Somehow I had planned my schedule weeks ago so as to have lunch with Zoner on this, my first day back at work. To compound the insult of being back in the office, he suggested walking or to Yaesu and trying RosandCrown and Goldmansachs Are Dead, or something to that effect. These guys run a […]
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Silver Diner, Cherry Hill
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 […]
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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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 […]
Cheesesteak Factory, Glassboro
Surely you all know that cheesesteaks are one of the staple foods of South Jersey living? I am firmly of the camp that cheesesteaks are not available outside the Philadelphia area, and also that any place advertising their product as ‘Philly Steaks’ should be avoided like it’s on fire (South Jersey is in the PhilaPA […]
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Neena’s, Sewell
Yeah, when we were out at the CSA, this jackal that we met said that Neena’s in Sewell was surprisingly good. Naturally that weighed on my mind, and when Dad and I found ourselves looking at each other like it was lunch time (me because I was hungry, him because it was after noon and […]
Riverwinds, Deptford
This trip was funny because I saw a number of people that I haven’t seen for years. And I mean 11, 12 and 19 years, at least for the three I’m thinking of. There were others that I’m not sure about, timing-wise. The most recent of those was Swayhoover, whose (maiden) name is quite entertaining […]
Sweet Lula’s, Pitman
Well, here we are back in Pitman. As some of you know, the central purpose of this trip was a CD release party wherein we played most of the CD that we had been recording for the last year or so (me via files sent from Tokyo). I mean, I’d love to see my family […]