Silver Diner came to my attention years ago when I lived in the Washington metro area, where I think it originated. The concept is to re-do and over-do the classic diner, making it bigger, blockier, shinier and diner-ier than it ever was in the first place. As people point out all the time when they’re […]
Author: Jon
Grumpy’s Bar-B-Que Roadhouse, Allentown
Road trip, boys, road trip. Here we are out on the highway, in the rain, peering around Big Gay Ed’s Big Gay Head as he drives too close to other cars for comfort. This picture doesn’t show the worst of it. Sheesh. Slow down, dude. Why were we out there? Well, I think ‘CF Martin’ […]
El Marichi Loco, Hammonton
Good Mexican is pretty much a requirement for any trip to America as far as I’m concerned. One time I went to Napa Valley for a business trip, an offsite. I got to the resort about 5 hours before I needed to attend the first event and, reasoning that good Mexican is available anywhere in […]
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Swede’s Inn, Swedesboro
Well, this is it. The whole reason I went on this trip in September instead of May was to play this show. We had been working on a CD for the prior year+, and having completed it a few months before,scheduled a rockin’ good time for ourselves at the Swede’s – 4 bands featuring various […]
Five Points Diner, Deptford
Late night dining in Tokyo might mean chain izakaya, possibly sushi, or ramen, but definitely family restaurant. While your ‘fami-res’ choices in Japan are limited to Denny’s, Jonathan’s and a very few others, New Jersey is wonderful in that it’s still packed with late-night diners. The Seven Stars Diner is one such, residing as it […]
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Barrington Coffee House, Barrington
Gentlemen? Several weeks after this event, the Barrington Coffee House publicized what had happened as their ‘League of Gentlemen Weekend’. On this evening Jim, Greg and I went through a decent set of Jim’s songs plus covers (and Greg and I played a couple songs with a guy named Chris who did a whole set […]
Mood’s Farm Market, Mullica Hill
When I was but a young pup, piloting my Centurion Ironman Dave Scott (and I’m deeply sorry that the best picture I can find of this frame in my rigorous 30 seconds of googling is one that’s built up as a fixed-gear, but mine too has been a fixed-gear since about 1994) around the wilds […]
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Attilio’s Pizza, Blackwood
There are people who will tell you the best pizza in New Jersey lurks within these unimposing confines. I had lunch with one of them a couple weeks ago, and I went for pizza today with two more of them. I can certainly recommend it; this is the pizza I grew up on (in part […]
Olympia Restaurant, Vineland
Did I forget how much I like Greek food, or did I never know? I bet the last time I went to a Greek restaurant in America was in Greektown in Chicago, circa 1999. I do know that there was one time in college where I was back in Pitman and drove down to the […]
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Winnie’s Le Bus, Manayunk
Been to Manayunk? It’s still a nice area – I love all the old houses and older buildings, squeezed together in a setting that almost feels turn-of-the-century. If I could point to a downside, I think it’s not a very robust neighborhood. Based on the concentration of restaurants vs. all other types of business, it’s […]