As the semester and, as a whole, the academic year winds down, I’m starting to look back on all the places I’ve been over the past year in pursuit of the best Hoboken has to offer.
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Back home in the Hudson Valley, there’s a small Japanese restaurant in a neighborhood (or whatever the rural equivalent would be) called Apple Valley.
Now that the weather is at least trying to get warmer, it’s time to start christening those classic sunny day activities.
As some of you may know, one of Hoboken’s best features is the availability of diverse restaurants offering a plethora of brunch options.
Napoli’s Pizza is one of the restaurants in an area of uptown Hoboken I don’t normally frequent around dinner time. Along Washington Street in the area of 11th and 12th, I’ll go to Schnackenberg’s for breakfast, Biancomano’s for lunch, or Giorgio’s Bakery if my sweet tooth needs sating.
Back when I wrote my audition piece for this column, a new restaurant had recently opened in place of the old Bombay West restaurant at 9th and Washington.
The pace of restaurant turnover in Hoboken is quite the phenomenon. One day, a restaurant is a thriving pillar of the Duckbills community, the next it closes for renovations and never reopens.
For this week’s Cuisine Corner, I was inspired by a couple of friends who were looking for something different. The original lunch plan was to get sandwiches at a local sandwich shop (review to come), when the idea popped into my head to stop by one of my favorite breakfast places, La Isla.
Hoboken is known far and wide for its variety of restaurants, a condition which leads to an interesting competitive characteristic. For every restaurant in Hoboken, there is typically another restaurant offering a similar, if not same, product in a different environment.