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Category Archives: Food and Drink

The timing is favorable, to say the least, what with the end-of-days mood darkening Wall Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, not to mention Main Street. Red Bank's annual Dine Downtown promotion kicks off tonight for a month of Tuesday & Wednesday...
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September 30th, 2008 @ 7am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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The first-floor dining room will be named for T.J. McMahon, right, seen in a Danny Sanchez photo. The Dublin House, housed in a venerable old Monmouth Street structure that's been going through major rehabilitation over the past several years, will...
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September 24th, 2008 @ 8am
'Halfway to St. Paddy's Day?' That's a holiday? In the immortal word of Frank McCourt, 'Tis. Today's edition of Red Bank oRBit stumbles upon a brewing local phenomenon: beer-serving establishments, and the bands that play them, celebrating the midpoint between...
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September 18th, 2008 @ 7am
Bushels of clams await transport from a dock in Sea Bright earlier this summer. A lawsuit filed in federal court last month by local clammers names Red Bank as one of several "culprits" responsible for pollution that has cut their...
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September 17th, 2008 @ 10am
In today's edition of Red Bank oRBit, editor Tom Chesek tries to pin down just what it was about Zuleyka's Kitchen in Red Bank that first captivated him: It could have been the surprising and innovative sides that garnished a...
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September 17th, 2008 @ 6am
Is lower Broad Street ready for a $15 lobster and bacon sandwich on toasted brioche roll? The owners of the three-week-old Broad Street Filling Station think it is, and how. They've also got a roast duck sandwich and an ahi...
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September 10th, 2008 @ 8am
Some scenes from the annual Street Fair held in downtown Red Bank Sunday. Email this story
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September 8th, 2008 @ 9am
Two weeks ago, it was double-chocolate doughnuts and average-Joe joe. Last week: "Banana-Macadamia Nut Crusted Halibut Filet" and "Maytag Blue Cheese Crusted Angus Sirloin." Following up on our detail from the door of the newly renovated Dunkin' Donuts on Maple...
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September 4th, 2008 @ 7am
The folks at Dunkin' Donuts HQ will eat this one up: redbankgreen readers apparently love their DDs. We received a record 18 responses to last week's 'Where,' and 17 of them were verifiably correct. The image was of the brand-new...
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August 28th, 2008 @ 8am
"A disgrace," Councilman Art Murphy says of the morning-after conditions on the sidewalk alongside Ashes. Led by Councilman Art Murphy, the Red Bank Borough Council last came down with both feet on Ashes Cigar Club on Broad Street, refusing to...
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August 26th, 2008 @ 8am
Better for the environment, and maybe for you, too. Ever wonder that yourself — what constitutes organic, and who says so? Well, tonight at the Whole Foods Market on Route 35 in Middletown tonight, environmental attorney and mother Kristin McPolin...
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August 21st, 2008 @ 12pm
A mural in the window of the former Itri's eatery signals Guy Johnson's hope that the grill will soon sizzle again. Last we heard, the former home of Itri's luncheonette on West Front Street was being scoped out by a...
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August 20th, 2008 @ 9am
When the Chinese men’s basketball team, led by cross-cultural phenom Yao Ming, took to the Beijing court this morning (4:45a EST) for its Olympics game against Lithuania, it did so to the galloping strains of a tune co-written by a...
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August 20th, 2008 @ 8am
Red Bank oRBit — the redbankgreen sibling site that debuted August 1 as your thrice-weekly tickler on what's happening in the world of arts, entertainment, shopping and dining — is going daily. Six days a week, to be specific. Taking...
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August 18th, 2008 @ 11am
Today's edition of Red Bank oRBit pops in on Readies, a half-century-old Monmouth Street deli and caterer whose owner, Tom Fishkin, has a fondness for naming sandwiches after local people and institutions. There's even one named for the Dublin House,...
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August 15th, 2008 @ 11am
Today's issue of the thrice-weekly Red Bank oRBit has, quite by chance, a water theme. First, there's our scoop from Red Bank's Broadway Diner, inexplicably overlooked by the media mob, on what GOP First Lady-contender Cindy McCain ordered when she...
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August 13th, 2008 @ 6am
Cindy McCain, right, wife of GOP presidential contender Sen. John McCain, arrives for lunch this afternoon at the Broadway Diner on Monmouth Street, accompanied by state Sen. Jennifer Beck. McCain was coming from a fundraiser in Rumson. She and her...
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August 12th, 2008 @ 1pm
Have you checked in on Red Bank oRBit yet today? We've got two new articles that might stoke your taste buds. • Big name chef/restaurateur/cuisine imp David Burke is the star of the salad bar this month at, of all...
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August 6th, 2008 @ 2pm
Now available: 46,000 square feet in Shrewsbury. Just ten months after the owners of Red Bank's SuperFoodtown expanded into the former Stop & Shop supermarket half a mile away on Newman Springs Road, the new store will be shut down,...
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August 5th, 2008 @ 1pm
You've seen the teaser logos for about eight months. Well, the countdown is finally over. Today, redbankgreen marks its first significant expansion with the launch of Red Bank oRBit, a new website dedicated to comprehensive coverage of the local arts,...
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August 1st, 2008 @ 8am
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 ...