Tag: food
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.
Food, Music Festival Scheduled On Fort Monmouth
A new festival that organizers hope will become an annual event will debut on the grounds of Fort Monmouth’s historic Russel Hall June 3 and 4, bringing food, music, and revelers inside the fort’s Oceanport Avenue gates.
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.
Uncle Giuseppe’s Specialty Store To Open in Tinton Falls
Uncle Giuseppe’s Marketplace is all set to open its first location in Monmouth County next month, on Shrewsbury Avenue in Tinton Falls.
Little Buca
Now, Little Buca, a new restaurant in Little Silver, has found the way to prepare and serve fine Italian food in an unpretentious, warm and relaxed setting.
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.
Fall In Love This Valentine’s Day… With Chocolate
From a young age, children are often taught to associate the consumption of chocolatey treats with rotting teeth, the grind of mechanized dental instruments and painful cavity-filling experiences.
But demonizing chocolate isn’t the answer, said Rachel Tansey of the Rutgers University Cooperative Extension of Monmouth County.
Uncorking History with the ‘Black Wine Guy’
As part of Black History Month observances, the annual acknowledgement of African American achievements and their significant place in U.S. history, the T. Thomas Fortune Cultural Center will hold a series of events titled “Out of Africa.”
Rise in Egg Prices Linked to Ongoing Avian Flu Crisis
Communities across the country are experiencing alarming rates of food inflation. The Two River area is no exception.