The Fish Stand Launches New Holiday Menu

Just in time for the holidays, The Fish Stand has rolled out a special new menu featuring a wide variety of platters, appetizers, dips, salads, and more!

Easter Desserts

Easter is coming up and as with all good holidays, it's important to plan ahead for dessert. Here are some of the best options around Jersey City:

Feed JC - Dinner in Columbia Park

This Saturday, 9/26, is the 4th dinner in Feed JC's Dinner in the Park series. Each dinner is held in a different ward of Jersey City and proceeds go to benefit the JC Parks Coalition and help feed the hungry as well as offer skill-building and job training experience for a group of Jersey City teens.

Community News

• Congratulations to White Star who celebrated 10 years in business this weekend and had a good time doing it!
• Every Tuesday, Hamilton Inn is hosting a special lobster feast from 5pm-11pm
• Milk Sugar Love launched their special June Sundae, a spin on traditional Filipino dessert Halo Halo, this weekend in collaboration with Eighty Mag. A portion of the proceeds will help fund the third issue.
• LITM has started offering desserts from Chilltown Kitchen, local catering company, including some gluten-free options.

Easter Roundup

Easter Weekend is almost here and with it comes a whole lot of good eating opportunities, regardless of how or what you celebrate.

To Order:
Milk Sugar Love is offering a special collection of spring-inspired cakes, cookies, and confections. Orders must be placed by Thursday, April 2nd for pick-up on April 4th.

Roman Nose is back from Vacation - with Specials!

Roman Nose reopens tonight after being closed all last week for vacation and they have a ton of specials to welcome everyone back with!

They'll be running their nightly "Ora Felice" happy hour specials until 6pm with $4 draft beers, $6 house wines and $8 cocktails.

Community News

• Congratulations to Milk Sugar Love on being featured in the New York Times this weekend!
• If you want to know what flavors you can get at Milk Sugar Love, check the website where the daily flavor list will be posted.
• This Wednesday marks the beginning of La Festa Italiana!

Sam a.m. Opens

During the past few months, Sam a.m. has been sharing pictures and info as work on their new cafe in the Paulus Hook neighborhood progressed. As they worked on menu items and showed off their coffee skills and got closer and closer to opening, I (and many others) watched all of this with growing excitement and hope. Over Labor Day weekend, it finally happened: Sam a.m. opened.

Here's what I don't like about Sam a.m.:
1) it's relatively small (although this is also part of the charm) so there will be crowding and wait issues.
2) I don't live in Paulus Hook so it's a bit out of the way for me.
Yeah, that's about it. Seriously.

The first time I walked in, I was immediately impressed with the space. There's lots of sunlight, gleaming copper, white walls, and warm wood and while it is small, there's still room to move around and more seating than I would have thought. It's cute without being cutesey and there's a definite charm to the place. A lot of that comes from the very friendly, enthusiastic staff. Considering how much time and work goes into opening a restaurant, I am amazed at how nice and how dedicated the entire team seems to be. They have a very small prep/kitchen area and yet seem to have the flow down pretty well. Everyone is happy to pitch in where needed and there's just this incredibly happy, welcoming vibe to the place.