Blue Notes
The old saw, "This just keeps getting better and better," is appropriately applied to our state fruit. There's just more and more about the blueberry to love. If you expand its uses to savories, your own love for it may grow exponentially.
The Pasta Shop
Rising above the masses and the mundane is Tommy Pollio’s storefront BYOB, where you can watch the star of an extraordinary show being made as you eat.
Amaranth, to Amaze
Pretty and showy, with its green-and-red leaves bringing Christmas colors to July, this peak-summer plant may be a looker, but it’s also too flavorful and nutritious not to eat. Ella explores the possibilities.
Cranky Noodles
Complex ramen, ferociously flavored sides and soft-serve as a meal cap: You could only be cheerful after eating at this outlier inside a bike shop in Sussex County.
Cantaloupe-Cucumber Salad
If there’s any toss on the planet that refreshes like this oh-so-quick ensemble of two delightfully water-logged July favorites, bring ’em on. We’d love to eat them at this time of year, too.
Cape May Pho & Boba Tea
Finally, pho comes to the Garden State’s peninsula-in-a-peninsula. Adam slurps and sips in the scene.
Shag’s Crab & Seafood
At this destination in Salem County for seawater-sweet crabs from the Delaware, you can get ’em cleaned and cooked and packed up by the bushel. Absolutely do takeaway for a picnic, but don’t leave this home port without eating a platter of crab cakes on site.
Top of the New Season
Revved-up crabs, pizza with yellow tomatoes, blueberry sherbet, plus sour cherries and blackberries eaten out of hand. Does it sound like summer yet?
Broccoli, with a Smear of Pine Nut Cream
A little something extra might not be necessary. But if nuance can elevate, why not give it a whirl?
460 Bistro
Turkey’s vegetable-centric specialties are second to none. But too many plates coming out of this kitchen of a swanky restaurant in Essex County need a second look before being served to diners.
Latin Port
A newcomer to a bona-fide restaurant mecca in Middlesex County follows a culinary course through South America, the Caribbean, Mexico and Central America. There are dishes most worthy – moqueca!, spinach salad! – and dishes in need of more care and concentration.
Zucchini Parm Shortcakes
Give the green squash some lovin’ by folding it into a biscuit-like batter and then layering it much as you would the classic showcase for strawberries. No whipped cream, but lots of melty cheese.