Sara Marshall-Schkade’s salsas were born out of homesickness. Unable to find Tex-Mex food in Jersey City, the native Texan began to experiment. When she lost her job in corporate communications in 2009, she started to devote more time and effort to developing recipes and building her specialty foods business.
Bar Majestic, on Jersey City’s Grove Street and developing restaurant row, is completely changing its menu from tapas to Peruvian.
This Hanukkah, many Jewish and non-Jewish residents of Jersey City can enjoy traditional Hanukkah fare without leaving their neighborhoods.
Inspired by her grandmother’s Italian recipes yet eager to express her own point of view, pastry chef Nicole Peranick began developing recipes that fused tradition with her desire to cater to today’s sweet tooth.
The Kraverie will feature a menu with favorite items from both trucks, including some dishes – like a crepe with Korean BBQ meat – that fuse the two very different cuisines. It will also serve special new items that aren’t currently available at either truck.
As City Hall continues to weigh changes to Jersey City’s food truck law, one truck owner is expanding his business with the soft launch last week of Oriental Masala, a brick-and-mortar venture located just off of India Square’s main drag.
“Chefs are probably the worst eaters in the world. We eat everything on the fly, standing up,” Freda says. “People think we sit down and have a steak or veal chop and a glass of wine. But we don’t close from 3 to 5 because we get a decent crowd from the courthouse. I never leave the kitchen.”
Fresh on the heels of his successes with café and gelato shop Tommy 2 Scoops, restaurateur Tom Parisi is launching a larger, more ambitious food venture on the outer edge of the Van Vorst Park neighborhood, at the corner of Bright and Monmouth Streets.
Most people with full-time jobs have fantasized about a mid-week kitchen takeover. Greg Gude, owner of 9th and Coles Tavern, was able to live the dream for everyone who can’t afford a personal celebrity chef. On Tuesday, July 26, MasterChef contestant Derrick Prince took over the Downtown Jersey City restaurant’s kitchen.
Even though it is now better known for its trendy nightclubs and high-end clothing boutiques, Manhattan’s Meatpacking District is still home to a handful of meat companies. But there will be one less when one of the largest and most renowned leaves the cobblestone streets of Gansevoort Market for a warehouse in Jersey City.
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