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Category Archives: Food and Drink

LET’S DO LUNCHMUSIC
The Andreach-Chrepta Jazz Duo opened up the summer-long LunchMusic series at Riverside Gardens Park on Wednesday. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI A couple of weeksContinue reading "LET’S DO LUNCHMUSIC"
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June 3rd, 2010 @ 8am
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‘KRAUT’ IS OUT AS SAN REMO PLANS MOVE
Oakbridge Tavern, better known as the Little Kraut, has been sold to the owners of San Remo in Shrewsbury. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI EightContinue reading "‘KRAUT’ IS OUT AS SAN REMO PLANS MOVE"
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June 1st, 2010 @ 6am
FOOD FESTIVAL MAY RETURN TO MARINE PARK
Marine Park will play host to some sort of summer event next year, officials say. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Business owners and Red BankContinue reading "FOOD FESTIVAL MAY RETURN TO MARINE PARK"
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May 26th, 2010 @ 9am
RUMSON’S NEWEST EATERY DISHES AN EYEFUL
Carl LaGrassa, owner of The Barn in Rumson. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Stepping through the door of 102 Avenue of Two Rivers these daysContinue reading "RUMSON’S NEWEST EATERY DISHES AN EYEFUL"
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May 20th, 2010 @ 9am
Gettin’ scrummy at Thompson Park. (Click to enlarge) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI It’s time once again for some good old-fashioned mauling, ruckers and scrumming, followed up by merrymaking by a bruisedContinue reading "A DAY ON THE PITCH, AND A PARTY TO BOOT"
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May 14th, 2010 @ 10am
PLAYING IT BROAD AND FOR LAFFS
Friday night lights: Standup guy “Soul Joel” Richardson (left) hosts another COMEDY ON THE EDGE extravaganza in Red Bank, this one starring Reese Waters (right). By TOM CHESEK They usedContinue reading "PLAYING IT BROAD AND FOR LAFFS"
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May 6th, 2010 @ 2pm
Several hundred women indulged in a gals-only cocktail party at Red Bank’s Downtown club Wednesday night, part of the annual breast cancer awareness effort known as Pink Bank. Need weContinue reading "SPLASHES OF PINK ALL OVER THE DOWNTOWN"
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May 6th, 2010 @ 5am
TWO BROAD STREET BUSINESSES CLOSE
Passersby peer through the window of the newly-closed East Side Café Diner Monday afternoon. Below, a sign taped to the door of the Häagen-Dazs. (Click to enlarge) A pair ofContinue reading "TWO BROAD STREET BUSINESSES CLOSE"
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May 4th, 2010 @ 5am
CARMINE’S CLAIMS GROUND ON SUB FRONT
Sandy Marino, left, co-owner of Carmine’s Sub Shop, with two of her employees. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Carmine Marino, a hoagie hound who had worked at anContinue reading "CARMINE’S CLAIMS GROUND ON SUB FRONT"
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May 3rd, 2010 @ 10am
SHAKING UP THE TEA PARTY
Both sides of the issue: Singer-songwriter Linda Chorney invites the public to take part in a bit of absurdi-tea during a video shoot in Red Bank this Sunday morning. FromContinue reading "SHAKING UP THE TEA PARTY"
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April 29th, 2010 @ 11am
Ralph Gatta at Riverview Medical Center yesterday, and a note to his customers, below. Ralph Gatta, a butcher and grocer known as ‘Johnny Jazz’ to generations of Red Bank’s WestContinue reading "‘JOHNNY JAZZ’ ENDS FIVE-DECADE SOLO"
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April 28th, 2010 @ 9am
Putting their customers and friends to work, Rosa and Liam Davis of womens’ casualwear shop Bella Mystique brought downtown Red Bank its first open-air fashion show in memory Tuesday night.Continue reading "FASHION SHOW DAZZLES DOWNTOWN"
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April 28th, 2010 @ 6am
Some of the women who will be modeling clothes from Bella Mystique gathered at the store recently. Store own Rosa Davis is at center in the tall boots. (Photos byContinue reading "RED BANK BOUTIQUE PLANS FASHION SHOW"
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April 23rd, 2010 @ 9am
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
Will rubbing Buddha‘s belly, as folklore suggests, bring you wealth on this day of reckoning with the taxman? Our Where-savvy readers will first have to locate the statue before cashingContinue reading "WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?"
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April 15th, 2010 @ 4am
ZEBU’S ON THE MOVE… OUT BACK
Zebu Forno is expanding into this space formerly occupied by Red Bank Red Hot. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Freehold, Hoboken, Holmdel and Morristown have all been targetsContinue reading "ZEBU’S ON THE MOVE… OUT BACK"
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April 13th, 2010 @ 9am
GOING FOR SECONDS… FOR A GOOD CAUSE
It isn’t gluttony if it’s for a good cause, right? So go ahead, take a refill on that chianti, heap a little more onto that dinner plate and dig intoContinue reading "GOING FOR SECONDS… FOR A GOOD CAUSE"
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April 13th, 2010 @ 8am
ITALIAN EATERY TO SET UP AT GATEWAY SITE
A take-out and sit down restaurant called My Italian Kitchen will set up shop in the former Key Motors garage at Broad Street and Maple Avenue. By DUSTIN RACIOPPI LooksContinue reading "ITALIAN EATERY TO SET UP AT GATEWAY SITE"
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April 6th, 2010 @ 8am
FEDS: SHARMA TO BE DEPORTED
Sunny Sharma’s Leighton Avenue business, Best Deli & Food Market, was open Monday. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi) Federal immigration officials say Red Bank retailer Sunny Sharma remains in their custodyContinue reading "FEDS: SHARMA TO BE DEPORTED"
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April 6th, 2010 @ 5am
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS?
No, it’s not an April Fool’s trick. This week’s Where is a double-take. A twofer. Twice the challenge. You gotta call out both locations. Email us your answers, please.
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April 1st, 2010 @ 7am
A NEW PIZZERIA, AND A RAVE FOR VIA 45
Pizza Fusion boasts 68 seats, and plans to offer delivery in about three weeks. (Click to enlarge) We’ve got some Red Bank eatery news this rainy Monday, with a long-awaitedContinue reading "A NEW PIZZERIA, AND A RAVE FOR VIA 45"
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March 29th, 2010 @ 11am
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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 ...