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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
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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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
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 ...