Weekend Round-Up: JC Pride, Thai Fusion Pop-Up at LITM, Shopping at Corgi & More

Happy Weekend Jersey City! We're starting to wind down the summer with the final few weeks of outdoor festivals and events, so make sure to take advantage of it while you can! Here's what's going on:

"Grillin & Chillin" BBQ at Zeppelin Hall
It's the last weekend for Zeppelin Hall's bbq-fest with two specialty grill menus, a Brazilian Rodizio themed-menu and a Smoke Haus BBQ menu representing different regions of the US. The Rodizio menu contains dishes like Picanha made with tri-tip, chimichurri, yucca fries and more while the Smoke Haus menu has entrees like Austin slow-cooked brisket and St. Louis-style pork ribs. Ideal for meat lovers, this will run Friday through Sunday only. 

Weekend Round-Up: Jersey City Food Truck Festival, Krispy Kreme Birthday Celebration, and more!

Happy Weekend Jersey City! If you're staying in town, there's food trucks, doughnut specials,festivals, and more.

Here's what to check out this weekend:

Photo from Jersey City Food Truck Festival

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:

Salt + Seed and Angry Archie's Coming to Harborside

Two new food stalls, Salt + Seed and Angry Archie's, are joining the ranks of Harborside's pop-up vendors.

Midnight Market Throws a Foodie Luau

Midnight Market, the first and only night market in Jersey City, is changing up their monthly festival and will be throwing a summer-inspired Foodie Luau at Magnolia Landing (136 Magnolia Ave) in Journal Square this Friday, beginning at 5pm.

Community News

Jersey City

• Via Hoboken Girl, Battello will be closing indefinitely in mid-September for repairs to the pier the restaurant is situated on. The repairs are scheduled to be completed by mid-Spring 2018.
• Congratulations to Hooked JC for their mention on NJ.com's list of August's list of the 10 Hottest Restaurants in New Jersey. 
• Congratulations to Torico for being named the best ice cream shop in Hudson County.
• Newly opened Po-Kay celebrated their ribbon cutting last Thursday at 283 Newark Avenue. Stop in to try their poke bowls (including an octopus option!) any day of the week after 12pm.

The Guac Spot Joins the Harborside Pop-Ups

The Guac Spot will soon be permanently available in Jersey City as they open their own stand at Harborside near Exchange Place as one of the pop-up vendors.

Project Eats 2017 Meet the Vendor: Eemas Cuisine

The Jersey City Project's Project Eats 2017 is back on 6/24 and 6/25 with new vendors and returning favorites, all ready to serve up some delicious, indulgent eats. To help get you ready, I'm excited to be collaborating with The Jersey City Project to spotlight some of the vendors from this year's Project Eats, learning more about their business, their food, and what they love about Jersey City.  

This week, we're focusing on some favorite Jersey City vendors. Get to know Eemas Cuisine who made their debut at Project: EATS two years ago and have a remained a constant crowd-pleaser since.

Photo courtesy of The Jersey City Project

Pizza Vita Joining Harborside Pop-Ups

Pizza Vita is joining the ever-expanding list of Harborside Pop-Ups from Mack-Cali.  Available for lunch from 11am-2pm during the week, the pop-ups are made up of vendors from across New York and New Jersey bringing different cuisines and more lunch options to the area.

Harborside Expands Pop-Ups

After doing some renovations and recently installing several food pop-ups, Harborside has now expanded their selection with another five vendors. 

Harborside Offers New Pop-Up Restaurants

After recently closing their main cafeteria and Henry's on the Hudson, Mack-Cali's Harborside Plaza has been hard at work bringing in several new pop-up restaurants.They're trying to offer a variety of options as they do renovations to bring in more permanent vendors and have managed to create one of the most interesting lunchtime scenes around.

All About the Midnight Market

A new event, Midnight Market, is coming to Jersey City!  Find out when, what to expect, and where to eat. 

Garden Steaks Pop-Up

Local catering company Garden Steaks is launching a weekly pop-up at McGinley Square Pub beginning this weekend.

Taste of Poland Pop-Up

Three days a week, Legal Grounds stays open late and quietly changes from local coffee shop to a dinner pop-up run by Taste of Poland. Familiar from their food truck days at 6th Borough Market, Taste of Poland found they were getting positive reactions and return customers so decided to look for more ways to get their food to customers and formed a partnership with Legal Grounds.

Chilltown Kitchen Announces Next Supper Club

Local collaborative catering company, Chilltown Kitchen, has announced the details for their next monthly supper club.

Newport Beach Party!

This Wednesday, July 8th, is the 13th Annual Newport Beach Party!

       (photos provided by Quinn PR)

Checking Out Livestock

If you haven't taken the time to check out Livestock yet, you're missing out. Offered as a once-weekly Sunday afternoon pop-up at LITM, Livestock is constantly exploring new ingredients and bringing creativity to their kitchen.

Every week I look forward to reading their menu to see what the chefs behind Livestock have come up with and having been in a couple of times now, I've yet to find it an easy decision on what to get. The simplest answer? Go with a few friends and split as much as you can.