Duncan Edwards

The red diamond-patterned exterior catches your eye before your stomach has time to make a decision. One minute…

By Duncan Edwards · Jul 9

A perfect New Jersey summer meal has a very specific rhythm: the clink of ice in a sweating…

By Duncan Edwards · Jul 9

The fork breaks through the poached egg, the yolk slips into the hollandaise, and suddenly a perfectly respectable…

By Duncan Edwards · Jul 9

A good foraging walk starts with the smallest kind of drama: a flash of blue hiding under glossy…

By Duncan Edwards · Jul 9

Alligator tenderloin, elk medallions, smoked wild boar bacon, yak sirloin steaks, and bison bone broth are not usually…

By Duncan Edwards · Jul 9

The first clue is usually the smell: garlic hitting hot oil, seafood simmering in wine, grilled meat coming…

By Duncan Edwards · Jul 9

The first thing you notice is the tower. Right there in downtown Madison, where Main Street traffic hums…

By Duncan Edwards · Jul 8

Somewhere between a bin of old vinyl, a table of costume jewelry, and a vendor who somehow has…

By Duncan Edwards · Jul 8

The cabin door opens, and there it is: Thundergust Lake sitting quiet through the trees, looking like it…

By Duncan Edwards · Jul 8

A turtle sunning itself on a log can stop a walk faster than any scenic overlook. One minute…

By Duncan Edwards · Jul 8

The baguette comes out from behind the counter like it knows exactly what it is doing. Long, golden,…

By Duncan Edwards · Jul 8

The best seafood meals in New Jersey often arrive with a paper cup of tartar sauce, a pile…

By Duncan Edwards · Jul 8

A stone manor rises above the gardens, the lake sits tucked under green ridges, and the whole place…

By Duncan Edwards · Jul 8

A dryer door, a basement staircase, a second-floor room you could easily miss, a restaurant that seems perfectly…

By Duncan Edwards · Jul 8

There is something wonderfully New Jersey about walking into a 1907 inn and finding a giant steakhouse personality…

By Duncan Edwards · Jul 7

The first sign that dinner is going to be serious is not always a white tablecloth. Sometimes it…

By Duncan Edwards · Jul 7

A concrete staircase rises near Spring Lake like it missed the memo that the party ended a century…

By Duncan Edwards · Jul 7

The first real bite of August is not always a peach dripping down your wrist or corn steam…

By Duncan Edwards · Jul 7

At the Market Street exit off Route 29 in Trenton, traffic does what traffic always does: merges, honks,…

By Duncan Edwards · Jul 7

The spoon always disappears first. Someone swears they only wanted “a small,” someone else is already negotiating for…

By Duncan Edwards · Jul 7

The road narrows, the marsh opens up, and suddenly the GPS feels less like a tool and more…

By Duncan Edwards · Jul 7

The best hot dog runs in New Jersey rarely start with white tablecloths or a reservation. They start…

By Duncan Edwards · Jul 7

A pink subway car, a pool filled with oversized sprinkles, and ice cream handed out like it is…

By Duncan Edwards · Jul 6

That first crackly bite of fried catfish has a very specific kind of drama. The fork breaks through…

By Duncan Edwards · Jul 6

The first thing you notice is the sound. Not one sound, really, but a whole upstairs racket of…

By Duncan Edwards · Jul 6

The first warning sign is usually the parking lot that somehow feels full before breakfast. Then comes the…

By Duncan Edwards · Jul 6

The first thing that gets you is the color. Not the trees, not the quiet hills around Hardwick,…

By Duncan Edwards · Jul 6

The best meals in New Jersey are not always waiting under skyline views or beside boardwalks with neon…

By Duncan Edwards · Jul 6

There is a moment at Shady Rest Restaurant when the whole thing feels like a trick. You pull…

By Duncan Edwards · Jul 6