Posts Tagged ‘bars’

Weekly ‘Geeks Who Drink’ Pub Quiz Launches in Jersey City This Wednesday

By • Oct 25th, 2011 • Category: Blog, Food

A hipper version of pub quiz is coming to Jersey City this week, when the Colorado-based company Geeks Who Drink launches a weekly quiz at Pint. After starting out in Colorado five years ago, Geeks Who Drink has slowly expanded across the nation, currently hosting live weekly pub quizzes at more than 165 establishments in [...]



Jersey City More than Doubles Downtown Area Designated as ‘Restaurant Row’

By • Aug 31st, 2011 • Category: Blog, Food, News, Politics

UPDATED SEPTEMBER 22 at 1:30 PM WITH NEW MAPS In an effort to lure more restaurants — and eaters — to Downtown Jersey City, the City Council has passed into law this week a massive expansion of the Downtown Restaurant Overlay Zone, better known simply as “Restaurant Row.” The zone currently applies to Grove Street [...]



Jersey City Bars Make Push to Re-Open After Hurricane Irene, If They Even Closed at All

By • Aug 28th, 2011 • Category: Blog, Food, News

Photo of Healy’s Tavern by Jim Hodgson; photo of Guillo’s by Melissa Surach The streets are flooded and you stockpiled too much food and water. The PATH and buses aren’t running and you may well have off tomorrow. You probably just cleaned out your gross basement water. What should you do next? Probably go to [...]



Four Years After Buying the Building, Tom Parisi Opens The Brightside Tavern in Downtown Jersey City

By • Aug 15th, 2011 • Category: Featured, Food

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.



Update: Jersey City Passes Ordinance Clearing the Way for More Sidewalk Cafes

By • Jul 20th, 2011 • Category: Blog, Food, News

The City Council this morning passed into law a change to Jersey City’s ordinance governing sidewalk cafes that will make more types of establishments eligible to extend seating onto the sidewalk. Previously, only traditional restaurants were allowed to offer sidewalk cafes, but the ordinance passed today expands the types of eligible businesses to additional “food [...]



Jersey City Looks to Make More Food & Drink Spots Eligible For Sidewalk Cafes

By • Jun 28th, 2011 • Category: Blog, Food, News

Jersey City residents can look forward to more opportunities to eat and drink outside, should the City Council pass an ordinance amending the city’s “sidewalk cafe” restrictions, which currently only permit traditional restaurants to extend seating onto the sidewalk in front of their establishment. On the table before the council this week is a change [...]



Pint, Formerly Star Bar, Officially Celebrates Grand Opening and Rebranding

By • Jun 22nd, 2011 • Category: Featured, Food

Brewers, politicians and beer lovers donned their finest formal apparel last Friday for the grand opening of Pint, which was formerly known as Star Bar. The rebranding of Jersey City’s only gay and craft beer bar is meant to reflect the bar’s reputation for microbrews and its diminutive size.



‘Pup Crawl’ to Benefit Liberty Humane Society Slated for Saturday in Hoboken

By • Apr 27th, 2011 • Category: Blog, News

Jersey City’s Liberty Humane Society has organized a “Pup Crawl” featuring five Hoboken bars that will raise funds for the animal shelter. Saturday’s event will include raffle drawings for bar gift cards as well as the usual pub crawl drink specials at each establishment. The crawl begins at 3 pm at Texas Arizona (76 River [...]



Star Bar Changes Name, Now Known as Pint

By • Apr 21st, 2011 • Category: Blog, Food

Downtown Jersey City’s Star Bar has changed its name to Pint, according to an email sent by the bar this afternoon: We changed our name and we’re changing even more! We have big plans for this year — a new look, more taps & cocktails and a major surprise coming soon! Pint is the bar [...]



UPDATE: Barcade Jersey City Opens to the Public Friday

By • Apr 19th, 2011 • Category: Blog, Food

Barcade Jersey City has announced that after two nights of invite-only pre-opening parties on Wednesday and Thursday of this week, it will officially open its doors to the public on Friday. Daily hours of the eagerly anticipated craft beer bar/arcade will be noon to 2 am, and on Fridays and Saturdays it will remain open [...]

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