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Category Archives: Italian

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
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RED BANK: BEER AND MORE AT BIRRAVINO
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RED BANK: PieHole enjoys a breezy evening on the patio at Birravino's new beer garden, where the scent of pizza perfumes the air.
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July 14th, 2017 @ 2pm
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? A JIMMY JOHN’S SUB
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WHAT'S FOR LUNCH? PieHole gives the "Italian Night Club" sub at the Red Bank Jimmy John's a whirl.
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March 10th, 2017 @ 10am
WHAT’S FOR LUNCH? WAWA’D YA THINK?
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WHAT'S FOR LUNCH? We were skeptical when PieHole urged us to give Wawa's hoagies a try. Here's our take on the convenience store sandwich.
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February 24th, 2017 @ 11am
WHAT’S FOR LUNCH? A SUPER SUB AT ELSIE’S
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RED BANK: What's For Lunch? A super sub at Elsie's in Red Bank, where they've been making them since 1959. We even met a guy who's been a customer that long.
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February 17th, 2017 @ 10am
WHAT’S FOR LUNCH? PAZZO SANDWICHES
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RED BANK: What's for Lunch stops at Pazzo MMX for some mm-mm xandwiches.
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February 10th, 2017 @ 10am
WHAT’S FOR LUNCH? HOWLING GOOD PIZZA
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WHAT'S FOR LUNCH? PieHole says don't be scared off by the wolf: this is howling good pizza at the new Lupo Pizzeria in Fair Haven.
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January 27th, 2017 @ 4pm
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
WHAT’S FOR LUNCH? SALADS AND PIZZA
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RED BANK: What's For Lunch? PieHole pays its first visit to Urban Coalhouse in the Galleria for a couple of pizzas and salads.
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December 16th, 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
CRAVINGS: SCAMPI PIE NOT A TRIVIAL MATTER
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RED BANK: She may be there for the weekly trivia contest, but Jen Rubino's craving for Jamian's shrimp scampi pizza is no trivial matter.
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October 25th, 2016 @ 4pm
WHAT’S FOR LUNCH? HOT DOGS AND BLISS
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RED BANK: Even on a dreary Saturday, customers line up at G&G Hot Dog Truck on Shrewsbury Avenue.
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October 14th, 2016 @ 10am
WHAT’S FOR LUNCH? BRUNCH, AT GAETANO’S
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RED BANK: New Gaetano's owner adds brunch to menu. PieHole is gobsmacked.
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September 9th, 2016 @ 10am
WHAT’S FOR LUNCH? BOLI KNOTS AND PASTA
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WHAT'S FOR LUNCH? PieHole tries the brand-new Mangia Brick Oven Pizza in Shrewsbury.
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August 26th, 2016 @ 11am
WHAT’S FOR LUNCH? A RED LIGHT SANDWICH
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WHAT'S FOR LUNCH? "Culinary genius" in a sandwich from a Lincroft coffee shop.
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July 29th, 2016 @ 11am
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9/11 TRIBUTE
Bailey Bryce Holiday and her father Bobby Holiday Jr. paint the lawn at Riverside Gardens Park Tuesday in preparation for the upcoming comme ...
PILGRIM BAPTIST TO JAMAICA
Recently, Pilgrim Baptist Church of Red Bank traveled to Trelawny Parish of Jamaica on a Relief & Recovery Mission Trip.  The Mission T ...
SNAIL WEATHER
Overnight rains and warm humid temperatures brought out a parade of snails along the access path to the Red Bank Primary School near Locust ...
ECHOES OF THE PAST IN TILE
Next to Playa Bowls. Always fascinated how this has stood here this long. (Submitted by Joseph Jakub)
VIVA LA ELSIE’S
redbankgreen Partyline captures French visitor enjoying a pickle sub from Elsie's.
Truck strike downs pole
A truck struck a utility pole at the intersection of Catherine Street and Shrewsbury Avenue at about 8 am Monday morning. The pole wss compl ...
THRONGS FLOCK TO RED BANK STREET FAIR
redbankgreen Partyline: Thousands fill the streets of Red Bank for street fair.
PORTA POTTY X-ING
redbankgreen Partyline captures porta johns moving down the railroad tracks.
(G&G) DOG DAYS OF SUMMER
A solid lunchtime line at the G&G hot dogs truck on Shrewsbury Avenue on Monday afternoon. Driving this stretch of road when  G&G i ...
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.
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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 ...