Island Park
Island Park, NY · Food & Drink
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Locals Can’t Get Enough Of This Small-Town Steakhouse Hidden In New York
There are restaurants you visit once and forget by Tuesday. Then there’s the ’76 House in Tappan, New York, a place so quietly magnetic that locals have been finding excuses to come back for years. Something about this place gets under your skin in the best possible way.
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Jon Bon Jovi names his favorite Italian restaurant in NJ. Here’s where it is
It is always exciting to see local chefs and restaurants on television, and this week, three were given air time. One was praised by a legendary New Jersey rocker, another wowed a late-night host with its cheesesteak, and the third made a return to the Food Network. Here are the details. Undici in Rumson gets Bon Jovi nod Victor Rallo's Italian restaurant, Undici, got a shoutout from Jon Bon Jovi, who shared his love of the eatery on the weekly Netflix video podcast "We’re Back! With Brian Williams." The program features Williams, a New Jersey native who spent some of his childhood years in Middletown, "in wide-ranging conversation with some of the most interesting figures shaping popular culture today," according to Netflix. On a recent episode, he asked the rocker to name the best Italian restaurant in Central Jersey .oembed-frame { width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0; border: 0; } View this post on Instagram A post shared by Brian Williams (@brianwilliams_official) "The best restaurant in Central New Jersey is a place called Undici," Bon Jovi said. "The man who opened it, the reason he opened it is he was looking for true fine dining in a place where he
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A new restaurant blew my mind
I've had some hot takes that've gotten me backlash in the past; not liking Thanksgiving food (it's boring), thoroughly loving Chuck E. Cheese stuffed crust (not sure how anyone couldn't), preferring cinnamon Pop-Tarts to strawberry (the flavor you love is blueberry, trust me. Strawberry is muted) — but I'm about to drop a bomb. For years, I've kept this under wraps. Garden Staters get heated over food, and the debate wasn't one I was willing to spark, because, even if I made a perfectly reasonable case, I'd still receive emails saying my mom "should've chosen Plan B" (yes, that's happened). To demonstrate how fatigued I am with those arguments, however, I say this without a care in the world: I don't like Italian rainbow cookies . They taste like licorice, they reek of almond extract and, as a kid, they lure you into what you think is a chocolate-dipped truffle, but leave you with an underwhelming block of marzipan you'd buy near the register of a T.J. Maxx. Am I wrong? DM me, @northjerseyeats . What I'm sure I'm right about, though — besides the fact that the gooey squares from J&M Bakery might be the one exception to my
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NJ’s oldest diner gets new lease on life
DUMONT N.J. (PIX11) — At a time when so many New Jersey diners are struggling to survive, a pair of brothers decided to save the oldest diner in the state and bring it back to life. In March, Gus and John Grimanis bought the Dumont Crystal Diner, originally opened in 1925. Following months of restoration, […]