Where to Get A Thanksgiving Turkey in Jersey City

While Thanksgiving still seems quite a ways away, now is the time to plan. Several local vendors have started accepting turkey reservations and it's worth getting them in early! Here are the best places to begin making your Thanksgiving plans:

4th of July 2018

Happy 4th of July, Jersey City! Obviously, the major event is the Freedom & Fireworks Festival near Exchange Place (where there will be great food galore), but there are some other holiday and non-holiday events happening around town as well as quite a few closings.

Check out what's going on:

Easter Sunday 2018 - Who's Open and Who's Closed

Happy Easter Jersey City! Here's who's open and who's closed:

Your Guide to Project: Market 2017

Project Market returns this weekend, running both Saturday 12/2 and Sunday, 12/3 from 11am-6pm. They'll have lots of great vendors featuring vintage, specialty, and hand-crafted goods for all your holiday gifting needs.

They'll also have a ton of delicious food to help keep you fueled for all the shopping ahead and it's the perfect spot to pick up a few food-related gifts for the obsessed eater in your life - or just some good host/hostess gifts. Here's your guide on where to eat and what you should look forward to:

Memorial Day Weekend Specials 2017

If you're heading out of town for Memorial Day Weekend, enjoy! If you're staying in town, here's what's going on:

Events and Specials:

• Iron Monkey has food and drink specials running all weekend including a BBQ platter and a $10 brunch special
• Hamilton Pork will be open for their regular hours and will also be serving their brunch menu on Monday. 
• Wurstbar is offering $5 Haus Dogs for Memorial Day along with their regular menu.
• GP's is celebrating all weekend with brunch, lunch, and dinner every day from Saturday through Monday with a Memorial Day spin on their house specialty ricotta pancakes - served with blueberries, raspberries, and whipped cream. 

• LITM and Hendrick's Gin are hosting The Garden Party: A 1920's Jazz Shindig on Saturday night beginning at 6pm. There will be Prohibition-Era cocktails, live music, lawn and card games and much more. Dressing up is optional. 
• Left Bank Burger Bar has a variety of both food and drink specials all weekend including $5 sangria and margaritas, $5 burgers for take out, and $10 specials on Monday along with 10% off for veterans and civil service.
• Talde is hosting a Memorial Day Weekend Beach Party on Sunday from 12-8pm with a $30 All You Can Eat Menu featuring Jerk Chicken Wings, Lonaniza Burgers, and Hot Dogs with a ton of toppings, sides, and Filipino Coconut Fruit Salad and Funnel Cake for dessert. Tickets can be bought ahead of time or are $35 at the door. 

Special Hours

• The Farmers Markets at Van Vorst Park and Riverview Park are on as scheduled, but the Grove Street Market on Monday is canceled because of the holiday, so plan ahead and stock up on Saturday and Sunday. 
• Seven Sheep Coffee will be open until 3:30pm Friday & Saturday, closed Sunday, and open until 3pm Monday. 
• Squeeze'd will be closed on Memorial Day.
• Ani Ramen (both locations) will be closed on Monday, Memorial Day

Keep checking back for updates on special menus and hours. 

Happy Memorial Day Weekend Jersey City!

Memorial Day Weekend Eats and Events

If you're heading out of town for Memorial Day Weekend, enjoy! If you're staying in town, here's where to go and what to eat:

Halloween Hits Jersey City

Happy Halloween Jersey City! Here's what's happening:

While not an event, Grandma Downtown is running an Oktoberfest roll special through 11/1. The chicken sausage & onion rolls and bacon cheddar sausage and jalapeno rolls are $2 each for delivery.

942 Summit is hosting Day of the Dead craft-making from 4pm-6pm Wednesday, 10/28

Labor Day Weekend Events

We all know what Labor Day Weekend means: Summer is officially winding down. But if you're staying in town, you might as well make the most of it!

First, what's closed:

Thirty Acres will be open Saturday, but closed Sunday and Monday per their normal schedule.
Milk Sugar Love will be open for regular hours all weekend but closed Monday per their regular schedule.
Third & Vine will be closed on Monday
Sam A.M. will be closed on Monday
Hamilton Inn will be offering brunch on Monday

Battello will be closed all weekend, beginning Friday, and reopening Tuesday for lunch.
The Grove St. Farmer's Market will not be open on Monday.
Pasta Dal Cuore is closed from Saturday, Sept. 5th-10th, reopening Friday, the 11th

Fast Boy Delivery is offering a Labor Day Weekend Delivery Special - 10% off on Saturday and Sunday.

The tasting room at Departed Soles Brewery is open from 1pm-8pm on Saturday and will have special Monday hours from 1pm-4pm

The Journal Square Green Market will run as usual on Friday from 11am-8pm. They'll have fruit and veggies to stock up on for the weekend, fitness classes, Taproot Organics, and an ever-expanding food vendor roster.

Friday night is another great night for the RNA's Live at the Lumberyard  with great live music, food trucks, and more. El Chilango will be there, bringing special spicy shrimp ceviche tostadas with them.

FYI

Roman Nose is closed this week for Staff Summer Holiday Week. They will reopen next week on Tuesday, 8/26.

St. Patrick's Day Events in Jersey City!

It's that time again! Time to remember everyone's Irish, wear all the green you own, and drink more Guinness and Jameson than the rest of the year combined. Or time to just enjoy beer and good food while ignoring the sea of green surrounding you. Wherever you fall on the spectrum and whatever you like to do to celebrate St. Pat's, Jersey City has something for you.

I will update as I see more events, so keep checking back in!

Sam a.m. will be hosting their first official Supper Club on Thursday and it is St. Patrick's Day themed! Email samamcafe@gmail.com for reservations - space is limited and BYOB! Missed this one, better luck next time! However, they will be serving a corned beef hash omelette as a weekend special and luckily there's more ahead!

Happy Veterans Day!

Happy Veterans Day and thank you to all those who have served or are still serving in the military. Your work and sacrifice means a great deal to all of us.

If you're one of those people who gets this day as a holiday, then lucky you and I hope you're enjoying it (perhaps with a delicious meal around Jersey City)!

In honor of Veterans Day, 9th and Coles Tavern is offering a free draft to those with a Military ID and

Sam A.M. is offering a free small coffee for all vets, as well as serving up military favorite SOS (cream dried beef on potatoes).

Community News

• Congratulations are in order for Jersey City Veggie Burgers who earned enough votes to advance to the finals round in the Start Something NJ challenge - so congratulations and best of luck!
• Great news! Beginning tomorrow, the Incrediballs Truck will be offering Cocoa Bakery's cake truffles on the truck! I love this news for several reasons: a) it's great to see Jersey City businesses working together b) it's also great to see food trucks and brick and mortar stores working together c) I like foods in roundish form
• Speaking of Cocoa Bakery, they recently announced a new menu item: chocolate bread and it looks amazing: https://twitter.com/CocoaBakeryJC/status/398449225031499776/photo/1

Let the Halloween Festivities Begin!

Jersey City residents and friends, I hope you have your halloween costumes ready at the door because it's the weekend before Halloween and Jersey City is ready for you!

Iron Monkey, LITM, and Zeppelin Hall are just a few of the local spots holding monster Halloween Parties and Costume Contests with exciting prizes for the winners! Spooky good food and drink specials are available all over town so get out there and enjoy them while pretending to be someone (or something!) else.