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Category Archives: Chefs

POLLARA PIZZA: CALIFORNIA’S LOSS, RED BANK’S GAIN
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New Red Bank pizza spot Pollara firing on all cylinders as NJ native brings acclaimed pie skills back home. (click to read)
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August 17th @ 2pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: RALLO PLANS EATERY FOR FORMER GAS STATION
Birravino owner to unveil plans for new eatery in Red Bank. (Click to read)
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April 7th @ 2pm
RED BANK: DRAPERY SHOP CLOSES, WHILE CURTAIN RISES ON NEW SIP ‘N PAINT, COFFEE SHOPS
RED BANK: In this edition of Retail Churn, we look at officials' claim of 22 new businesses opening in 2025. Also, one of Red Bank's longest running businesses calls it quits, while new ventures spring up. (Click to read)
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January 21st @ 6pm
RED BANK: EATERY OWNERS ROAST BROADWALK
A group of Red Bank restaurant owners tell the Borough Council that turning Broad Street into a seasonal pedestrian plaza is killing their business. (click to read)
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August 15th, 2025 @ 5pm
RED BANK: PORK ROLL, TACO EATERIES TOP ‘BEST OF’ LISTS
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Red Bank eateries Johnny's Pork Roll and Mexican International Food land on web site's top restaurant lists. (click to read)
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May 7th, 2025 @ 5pm
RED BANK: TWO EATERIES AND A ‘WILD EYE’
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RED BANK: After an overhaul, a long-closed restaurant reopens; a new one announces its debut plan; and an intriguing new retail spot opens its doors.
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June 29th, 2018 @ 9am
RED BANK: GLAZED AND AMUSED AT LUIGI’S
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RED BANK: PieHole follows the honey-scented aroma to Luigi's Ice Cream for a donut-and-ice-cream sandwich.
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June 9th, 2017 @ 12pm
WHAT’S FOR LUNCH? HEALTHY DELECTABLES
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LITTLE SILVER: Watching what we eat this week, PieHole gets a takeout from the four-month-old Healthy Palate.
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May 12th, 2017 @ 9am
WHAT’S FOR LUNCH? ‘ALL IN’ IN SEA BRIGHT
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SEA BRIGHT: What's For Lunch stumbles on a new venture by familiar faces, and one of the tastiest dishes we've tried in a long time.
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April 21st, 2017 @ 11am
WHAT’S FOR LUNCH? TUSCAN OPULENCE
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RED BANK: What's For Lunch? Follow the garlic and other enticing aromas flowing through the open doors of Buona Sera.
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April 14th, 2017 @ 12pm
WHAT’S FOR LUNCH? TINY SPACE, HUGE FLAVOR
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SHREWSBURY: What's For Lunch? visits a tiny takeout kitchen serving up big flavor satisfaction.
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March 31st, 2017 @ 11am
WHAT’S FOR LUNCH? LINGERING AT ANJELICA’S
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WHAT'S FOR LUNCH: No reservation needed for lunch at Anjelica's in Sea Bright, where PieHole lingered over a homey midday meal.
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January 13th, 2017 @ 11am
WHAT’S FOR LUNCH? BEST OF 2016
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RED BANK: PieHole reveals its Top 10 lunches of 2016, re-savoring mouthwatering BBQ, burgers, soups, sandwiches and more.
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December 30th, 2016 @ 11am
CRAVINGS: CELEBRATORY PROFITEROLES
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RED BANK: A reader's suggestion led us to a decadent French dessert of chocolate-covered profiteroles that we can't stop craving.
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December 29th, 2016 @ 11am
WHAT’S FOR LUNCH? EUROPA GRILL TAPAS
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SHREWSBURY: What's for Lunch? Something otherworldly under a celestial ceiling in a strip mall at the new Europa Grill.
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December 2nd, 2016 @ 12pm
WHAT’S FOR LUNCH? A SLOW-PACED GRAZE
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LITTLE SILVER: PieHole settles in for lunch at Graze, finding "mad-scientist genius" at every turn -- in the soup, sandwiches and mac 'n cheese.
