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Debby
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Username: Debby
Post Number: 1451
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 21, 2004 - 3:09 pm: | 
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I think Cafe Beethoven has a real good shot. |
Lydia
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Username: Lydial
Post Number: 805
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 21, 2004 - 5:55 pm: |
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Alg -- I've seen the Yule Log thingeys at WholeFoods.
Speaking of Whole Foods, their bakery makes the tastiest pastries around here. I like Sonny Amsters, and the white boxes with the string are a sentimental fave for me, but their cookies are just OK.
All the cakes and cookies at WF taste as good as they look -- even the tame stuff like apple tarts are delicious.
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Innisowen
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Username: Innisowen
Post Number: 325
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 21, 2004 - 11:12 pm: |
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You can order a Buche de Noel (Yule Log), not a Bouche de Noel (Christmas Mouth) from Boulangerie Jeannot, 1166 Boulevard Ste Catherine, Montreal--- they can pack it well and express ship it. Might not make it in time for this Christmas, but good thought for the future. |
algebra2
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Username: Algebra2
Post Number: 2786
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 22, 2004 - 9:08 am: |
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So, of course, I have still done nothing -- you think if I go to Whole Foods on Friday they'll have some nice pastries to bring to someone on Christmas Eve? And, if it was you ... what sort of pastries would you like? |
Earlster
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Username: Earlster
Post Number: 793
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 22, 2004 - 9:27 am: |
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Whole foods has great pastries. I think there bakery is just great, for both cakes/pastries and REAL bread (the kind with a crust, that you need real teeth to chew, and that you can't squeeze to 1/10th of it's volume between your fingers).
Anyhow, we have bought all kinds of different pastries and cakes there over the years. Unbelievable chocolate ganache, great fruit tarts and usually they also have some seasonal items. With them, if it looks good it tastes even better.
FWIW Trade Joes also has some great frozen desert cakes, that nobody will be able to tell that they are not fresh. |
RR
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Username: Rogers4317
Post Number: 48
Registered: 6-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 22, 2004 - 10:15 am: |
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Sonny Amster's bagels are better than any around here...but I agree with Lydia on the cookies...just ok, almost stale. And Kevin, I'm witcha on Syd's hot dogs...they are the best around, even if a bit on the expensive side. Tabatchnick's needs a good cleaning. That place grosses me out even though I go in there wanting to buy things...I always turn around and walk out based on the smell and general unappealing interior.
The Millburn Mall is in a time warp!! But I'll head over for the bagels and the hot dogs despite the visual assault!!! |
algebra2
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Username: Algebra2
Post Number: 2787
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 22, 2004 - 10:42 am: |
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To my Christmas Eve Host -- I have ordered a "Yule Log"! |
Wilkanoid
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Username: Cseleosida
Post Number: 288
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 22, 2004 - 10:56 am: |
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I saw a Yule Log with the marzipan mushrooms at Cafe Sage. I think you have to order it, though.
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bets
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Username: Bets
Post Number: 933
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 22, 2004 - 11:19 am: |
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The Sonny's bagels you find at the Millburn Mall bakery were made fresh in South Orange, so cut out the middleman and head to Sonny's Bagels on the avenue! |
extuscan
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Username: Extuscan
Post Number: 398
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 22, 2004 - 11:35 am: |
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Middle man? Sonny and Sonny Amster I imagine are the same guy 
Oh and I'd like to thank him!
John |
bets
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Username: Bets
Post Number: 934
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 22, 2004 - 12:00 pm: |
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But they're not baked fresh in Millburn. Eliminate the delivery guy as the middleman. |
kevin
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Username: Kevin
Post Number: 398
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 22, 2004 - 1:04 pm: |
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This is a great history lesson about the Watson / Sonny Amster's bagels.
http://www.oldnewark.com/memories/weequahic/bodianbagel.htm
According to the story, the bagels are made on premise in the Millburn Mall. I admit that I go to the store on the ave, so I don't know if that is fact.
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flugermongers
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Username: Flugermongers
Post Number: 316
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 22, 2004 - 6:43 pm: |
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RR, the Millburn Mall is in a time warp -- in price!
I love how modestly priced the bagels and pastries still are there. ::drools::
Best bagels, they used to have awesome cookies, and I have not tasted them in a while, so I don't know if they have changed. |
emmie
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Username: Emmie
Post Number: 386
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 22, 2004 - 7:25 pm: |
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I loved Peter's Bakery and the near-by Maplewood Cheese Shop, what a great place, now both long gone. Too sad.
Anybody remember the old toy shop with the mean child hating owner? |
Joan
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Username: Joancrystal
Post Number: 4552
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 22, 2004 - 8:12 pm: |
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Sure do. |
extuscan
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Username: Extuscan
Post Number: 400
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 22, 2004 - 8:12 pm: |
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Now Watson's bagels...
My dad lived in Newark until he was 12 and moved to Maplewood. When Vietnam war came around and he decided to "dodge the draft" and join the National Guard in 1968. So much for a draft-dodge, he's still in it now! But as Col Dad would tell anyone willing to listen, Watsons bagels were simply the best. He had a drill at Fort Dix, 197o something, and apparently it was his turn to bring the bagels. He went to Watsons at 3 am or something... got somethign like 30 dozen bagels... an enourmous amount... and took them to Ft Dix. They were still hot when he got there! Everyone told him they were the best bagels they had EVER had EVER. Before long his "turn" at getting the bagels became a permanent position.
