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Category Archives: Food and Drink

Jim Roberts of Wall tries out his kite wing on the Navesink yesterday. Conditions were iffy on the Navesink River yesterday, with just a few small iceboats and skaters venturing out from Red Bank. The ice was said to be...
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January 30th, 2009 @ 6am
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The state Alcoholic Beverage Control division has affirmed the Red Bank Borough Council's order to shut down Best Liquors, moving the case of the troubled package goods retailer significantly closer to possible finality. Mayor Pasquale Menna released the following statement...
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January 27th, 2009 @ 12pm
Big Bill Morganfield performs at the 2007 Red Bank Jazz & Blues Festival. Which is hipper, jazz or blues? Or is it the festival itself that's 'hip?' Parking shortages. Exorbitant parking fines. Red tape at borough hall. Greedy landlords. Among...
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January 27th, 2009 @ 10am
In today's edition of Red Bank oRBit, editor Tom Chesek reports on how an Asbury Park restaurateur wound up going toe-to-toe with professional skinflint Suze Orman on a webcast edition of the Oprah Show recently. Jeff Haveson of Restaurant Plan...
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January 26th, 2009 @ 9am
Something called the Men’s Expo and Texas Hold ‘em Tournament parks its snorting hog outside Convention Hall tomorrow, bringing the musky scent of Axe Body Spray to the seabreeze-kissed timbers of Asbury Park this non-Super weekend. Among the attractions: exhibits...
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January 23rd, 2009 @ 11am
Pilgrim Baptist aired the final McCain-Obama debate on a large screen in the worship hall in October. A live inauguration screening and luncheon will be held in the church basement. Of the many takeaways from the election of Barack Obama...
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January 16th, 2009 @ 6am
For a drab time of year that's supposed to be all about recharging the post-holiday batteries, there sure are a lot of interesting people passing through this patch of earth we call the Green, all but commanding attention. If you...
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January 14th, 2009 @ 12pm
John Ross addressing the Red Bank Council last night. A decision on whether the borough can shut down Best Liquors may not come from the state Alcoholic Beverage Control division before the end of February, assistant borough attorney Tom Hall...
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January 13th, 2009 @ 8am
The view west along Newman Springs Road as firefighters battled a truck blaze beside Spirits Unlimited, at center; below, fire still burns beside the shell of a tractor-trailer cab. [THIS STORY HAS BEEN UPDATED SINCE ITS INITIAL POSTING AT 6:30p...
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December 21st, 2008 @ 6pm
It's hitting the gut now. The spreading economic crisis is leaving tens of millions of Americans facing the prospect of hunger as they contend with diminished earnings or joblessness and worse. According to one estimate, more than 35 million Americans...
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December 15th, 2008 @ 6am
A volunteer serves salad at Lunch Break yesterday. Norma Todd's Lunch Break, the 25-year-old Red Bank soup kitchen, was transformed into a fine-dining hall yesterday, providing free Thanksgiving meals on linen tablecloths to more than 200 area residents in two...
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November 28th, 2008 @ 8am
The above image is the work of a two of Red Bank's more creative couples: Mike Harper and Megan Prenderville, who own the Frame to Please framing shop on Waverly Place; and Liz and Bob McKay of McKay Imaging, a...
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November 27th, 2008 @ 7am
A frozen turkey ready for pickup near boxes packed with soup, stuffing, canned fruit, vegetables and pies at the Salvation Army facility on Newman Springs Road yesterday. The Red Bank Corps of the Salvation Army gave out frozen turkeys and...
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November 26th, 2008 @ 7am
You'd have thought it was a sweltering week in the dead of summer instead of the crisp, Thanksgiving-tinged days of autumn. Last week's Where, showing a blue and white striped fence, attracted 23 responses, which may be a record for...
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November 13th, 2008 @ 6am
A stray bag flutters along Monmouth Street in September. Six weeks after it was tabled amid concerns about its financial impacts on stores, a proposed ban on plastic shopping bags is back before the Red Bank Council tonight. The law,...
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November 10th, 2008 @ 11am
Here's a recap of Monday night's Red Bank Borough Council meeting. (Follow along with the agenda, if you like.) • Mayor Pasquale Menna accepted a $162,975 dividend payment to the borough from the Central Jersey Health Insurance Fund, the shared-services...
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October 28th, 2008 @ 9am
Sunny Sharma has lost his appeal of Red Bank's revocation of his license to sell booze through his problem-plagued Best Liquors store on Leighton Avenue, the Asbury Park Press reports this evening. From the Press: A decision released today [by...
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October 23rd, 2008 @ 7pm
Jamian LaViola has seen the future, and it does not only happen at night. He's overhauling the look, name and business strategy of Echo, the nightspot he owns on Monmouth Street that he now thinks may have veered a little...
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October 22nd, 2008 @ 8am
Six months after the death of the woman who founded it, Norma Todd's Lunch Break has named a new executive director. The volunteer outfit on Drs. Parker Boulevard in Red Bank that provides a hot meal a day to anyone...
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October 15th, 2008 @ 7am
Ahh, that first, hot cup of coffee. Not just the first of the day; the first of one's life. Bob Henry recalls losing his coffee virginity, and how that experience led, decades later, to his manning the bean counter at...
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October 2nd, 2008 @ 7am
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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 ...