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I asked our waitress, Gabrielle, if this was the first ever steakhouse in Asbury Park. I’m talking about Ivan & Andy’s Prime in Asbury Park. Whether it’s the first or not to join the fabulous row of restaurants in Asbury Park, it really doesn’t matter. It certainly is the best.
Just because there’s thousands of us who live down at the Jersey Shore in the wintertime, do you think we hibernate under the covers and stay out of sight like brown bears do in North Jersey? The four main towns in the conglomerate of Long Branch, Asbury Park, Ocean Grove and Belmar provide entertainment in the winter so we could mark off the days on our calendar. That’s how us full-time beach people countdown to spring.
A New Jersey local newspaper dubbed Red Bank as ‘hip city’ because it’s a town that has everything. It’s a great restaurant meca, has interesting shops for browsing and buying, excellent entertainment, exclusive hotels, and it’s right on the beautiful Navesink River.
The Garden State Parkway, south from Cape May, N.J. to Hohokus and north through the center of the state is a scenic way to travel through New Jersey. This time of year, shore traffic on the Parkway heading towards the south, is now diminished, and bumper-to-bumper traffic won’t be back until spring 2012. It’s a great time to get on the road and see parts of New Jersey that you haven’t seen. Fall is definitely the time to take to the beach.
Delicious Orchards is celebrating 100 years of the finest produce this side of the Mississippi. Located on Routes 34 and 537 in Colts Neck, New Jersey, Delicious Orchards is another one of Monmouth County’s premier fruit picking farms.
They moaned, they groaned, they dragged their bodies along the ground. Some of the living dead even posed for pictures. This year’s Zombie Walk on Asbury Park’s boardwalk drew record-breaking crowds, clogging up the exit off the Garden State Parkway and all other arteries leading to the beach. Under a bright blue sky, with the Atlantic Ocean as its backdrop, blood, guts, and gore were the main themes of the day.
