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Restaurant Revue PATERSON

Viecco Sabores Quilleros

Street eats from the Caribbean coast of Colombia are a joyful play of ingredients at a modest storefront that might seem unable to contain such heaping platters. Don’t worry; just dive in.

Restaurant Revue METUCHEN

Plain & Simpol

Home-style authentic Filipino is the order of the day at a family-run storefront where the blackboard menu is a primer and the open kitchen might as well be a classroom.

Restaurant Revue New Brunswick

Taka Taka Street Greek

Zhuzhed-up Greek fare is the focus at a newcomer to City Center. It’s all casual, all the time, whether the call’s for dine-in or to-go back home or to the dorm. Bottom line: The eats are fresh-faced and swell.

Restaurant Revue Frenchtown

Chez Daniel

New, and yet not new, this mainstay address on a river town’s main drag currently sees a chef segueing from Irish standards to the French classics of his heritage. Daniel Gras is part way there. Let him run with his vision at full tilt.

Restaurant Revue Jersey City

Harry’s Daughter

Island attitudes pervade a jovial gathering spot for respectful Trinidadian classics that include beloved beach-food “bakes.” Cup your hands to eat, then clap them in response to joyful fare served in compatible style.

Nai Brother

Hidden in this incomparable mecca for Asian cuisines is a Chinese sauerkraut soup specialist where proper layering of each broth’s flavors is the charm and the occasional in-house specialty delights.

Eggholic

The egg dishes have it at this hyper-focused Indian street food spot on the main drag for all things South Asian in a municipality with ever-stronger choices for ethnic eats.

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.

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.

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.

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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