Hazelnut-Chocolate Doughnut
At Rabble Rise in Montclair, there’s a doughnut that stands above the others in an increasingly crowded field.
Micky’s Market at Reed’s
The heart of an organic, regenerative farm is a newfangled eatery that takes its harvests straight into its kitchen and spins out meals to eat on site or take home. Being there – whether it’s to have breakfast or lunch or to buy for home consumption – is a complete shared experience.
High on Home-Grown Hogs
What makes this chunky pulled pork fly high? A flavor that only can come from being raised in all the right ways.
Le French Dad Boulangerie
No matter the time of year, a très-magnifique storefront in the downtown district packs perfected basics that are all you’ll need for a grand pique-nique. No passport required.
Kickoff at Sweet Amalia
A pre-reopening special-event dinner at the nationally recognized market-cum-kitchen underscores its fundamentals while tipping to what’s soon to come.
Winter Wind Down: 2.27.23
It’s a most wonderful time of year, a time to appreciate foods that somehow taste better than they might at any other time of year. Take advantage of them, these favorites of the two weeks just past, before the sundial shifts.
Double Chocolate Pleasure
Ever-intrepid Ella finds inspiration from a trio of her farmers’ market favorites and bakes a simplified chocolate-on-chocolate Bundt cake that leaves her with energy aplenty to decorate – and savor at the table.
Rakesh Ramola: Indeblue
The newest inductee into TPW’s elite chef-picks-chef club of top Garden State toques juggles tradition with innovation masterfully at the modern Indian restaurant he first opened in Collingswood, then reincarnated last year in Cherry Hill, according to his selector and admirer Elias Bitar. It’s what happens when a well-traveled explorer unleashes a worldly command of spices.
Chasni
Everything breakfast is lunch again and dessert is also brunch. Then again, back-flip any item on the menu of this sibling to the Nashville hot chicken spot next door and call it dinner.
Drew’s Bayshore Bistro
There’s a dramatic new space, new dishes already on the menu and the chance to catch riffs of kitchen conversations and whiffs of what’s cooking at the new incarnation of the Bayshore’s most beloved restaurant.
Salmon Crepes
It’s ubiquitous, the fish that’s perennially in the Top 3 of most popular and consumed fishes in America. Chances are you’re going to have a chunk of it leftover at some time or another. TPW’s food upcycling wiz knows you can turn that chunk into salmon cakes or tacos – or a dish fit for a celebration.
Regional Accents
Let the maple-sugaring now happening in the Garden State inspire a stew that hits on all taste buds in the most expressive ways.