SEA BRIGHT: TOMMY’S DOUBLES DOWN

Jun 24, 2015

Tommy and Yvette Bonfiglio, below, expect to open Tommy’s Tavern + Tap on Ocean Avenue within the next month. (Photos by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)

By JOHN T. WARD

When Tommy Bonfiglio first toured the property that was long the home of Sea Bright’s post office, he was so fixated on an idea that he barely noticed the building at all.

“I only wanted the land,” on which he envisioned putting up an 18-room hotel and restaurant overlooking the Shrewsbury River, Bonfiglio told redbankgreen on Wednesday. Because of that tunnel vision, he never even stepped inside the two-story building fronting on Ocean Avenue, which he expected to tear down because of damage from Hurricane Sandy.

But when he realized he’d have to run a gauntlet of environmental permitting that could take years, he decided to examine the building out front. What he found shocked him.

June 24, 2015 - 9:01 am |

COAL GUY: PUT GALLERIA ON YOUR LIST, TOO

Oct 2, 2009

Tommy’s Coal Fired Pizza will replace longtime Galleria tenant 2Senza Ristorante.

By DUSTIN RACIOPPI

Red Bank’s ever-growing pizza party may soon have yet another purveyor of tomato pies boasting of a coal-fired oven.

After redbankgreen reported last month that Pazzos Coal Fired Oven Restaurant was close to inking a lease to move into the Red Bank Corporate Plaza on West Front Street, yet another new force in coal-fired pizza called to announce itself.

Tom and Yvette Bonfiglio, Brooklyn natives who now live in Monmouth Beach, say they’re moving into Red Bank’s Galleria and will open Tommy’s Coal Fired Pizza in the space currently occupied by 2Senza Ristorante by the end of the year.

October 2, 2009 - 11:17 am |

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SEA BRIGHT: TOMMY’S DOUBLES DOWN

COAL GUY: PUT GALLERIA ON YOUR LIST, TOO