It must be “let’s make a list of Best Restaurants in our glossy magazine” season, because not long after we noted the appearance of Jersey City’s Taqueria and Casa Dante on Inside Jersey’s reader-voted Best NJ Restaurants list, we happened upon New Jersey Monthly’s 2010 Readers’ and Critics’ Restaurant Poll, which is the main feature [...]
Unlike its namesake, there was a distinct lack of explosiveness in the deflation of Zeppelin Hall’s U.S. soccer fans Saturday afternoon. The de-massing of the German-style beer hall– in single-file, or in small clumps of friends, silent or angry or still in denial– took the air out of the room and the national team’s fans with them.
- Friday saw two more guilty pleas in the federal corruption probe. Former Housing Authority commissioner Edward Cheatam says he took $70,000 and funneled $15,000 to the re-election campaign of Mayor Jerramiah Healy. Former Hudson County elections investigator Dennis Jaslow says he took $15,500 in his role as a go-between for Solomon Dwek and a [...]
In addition to beer, I’ve always had a fine appreciation for metadata. That is, I love to know anything and everything I can know about a thing, particularly a thing I really like.
So, for example, I’m the kind of kid that begged his parents for Star Wars schematic books so I could really understand [...]
Well friends, our secret is out. This past Thursday night my wife Steph and I took a walk around the neighborhood, over to Buon Appetito for a slice, down to the waterfront, back up through Paulus Hook and eventually to our destination, Zeppelin Hall. As we approached from the back, still a good hundred yards [...]
Editor’s note: Who couldn’t go for a beer right about now, after this kind of week here in Jersey City?
Beer correspondent (nice title, huh?) Jonathan Fitzgerald is on vacation this week. In his absence he asked a friend, fellow Jersey resident and writer Kevin Gosa, to assume his beer blogging responsibility. (Clearly, he takes this [...]
Confession: Surveying the long row of beer taps at Zeppelin Hall is quickly becoming one of my favorite pastimes. I would definitely spend a lot more time walking back and forth considering my choice if a.) I wasn’t sure that people, including the bartender, were annoyed by my level of concentration and b.) I didn’t [...]
I was in Edinburgh, Scotland for a little less than 12 hours, around this time seven years ago. I was with some friends that I had made while studying abroad in Nairobi, Kenya, and we decided to put off returning home by spending a week traveling around the United Kingdom. I’m not sure why we [...]
Editor’s note: The Independent is happy to bring regular contributor Jonathan Fitzgerald into the fold for some blogging. He’ll still be writing features on a regular basis for us; those will just be supplemented by his occasional informal musings on the blog. This is his first post — enjoy.
I realize that I’m not the first [...]
On Friday at 4 pm, the eagerly-awaited Zeppelin Hall, located in Jersey City’s Liberty Harbor development, opened to the public. After a few hours, commuters began to fill the interior pub area and the outdoor beer garden. Despite the typical opening day problems like occasional long lines for food and beer, the opening was well-received.
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