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.
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.
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.
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.”
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 Little York
What might seem old gets spiffed-up with new touches and conscientious sourcing at a centuries-old spot on the National Register of Historic Places.