Jersey City

What's the Garlickiest Dish in NYC (and Immediate Vicinity)?

Rocambole is said to be the strongest form of garlic, and has a dirty appearance due to its purplish coloration. My Irish grandfather Ned Lafferty loved garlic so much, he was known to take out two pieces of white bread, spread them heavily with mayonnaise, then coarsely chop an entire head of gar ... More >>

Will a New High-Pressure Gas Line Help New Yorkers—Or Blow Them Up?

Pipe Bomb

Deccan Spice: They Got Your Goat

Eggs, too, in Jersey City's version of Hyderabad

5 Amazing Indian Dishes From Deccan Spice

How down-home! Corn fritters at Deccan Spice Love Indian food? Well, you'll be glad to hear Jersey City is now bursting with regional South Indian restaurants, many representing cuisines the metropolitan area has never seen before -- and these restaurants are a quick ride away from the West Side o ... More >>

Natu Kodi Biryani at Deccan Spice, Dish #57

Welcome to 100 Dishes to Eat Now, the tasty countdown leading up to our "Best of 2012" issue. Tune in every day (weekends, too!) for a new dish from the Fork in the Road team. [See More 100 Dishes: Leberkäse from Der Kommissar, Dish #58 | Polpettine Pizza -- With a Gooey Egg -- at Pulino's, Dish # ... More >>

Introducing the Pizza Dosa: Should It Be Banned?

Bam! The pizza dosa at Jersey City newcomer Chennai Flavors The dosa in its many variant forms is one of the world's greatest culinary inventions: a crepe made from a naturally fermented batter of ground rice and lentils, usually wrapped around a filling of potatoes, nuts, and chiles. For those wh ... More >>

Blogroll Gazette: Cooking Iguanas, Best Food Blog Awards

Squid Ink posts a promo video for the Chef's Feed App,"The Critic Hunter," which spoofs nature wildlife shows and makes fun of Yelpers in one fell swoop. Gourmet Live visits the pope's farm. Find out how to how to hunt and cook iguana at The Perennial Plate.

A Baby Was Born on a PATH Train Yesterday

A baby boy was born on a PATH train en route to Manhattan yesterday, allowing for all sorts of hilarious "express train" jokes from the dailies. Rabita Sarkar and her husband, Aditya Saurabh, New Jersey residents, hadn't expected the baby for another two weeks, but, as they say, the baby waits for n ... More >>

Taste of India and Thali (Food) Court Jersey City

There's hope for your tongue at Newport Centre Mall

This Week in the Voice: The 100 Most Powerless New Yorkers

This week in the Voice, out today: Steven Thrasher's listing of the 100 most powerless New Yorkers. Among them: weed-delivery guys and the transgendered sex workers of Hunts Point. Maura Johnston notes the many aesthetic links between David Lee Roth and Kanye West.

Fork in the Road's Favorite Hot Dogs in New York City

Dinnercraft / Flickr​It's time for Tuesday Toasts, our weekly feature highlighting the Fork in the Road team's favorite versions of popular dishes and favorite spots in the city for a given activity. They might not be the best or the coolest or the newest, but instead represent the things and ... More >>

Best Vegan Brunch in the NYC Area?

​The vada-iddly combo will set you back less than $5, and is served with homemade coconut and peanut chutneys. To hell with eggs and to hell with bacon. Yes, they can be great, but what if your dietary preferences prevent you from eating them? A brunch at Jersey City's Sri Ganesh's Dosa Hou ... More >>

Stealth Barbecue at Legal Beans Coffee Bar in Jersey City

​The pulled pork sandwich may be Legal Beans' only actual barbecue offering -- but it depends on how you define BBQ. The New York area is filled with barbecue fanatics who will travel almost any distance to check out a new 'cue emporium, and it's a rare place that escapes the notice of smok ... More >>

Watch Titus Andronicus' Jersey Travelogue "No Future Part Three: Escape From No Future"

​It's true, as Titus Andronicus frontman states in the prelude to his band's video for "No Future Part Three: Escape From No Future", that New Jersey has taken a bit of a beating, reputation-wise, over the past year or so, thanks in large part to the many reality-TV depictions of the Garden St ... More >>

Video Arcades Are Basically Kept Alive by Alcohol

Game over.​For anyone who's spent more than 15 minutes in Barcade, this should come as no surprise, but it seems that alcohol is the reason the bar has been successful enough to expand to Jersey City and, this summer, Philadelphia. This news comes courtesy of The Wall Street Journal, which r ... More >>

Jeff Mangum Is Touring, Playing Town Hall

​The greatest indie-rock comeback story of all time (probably) (hopefully) continues apace: Neutral Milk Hotel deity Jeff Mangum has now announced a clutch of East Coast shows to complement his appearance at that crazy Asbury Park ATP event that I'm assuming is all sorts of sold out by now. Th ... More >>

Tomorrow: Our 10 Best Vegetarian Restaurants

Robert SietsemaThe kanchipuram idly at Sapthagiri, a strictly vegetarian Indian restaurant in Jersey City.​Having already explored the inside of a pig's cranium this week, we've decided to venture in a slightly different direction for tomorrow's Our 10 Best. While New York abounds with excel ... More >>

Jersey City Madam Arrested for Running Prostitution Ring Out of Her Apartment

This photo is irrelevant, but we feel it sets a certain mood for the story.​You're going to love this. A smooth-operating Jersey madam revealed the details of her business to "an undercover Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent posing as a corrupt cop offering protection," according to the ... More >>

