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‘Troubled Corn’

Get happy by using just-picked corn and basils from opposite ends of our Garden State in a pasta dish that shouts hallelujah for the season we’re in. Ed Sherry offers a plan for easy summer cooking.

Restaurant Revue Mount Laurel

Bhan Thai

Bigger and better dressed than your average neighborhood joint Thai, this busy standby is ready for parties, tete-a-tetes for twosomes and pack-ups for tailgates. Wing it, for sure, with a side of dumplings of a different stripe.

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Ice Cream Supreme

Callie’s Creamery in Neptune City is one mega-smooth operator in a crowded field, delivering dozens of flavors in super-premium form. Long-timer White Dotte in Southampton is where folks have convened over ice cream for 72 years.

Potato-Pea Samosas

Casa de Konkan’s savory street food partners pastry and a classic vegetable mix, making it a worthy handheld lead-in to butter chicken.

Windy Brow Farms: Wood-fired Kitchen

Farm country is home to the best not-a-restaurant in New Jersey, a place where a farmer-chef with extraordinary talent and vision is taking glorious local ingredients to deserved heights. It’s Jake Hunt’s dream, and it’s pinch-me real.

Corn-U-Copia

It’s an hors d’, a starter, a main course, a topper or condiment, a salad and a side dish. And it can be a no-cook, no-brainer staple of summer that features your choice of accenting elements.

Danilo Ayala, End of Elm

The newest inductee to TPW’s chef-picks-chef society of top toques brings the flavors of his native El Salvador to his menu at this hotspot in Morristown as well as the hard-working energy he learned at the side of his pro-cook mother.

Restaurant Revue WOODBRIDGE

Aoi

On some levels, this Japanese restaurant inside the APA Hotel in Iselin confounds. On others, it can be a salve to overwrought senses. In most ways, it’s in need of clearer messaging.

Restaurant Revue Jefferson

Roasted Breadfruit Smokehouse & Grill

The menu at this roadhouse on Route 15 is a symbiotic jumble of Caribbean and Southern, with a barbecue bent. It’s all executed with technical precision and skill, so get the marquee item, but don’t stop there.

Mid-Summer’s Other Top Eats

Not to shortchange tomatoes, now officially in happy onslaught mode, but there are other very wonderful foods to consider at this moment in time – including these fabulous five.

Dog Days Salsa

Tomatillos are just starting to be harvested in the Garden State and ready for use in a keeper of a sauce that brightens vegetables, meats, poultry, fishes, grains, beans … and every kind of chip you use for dunking.

Restaurant Revue Statewide

Dumplings Discourse

Something’s happening in the dumpling/wonton realm and it’s good, very good. Today, a short reflection on experiences of the very recent past.


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