Community News: Low Fidelity Serving Food, Mathew's Celebrates 1 year, Kona Beer Tasting Dinner & more

Jersey City

• Low Fidelity Bar has started rolling out their food menu. They currently have seasonal salads and sides available along with Detroit-style pizza and they'll have more coming up in the next few weeks.
• Congratulations to WHOS Gluten Free who will be officially open for brunch starting Saturday, 10/28
• Squeeze'd has a lot to celebrate this month - they're celebrating their one year anniversary at 8 Springs Studio, they'll be opening a second location soon, and they've got new and improved pricing on their cleanse packages. 

Top Food Events in Jersey City

There are a lot of exciting culinary and drinking events happening around town over the next few weeks, so I thought it would be helpful to just compile one complete list of dates.

Ongoing Events
Sam A.M. is still holding weekly supper clubs every Tuesday through Thursday. Check in with them on a weekly basis to see the menu for each week; they usually post it on Monday.

Every Friday & Saturday through October and November, Whealth will be serving a three course tasting menu celebrating fall harvest at Smith and Chang. The series begins on Friday, Oct. 2nd and tickets are $45/person

9/24 
Oktoberfest at Satis Bistro, beginning at 8pm. Advance reservations are required.

Ballast Point Brewing & Spirits Cocktail Party at HopsScotch beginning at 7pm

9/25
South House is celebrating their Grand Opening with some live Blues bands.

Oktoberfest at Zeppelin Hall begins on Friday and will continue every weekend through October 24th. There will be German party bands, traditional German food and beers.

HopsScotch Presents Special Dinner with Hitachino Nest

This Thursday, 8/13, HopsScotch is hosting Japanese brewery Kiuchi for a special dinner to be paired with the Hitachino Nest beers. The meal will have Japanese influences and there will be a brewery rep on hand to discuss the pairings.

Community News

• The newest food truck to hit Jersey City, Mordi's Food Truck, posted a picture online of their schnitzel-based menu.
• The early bird deadline for a Journal Square CSA is tomorrow so make sure to sign up now! They have fruit and vegetable shares available .
• Welcome in the warmer weather with this recipe from NJ.com for tropical cocktail Pinta, a favorite at Jersey City's Maritime Parc.
• Liberty Prime Steakhouse recently added local brewery New Jersey Beer Co. to their tap list and will have a rotating seasonal selection.

Jersey City is the Place To Be!

The Jersey City restaurant scene has once again landed us on the map! Zagat recently put out a list of 7 great reasons to visit Jersey City. Although I am sort of surprised Talde made the list since it's not actually built yet, I'll agree it's definitely something to look forward to.

As most of us know, we do have a lot of great food and great restaurants in Jersey City and I'm glad so many of them are getting the attention they deserve.

For more food-related reasons Jersey City is worth spot-lighting (including upcoming events), read on:

Dogfish Head Beer Tasting at Amelia's Bistro

This is a guest post from my friends & fellow food lovers, MP & VB. I didn't attend the tasting, so they generously offered to take pictures and write up a post on the experience, so a big thank you to them. Text is primarily from MP who runs Wandering Lunch, a very helpful NYC food truck tracker. 

Last week, Amelia's Bistro had their third beer and dinner tasting menu. This is the second one featuring Dogfish Head after the first date sold out and they mentioned they would be doing new tastings monthly and the next one will be with Weyerbacher. Beer pairing menus are not very common around Jersey City yet so it's nice to know they will continue at Amelia's.

The event was held in their private party room in the basement of the restaurant. Don't expect any cell reception. Right away,we were handed beers (the Indian Brown Ale) and told to sit anywhere. There were also free gifts waiting on the table at everyone's place: an IPA glass, a key chain bottle opener, and a "Hopocalypse Now" coaster. There were two long tables so we knew we would be getting to know our co-diners. As more people filtered in, it was easy to get the conversation started. The majority of the people at our table were beer enthusiasts, as we are, and the topics centered around that to begin. As the beer flowed, the conversation expanded and the volume definitely increased. There was a representative from Hunterdon Brewing Company (a beer and liquor distributor), the supplier for the event. He was knowledgeable and it was great talking to him about beer and Jersey City. The atmosphere was the best part of the event.