COVID: JC Restaurant Edition
A list of places you should patronize while we plan for the biggest party we’ve seen in like…3 months.
Read More COVID: JC Restaurant EditionA list of places you should patronize while we plan for the biggest party we’ve seen in like…3 months.
Read More COVID: JC Restaurant EditionThere’s a world in which a Laico’s sits next to a Red Lobster at a mall in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. Thankfully we don’t live in that world.
Read More Laico’sThis intro was perhaps a tad too aggressive.
Read More Citi GrillNew restaurants, the JC safari, and finally getting respectable sushi in town.
Read More DOMODOMOTalkin’ pizza, new JC spots, Jose Andres’ farts and some other things
Read More Bread & SaltCongrats, you created Mexican Applebee’s.
Read More Los CuernosHoly shit, two reviews in one week. Except this time I’m eating a better dive burger .
Read More Best Things: Burgers – O’Leary’s Publik HouseGo for the bar, not the burger. I mean, have the burger, but the bar is better.
Read More Best Things: Burgers – New Park TavernThree men blindly met up at a bar to bond over juicy meat, forever giving me the confidence of organizing a successful Turnpike gangbang on Grindr. No good pics.
Read More Best Things: Burgers – White StarThe All You Can Eat Buffet is the pinnacle of America’s exuberant exceptionalism and the catalyst of it’s slow decline into nuclear winter. K-POT might save us from that.
Read More K-POTAlternative title: Nice Things man-splains buying produce to his entire audience.
Read More The Nice Things Guide to Spring ProduceDeath rides a slice of white pizza, topped with fondue cheese, chocolate chips, and another slice of pizza.
Read More Tony Boloney’sThe perks of writing a blog, eating a really good burger, and a bonus partial review of Wurstbar.
Also, this review will be umlaut free.
Read More Best Things: Burgers – WurstbarOAK on Pine is now SAM A.M. Bergen – Lafayette. I wish the biggest issue with this place was the amount of typing I have to do to mention them, or their love of underscores. Unfortunately we’ve got a bigger issue.
Read More Best Things: Burgers – SAM A.M Bergen-LafayetteLatham House opened in the old location of whatever the fuck that place was called – it wasn’t worth remembering. While they do have big brunch hype, I can’t say they’ve got a bunch of burger hype behind them. Actually, I’m pretty sure that one asshole in the comments told me to go here for […]
Read More Best Things: Burgers – Latham HouseDiesel and Duke’s is a fast-casual burger shack with locations in any NYC suburb containing a Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company. If you’re within a stone’s throw of an Audi SUV, down vests, and a child named Mackenzleigh, chances are you’re also close to a Diesel and Duke. They’ve been A-OK in my book ever since […]
Read More Best Things: Burgers – Diesel and DukeFirst submission of many submissions to come. Or it won’t be. Low expectations are the key to a great Nice Things experience.
Read More Best Things: Burgers – Piggyback BarThe guidelines for a journey into JC’s burgers. Why this is fun to talk about; vegans, burgers and how we will judge the burgers.
Read More Best Things: BurgersValentine’s Day, I hardly talk about food, but spend a lot of time talking about amazing service.
Read More Liberty PrimeA brief history and context for this bull shit. My self-righteous justification for not going.
Read More The AshfordHow terrible food IG is, Marie Kondoing my follows, Ted Bundy, and general cry baby bull shit.
Read More Bad Things pt. 1Somehow over the past few years going to the Golden Cicada has become passé.
This article is about why you should go back.
Read More Golden CicadaReminiscing about working at a nursery, sub-hot chicken, and why its important to be creative.
Read More Oak on PineHe used to not care about lists, but now has temper-tantrums over shitty clickbait by using this one simple trick.
His secret may shock you…
Read More Top 5 Reasons Lists Don’t MatterNewest guest contributed eassy. This week, musings about the middle class of pizza joints by Goth Odell.
Read More Other Things: A Eulogy for the Pizza HoleSometimes trash gets so hot that it starts a dumpster fire. This is one of those instances.
Read More La CoteHaving a terrible drink in Hamilton Park, shitty kids, and really great Cuban food – all in present tense.
Read More Rumba CubanaThis is an article about the best Chicken Parm in JC by a guest contributor named Hungry Chuck. Take a look.
Read More Other Things: Chicken ParmSeeing salmon specials on every menu can mean only one thing: its Hudson Restaurant Week. Or is it? I thought this shit was in the winter.
Read More Hudson Restaurant WeekLaw and Order: Food Crimes. I talk about a trip to the suburbs, take a quick detour to speak about Arnold Schwarzenegger, and talk about one of the worst meals I’ve had in Jersey City.
Read More LunaJC breweries, the best place to drink beer, some random thoughts about Nextdoor.
Part two of a longer article about beer.
Read More All About: Beer in Jersey City Pt. 2A great man once said “beer is the cause and solution to all of life’s problems”
Occasionally, I’m going to write longer pieces that cover a lot of ground. To avoid your glazed eyes, I’ll break these up into a couple parts.
Read More All About: Beer in Jersey City Pt. 1I use maps, with little effort and creativity, to talk about Jersey City’s bagel deficit; Why Grind Shop is good; Patrick Ewing makes an appearance.
Read More Wonder BagelsMy lack of appreciation for Bob Dylan; bitching about getting older, and how all work and no play made Dullboy a dull bar.
Read More DullboyPeeling back the impossible under-seasoned onion on why this place sucks so much
Read More Gringo’sSquare Pizza and Miller High Life, the first of many examinations of neighborhood bars, and a totally not-arbitrary ratings system.
Read More Lo-FiI’ve been busy, which means I haven’t been able to produce as much pithy content as I would like.
If you’d like a window into the depths of my apathy and laziness please re-read that last sentence.
Read More Not a Review of Pet Shop1,000 words on terrible cocktails, great tonic, and the general feeling of disappointment that comes from getting a sword for Christmas.
Read More Corgi SpiritsBergen-Lafayette is one of the hottest hoods in JC and Hooked, one of its many new restaurants, can tell us more about the neighborhood than it can about itself.
Read More Hooked JCThe first place I ate when I moved to Jersey City was Taqueria, so it’s fitting that I’d come back for my first bit of pithy commentary.
Read More Taqueria DowntownThe first pithy 800 words of this blog
Read More Nice Things: A Mission Statement