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The New Jersey restaurants we miss the most
As onerous sufficient as it’s to open a enterprise in New Jersey, double that once you open a restaurant. I’ve owned two espresso homes on the Jersey Shore and I can positively see why 60% of eating places fail throughout the first yr. Once you consider a pandemic and additional powerful restrictions, these numbers get even increased.
It is one factor when a restaurant fails within the first yr as a result of we hardly received to know them, it is one other when long-established locations like Spirito’s in Elizabeth closed their doorways after practically 100 years.
Among the many victims of the pandemic was the landmark Hearth Restaurant in Paramus, which had been opened in 1956 solely to shut its doorways final yr. We additionally bid farewell to 2 Ruby Tuesday eating places, together with the one within the Monmouth Mall.
When locations like these shut they take slightly piece of us with them. So many household dinners, celebrations, first dates, milestone moments have taken place there that these reminiscences shall be embedded in our brains lengthy after these institutions have bid us farewell.
In fact, let’s not overlook the meals that we’ll miss as properly. What I might give for an genuine slice of Yankee Tower meatloaf! Luckily, comic Julia Scotti who grew up in Fairview gave me the recipe.
However the Yankee Tower was extra than simply the meatloaf. It was the place my father and I might eat each Friday evening and discuss soccer. It was these conversations that happened once I was in eighth grade and highschool that I see now once I discuss soccer with my sons.
So I requested my following: In case you may carry again a New Jersey restaurant and maybe a imply there, which would it not be and what would you prefer to eat?
Gail Morrone
Cristina’s Pizzeria in Union Metropolis
Jimmy Givens
Peterson’s Sundown Cabin in Lakewood. Has been closed for about near 50 years. EXCELLENT meals and their steaks to die for!
Giulio Poli
Yankee Tower/ meatloaf
Neil Oleary
Mastori’s Diner
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Linda Lee Lucas Huston
Cinelli’s
Marylouise Henning – Kizis
Howard Johnson’s, All you may eat Fish Fry
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Vini Lopez
Mothers Kitchen in Neptune. Pizza
Chrissy B Harris
Buddies Cabin West Orange
In case you like mushroom soup that they had the perfect. I cherished their hamburgers.
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Lisa Egan
Clam Hut within the highlands!!
Wealthy Gunning
The previous Olga’s. 73 & 70
Deborah Mai
Bennigans
Tom Barney
Once I was stationed at FT Dix for primary we received paid as soon as a month ((1968) we at all times celebrated by going to Genos. Significantly better than Mcdonald’s.
Steven Keller
My spouse and I agree… Tracey’s 9 Mile Home in Little Ferry. We would each order the Steak Sandwich with French Fried Onions. We have been additionally married there.
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Lynn Miller
BT bistro. Route 1 south. West Windsor. Bobby Trigg was the chef. His crème Brule was the perfect.
Jane Marks Biunno
Larison’s Turkey Farm in Chester, NJ. I might order my favourite meal of the YEAR…Turkey dinner & Larson’s made it Splendidly.
Jean Marie Costigan Kreitz
Spiritos , Elizabeth !
Lucille Marie
Coach and 4 at exit 8 entrance to NJ turnpike. ..Hightstown had scrumptious London broil..
Keith Vena
Hearth Restaurant (Paramus NJ) – Charcoal Broiled Cheeseburgers and Sliced Steak sandwiches
Wealthy Carucci
Previous Choose In S . Hackensack
Helen Khorosh
Steak & Ale! Miss that place.
Kelly Shannon
Casa Dante in Jersey metropolis. I miss the veal franchise
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Tony Pasqua
THE FLAGSHIP, RT 22 Union, NJ. I’d Order the Prime Rib !
Lisa Egan
Mayfairs pizza in Woodbridge I feel it was! Omg the perfect ever! I feel Mulberry Avenue is there now
Va Nessa
The ORIGINAL – Olde Silver Tavern!
Lucille Marie
Mothers restaurant rt 33 Hightstown scrumptious lasagna additionally the place I first met my husband to be for lunch…
Michael G Davis
The lamp publish diner Anglesea, NJ.
Erin Murray Hunt
The Circus Drive-in in Wall. A real CLASSIC
Jill Zutty
Tre Piani, Princeton Forrestal Village
Jerry Rubino
Dish in Passaic Park.
Mike Darkwater
The Thirsty Mallard in Waretown N J great spot with nice meals, now vacant after being bought out to an Irish restaurant that didn’t make it very lengthy in that space. Finest spinach salad and steamed clams, and good menu, additionally had vintage duck decoys and sneak field boat. Very cool setting inside .
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Fresh snow coats some North Jersey towns for a white Christmas
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How rare is a white Christmas and how long has it been for some cities
A white Christmas means more than 1 inch of snow is on the ground on Christmas day, but how frequently does this occur?
New Jersey experienced a frosty December — and Christmas has proved no exception.
Christmas morning temperatures accross the Garden State dipped into the low to mid-20s in much of the state, and even into the teens in higher elevations, forecasters said. While most towns saw little to no overnight snow accumulation, some lucky areas awoke to a white Christmas.
How much snow did North Jersey see?
Snowfall leading up to Christmas was light but enough to dust parts of the state with festive flurries. Bergenfield reported one of the highest accumulation, measuring 1 inch of snow on Christmas Eve. Nearby, Ramsey recorded 1.1 inches, and Sparta with 1.6 inches of snowfall.
