Cafe Carriage House

Cafe Carriage House

302 Route 202/206
Bedminster, NJ 07921


It is literally in an old carriage house.  Great hot sandwich, deli, and breakfast joint.  Order at the counter, eat at a table.

I had a Chipotle Cheese Steak.  It was great, spicier than I expected, which is just fine by me.  The sandwich came fast and hot off the grill on a great roll.  Bacon, jalapenos, provolone, LT, and chipotle sauce.  Awesome.

Pete had the Cali Chicken Cutlet sandwich.  Breaded and fried chicken cutlet, swiss, LT, and Russian.  Awesome roll.  Pete got french fries.  They are steak fries at the carriage house, but not mushy as steakfries can often be.

Solomine got the Supreme Cheese Steak.  Provolone, grilled onion, mushrooms, LT.

Solomine and I each got onion rings.  They were good, plenty of onion.  Panko style breading, not batter.

All of the sandwiches were great, and came rally quick.  Everything was volcano hot right off the flattop.

I can also highly recommend the bulgogi sandwich, which is like a korean inspired cheesesteak. I had it there once before, and it was great.

30 Burgers

30 Burgers

3331 Rte 22
Branchburg, New Jersey 08876
(908) 255-4378

Some of us have been here before, but it was the first time for me.  A casual burger joint in an old converted diner.  Lots of burger choices, plus fries, onion rings, and hot dogs.

You order at the counter, and they bring it to your table when its ready.  It was ready pretty quick.

I had a #7, Six Alarm Birger.  Salsa, fresh jalapenos, pepper jack cheese, L&T, chipotle mayo, on an onion roll.  Oh, and I got chilli cheese fries to round out the healthy meal.  The burger was great.  Not as spicy as I expected, but that is fine.  The chilli cheese fries were very good.  The chili was better than average.

Pete:  #12, Bacon Royal Burger.  Fried egg, bacon, american, L&T, mayo.  Can't go wrong there.  He was more than satisfied.  Pete just ordered lame regular seasoned fries.  But they were not lame.  Nice spice coating, and they were crisp and hot.  And they stayed hot.  Nice

Rob: #5, Trenton Burger.  American Cheese and Taylor Ham on a burger.  I personally this should have had a fried egg on it, but not everyone agrees.  No complaints from Rob.  He also had the not lame seasoned fries.

Good burgers.  Have to go back and try some of the other choices.

Cahoot's

Cahoot's

624 Lincoln Blvd.
Middlesex, NJ 08846
(732) 469-3455

Homerun!  Pete found it on google maps.  

It's a dive bar.  Old School.  Popcorn and Peanuts on the bar.  Big U shaped bar, and tables as well.  It is in an industrial area of Middlesex, just down the road from Demented Brewing Company. 

Pete had the Kobe Burger and I had the Steak Sandwich.  We both ordered them medium, and they both came a perfect medium.  Pete loved his burger, and my steak sandwich was essentially a steak plated on top of a long roll.  The steak was great.  Simple, no flair.  Just a great steak.

The atmosphere was awesome.  We loved it the moment we walked in.

I almost forgot, we ordered buffalo wings as well, and they were very good.  They were fried nice and crispy (unbreaded, the correct way) without being dry.  And the heat of the sauce was good.  

We definitely recommend this place.  I want to come back with my Family :)

Tapastre

Tapastre

1 West High Street, Somerville, NJ, 08876
908-526-0505

In the basement of a cool old brick building, a tapas joint.  Upscale, subtle lighting, almost dark says Rob.

I was the only one that actually had tapas, Pete and Rob ordered more full meals.  They had a large beer selection, and Rob chose a 14.5% Icarus "Kalashnikov".  Dark, warm, and boozy.  Rob had to have Pete drink some of it so he wouldn't get drunk :)

Jenn will make fun of me, but I order a fig cosmopolitan, and I loved it.

For food I had a plate of battered and fried olives.  Sounded weird to me, and that is why I ordered it.  I liked it, not super olivy, and it came with some unidentifiable dipping sauce that was tasty. (some research tells me the sauce was Romesco)  Then I had Chorizo and Shrimp in Garlic Chili oil sauce.  Yum.  Great fried plantains (very thinly pressed) came with it.

Pete had a fantastic cheese steak.  He loved it.  Lots of meat, cherry peppers, onions and cheddar.  His side caesar salad was also great.

Rob had the "Chef's Choice" pizza, which turned out to be red onion, ham, and bbq sauce.  He could have done without the bbq, but he liked it, and didn't leave any behind.

Overall very good.  Seems like it would be a good date night place.