Housed in an intimate 1895 Hoboken brownstone, Amanda’s Restaurant exhumes understated elegance. On a recent visit, our party was warmly greeted and led to one of the cozy rooms to settle at a beautifully-set table. Mismatched antique china and flatware sit atop a fleur-de-lis draped table, creating a homey (if your home featured antique tableware [...]
New Jersey has some of the best sports bars in the nation and here are five suggestions where you can catch the Big Game on Sunday and catch some nice specials as well. Where will you be spending the Super Bowl? Leave a comment if you’ll be going out for the big game and tell [...]
Last month, our executive editor Deborah Smith passed along an invitation to an intimate press dinner at the Liberty House in Jersey City that I jumped at the chance to cover. You may remember my post last year about their Mac ‘n’ Cheese Meltdown (which they may be bringing back, fingers crossed!), and ever since [...]
Please join the North Jersey editors of Jersey Bites this Saturday, May 14, as they take a bite out of childhood hunger! The Second Annual Food Blogger Bake Sale, created by Gaby of What’s Gaby Cooking? Blog, will be happening at locations across the country, and Jersey Bites is proud to be representing the NJ [...]
Several years ago we were introduced to the tradition of cigar rolling in Cuba, through Broadway’s production of Anna in the Tropics, a play by Nilo Cruz. Since then, even though we are not smokers, we have been curious about the attraction of Cuba, Cigars and Cognac, and their relationship to one another. Our curiosity [...]
Purple was the color of the day on March 13th at “Cupcakes with Buddy”, a charity event where cake-designer Buddy Valastro of Carlo’s Bake Shop, (a.k.a. “The Cake Boss”) teamed up with The Anita Kaufmann Foundation (AKF) to support epilepsy awareness and upcoming “Purple Day” on March 26th (more to come on that). Purple, the [...]
Get your reservation on Hudson County! Hudson Restaurant Week is back for its annual winter appearance, running now through February 4. Notable additions include the newly opened Satis Bistro in downtown Jersey City, serving up short ribs and house-made ricotta gnocchi; West Five Supper Club in Hoboken, featuring a tapas dinner and a signature cocktail; [...]
In the midst of the holidays, between the baking, shopping, wrapping and even more baking, I took a break to head across Hudson County to check out the grand opening of a new Cuban restaurant. Son Cubano, in West New York, invited Jersey Bites along as they opened their doors for the first time on [...]
The turning colors of the leaves always signal the beginning of the fall, apple picking season, pumpkin patches, and even more exciting in Jersey City—Oktoberfest! Zeppelin Hall, an authentic European style biergarten in downtown Jersey City, has been celebrating the German holiday since mid-September and dedicating each weekend to a different German city. I visited [...]
Biting into a new food for the first time is always an emotional experience for me: a mix of taste sensations, environmental cues, and emotional, gut reaction to the food– which explains why my first bite of the Taco Truck’s Carnitas Michoacan sandwich sent my taste buds reeling, my eyes widening, and my heart sinking. [...]
