Well Fed On the Town

‘Tis the season for peaches in the Garden State.  Find yourself with some free time this weekend?  Then you might want to head on over to Chester, NJ, where the annual Peach Festival is taking place this Saturday.
From 10 am until 4, you can partake in the Silent Auction, visit the craft vendors and White […]

The other day, a friend and I got into a discussion about New Jersey diners. She, being a recent transplant from Missouri, has been scouting out diners in the area, and I have had a healthy obsession with diners since I was in high school. My favorites are the 1950s silver ones, the way we […]

A recent post on Sweetnicks reminded me of the fun summers I spent as a teen in Cape May, New Jersey. A childhood friend of mine, Allison, from where I grew up in New York, would go every summer to the Jersey shore in Cape May. Her family would meet up with some of her mother’s 10 […]

Remember the old show, Cheers?  The mailman would walk in, and everyone would look up from their beer and shout “Norm!”  Cheers - the place where everyone knows your name.  Poor Herbie’s in Madison, NJ is a bit like that.  A small, dimly lit place, it’s located right dab in the center of a very quaint […]

When The Husband and I lived in Madison, our next door neighbors, who are Indian, introduced us to Indian food.  Never having really been exposed to it before, it was quite the culinary journey for us.  Now, many years later, and no longer neighbors, we owe our love for Indian food to them.
Imagine our delight, […]

The word “restaurant” might be too broad a term for this place, because it’s a little on the small side, and they are not open for dinner.  But whatever you call it, this quaint eatery serves up food that is packed with flavor and, most importantly, fresh ingredients.
I’ve been going to On a Roll since […]

Amici’s Restaurant is a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it place in Madison, New Jersey. A small place (only 10-12 tables), my parents go there often enough that the waitress knows them. I hadn’t been there before, not since it took over for Dee’s Hot Dogs, a very casual place that The Husband and I used to frequent years ago when […]

Billing themselves as “the last great hamburger stand,” Fatburger has just started creeping their way onto the East coast, although those out West have been enjoying them for awhile now. Not really a restaurant, but not really fast food, it falls somewhere in between. When I saw this sign outside their location, I laughed out […]

Nicholas and I were running a bunch of errands the other day and happened to find ourselves near downtown Wharton (New Jersey), home of Rocky’s Pasties. You can pull your mind out of the gutter … it’s pronounced PAST-EES, not PASTE-EES. The little tiny shop has been there since 1924 (!) and is […]