The best dining-around experience we’ve had in 2009 to date!
Wow, our reader-tipster sure was on target here. From the moment we opened the door (which was not that easy to find, given the three little …

With all our required dining-around, we don’t get to revisit the restaurants we really like as often as we’d really like to do so. A few weeks ago, we realized with a start that despite …

As an Italian-American, who was raised on the food traditions and customs of my predecessors and as an educated, professional chef, I sometimes can be a hard sell, when it comes to the authenticity of …

Vivere Ristorante at Grand Victorian Hotel,
1505 Ocean Avenue,Spring Lake
(732) 449-5327
www.grandvictorianspringlake.com
VIVERE is a happy combination: beautiful 1883 Victorian building, deep porch above the beach traffic, glassed-in dining room with a view to the ocean.
This place is …

OK, I have to confess it: While I have LOTS of favorite restaurants in our restaurant-blessed area, when we get company from out of town, one of the very first places we think about going …

YUMI Beautiful food for us beautiful people
When I first drove up to Yumi and saw their sign, I thought it might be an Asian wordplay on yummy. And when I saw the Yumi logo, which …

When we heard from the publishers that they would soon be rolling out a new zone for Currents  the Freehold, Jackson, Howell and Millstone areas, we figured we’d better do a bit of market research …