Yes, there is a large white tent over the patio at Frank Anthony’s. No, it is not permanent. Owner Anthony Tortoriello tells us his restaurant is hosting a small wedding on Sunday and they needed more seating space. Alas, the tent will be gone next week.
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Hobcaw Cafe is expanding its hospitality to brunch. The new menu, which was tested for a select group of guests this past Sunday, ranges from crab cake Benedict to a strawberry- and blueberry-stuffed brioche French toast, plus omelets, pancakes, biscuits and gravy, all for roughly $7 to $9 per entree. Brunch hours are 9...
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More signs that Verona will have a new restaurant on Bloomfield Avenue soon: The first-floor walls are up at John McEvoy’s upcoming place. And the Verona Town Council, at its Monday, September 19 meeting, approved the transfer of the liquor license that McEvoy held for the Verona Inn to the new location. Plans for...
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You almost need a hard hat to walk the north side of Bloomfield Avenue between Gould Street and Grove Avenue. The steps are being rebuilt at Garden State Community Bank (the old Penn Federal location), but the big work is several steps west. The basement for John McEvoy’s new restaurant has been dug and...
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For restaurants in New York City, online ordering is a given. Here in Verona, not so much. If fact not at all until last week, when Hobcaw Cafe introduced online ordering. You can set up an order for immediate consumption or for later in the day, and as much as two weeks in advance....
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Attention Indian restauranteurs: Verona likes Indian food. That was just one of the surprising results of the MyVeronaNJ food survey. Last month, MyVeronaNJ launched “Reinventing Verona” , a series of surveys designed to get at how we want to live in Verona now. First up, our dining habits. We knew, anecdotally, that Veronans eat...
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Over the decades of its existence, Verona has reinvented itself many times. We were a rural horse-and-buggy town that was transformed by a streetcar and then an “auto boulevard”, the road you now know as Grove Avenue. Farms and industry gave way to retail and service businesses. Local retail was challenged by the creation...
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If dinner hasn’t made you smile in a while, go to Nori in Montclair or Caldwell tonight and order the Halloween roll. Kamilla and Vinnie Liu’s sushi chefs combine pepper tuna, asparagus, pumpkin and tobiko into a roll that looks for all the world like a deconstructed jack-o-lantern but tastes much, much better. Seasonal...
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The sign says it all. Verona’s second Subway franchise, located in the space that once was Liberty Travel on Bloomfield Avenue between Mount Prospect and Sunset Avenues, is open. The new location is owned and run by Don Johnston, an Iraqi war veteran from Englewood.
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For weeks now, Verona has been wondering about the new food spot going in on Grove Avenue next to Tortilla Sunrise in the old Frank Anthony’s location. What would the food be? What hours would it be open? And what was up with that name, Hobcaw Cafe, which definitely didn’t sound Jersey? Wonder no...
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