I recently enjoyed an afternoon in the Sergeantsville area including lunch at the The Café in Rosemont. (Their Wednesday Global Dinners always sound wonderful to me, when I read the menus.) The excursion started with a desire to finally visit Maresca’s butcher shop, which I’d heard and read about for years. My friend and I stopped … Continue reading
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Dine Out New Jersey!
Hundreds of restaurants throughout New Jersey will offer incentives to consumers who dine out during New Jersey Restaurant Week taking place September 19 – 25. The week-long promotion is sponsored by the New Jersey Restaurant Association (NJRA). For a list of participating restaurants (by county), visit the Dine Out NJ website. Just the Mercer County participants … Continue reading
Dinner Theatre
What a great idea! No, not a meal served while a theatre production unfolds in front of you (eew), but a more civilized dinner-then-theatre match between two really good local restaurants and award-winning McCarter Theater, for a series of five plays during the 2010-2011 season. First you have a 5:30pm pre-theatre dinner at Mediterra or Eno Terra (it … Continue reading
Fatty Crab!
I finally got to try Fatty Crab (website noise alert) restaurant in New York when I was in the city for my nephew’s wedding last weekend. He’d told me I’d like it, and he was dead right. The Upper West Side branch was near the hotel where I stayed, and I met friends (almost/sorta relatives, actually), … Continue reading
Za Cracks Farm Fresh Eggs
When Za Restaurant in Pennington first opened in 2006, I was glad to see several egg dishes on their lunch menu. I’m always surprised there aren’t more places in our area that do interesting, creative breakfast and brunch dishes, or who serve them throughout the day. You know how they say “it’s always 5 o’clock … Continue reading
I’ll have a side of opera with that!
Enjoy some high art with your fine dining at The Frog & The Peach in New Brunswick on August 6. Their “Night at The Opera” event is an evening of Italian Opera and food and wine, with singer Annamaria Stefanelli. Ms. Stefanelli will perform arias from some of the most beloved repertoire of Italian Opera, and Chef Bruce Lefebvre will … Continue reading
High Times at the Americana
You don’t usually hear about special events at diners, but the Americana Fine Diner on Route 130 in East Windsor is having one that sounds like a lot of fun on July 21. Remember, these are the same folks who have Craig Shelton consulting in the kitchen of their Skylark Diner in Edison. The Americana is the … Continue reading
The distance between farm and table has never been shorter
Zone 7 Partners with Muth Family Farm and Eno Terra restaurant to present another event in their “Dinners on the Farm” series on July 18, 4-8pm. This one is at the Muth Family Farm, in Williamstown. With over 118 acres in production, the farm produces over 100 varieties of organic fruits, vegetables, flowers, and herbs from … Continue reading
I kid you not – try Jester’s Café
Praise be to Jester’s Cafe in Bordentown, where I had a very nice lunch with friends on Saturday. We started off to go somewhere else, but that place had closed for a long holiday weekend, which so many places seem to have done. (Finding a place for a friend’s birthday dinner on the Fourth was no mean … Continue reading
Stood up! (but in a most delicious way)
My friend had emailed me midday to cancel our dinner at the new MoCMoC Sushi in Princeton. But the email didn’t get through, and there I sat, getting hungrier and hungrier, and without a way to reach her (outdated cell phone number). I broke down and ordered a shrimp and vegetable tempura appetizer. Demolished that, and by then … Continue reading
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