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Azúcar: Great Cuban Cuisine in Jersey City

by Marc Prablek, Princeton University

Princeton classes may have started, but my first article of the year comes to you from Jersey City, on the less popular end of the Holland Tunnel. Usually I limit my articles to the Princeton area, as they seem more pertinent to the student body, but besides the new Qdoba, there’s not much in the way of Latin cuisine near campus, and Jersey City is still within a reasonable driving distance of the campus. But most importantly, my family and I are on a neverending quest to find the best Cuban food in the country (outside of my mother’s), so when we heard about Azúcar, there was really no question about our dinner destination. Continue reading

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Kalluri ‘Corners’ the Princeton Indian Food Market

Marc P., Princeton University

For two years running, my friends and I have gotten together on or around my birthday to eat ourselves silly at Kalluri Corner’s lunch buffet. Located at the intersection of Nassau Street and Olden Street, due north of Cloister and the E-Quad, the restaurant offers a wide variety of Indian foods and drinks at an all-you-can-eat rate for just eleven dollars per person. Continue reading

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Up in Princeton’s Grill

Marc P., Princeton University

On July 4, 1776, John Witherspoon, President of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) became the only college president to sign the Declaration of Independence. Nowadays, the restaurant bearing his name, the Witherspoon Grill, sits on aptly named Witherspoon Street (East of Palmer Square and right next to the Princeton Public Library). Befitting the lofty position of its namesake, the restaurant offers classy and sumptuous, albeit pricey food. The restaurant bills itself as a steakhouse, and indeed steak comprises most of the entrees on the menu, but the Grill also offers a wide range of seafood dishes via its sister business, the Nassau Street Seafood and Produce Company. Continue reading

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Mediterra Brings Mediterranean Flair to Tiger Town

Marc P., Princeton University

The town of Princeton, New Jersey occupies a sort of no man’s land equidistant from Philadelphia and New York, and seems to have painstakingly isolated itself from the Jersey of Snooki and JWoww. That is to say that the Orange Bubble, as Princeton students call it, enjoys (or suffers) a relative dearth of fast-food and chain restaurants, aside from the painfully ubiquitous Starbucks and Panera just across from the north end of campus. Nevertheless, the town offers a wide variety of restaurants and cuisines ranging from the Hoagie Haven’s calorie bombs to the universally praised fare at Elements.

But for today, we’ll take a look at Mediterra, just down the road from the Bent Spoon, which offers a tasty, upscale take on classic Mediterranean food. Continue reading

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