Popular with the Rutgers crowd, the breakfast and brunch spot Hansel ‘n Griddle recently expanded to Hoboken. Despite being consistently rated among the top brunch spots in New Jersey, I really can’t understand what all of the fuss is about.
Posts published in “Cuisine Corner”
I wanted to like Tacoesque—I really did. There’s just something about the idea of a brand new restaurant, rough around the edges, focusing on nothing but the food.
A short walk from campus to the corner of Third and Bloomfield will take you to yet another hidden Hoboken gem—Sri Thai.
New to Washington Street (so new that I broke my “no reviewing places on Washington Street” rule), Honeygrow Local is the perfect addition for both wealthy yuppies and poor college students.
Tucked just off the corner of First and Grand St. is the quaint Green Pear Café.
With its cozy and peaceful interior and free Wi-Fi, the Green Pear offers a great place to escape from campus for a bit to enjoy a cup of coffee or a smoothie and a snack.
Between 9th and 10th Streets on Willow is a café serving up some culture with their sandwiches.
D’s Soul Full Café offers a store front window to performing musicians and their walls to artists to display their work.
In most Stevens students’ minds, cupcakes are synonymous with Crumbs, but what they don’t know is that a few steps away is another cupcakery with a cozy café sort of atmosphere.
A few steps from Washington Street is a no-frills, family-owned café serving up home-style Italian comfort food. Having passed Café Michelina on the corner of 5th and Bloomfield Street on multiple occasions, I finally decided the time had come to step through the beaded curtain into the dimly lit restaurant.
Diverging from my usual search for fine cuisine, I was craving good old Americanized Chinese takeout but not necessarily the unhealthy, bloated, “what did I just put in my body” feeling that usually accompanies such cuisine.
