RED BANK: BROADWALK SET FOR RETURN

Jul 22, 2022

An employee of Catch 19 setting up tables Friday. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

With borough workers and contractors putting finishing touches on an eight-month-long streetscape project, a handful of restaurants hastily set up for a return of Red Bank’s Broadwalk plaza Friday.

Outside the traffic-free zone, however, none of the parking-space streateries used over the past two summers have returned, following a sixfold increase in fees by the borough council.

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July 22, 2022 - 2:00 pm |

RED BANK: MERCHANTS BLAST FEE HIKE

Jun 9, 2022

Red Tank Brewing owner John Arcara speaking at Wednesday’s council session. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

The Red Bank council voted Wednesday to boost the fees charged to restaurants to maintain tables in parking spaces converted to streateries.

The action followed claims by two business owners that the hike was onerous.

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June 9, 2022 - 2:50 pm |

RED BANK: STREATERIES ON HOLD

May 31, 2022

Borough workers created a streatery outside Bombay River and Tacoholics restaurants on Broad Street in July, 2020. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

At the Red Bank council’s first in-person session in more than two years last week, a lone member failed to advance a pandemic-era fix said to be favored by two merchant organizations: street eateries.

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May 31, 2022 - 7:50 am |

RED BANK: PARKLET EFFORT BEGINS

Jul 10, 2020

Public works employees installed concrete barricades around several parking spaces on Broad Street in downtown Red Bank Thursday afternoon.

What’s Going On Here?

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July 10, 2020 - 8:30 am |

RED BANK: PLAZA PLANS REWORKED

Jul 9, 2020

A public parklet on Witherspoon Street in Princeton. Red Bank officials plan to allow parklets for designated restaurant use. (Photo courtesy of Planet Princeton. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

Among a series of adjustments, Red Bank’s economic reopening committee has scrapped the Sunday pedestrian plaza on Monmouth Street.

Instead, the Broad Street plaza, which has drawn large turnouts three nights a week since debuting June 18, will become a four-day affair with the addition of Sunday operations starting this weekend, Red Bank RiverCenter executive director Laura Kirkpatrick tells redbankgreen.

At the same time, plans are in the works for “parklets,” or temporary seating structures, to be built in parking spots outside a handful of downtown restaurants, including three that participated in the aborted Monmouth Street plaza effort.

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July 9, 2020 - 11:30 am |

ON THE GREEN: RESTAURANTS REOPEN

Jun 15, 2020

After a nearly three-month shutdown except for takeout, restaurants on the Greater Red Bank Green began reopening as sit-down, outdoor-only eateries Monday.

Even with the weather a bit on the cool side, “it’s nice to get of the hospital,” said a Riverview Medical Center employee sharing lunch with colleagues at Robinson Ale House in Red Bank, above. More →

June 15, 2020 - 12:40 pm |

RED BANK: RESTAURANTS HUSTLE TO REOPEN

Jun 12, 2020

Danny Murphy, owner of Danny’s Steakhouse, with the safety guide he prepared for his employees. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

Their industry battered over the past three months by the COVID-19 pandemic, Red Bank’s restaurateurs are now scrambling for a toehold on recovery.

With partial reopenings slated to begin Monday, they’re training staff in a host of new hygiene procedures. At the same time, some are also racing to shift operations into two new shopping and dining plazas being created downtown.

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June 12, 2020 - 3:30 pm |

RED BANK: RED TANK BUBBLES TO LIFE

Oct 18, 2018

John Arcara in the newly completed, 100-seat Red Tank Brewing microbrewery earlier this week. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)

By JOHN T. WARD

Two years from dream to reality, Red Tank Brewing is set to open in the heart of Red Bank Thursday night, the start of a new venture for wedding photographers John and Lovina Arcara.

It may also be the start of a fresh wave of craft suds in town.

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October 18, 2018 - 10:00 am |