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Jeffrey Kingsley
Citizen
Username: Jeffinmaplewood
Post Number: 5
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Monday, December 29, 2003 - 10:37 am: |     |
My wife and I hear of the many Portuguese/Spanish restaurants in Newark serving Lobster. We want to go for her birthday, any suggestions? |
Brett
Citizen
Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 535
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Monday, December 29, 2003 - 10:42 am: | |
Don Pepe right down the street from the Baseball stadium. Great lobster and more. Plus they have secure parking.
http://www.donpeperestaurant.com |
shh
Citizen
Username: Shh
Post Number: 830
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, December 29, 2003 - 11:26 am: | |
Fernandes in the Ironbound. I had amazing stuffed, grilled lobster. Food is much fresher than at Iberia. They also have a salad bar with fresh & grilled veggies, prepared salads, etc, very tasty and a pleasant change from the iceberg lettuce salads one usually gets. Also secure parking. |
us2innj
Citizen
Username: Us2innj
Post Number: 954
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, December 29, 2003 - 11:36 am: | |
I think the Hoboken Clam Broth house serves a good lobster. It's been years since we were there though. |
mfpark
Citizen
Username: Mfpark
Post Number: 105
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Monday, December 29, 2003 - 12:22 pm: | |
Spanish Tavern's Lobster Fra Diavalo is wonderful (good sangria also). |
canismajor
Citizen
Username: Canismajor
Post Number: 244
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Monday, December 29, 2003 - 1:43 pm: | |
Iberia is yucky, Don Pepe's is merely o.k., Forno's is superb. |
Brett
Citizen
Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 537
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Monday, December 29, 2003 - 3:13 pm: | |
Clam broth house burnt down. |
spw784
Citizen
Username: Spw784
Post Number: 429
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 30, 2003 - 10:54 am: | |
I thought the Clam Broth House was just "falling" down, not burned down? - Didn't the fire escape pull the outside wall away from the building, so the building was condemned? |
Brett
Citizen
Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 545
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 30, 2003 - 11:04 am: | |
I'm not 100% sure it was a fire but all of the buildings on the block are closed and the widows were all blown out. I got the impression that a fire would have done this to the windows. I'm trying to remember if there was charring on the walls.
eather way it doesn't look like it will be opening again with out MAJOR work. |
Jeffrey Kingsley
Citizen
Username: Jeffinmaplewood
Post Number: 6
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 30, 2003 - 11:59 am: | |
Thanks everyone, we wound up going to Forno's, had a great lobster dinner |
papayagirl
Citizen
Username: Papayagirl
Post Number: 141
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 30, 2003 - 7:42 pm: | |
Jeffrey - glad you had a great dinner. For future reference, i've heard great things about Casa Vasca and Spanish Sangria in the Ironbound district... although i don't know if they serve lobster.
And for what it's worth, from the Dec. 7 Hoboken Reporter
A Historic Mess: Seven months later, no repairs at landmark Clam Broth building; tenants still homeless
"...The restaurant and bar had been open in Hoboken since 1899 and served dockworkers in its heyday. But the structural integrity of this historic vestige was damaged after a portion of the building buckled on May 7, causing cracks to open and bricks to bulge out of the side of the building.
The building contains the Clam Broth House restaurant, "Boo Boo's Bar," the Cadillac Bar, and 11 residential units.
The approximately 12 residential tenants of the building were evacuated safely, but have been essentially locked out of their homes since.
Since May, the only construction that has been complete was the installation of wooden beams and steel cables that were installed to prevent the façade of the building from crumbling. Since those stabilizing measures, no work has been undertaken and no future plans have been approved by any of the city's boards, despite numerous assurances by the owner that he intends to repair."
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=10621625&BRD=1291&PAG=461&dept_id=5235 85&rfi=8 |
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