On Mar 24, 11:02 am, "Nancy Young" > wrote:
> "Boron Elgar" > wrote
>
> > Not only is my area filled with the chain restaurants , but a good
> > 60-70% of what's left is Italian. It just gets boring.
>
> Drives my local food writer nuts. Red sauce Italian restaurants.
>
> > We scour the sites online that gossip about restaurants, will drive up
> > to 2 hours to try a place (hey, the kids are grown now and it's nice
> > to take a drive without anyone fighting in the back seat) and have
> > found ourselves rewarded many, many times.
>
> Ironbound section of Newark is famous for Portuguese restaurants,
> though I've never gone. I'm sure you already knew that.
>
> nancy

My coworkers heartily recommend some of the local Portuguese
restaurants,
and from the food I've seen on their plates, it sure looks worth the
visit. The
guys love the skewered meat that comes to the table on 3-4' skewers
that
have their own stand. The seafood is wonderful, cooked tender and
served
appetizingly.

maxine in ri
[note: I don't mean to damn it with faint praise. It's just the time
I went I
ordered a cod dish that was way too salty (made from the dried, salted
cod)
and bony for me.]