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Share/Save 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 [...]

Share/SaveThis holiday weekend saw the grand opening of Coconut, a new Latin-Caribbean restaurant and grill, on Montgomery Street in Jersey City’s McGinley Square. The restaurant is the brainchild of DJ/producer Wilson Santos, who is Coconut’s manager; the owner is Carlos Santos. Its menu features a mix-and-match grill selection as the main offering; you can choose [...]

Share/SaveJersey 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 [...]

Share/SaveThe Vietnamese restaurant and sandwich shop Rue Viet has closed after being open for about half a year at the corner of Newark Avenue and Monmouth Street in Downtown Jersey City. The shop has a For Rent sign up in the window, and the restaurant hasn’t been open to the public for several weeks. The [...]

Share/SaveOne of the most significant fine art and arts-business events in years is set for this weekend in Jersey City, but it is not happening where you likely think it is. It’s not Downtown, but the industrial outskirts of Journal Square — rife with raw industrial loft space (some of which has already been refashioned [...]

A long-awaited proposal to revise Jersey City’s law governing food truck and street carts was tabled Wednesday night by the City Council after food vendors made an impassioned plea to defend their businesses from what they saw as misguided legislation.

Share/SaveDeveloper Roseland Property Company says two retail spaces at its new Monaco luxury rental building have been leased, as it prepares to host an official ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday morning. VB3, which is described as “an Italian pizza bar,” has leased a 3,800 square foot unit, and Sovereign Bank has leased a 4,100-square-foot unit. Both tenants [...]

Share/Save- Security Tightened: Hudson County residents will see a heightened police presence following the killing of Osama bin Laden, but there are no specific threats and the state’s alert level has not been raised. – 9/11 Fountain in JSQ: Councilwoman Nidia Lopez has sent a letter to United Water asking for financial assistance to fix [...]

After weighing changes to its food-trucks law for more than two years, Jersey City is finally set to revise the ordinance, with a bill being introduced to the City Council this week. The proposal is wide-ranging and would change everything from how food trucks and street carts are legally defined, to how many licenses the city can issue, to how long vendors can stay in one place.

Share/SaveAfter an official ribbon-cutting this morning at 10:45, Grille Two74 will officially open to the public, serving burgers, Philly cheese steaks, hot dogs, grilled chicken sandwiches, wraps, paninis and similar items. The new 900-square-foot restaurant, at 274 Central Avenue, is being opened by Anthony Vlachos and his fiancée Marissa Baljko, who saw the vacant space [...]