Luckily, after 36 years in the military, you are no longer asked to bring the bagels.
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bella
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Username: Bella
Post Number: 474
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 22, 2004 - 11:32 pm: |
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My father used to take Watson's bagels into the city for meetings & his co-workers thought they were the best bagels they had ever tasted.
Millburn Mall never changes. But you know your family has been around town for a long time when you still call it Wigler's instead of Sonny Amster's.
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cody
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Username: Cody
Post Number: 628
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, December 23, 2004 - 12:09 am: |
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Eva was the woman who owned the toy store.
If we're on nostalgia, what about Delia's for women's clothing? And T.J. Marche? |
extuscan
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Username: Extuscan
Post Number: 402
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, December 23, 2004 - 1:23 am: |
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I think 1 am has already spawned this thread... check out the history section "can't sleep idle mind" Lots of nice memories... including my own
John |
gretchen
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Username: Gretchen
Post Number: 143
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, December 23, 2004 - 6:22 am: |
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The thing I can't understand is why they put your bagels in a plastic bag at Sonny Amsters. That kills a bagel! You should never put any fresh bread in a plastic bag unless you'd like it to turn into wonder bread. That has always made me wonder if they really are the same bagels as the delicious ones at Sonny's where they would never put it in a plastic bag unless it was day old and frozen! |
Pippi
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Username: Pippi
Post Number: 593
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, December 23, 2004 - 12:07 pm: |
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I'd like to second ( a day or two late) the pastries and pies from Whole Foods.
we had an apple pie for thanksgiving that was incredible. we've also had the chocolate ganache cake....mmm...I think it's lunch time.... |
shh
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Username: Shh
Post Number: 1970
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, December 23, 2004 - 12:17 pm: |
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Was just in Whole Foods and they had plenty of Buche de Noel for $26.99. |
bets
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Username: Bets
Post Number: 936
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, December 25, 2004 - 12:23 pm: |
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Went to Sonny Amster's for a rye bread yesterday and asked the clerk whether the bagels are baked on-site in Millburn. Nope, she assured me, they're baked in South Orange.
So I went to Sonny's bagels this morning and got a dozen fresh, still-warm bagels for Christmas breakfast.
Merry Christmas, all! |
anon
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Username: Anon
Post Number: 1546
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, December 25, 2004 - 1:13 pm: |
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Bagels for Christmas!
Only in America! |
kevin
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Username: Kevin
Post Number: 404
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 28, 2004 - 1:14 pm: |
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Good to know bets, good to know....
Is the rye baked onsite?
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bets
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Username: Bets
Post Number: 940
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 28, 2004 - 3:34 pm: |
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Great! Now I have to go back again....
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Wendyn
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Username: Wendyn
Post Number: 1203
Registered: 9-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, December 30, 2004 - 12:09 pm: |
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Had a blueberry and apple pie from Cafe Bethoveen on Christmas. Hands down the best pies I have ever had. |
tip
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Username: Tip
Post Number: 196
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, December 30, 2004 - 2:30 pm: |
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Anyone remember New Garden Bakery in Maplewood? They were the absolute best! |
flugermongers
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Username: Flugermongers
Post Number: 326
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, December 30, 2004 - 11:05 pm: |
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I forgot to mention that the best Italian bakery on earth (I guess besides Italy?) is Veniero's. ::Drools::
It's downtown on 11th street, I believe.
Oh and right nextdoor is Russo's, the best Italian market. It's a hole in the wall (it's better looking now, they've revamped the place) and they have THE best sundried tomatoes I've ever tasted, and ricotta too. They have everything, but those are the 2 things I recommend the most. Oh, and their focaccia pizzaish minus the cheese things are AMAZING. |
flugermongers
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Username: Flugermongers
Post Number: 327
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, December 30, 2004 - 11:06 pm: |
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Oh, here: http://www.venierospastry.com/ |
crossroads
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Username: Crossroads
Post Number: 40
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Friday, December 31, 2004 - 2:15 pm: |
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Cody --
As far as nostalgia: the owners of T.J. Marche are well - retired to FL. and now residing in AZ. My folks grew up with them and still see them - they visited them in AZ. at this time last year. |
SoOrLady
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Username: Soorlady
Post Number: 1624
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Friday, December 31, 2004 - 3:36 pm: |
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tip - I miss New Garden's rolls... they made the best hot dog and hamburger rolls and a super "all occasion" roll...
Crossroads - I SO miss TJ Marche!! How's Tima & daughter Jody? |
cody
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Username: Cody
Post Number: 636
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, December 31, 2004 - 3:51 pm: |
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Thanks for the update, crossroads. I'm glad they are well - they were very nice people. |
flugermongers
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Username: Flugermongers
Post Number: 337
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, January 2, 2005 - 10:49 pm: |
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Does anyone remember what Freeman's Fish Market was? I can't remember and it's really bothering me. |
galileo
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Username: Galileo
Post Number: 168
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, January 2, 2005 - 11:25 pm: |
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It was Andrew Jack Realtors ,Gunning Realtors,and for a short time Degnan Boyle Realtors. |
crossroads
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Username: Crossroads
Post Number: 41
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 3, 2005 - 12:43 pm: |
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SoOrLady + Cody,
Yes they are! Just spoke with my Mom. She says Sherry, Tema and the "kids" are all doing well. They are online so I'll forward MOL to them. |
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