are in! Here are the best places to grab a bite in New Jersey, as chosen by you, the readers....
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Our annual list of the best restaurants New Jersey has to offer. You'll find some rising stars, and plenty of old favorites....
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Chefs are taking their creativity to the bar, crafting fanciful new bitters to perk up cocktails with just a few drops...
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East Coast Beer Co. finally finds a home in Belmar....
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A sampler of beer styles fit for summer quaffing....
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New Jersey's craft brewers produce an array of lighter beers to slake your summer thirst....
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Granted New Jersey’s first license to make mead (honey wine), Sergio Moutela modernizes what might be the world’s oldest fermented beverage....
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This Wildwood hot dog hut gives the classic weiner a gourmet twist....
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The residents of Camden, one of the country's nine worst food deserts, learn to grow their own fresh produce with help from the Camden City Garden Club....
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A talk with former New York Times restaurant critic, now op-ed columnist, Frank Bruni, on teaching food writing at Princeton this semester....
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