Sean Yan’s New Family Restaurant
Ram & Rooster is the product of the chef’s singular voice and vision: A Chinese-inspired New American mecca-to-be in Metuchen where meticulous elocution of a highly personal tasting menu is meant to educate. And it’s happening in partnership with his parents and sister.
Georgian Chef
Plant-based dishes are big stars at a new storefront spot that showcases the cuisine of a country at the intersection of Europe and Asia. It’s where familiar ingredients are shown in their ages-old, yet remarkably refreshing element.
What Aleks Cooked Up
If pork roll on an everything bagel is your breakfast of choice, has 3BR Distillery in Keyport got a spirited beverage for you.
Bradley Rodriguez, Spring Lake Seafood
The newest inductee into TPW’s chef-picks-chef society of top toques takes deep dives into the world of fishes and translates each into dishes that reflect their source, their freshness and their distinctive and inherent flavor.
Turtle Gut
Its name inspired by an inlet long gone, the chef-owners of a café with a water-view perch choose not to count on advantageous location to draw diners. No, the lure here are intriguing sandwiches, breakfast fare and pastries.
AFT to Award Grants to Farmers
Funds to help support the work of a wide range of farmers will be allocated through American Farmland Trust’s Brighter Future Fund. A heads-up: The application window opens July 1 and closes July 8.
J.S. Foodies Toyko
If this import from Japan directly to Princeton has anything to say about it, the souffle-style pancakes known as kiseki forever will be in fashion.
Some Things Old, Some Things New
New restaurants, new dishes, old eateries with dishes old and new: The favorites of the past two weeks come from sources expected – and surprising.
Peanut Sauce in a Jar
Use the dregs of a jar of peanut butter to make one of the most versatile sauces in the cooking world. It’ll be done in the time it takes to double-play “Twist and Shout” and give new meaning to “shake it up, baby.”
Filling the Boat
At Cape May County’s Scallop Shack Farms, expansion is the direct result of extraordinary products and a desire to serve the seafood-buying public in the manner they deserve to become accustomed.
Pollos Pucalor
Neither big-box store nor supermarket rotisserie birds will satisfy after a session with Olmer Puentes’ expertly seasoned chickens coming hot off the spit at this Colombian specialist. P.S. There’s a sibling in Morristown.
The Popularity of Pop-ups
Be they one-offs or sporadic happenings, celebrations that spotlight Garden State foodways and food pros have become value-added events to count on.