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The Food and Wines of Summer

The ideal way to enjoy food is to eat what is in season.

A Seafood Tasting Dinner

When two very talented chefs decide to team up and create a tasting menu dinner, you can expect something special. And that is exactly what occurred recently when chef Chris Calabrese of Nettie’s House of Spaghetti of Tinton Falls and chef Bradley Rodriguez of Spring Lake Seafood joined forces to offer a seven-course Seafood Tasting dinner at Nettie’s.

Goodbye Winter Wine Dinner

There was a pent-up demand to convene a like-minded group of food and wine lovers for a dinner that offered a sharing of interesting bottles of wine paired with specific dishes of a multicourse meal. Chef Michael Tornillo of Gaia Bistro in Monmouth Beach likes nothing better than rising to the challenge of creating a dinner menu comprised of unique dishes that are both delicious and wine-friendly, and as always, he set a high benchmark with this special menu.

Best Dishes Of 2022

If you enjoy discovering new culinary favorites from previously existing restaurants – or from newly opened area restaurants – as much as I do, 2022 was a good year for us. It was fun to look back and make a list of the most memorable dishes I ate. Here are some of my favorites, in no particular order.

GAIA BISTRO WINE DINNER

It had been far too long since a group of local wine lovers got together at an area restaurant to share a multicourse tasting menu paired with interesting wines from their own collections.

Sprig Market + Cafe

For a restaurant which had only been open a few days, Sprig Market+Café showed a high degree of professionalism in the kitchen and provided warm, attentive service in the comfortable dining room. We will return soon to explore the menu further and, once again, escape the outside world.

GAIA BISTRO

My recent visit to Gaia Bistro in Monmouth Beach, suggested by a friend, was one such occasion. No small part of the pleasure was in meeting and talking with the chef/owner Michael Tornillo.

Heirloom At The St. Laurent

As good as Chef David Viana’s Heirloom Kitchen in Old Bridge is, it’s not exactly a short ride from the Jersey Shore, so it’s more of a special occasion experience that is well worth the trip.

MAYA

Having dined with great pleasure at Maya, the recently closed, exceptional oceanfront restaurant on the Caribbean Island of St. Bart’s, with its emphasis on fresh, simply prepared local foods, I had a feeling of déjà vu to eat at Maya, located in the Wave Hotel, Long Branch, also facing the Ocean.

Food for the Soul

Few people associate the history of Monmouth County with slavery, nor the rest of the state for that matter, yet New Jersey was the last northern state to abolish the act.
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