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November 11th, 2016 @ 8am
RUMSON: SIGN OF CHANGE
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RUMSON: The outcry over the changes at What's Your Beef overlook the fact that the place hasn't always been What's Your Beef.
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November 7th, 2016 @ 6am
WHAT’S FOR LUNCH? DREAMY O BISTRO CREPE
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RED BANK: What's for Lunch? PieHole visits chef Marc Fontaine's new O Bistro on Bridge Avenue for a crepe. This is not your average crepe.
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November 4th, 2016 @ 11am
RUMSON: Seven months after she acquired What's Your Beef, restaurateur Marilyn Schlossbach has given it a makeover and new name.
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October 26th, 2016 @ 5pm
WHAT’S FOR LUNCH? LOBSTER CORN DOGS
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RED BANK: What's for Lunch tries the innovative lobster corn dogs and a bánh mi at B2 Bistro, and enjoys them unreservedly.
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October 21st, 2016 @ 9am
Partyline
RBG CUB SIGHTING
A Partyline contributor positioned on the dais at Thursday's meeting of the Zoning Board of Adjustment captured redbankgreen reporter intern ...
DOWNPOUR STRAINS DRAIN
Partyline captures video of a flooded intersection during Tuesday's afternoon thunderstorm.
STILL ‘OPEN’ SPACE
Next to Fins and Feathers, very surprised to see an overgrown parking lot that still sits there…overgrown and with blacktop. (Photo and te ...
DARK COMEDY BY JERSEY DIRECTOR OPENS FILM FEST
Indie Street Film Festival kicks off with "In Memoriam," a dark comedy about an actor with six months to live.
Indie Street Film Festival Kicks Off
Indie Street Film Festival kicks off.
KUDOS FOR RBCS FINANCE WHIZZES
Monmouth County Board of Commissioners and Borough Council honor Red Bank Charter School students who took second place in a national financ ...
MARINE PARK HOT DOGS
Red Bank's newly remade Marine Park also has a new lunch option, a newly licensed hot dog cart.
MATCHA CLOSE UP
Partyline captures a photographer working for Aura Coffee Roaster angles for the perfect shot of two iced matcha lattes on Broad Street Mond ...
SOUTH STREET AUTHOR TO READ AT LIBRARY SATURDAY
South Street resident Scott Robertson will read selections from his book, Contents of a Curious Mind, Saturday, Aug. 8, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 ...
EARTH SPIRIT FOUNDER DIES
Jocelyn Ruth Midose, longtime owner of Earth Spirit New Age Center has died.
A PERFECT NATIONAL NIGHT OUT
The annual National Night Out event organized by the Red Bank Police Department drew hundreds to frolic amid the green grass and cotton cand ...
Blackhawk Helicopter Arrives for National Night Out
The Blackhawk helicopter has arrived. Everyone’s favorite part of each National Night Out hosted by the Red Bank Police Department jus ...
PARKING METER MOMENT
Patty Bishop of Verona was halfway through her haircut at Fox & Jane when she realized she needed to feed the parking meter. After she p ...
JOIN US AT JJ’S – PLEASE!
A doe-eyed sect of sentient boba teas sweetly beseeches us to join their adorable cult outside of JJ Delicacies this sticky August Sunday!
NEIGHBORS GATHER AT TINO’S
Chris Havens of River Street gathered group of Red Bankers for dinner on Thursday night. The gathering was in the back patio of Tino’s Mex ...
TREE BRANCH VS CAR
A tree branch fell on a parked car on Chestnut Street near Pearl Street Sunday. Submitted by Brian Donohue
APOSTROPHE CATASTROPHE
As a curmudgeonly curator of terrible punctuation on public signs, I’ve seen and shaken my head at a lot of gratuitous quotation marks ...
DANE FOR DEMOCRACY
redbankgreen Partyline captures a great dane who, all signs indicate, has had enough.
SUNFLOWER GAUNTLET
On the Partyline: a sunflower guantlet on River Street.
VIGIL FOR 68 DEAD
About 100 people attended a Saturday vigil at Johnny Jazz Park in Red Bank as part of a nationwide series of events to mourn the lives of pe ...