Ahjae Gookbap
A specialist in Korea’s supreme comfort food aces the genre but also excels in complex preparations with rather luxurious elements, such as blue crab and wild red shrimp. Do it all, and feast in an intimate storefront primed to create community.
Jun Seo Park Artisan Boulanger
Equipped with recipes from one of Korea’s leading pastry chefs, a new independent bakeshop in Palisades Park reinvigorates the Asian-French connection with breads and confections that rely on technical precision and force of flavors that aren’t all about sweet.
Zara’s Restaurant
The lure of Pakistani specialties may beckon, but it’s the estimable ways of a kitchen backing a splashy celebratory space that keeps diners returning to this capacious storefront.
Twists Worth Shouting About
The favorites this go-round all come courtesy of doing something a little different with a basic of varying origins, including cornflakes, crabs, cabbage, a standard spread and a dumpling flattened yet not tasting flat at all.
One Little Big Thing
Cherry Grove Farm’s store in Lawrence Township proves a windfall for those looking to stock up on Garden State’s artisan foods. On this day, one particular jar becomes the instigator for myriad and many easy meals.
Craig Polignano, Juniper Hill Restaurant & Bar
One of New Jersey’s most accomplished and influential chefs is a practitioner of what he preaches about using what’s locally grown and made as his primary sources of inspiration. The newest member of TPW’s chefs-pick-chefs society of top toques makes no bones about wanting to educate YOU in the flows of our Garden State’s seasons.
Shirin Café
Classic dishes from Uzbekistan charm with authenticity and technical precision at a homey storefront run by a couple devoted to serving locals with ties to Central Asia and Eastern Europe as well as diners interested in experiencing another world of cookery without need of a passport.
Ridiculous Farm
A new bread bakery in the Belford section of Middletown speaks to the fact that we’re not merely in a sourdough moment, but likely leaning in to a sourdough century.
Lutong Bahay and Phil-Am Bakery
There is a Little Manila in the small borough in Somerset County that could and should evolve into a winsome destination for home-style Filipino foods. Two stops on the would-be trail offer specialties well worth a segue from downtowns more traveled.
Oven-roasted Small Tomatoes
Ready to put something on your Squirreling Schedule? A favorite, and one of the easiest how-tos of the extend-the-life schemes for produce, is a method of oven-roasting and stashing in olive oil the omnipresent cherry tomato and its kin, the grape tomato.
Squirreling Schedule
Get with a new program that begins in spring and find ways to play forward the best produce in all our micro-seasons. It’s a good habit to develop for the cause of much better eating.
China Chalet
Star dishes than shun the norm separate this long-timer in Morris County from the pack. Learn its menu, commit to its strengths and please sub it for the places with standard-issue menus currently inked on your dine card.