Nicholas Creamery is opening a 4th spot next year - in the former Hoffman’s location in Long Branch.
Crap. It’s like they’re chasing me…
EXACTLY what I thought! This is starting to feel personal. 
Cousins Maine Lobster is coming to AP next year… they’re taking over the Tower Dogs spot (in the block where Cubacan and Stella Marina are).
Here’s something you don’t see every day - a legit hot dog joint inside a bowling alley! Inside Howell Lanes on Rt 9 is Dave’s Hot Dogs
https://www.daveshotdogsnj.com/howell-lanes
I had just come from a late breakfast so I wasn’t hungry, but … one day soon.
Didn’t Cousins have a food truck this past summer at North East?
They did - this is the same owners. They own three of the four food trucks in NJ and will have this brick and mortar, too.
Dam those look good! I would love to try some of those chili & jalapeños dogs, but with my stomach I would sh*t my pants! Getting old sucks!!
Not sure if this is officially ‘news,’ but it’s food-related and it really cracked me up, so I’m sharing. Be sure to click through for the entire thread!
https://twitter.com/RiotGrlErin/status/1458174041890639883?s=20
Cute!
I thought that was very creative and some of them really cracked me up.
This could really go in a few categories…
Yeah, PFFFFFFFFFT to that! I’ve challenged Ani Ramen to come to AP as a tradeoff. Been campaigning for that since I moved down here, in fact!
But my Montclair peeps are excited.
The lack of parking will kill them.
That is DEFINITELY an issue in that town, but there’s also Uber/Lyft and Montclair State University (and Seton Hall and Bloomfield College aren’t far), so if there are college students who enjoy it down here, that could be a draw.
There’s also a LOT of pizza in Montclair already, and friends report that some of the existing places are excellent. I don’t doubt that the food will be up to Porta standards, but I suspect it will be about the late night scene, as there’s not much of that there right now.
Yeah, the real money/profit will be from the nightclub it becomes after 10 on Fridays and Saturdays.
They (Smith) even went the nightclub route on Homesick on Fridays and Saturdays. And I don’t know how I missed it, Homesick does bottomless mimosas.
Did NOT know either of those things about Homesick. Go figure!
And homesick is only open Friday to Sunday for the winter
