Jersey City - Edward's Steakhouse anyone?

[Jmoryl]

A friend's parents will be staying in Jersey City later this week and I'm looking for some fairly conservative mid-level places to eat at. I love hole-in-the-wall ethnic eateries, etc. but I'm not sure it will be the thing for them. On another board there were a few good things about Edward's Steakhouse, which has been around for about 6 months. Anyone been there?

Cheers,

Joe Moryl

[tommy]

never heard of it.

for some good ideas, use the search function, and click on "more options", and search on "city" on the NJ forum, clicking off the selection to return only threads. ok, i'll do it: here.

a recent favorite in downtown JC is madame claude's, which is a BYOB french bistro with excellent hanger steak, frites, and a damned good plate of pate and whatnot. a thread here. website here. and glenn rambles on about something here.

rosie reported on Edward's here. apparently the chef is from the Old Homestead in NYC.

Edited June 9, 2004 by tommy (log)

[glenn]

Well, if you truly want conservative, Casa Dante is the place. Very stuffy. Mucho dinero. Decent Italian.

I've been meaning to check out Edward's for a while. Have heard some good things about it too. However, I'm not a big steak eater and can never get motivated to go there. I also get the impression is that it's nothing really different. But it might be what you're looking for.

I'm not sure what qualifies as being a hole in the wall, but I get the feeling that Madame Claude might loosely fit that category and not be for your friend's parents. You decide -- it's a laid back very casual french bistro with very close seating and very casual service, a point of contention I sometimes have. But the staff/owners are friendly and it's a real neighborhood joint. It's byo and if you go, you should byo glasses.

A compromise, if that's in the cards is Marco & Pepe on Grove St, another neighborhood place. It's a fun laid back mediterranean bistro with innovative food and a decent selection of wine and beer.

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[Jmoryl]

Thanks, guys. Madame Claude and Marco & Pepe sound like they might fit the bill. If they want to spend mucho dinero we would probably make the trek to NY, so they probably wouldn't be interested in Casa Dante. Oh, I did some searches on Edward's before comming here and they didn't yield much; that's why I asked....

Joe

[JennyUptown]

a recent favorite in downtown JC is madame claude's, which is a BYOB french bistro with excellent hanger steak, frites, and a damned good plate of pate and whatnot. a thread here. website here. and glenn rambles on about something here.

Tommy, where is Madame Claude's in relation to Journal Square (sorry, I failed geography)?

[tommy]

a recent favorite in downtown JC is madame claude's, which is a BYOB french bistro with excellent hanger steak, frites, and a damned good plate of pate and whatnot.  a thread here.  website here. and glenn rambles on about something here.

Tommy, where is Madame Claude's in relation to Journal Square (sorry, I failed geography)?

it's southeast. not really walkable, i don't think.

madame claude's is not far from Grove Street, however, if you're thinking of coming from NYC via PATH. if you're not, ignore me.

mapquest it to get relative distances.

[glenn]

Yeah, the Grove Street stop is lots closer and not a far walk and very simple. Just walk west on Newark to Brunswick and make a right. It's about 1/4 mile. The JSQ stop is also walking distance, but a little further and you don't get to see the lovely shops on Newark Ave [ahem ahem]. If you want directions from JSQ, just holler. It's probably 3/4 mile.

[JennyUptown]

Nah, that's cool for now. I was just doing a little research at this point.

Are there places to eat these days need Journal Square? It was still relatively scary when I stayed there.

[glenn]

JSQ = Little Calcutta with every discount store and fast food place imaginable. At last count, there were 4 Dunkin' Donuts within the area. However, within Little Calcutta is Little India with a dozen plus inidan restaurants, as well as grocery stores. There's a few that aren't bad, but I definitely wouldn't make a special trip there. Think 6th St but not quite the same exalted level. There's also a cool Chinese restaurant right in the heart of JSQ which has been there since forever and is worth it for its incredbly ostentacious decor, but keep away from the food. Having said all that, it's fun to walk around there -- you have 2 historical movie theaters, one of which just started showing movies again and lots of cool buildings, the Journal Square building notwithstanding (named after the newspaper, the Jersey Journal.)