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Sports bar would have been a much better bet than tapas IMO.

Does anybody ever actually want a tapas place? I've always thought of them as something I suffer through when friends want to go out for an "occasion". Oh cool, tapas. An annoying $500 split check where nobody gets a full meal, and nobody(staff included) ever remembers what you ordered. Sweet.

Hope the sangria is good at least.

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Even the people she covers thinks she's lame- she tried to pretend to be down with WFMU and Prove it All Night did a sketch making fun of how her blog is just a thousand pictures of her own face.

kencares wrote:
I'm pretty sure consensus is that they're selling fast food style burgers, very slowly, with meat that's more expensive than it's worth and charging more than everyone else selling this style of burger. If they don't drop their prices a few bucks, they'll be gone by next winter when the Toricos spill over dies off.

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re: The Kitchen closing.
Every time I went, there was a wait to get in. How could a (seemingly) consistently crowded place be forced to close?

sort of reminds me of box...it was successful and then whuff - it's gone

I think you are confusing Box for Ox. Box was a lackluster Asian fusion restaurant in a town saturated with them. Their recent closing was due to two sides of the same family joining forces behind a new, revamped version of More. On the other hand, Ox was a GREAT restaurant that imploded due to a disagreement between the owners/partners.

yes, i was thinking of ox

I thought Ox imploded because the buildings department made them jump through a year full of increasingly expensive hoops before they could open.

keep in mind that the space was always a restaurant, yet suddenly Ox was required to rebuild entirely - and repeatedly - to "bring it to code."

translation: that brown envelope you slipped us wasn't fat enough.

they never had a chance.

Definitely not the case. The partners had a difference of opinion on where to take the restaurant. The chef (also a partner) has a serious difference with the other owners/partners and they simply closed down. There is a thread about it and, if memory serves me right, someone (perhaps her) chimed in here about the situation.

From what I've heard, it's a little from column A, a little from column B.

The irony is that the former chef de cuisine of Raval was the former chef of Ox

I fail to see the irony in your statement. Are you under the mistaken impression that Raval has closed? Or, what exactly is ironic about the former chef of Ox now being the chef de cuisine at Raval?

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http://blacktieandflipflops.com/2015/12/26/k-a-g/

Also, confirmed by chef David Viana on his Facebook page.[/quote

re: The Kitchen closing.
Every time I went, there was a wait to get in. How could a (seemingly) consistently crowded place be forced to close?

sort of reminds me of box...it was successful and then whuff - it's gone

I think you are confusing Box for Ox. Box was a lackluster Asian fusion restaurant in a town saturated with them. Their recent closing was due to two sides of the same family joining forces behind a new, revamped version of More. On the other hand, Ox was a GREAT restaurant that imploded due to a disagreement between the owners/partners.

yes, i was thinking of ox

I thought Ox imploded because the buildings department made them jump through a year full of increasingly expensive hoops before they could open.

keep in mind that the space was always a restaurant, yet suddenly Ox was required to rebuild entirely - and repeatedly - to "bring it to code."

translation: that brown envelope you slipped us wasn't fat enough.

they never had a chance.

Definitely not the case. The partners had a difference of opinion on where to take the restaurant. The chef (also a partner) has a serious difference with the other owners/partners and they simply closed down. There is a thread about it and, if memory serves me right, someone (perhaps her) chimed in here about the situation.

From what I've heard, it's a little from column A, a little from column B.

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I'd say that Talde, alongside Thirty Acres and Union Republic, is one of the few actually interesting restaurants in DTJC.

What other restaurant in Jersey City is doing interesting things like this: https://instagram.com/p/8MptlhJI8Z/?taken-by=taldejc. Unless you want to "take it back", stop bitching and be more appreciative of your local businesses.