"The perfect meal at Bonjour Montclair: the turkey-goat-cheese-tomato-pesto crepe, iced coffee, and the strawberry-banana-nutella dessert crepe (although really, they're all delicious, I also love the cinnamon-sugar). The one downside to this creperie is their use of styrofoam and plasticware, but you can always try bringing your own [...]
The #5 sandwich (roast beef, havarti, lettuce, tomato and herb mayo on peasant bread) with sides of sauteed green beans and beets, coffee, and a brownie, at Sandwich Theory (formerly known as The Cheese Shop), 590 Valley Road. It is delicious, filling, sort of good for you, and absolutely satisfying. Sandwich Theory is an unpretentious [...]
Travel + Leisure's August 2010 issue has a list of "Coolest Suburbs Worth a Visit," and Montclair is first on the list. Baristanet is unimpressed, as to live in Montclair is to know it's a "cool" suburb, but the article does make you think- what makes a suburb a travel destination? There is a lot here for a variety of different sightseers. [...]
In the season 5 premiere of the NBC show "The Office," two dating characters who are for the moment living apart in Scranton, PA, and NYC meet in the middle for lunch at a rest stop at "exit 17" on Rt 80. But the one coming from NYC, Pam, realizes it wasn't actually in between the two [...]
According to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal,
"Today's home buyers aren't just looking for good schools and low crime rates when they evaluate a neighborhood, many brokers say. They're paying much more attention to what they can walk to." (emphasis added)
The growth of walkability as a desirable quality comes from homebuyers [...]