In New Providence, Paramus and Stewartsville, snow totals were less than an inch, with each town reporting between 0.6 and 0.8 inches. Somerset logged an inch, while Wantage received 1.3 inches.
For those dreaming of a white Christmas, Bergenfield, Ramsey, Sparta and Wantage offered picturesque views, with enough snow to blanket the ground in holiday cheer. Meanwhile, other areas in the state settled for a chilly but snow-free holiday.
Whether blanketed in white or simply bundled up, New Jersey residents should brace for continued cold as the year comes to a close.
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A Modest Theory About Those Drones Over New Jersey
The welter of stories about unidentified drones over New York and New Jersey multiply, as do the myriad speculations. Thus far the narratives fall into three categories: private drones, those deployed by hostile foreign actors, those belonging to US authorities on a shadowy unacknowledged mission. The media has taken up the cause and the story has gone mainstream, with baffled officials furnishing no unified explanation – and President elect Trump weighing in. This installment of the column will add one more theory to the growing noise, but a theory grounded in full context, covering all the known facts and hopefully all the more plausible for that albeit.
To begin with, let us dismiss the private drone scenario quickly. Any private entity causing such panic would soon admit it and apologize for fear of being found out. The authorities via satellite would know whence they came, track them and reveal the facts. Next, the foreign actor theory – again, as Donald Trump says, the military or intelligence people would know. They might stay silent about it for fear of provoking a confrontation with a foreign power. The US is, sadly, prone to such deliberate passivity, the latest example being the Havana Syndrome findings by Congress which rejected the intelligence community’s previous report that the Syndrome doesn’t exist and no foreign power is responsible. The recent ad hoc Congressional Committee officially found that the Havana Syndrome is real and a foreign state is likely behind it.
So, back to the drones: do the authorities know that a foreign power is responsible for the drone outbreak but won’t say so? Timing is everything in such events. The Biden White House, as we have seen with aid spikes to Ukraine and granting permission to hit inside Russia, is not shy of adding last minute foreign policy complications to the incoming administration. Were it a hostile power, we would know all about who unleashed the drones. Which leaves the third and last category, that the drone phenomenon was a government initiative which authorities do not wish to acknowledge, a stealth operation that went public inadvertently. As this column is focused on geostrategic affairs, the possible explanation falls into its bailiwick.
Nobody has quite understood why the US and Germany refused, until recently, to allow Ukraine to use allied weapons to strike inside Russia (Germany still refuses). All manner of theories have swirled but nothing coherent obtained, other than an abiding fear of Russian retaliation. Yet Washington gave the go-ahead for Ukraine to use American weapons across its border in recent months, especially after Trump’s electoral victory. Did the Russian threat to retaliate against the US diminish? Did the US suddenly get safer? And why did it take so long to grant permission? The truth is, any sort of highly visible and attributable strike against the US was never a risk because Moscow would have suffered devastating retaliation. But an anonymous catastrophe in a major US city would work. A kind of secret Samson Option, or hidden nuclear device in Germany or America should Russian soil be bombed by allied weapons. The great efficacy of such a threat lies not in its use but entirely in the threat, the ambiguity. And the restraint or doubt it induces.
Nor should the threat be too visible or public. Anything that detonates massively raises an outcry, puts pressure on the authorities to find a return address, a clear culprit. No foreign power would risk such a big provocation that it would be identifiable and cause retaliation. Witness 9/11. One has to conclude, therefore, that the real version of such a threat would be scary rather than hugely destructive. The device would need to be constructed discreetly and stowed or delivered equally discreetly. And no foreign state actor would take responsibility. So, a small radiation device fits the bill. And this is precisely what New Jersey officials have been saying about the drone activity, namely that it’s our side looking for a small medical isotope gone missing, one that was aboard a container ship and went missing. But a federal agency has just denied the US was flying drones in search of nuclear radiation. All of which is standard procedure for stifling panic.
Finally, there’s this: the foreign actors would not deliver a direct threat. They would retain deniability, as in the Havana Syndrome. If, indeed, it’s a radiation device, nobody knows who was behind it, though the technical sophistication suggests only rival superpowers qualify as suspects. Which brings us back to the Russian dark ops and the inexplicable restraint of the Biden White House over helping Ukraine.
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What about tariffs? What North Jersey shoppers can expect from retail in 2025
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New Jersey is synonymous with retail.
With shopping malls throughout the state, including the largest mall in New Jersey located in Paramus, there are endless options to find what you need.
And with one of the largest ports on the East Coast, New Jersey is not only home to retail, but also to a robust shipping industry.
Expect changes in both those areas in 2025 ― and be on the lookout for changes in the costs of goods if President-elect Trump enacts his proposed tariff program.
- Port workers and the association representing marine terminals have until Jan. 15 to reach a deal on a new master contract, with automation being a main sticking point. The union representing the port workers has promised to go on strike if a deal is not met, potentially increasing prices on store shelves and upending supply chains.
- Developers at Garden State Plaza and Bergen Town Center in Paramus are in the process of constructing thousands of new apartments. At the Garden State Plaza complex there will be retail, dining, outdoor markets and a 1-acre town green, with an early-2025 groundbreaking expected.
- President Donald Trump has vowed to enact 25% tariffs on goods coming from Mexico and Canada, and 10% tariffs on goods coming from China. New Jersey manufacturers have sped up imports and stockpiled raw materials in anticipation of the increased costs from imports.
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