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Category Archives: Food and Drink

Jamian LaViola's solution to indoor-outdoor dining on Monmouth Street: garage doors. A long-awaited transformation of a Monmouth Street watering hole moved into its final stages yesterday when Jamian's Food & Drink (formerly Echo), blew out its old facade. In it's...
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April 14th, 2009 @ 10am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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As the music director for The Downtown, Chris Masi is responsible for wrangling seven nights and two stages worth of live entertainment every week at the Red Bank hotspot. So it's understandable that the expanded and reimagined club's one-year anniversary...
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March 19th, 2009 @ 9am
Some shots from around Red Bank Tuesday afternoon, where everywhere under a brilliant blue sky were flashes of green. Email this story
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March 17th, 2009 @ 6pm
A heated tent awaits the throng of full-time and part-time Irishmen for today's St. Patrick's Day celebration at the Dublin House. Below, a view of the recently completed first-floor bar. (Click to enlarge) Patrons of today's St. Patrick's Day celebration...
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March 17th, 2009 @ 6am
The borough-based Visiting Nurse Association of Central Jersey may feel the pinch. For the second time in recent months, the Red Bank Council has contracted services to Monmouth County in an effort to cut costs. The governing body last night...
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March 10th, 2009 @ 9am
redbankgreen got a kick out of this video that reader and documentary filmmaker Bill Day of Red Bank shot over the weekend. It features John 'Cha Cha' Ciarcia, who played Albie Cianflone on 'The Sopranos,' hawking his new 'Grandpa Cha...
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March 9th, 2009 @ 1pm
Bob Sickles Jr. Sickles Farm Market in Little Silver got some lovin' this weekend as one of four specialty grocers called out in an article in the New Jersey section of Sunday's New York Times. Dovetailing off the opening of...
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March 9th, 2009 @ 5am
Two Howell men have been arrested in connection with a fracas last month outside Chubby's Waterside Café that left a Middletown man with a stab wound to one leg, Red Bank police are reporting this afternoon. Eighteen-year-old Travis LaFalce was...
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March 5th, 2009 @ 2pm
And now, a public service announcement from the video lab at the Red Bank Middle School... The video is the work of seventh-grade students of teacher Chris Ippolito, whose students have busted a couple of entertaining video raps in the...
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March 3rd, 2009 @ 8am
The shelves of Sunny Sharma's business, once stocked with hard liquor, now carry shaving cream and snacks. Milk and eggs have replaced beer as the products featured on the door. Sunny Sharma says he can't catch a break. It's not...
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February 25th, 2009 @ 8am
It's one of the more popular concepts to emerge from the promotion-concocting labs of Red Bank RiverCenter: the spring Dine Downtown promotion, going on every Tuesday and Wednesday evening in March at a select group of eateries around town. A...
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February 24th, 2009 @ 8am
Chubby's owner Mike Gilson pleaded his case, but got little sympathy from the governing body, including Council President Art Murphy, below. First, there was the October 2007 donnybrook outside Chubby's Waterside Café that took cops from several towns to quell...
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February 24th, 2009 @ 7am
Borough officials have an ordinance on tonight's agenda to limit so-called 'college nights' like the one that resulted in last week's violence. Three separate incidents of violence involving patrons of Chubby's Waterside Café had Red Bank police scrambling early last...
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February 23rd, 2009 @ 11am
Emergency workers take crash victim Michael Maxted to a waiting ambulance. A 22-year-old Red Bank man was injured late Friday afternoon when an SUV crashed through the facade of the Cluck U Chicken fast food business on Water Street. Michael...
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February 20th, 2009 @ 5pm
Sovereign Bancorp's Broad Street branch got a reduction in its tax bill. Assorted items and actions from Monday night's Red Bank Council meeting: • The council approved a tax appeal settlement that reduced the assessment on the Sovereign Bank property...
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February 12th, 2009 @ 7am
The item highlighted in last week's 'Where' seems to have something of a doppleganger nearby, leading our respondents to split their answers. About half of those who wrote in thought the pictures showed lighting fixtures at the Salt Creek Grille...
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February 12th, 2009 @ 5am
Mayor Menna wants the borough to hand off signmaking, health inspections and other tasks to Monmouth County. Should Red Bank job out to Monmouth County services now provided by borough employees or contractors? Coming off a recent deal with the...
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February 11th, 2009 @ 7am
Sutton Commons on Branch Avenue is one of two properties on which tax appeal settlements are up for approval by the Red Bank Council tonight. An ordinance to bar minors from entering liquor stores unless accompanied by an adult is...
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February 9th, 2009 @ 10am
Jim Fitzmaurice leads an apparently coherent group of runners out of the Red Bank train station Saturday morning... Thirty years of weekly runs, and still they have no idea where the hell they're going. ...but just two blocks later, some...
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February 9th, 2009 @ 7am
HOT RED BANK SOUP IN THE SLEDGER
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‘That Hot Dog Place’ owner Gary Sable sweats another day’s soup production in his tiny Monmouth Street takeout joint. Let’s get our bias right out on the crumb-littered table: nobodyContinue reading "HOT RED BANK SOUP IN THE SLEDGER"
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January 30th, 2009 @ 10am
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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 ...