New Jersey’s 25 greatest Italian dishes, ranked
Updated Feb 19, 2021;
Posted Feb 14, 2021
The linguini with white clam sauce at LuNello in Cedar Grove, one of the best Italian dishes in New Jersey according to NJ.com s latest Italian food rankings. (Peter Genovese | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com)
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Forget New York City; no one does Italian food better than New Jersey. It seems like every Garden State street corner features a pizzeria, trattoria or cafe serving some of the country’s finest Italian imports.
New Jersey has one of the largest Italian-American populations in the country (1.45 million Italian-Americans, per 2017 census data), and cities like Newark and Elizabeth having rich cultural histories as hubs for Italian immigrants. So it’s no surprise that among New Jersey’s myriad delectable cuisines, Italian food reigns supreme.
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New Jersey’s 25 greatest sandwiches, ranked
Updated Jan 19, 2021;
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There are few greater pleasures in life than a good sandwich. And there are few places in the world with better sandwiches than New Jersey.
Hoagies. Subs. Sandwiches. Whatever you call them, New Jersey has them, and they’re delicious. But which ones are the best?
Food and Wine Magazine recently crowned the mozzarella and pepper sandwich from M&P Biancamano in Hoboken the state’s best sandwich while admitting the Garden State has so many great Italian delis its hard to pick just one sandwich. This got NJ.com’s top sandwich savants, Peter Genovese and Jeremy Schneider, thinking about the top sandwiches in the state.
25 N.J. restaurants we can’t afford to lose to COVID
Updated Jan 11, 2021;
Posted Jan 10, 2021
Baguette Delite (top left), Star Tavern (top center), The Pub (top right), Hobby s Delicatessen (bottom left), Spirito s (bottom center) and White House Subs (bottom right), among the 25 restaurants New Jersey cannot afford to lose. (Pub photo by Avi Steinhardt, Hobby s photo by Ed Murray, White House Sub s photo by Peter Genovese. All other photos by Jeremy Schneider)
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It’s been a brutal 10 months for Garden State grub.
New Jersey has lost dozens of restaurants during the coronavirus pandemic. Some stood for decades, others were just starting their culinary journey neither could make ends meet amid the crippling shutdowns and restrictions.
How 11 iconic N.J. restaurants plan to survive the terrifying pandemic winter
Updated Dec 19, 2020;
Posted Dec 19, 2020
Fiore s (top left), Donkey s Place (top center), Stuff Yer Face (top right), Rutt s Hut (bottom left), Holsten s (bottom center) and Papa s Tomato Pies (bottom right) are among the iconic New Jersey restaurants NJ Advance Media talked to about the struggles coming with the winter. (Donkey s Place photo by Peter Genovese and Stuff Yer Face photo by John Jones, all others by Jeremy Schneider)
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Visiting an iconic New Jersey restaurant is as much a history lesson as it is a meal.
The Garden State is overflowing with diners, delis, pizzerias and eateries that tell New Jersey’s story just as well as many museums. They have been in business for decades (some since the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918), and are often passed down from generation to generation, further weaving themselves into the state’s eclectic fabric. And through natural disasters, fi