Paulie Gee, Brooklyn's New Pizzaiola: Moving From IT to Pizza, and the Pie's Eternal Appeal

​If you've read Slice in the last three years, you've probably heard of Paul Gianonne, aka Paulie Gee. The man has a serious love for pizza, so serious that he's turned it into his second career--lending hope to unhappy IT experts everywhere. Gianonne lives in Warren, New Jersey, where he rais ... More >>

Spring Guide: A Tongue-Torching Tour of Town

The Week of New York's Free Nicotine Fix: Reasons to Sign Up That Don't Involve Quitting Smoking

​Do you smoke? Doesn't matter. You should register for New York City's free patch and gum program going on for the next two weeks. Not because you're going to quit -- because, let's face it: you won't -- but because it's there for the taking. To be clear:

Pix From Sapthagiri, a Vegetarian Indian Restaurant in Jersey City

​Kanchipuram idly (weekends only) are turmeric-orange in color and come studded with cashew nuts, fresh ginger, and coriander leaf. This week Counter Culture wigs out at Sapthagiri, a strictly vegetarian restaurant in Jersey City's Indian Square neighborhood, a three-block walk north of the P ... More >>

No F*%#ing Onions at Jersey's Sapthagiri

Anger-making orbs and other delights at a veggie Indian restaurant

Latest Attack by Nature on New York: Sleeper Deer

​How did a deer get on Governors Island, where it was tranquilized and captured today? "Deer are considered good swimmers," says Fox News. Oh, so it swam there from, say, Bay Ridge? "The deer," says Fox, "was spotted earlier in the day in Jersey City," where it presumably has a loft with chea ... More >>

Ellis Island evacuated again

​A week after a transformer fire forced the evacuation of Ellis Island, it was evacuated again today for an hour and a half after a visitor found white powder on an audio headset. Visitors reported waiting an hour for boats to take them to lower Manhattan. A Jersey City fire official said tha ... More >>

The Taco Truck Opens in North Jersey, Reaches Apotheosis of Vendrification

​Per its publicity arm, the Taco Truck has officially launched, and is now roving the streets of Hoboken and Jersey City, selling "sustainably responsible" Mexican staples like tacos, tortas, tamales, and sopas. While the truck's commitment to green practices -- it's outfitted with recycling ... More >>

A Beautiful Life: Misery Pile-Up About An Abused Teenage Runaway

Vegetarian Delights of NYC--Jalapeno Pie at Famous Pizza

You can feel your lips burning, and stomach churning, by just looking at this jalapeno pie (click for heartburn) Elmhurst is the location of the original Famous Pizza, a chain which has spread to locations as far-flung as the East Village and Jersey City. It's still the best by far, though the ... More >>

Organ Recital--Sheep Intestines and Trotters

Our friend and far-flung correspondent (and former Gourmet food editor) Lillian Chou picked up and moved from Jersey City to Beijing in February, and you can read about her exploits in the blog Chinagirl. Periodically, she sends us pictures from behind the Bamboo Curtain. She posts these p ... More >>

Plane Circling Statue of Liberty Just "Taking Photos," Says Paper

If you were worried about the plane lazily circling the Statue of Liberty this morning, don't be: the Staten Island Advance reveals, albeit belatedly, that the military flight "taking photos" of the statue. "Reports indicate it may be Air Force One," they add, suggesting that the Obama may have got ... More >>

All Points West Lineup Announced, New York Gets Some Friday Night Love

No Radiohead compound this year, but All Points West is evidently returning to Liberty State Park in Jersey City. We applaud the overdue local chauvinism in having the Beastie Boys (and fellow New Yorkers Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Vampire Weekend, and the National) headline Friday. Tool and MBV hold down S ... More >>

Strange Snacks of the World -- Cracker Nuts

Everyone has heard of Beer Nuts (redskin roasted peanuts) and corn nuts (roasted or deep-fried kernels), but what about cracker nuts?

Pix from Krishna Cuisine

In conjunction with our review of Jersey City's new vegetarian restaurant, Krishna Cuisine, and for people who would rather look at pictures of food than read about it, here are some photographs of the principal dishes. One of the remarkable appetizers presented, as far as we can time, for the first ... More >>

Hearty Krishna Cuisine in Jersey City

New vegetarian restaurant hits Jersey City's Newark Avenue

'How Soon Is Now?' at the Bronx Museum of the Arts

'How Soon Is Now?' at the Bronx Museum of the Arts

Vinyl Mania

Eleven hours, one big-ass record store

Kenyan Unrest, Jersey Style

Kikuyus, Luos, and Kisii in Jersey City nervously watch events in Nairobi

Our Man Sietsema: 'Some of the Best Indian Food in the Region'

Newark Ave. Nights

"Restaurant Row" might be a stretch, but Newark Ave. is blowing up

Tastes Like Turkey

A dough canoe from the Aegean mysteriously disappears

Walk Unafraid

Yo La Tengo briefly convince us that New Jersey is for lovers

Trunk Show

It's all in the micro-organisms at vegetarian South Indian

Letters

Cyber-Pioneers Fight for Tenant's Rights and Political Reform

Close-Up on the Jersey City Waterfront

Day of the Dosa

A toasted-cheese surrogate comes to life in Jersey City

Close-Up on Jersey City

Case Clothed

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