The Jersey City Independent "

Gillian Allen is intent on taking one of the challenges she’s found in her Greenville neighborhood — an inadequate supply of quality food available in her predominantly minority, economically challenged community — and turning it into an opportunity. We talk to her about the newly born Jersey City Food Coop Initiative to find out what she and the others behind the co-op push have planned.

Food writer Michelle Weber spent the winter consuming massive amounts of greasy-spoon fare in a methodical process designed to uncover the best all-around diner in Jersey City. Read all about her findings here … hope you’re hungry.

Exterior photo: Melanie McLean. Food photos: Michelle Weber This story, which appeared in the Spring/Summer 2010 issue of NEW magazine, is part of our Great Jersey City Diner Eat-Off competition — for the ground rules and to check out the rest of the contenders, click here. You’d think the Flamingo would have become my greasy [...]

Exterior photo: Melanie McLean. Food photos: Michelle Weber This story, which appeared in the Spring/Summer 2010 issue of NEW magazine, is part of our Great Jersey City Diner Eat-Off competition — for the ground rules and to check out the rest of the contenders, click here. Yes, it’s called a cafe. Rest assured, it is [...]

Exterior photo: Melanie McLean. Food photos: Michelle Weber This story, which appeared in the Spring/Summer 2010 issue of NEW magazine, is part of our Great Jersey City Diner Eat-Off competition — for the ground rules and to check out the rest of the contenders, click here. Al’s: the Jersey City diner of choice for mariners [...]

Exterior photo: Melanie McLean. Food photos: Michelle Weber This story, which appeared in the Spring/Summer 2010 issue of NEW magazine, is part of our Great Jersey City Diner Eat-Off competition — for the ground rules and to check out the rest of the contenders, click here. OK, I know the Coach House isn’t technically in [...]

Exterior photo: Melanie McLean. Food photos: Michelle Weber This story, which appeared in the Spring/Summer 2010 issue of NEW magazine, is part of our Great Jersey City Diner Eat-Off competition — for the ground rules and to check out the rest of the contenders, click here. I’ll admit it: I didn’t really want to go. [...]

Exterior photo: Melanie McLean. Food photos: Michelle Weber This story, which appeared in the Spring/Summer 2010 issue of NEW magazine, is part of our Great Jersey City Diner Eat-Off competition — for the ground rules and to check out the rest of the contenders, click here. The ex-Colonette — I think its former name is [...]

Exterior photo: Melanie McLean. Food photos: Michelle Weber This story, which appeared in the Spring/Summer 2010 issue of NEW magazine, is part of our Great Jersey City Diner Eat-Off competition — for the ground rules and to check out the rest of the contenders, click here. On West Side Avenue sits the Miss America, an [...]

Exterior photo: Melanie McLean. Food photos: Michelle Weber This story, which appeared in the Spring/Summer 2010 issue of NEW magazine, is part of our Great Jersey City Diner Eat-Off competition — for the ground rules and to check out the rest of the contenders, click here. The VIP is a longtime favorite just off Journal [...]