Hands-down Winners
Most of these favorites can be eaten cutlery-free, which some authorities believe helps to stimulate the senses. No matter; these five are musts to mark on your dine card.
Cool Blues
The twosome that got away for way, way too long: Let’s play a love song for the blueberry and the cucumber.
Grounded Hands Farm
Bec Guilloud watches over the 60 chickens she raises every month like, well, a mother hen. All that love, plus continual fresh pasture, freshly ground grains and an abundance of fresh air, makes for 60 extraordinarily tasty, lucky birds.
Ice Cream: It’s What’s for Dinner
Because, why not? It’s summer, you’ve got your favorite place and you ought to do more than merely pop in post-supper for a bob of the stuff.
Feeding Our Own
It’s the Fourth of July, time to take stock of how and why the Garden State can achieve greater food independence.
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 Tokyo
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.