CHURN: 10TH AVE. NEARS OPENING DATE

Jul 15, 2015

Signage is now up at 10th Ave. Burrito on West Front Street. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)

By JOHN T. WARD

With the restaurantization of Red Bank in full swing, this edition of redbankgreen‘s Retail Churn serves up a groaning board of food news.

• The long wait for 10th Ave. Burrito Company is nearly over.

• Sicilia Ristorante on Broad Street has a new owner, and he’s planning to split the business in two, sort of.

Details, and some assorted table scraps, are just around the corner.
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July 15, 2015 - 9:10 am |

RED BANK: DISHING WITH DISH CHEF FERRANDO

Feb 7, 2014

Dish chef Anthony Ferrando tells PieHole readers where to get the best pizza in a town with a lot of options. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)

By JIM WILLIS

Under the weather of another snowstorm – and another bout of cabin fever – PieHole went to downtown Red Bank looking for some culinary inspiration.

We sat down with chef Anthony Ferrando of Dish, on White Street, to ask if he might suggest a few interesting meals for the home cook. We ended up getting that and a whole lot more, including some insights into his favorite food stops in town.

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February 7, 2014 - 5:00 am |

IN PIEHOLE: CREPES AND PIZZA

Jan 10, 2014

Michael Mancuso of Puglia, where he’s the saucemeister working alongside his father, Ben. (Photo by Jim Willis. Click to enlarge)

redbankgreen’s PieHole is all about local food and drink. If you haven’t liked us on Facebook yet or followed us on Twitter, you may have missed some of these recent stories . . .

• Red Bank’s Whipped Bites is bolstering its menu of crepes to include lunch and dinner offerings.

• There’s a new restaurant called Puglia at the long-vacant former home of Red Bank Pizza, one with roots in Manhattan and a Sandy story.

Follow the links to the stories, and check out PieHole’s Facebook page or follow its Twitter feed @RedBankPieHole for up-to-the-minute postings.

January 10, 2014 - 9:51 am |

RED BANK: FOOD FROM THE HEEL OF ITALY

Jan 9, 2014

The former Red Bank Pizza is now home to Puglia, named for a Manhattan restaurant with an almost 100-year history. (Photo by Jim Willis. Click to enlarge)

By JIM WILLIS

The exhaust vents of Red Bank’s numerous Italian restaurants already send up a Vesuvian cloud of aromatic garlic that envelops the Green.

Well, that cloud just got a little thicker.

A few weeks ago, Ben Mancuso quietly opened the doors to yet another Italian restaurant and pizzeria in the long-vacant space that once housed Red Bank Pizza.

But Mancuso isn’t especially worried about adding another entry to the already long roster of Italian restaurants in town.

“I’m bringing the name,” he says of Puglia, which shares a moniker with his family’s Manhattan-based restaurant.

“If I opened up here as Joe’s Pizzeria or Joe’s Restaurant, I’m just an ordinary guy on the block. But that name is a name that’s been in business since 1919 so we’re doing something right.”

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January 9, 2014 - 9:56 am |

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CHURN: 10TH AVE. NEARS OPENING DATE

RED BANK: DISHING WITH DISH CHEF FERRANDO

IN PIEHOLE: CREPES AND PIZZA

RED BANK: FOOD FROM THE HEEL OF ITALY