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Share/Save New Jersey Monthly is out with its annual Best Restaurants issue, which features the top 25 critics pick in the state. Among them is Jersey City newcomer Maritime Parc, which opened in Liberty State Park last year. The restaurant, which is also featured on the issue’s cover, is praised for its great location overlooking [...]

Share/SaveThe Hudson County Chamber of Commerce is kicking off its schedule of four fall events this Thursday with a business networking event in Hoboken. The theme of Thursday’s Technology Business Networking Event is “Embracing Change,” and it will include a tour of IT company eMazzanti Technologies’ new Hoboken facility on Grand Street, as well as [...]

Share/SaveIt 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.

Share/Save- 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 [...]

Share/SaveIn 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 [...]

Share/SaveWell 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 [...]

Share/SaveEditor’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 [...]

Share/SaveConfession: 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 [...]

Share/SaveI 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 [...]