New Jersey

A 77-foot waterfall thunders in the middle of Paterson, Revolutionary War cannons point across quiet fields, and tea-colored…

By Duncan Edwards · Sep 18

A 120-pound wolfdog named Orion has a habit of dropping onto his back for belly rubs. He also…

By Duncan Edwards · Sep 18

New Jersey has a kosher food scene that is full of flavor, personality, and variety. From steak and…

By Duncan Edwards · Sep 18

There is a particular kind of optimism required to inspect a cardboard box full of old kitchen tools…

By Duncan Edwards · Sep 17

Not every New Jersey town stays busy after sunset. Some places get calm fast, with quiet streets, early…

By Duncan Edwards · Sep 17

A rider shoots feet-first down Mega Bunga Falls and lands in a 10-foot-deep splash pool. A few yards…

By Duncan Edwards · Sep 17

Food tastes even better when you see the work behind it. Around New Jersey, some bakeries, candy shops,…

By Duncan Edwards · Sep 17

There was a bowl of hand-cut fries on the table, another round already on the way, and a…

By Duncan Edwards · Sep 17

New Jersey has some great spots for Polish comfort food, and deli counters are often where the good…

By Duncan Edwards · Sep 17

The casino floor was still doing what casino floors do—lights flashing, machines chiming, people moving with the determined…

By Duncan Edwards · Sep 17

A proper pancake should require a small strategy. You cut through the crisp, golden edge first, catch a…

By Duncan Edwards · Sep 17

There is a $22 brunch burger in Waldwick stacked with two beef patties, American cheese, egg, and Taylor…

By Duncan Edwards · Sep 16

A shuffleboard puck slides across a table from the 1950s. A few towns south, a cocktail lands beside…

By Duncan Edwards · Sep 16

Crystal chandeliers overhead, jazz in the room, a platter of oysters on ice, and a ten-hour prime rib…

By Duncan Edwards · Sep 16

The first apple rarely makes it all the way home. It gets polished on a sleeve somewhere between…

By Duncan Edwards · Sep 16

Imagine finishing a plate of chicken pot pie, heading downstairs, and rolling a palm-sized bowling ball toward a…

By Duncan Edwards · Sep 16

A server stretches warm mozzarella across a plate on Atlantic Avenue. A few blocks away, tortillas puff on…

By Duncan Edwards · Sep 16

Walk into Black Moon Adornments’ original Edison studio and you can go from studying an oddity in its…

By Duncan Edwards · Sep 16

The little light outside OB-CO’s tells you almost everything you need to know about New Jersey’s donut habits:…

By Duncan Edwards · Sep 16

A whole lobster arrives with its shell packed with seafood risotto, its meat returned neatly to the top,…

By Duncan Edwards · Sep 15

A slice of pork roll usually has a pretty predictable destination: onto a hard roll, under a fried…

By Duncan Edwards · Sep 15

A cheese cart rolling between tables is not something you expect to see on a quiet block in…

By Duncan Edwards · Sep 15

The first clue is the brown paper bag turning translucent at the corners. The second is the little…

By Duncan Edwards · Sep 15

A stone oven shipped from Istanbul is firing fresh bread inside a New Jersey shopping mall. That alone…

By Duncan Edwards · Sep 15

There is a particular kind of Jersey pizza order that tells you exactly where a person’s loyalties lie:…

By Duncan Edwards · Sep 15

A med-spa menu that runs from Botox and Hydrafacials to fractional lasers, radiofrequency microneedling, hair restoration, and IV…

By Duncan Edwards · Sep 15

There is a particular moment on a good New Jersey trail when the traffic noise disappears, the pines…

By Duncan Edwards · Sep 15

There is a particular kind of crunch that makes everyone at the table look up. Seoul Fried Chicken…

By Duncan Edwards · Sep 14

At some New Jersey delis, the day starts before the first sandwich order with hot water, cheese curd,…

By Duncan Edwards · Sep 14