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Sun Tavern—A Great Place for Pizza in Roselle Park, NJ
Here’s an adventure that came courtesy of my younger brother. This past Fourth of July weekend, he suggested we visit one of his old Jersey haunts for a Sunday afternoon lunch with our Dad. The place...
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Kinchley’s Tavern – New Jersey’s #1 Thin-Crust Pie? Maybe.
In the past, to acknowledge the appreciation of your reader/viewer support, they used to say, “keep those cards and letters coming.” In today’s terms, this translates to e-mails and comments on...
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Bayonne NJ’s Café Bello—A Pleasant Pizza Surprise!
Growing up in Bayonne, my family ate so much Italian food at home and in local restaurants, that you would have thought we were from Roman rather than Russian ancestry. Mom made the best lasagna in...
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Vauxhall, New Jersey’s Joe’s Pizza & Pasta – Mushy & Greasy, But Sure Good &...
Always looking for a “new” Jersey adventure with the Texan Mrs. Pie, I thought it was about time to show her all the things we can’t afford at the swank Short Hills Mall. To give you an idea about the...
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Bayonne NJ Pizza in 2017– The Year in Review
Is this for real? Despite being one of America’s greatest pizza cities, believe it or not, there is still a Domino’s in my home town of Bayonne, NJ. With all the great slices available around town, who...
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Pizza at the Reservoir Restaurant—A Family Tradition in South Orange, NJ
Spending a weekend home with my Dad in the Pizza State, as usual, I found myself trying to find a new pizza place to visit. While poking around in Cyberspace, it dawned on me that it had been over 40...
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Filippo’s Famous Pizza—Long, Lean and Delicious Slice in New Brunswick, NJ
Pick any city in the Pizza State, and you will find that it has at least one spectacular pizza joint. It’s a place that’s been there forever, for the most part is always open, of course serves slices,...
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The Vic in Bayonne NJ—The Big Apple Pizza Finds a New Home
Since I spend a lot of my pizza time in my hometown of Bayonne, NJ, I closed out 2017 with a recap of the Peninsula City’s year in pizza. As fast as you can say Mozzarella, I was bombarded by the...
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Broadway Pizza—A Poetic Pizza Disappointment in Patterson NJ
A pizza slice has three sides and three ingredients Cheese, sauce and dough Some say that it is the perfect food I think that it is delicious The above attempt at a poem is a tribute to the brilliantly...
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Attilio’s Pizza & Restaurant—A Spectacular Slice Surprise in Edison, NJ
Sometimes the Pizza Snob just can’t get away from eating pizza. Let family or friends make the plans for dining out, and they often feel obligated to put pizza on the agenda. Case in point was a Sunday...
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Anthony’s Coal-Fired Pizza—America’s Best Pizza Chain?
One day, while sitting in a mini-Starbucks at a Barnes & Noble in Edison, NJ, I glanced out the window and spotted Anthony’s Coal-Fired Pizza. Thinking it sounded a bit unusual to see a coal oven...
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Tony’s Italian Restaurant & Pizza—Fine Fare in Edison, NJ
Like most urban areas in the Pizza State, the Middlesex County township of Edison has more places to get a slice of pizza than business logic should allow. However, they all seem to survive, and since...
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Francesco’s Pizzeria—Fine Food Fair in Edison, NJ
Why do I call New Jersey the Pizza State? Well, one reason is that each town usually has so many pizza joints that the people who live in those places don’t even know all those that exist. Case in...
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Piscataway’s Stelton Pizza—A Tasty Jersey Slice
My trips back home now involve visiting my Dad and brother in their current residence of Edison, NJ. This neck of the woods is a mix of heavy suburban and light urban living that like most Jersey areas...
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Rocco’s Pizzeria—A Super Slice and Sicilian in Avenal, NJ
Getting ready to leave the Pizza State, I thought that on my way home from visiting Dad, I had room for at least one last slice. Near the middle of Jersey, my on-line intel led me to a nj.com piece...
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Zia Lisa Pizzeria and Ristorante—Still More Great Pizza in Edison, NJ
With both my dad and brother living in the north central Jersey town named for the guy who invented the light bulb, Edison has inevitably become a part of my pizza universe. Likewise, I have come to...
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Piscataway’s Gianni’s Pizzarama—Another Jersey Joint
Being a humbly tenured pizza snob brings with it a certain degree of respect, admiration and most importantly, cooperation. Such was the case when my brother suggested that he, myself and my son, The...
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Carlos Pizza & Pasta—Great Slice from a Jersey Joint
No matter what my mission is when I’m back home visiting the Pizza State, any new destination involves finding some new pizza. In Jersey, this is about easy as finding a songwriter in Nashville where I...
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Antonio’s Brick Oven Pizza in Metuchen—One of New Jersey’s Best
Well. Now Sir Paul McCartney and I have something in common. Both Macca and I have each spent a Sunday afternoon walking about taking photos along Main Street in Metuchen. (BTW – The apparent...
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Bread and Salt—New Pizza in Jersey City: Scrumptious Squares with Sublime Crust
Oh, does the Pizza Snob just love it when the pizza world starts to go crazy about a new place, and he gets the chance to go there. Such was the case when the New York Times came out with a rave review...
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