March 30, 2021
After 40 years, Mr. Dino’s Pizzeria, and owners Angelo and Pasquale Loconsole, deserve a celebration for not just surviving but thriving while serving local customers and weathering Montclair’s difficult year. The crew at Mr. Dino’s would love to throw the biggest, most delicious, pizza-laden party the town has seen. But: Global Pandemic. Even so, the four decade milestone will be celebrated, if not with the same crowds and group fanfare originally hoped.
A great many Montclair-area residents have warm and tasty memories dating back to Mr. Dino’s first location on the corner of North Fullerton and Watchung. The jukeboxes and wooden bucket seats in the original pizzeria had stories to tell of family joys and drama, teenagers planning parties, and Mr. Dino’s patriarch, Nicola Lonconsole, peeling potatoes and bossing his sons Angelo and Pasquale around the pizzeria.
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As North Jersey residents, it is our duty to seize any opportunity to eat a bagel.
Driving by a bagel shop? Better stop in. A slight hunger pang? End it with carbs and a schmear. Bad day at the home office? Break for bagels.
And the very bogus holiday, National Bagel Day, on Jan. 15? You bet your lox we re celebrating.
Here are 10 legendary North Jersey bagel joints they make the fluffiest, firmest, most flavorful bagels on the East Coast to visit on National Bagel Day. You re welcome.
Boxcar Bagels & Deli, Bogota
Hand-rolled, boiled and baked daily, and as big as a small bowling ball: the bagels at Boxcar are the stuff of legend with an ample fluffy inside covered by a crisp crust. Boxcar devotees have been known to drive hours to owner Linda DeCarlo s little strip-mall bagel joint, in the biz for more than 24 years.