AN ADDITION TO THE REVISED LIST:
From Candy Muccioli, August 10, 2009:
Enjoy your Blog, Please Add Cent'Anni Restaurant. Was located on the corner of Genesee and Anderson Streets, Owner Felix Muccioli. Thank you, Candy! How could we have forgotten "Count Felix!"
From Candy Muccioli, August 10, 2009:
Enjoy your Blog, Please Add Cent'Anni Restaurant. Was located on the corner of Genesee and Anderson Streets, Owner Felix Muccioli. Thank you, Candy! How could we have forgotten "Count Felix!"
I RECEIVED THIS EMAIL FROM JOE BATTISTE. I CAN'T BELIEVE WE LEFT PETE'S STEAK HOUSE OUT OF THE LIST! IT WAS ONE OF MY FAVORITE SPOTS TO TAKE A DATE AFTER A MOVIE. WE DID LIST THE MARROE INN. THANKS FOR THE HEADS UP, JOE.
HERE'S JOE'S EMAIL, RECEIVED TODAY, JULY 29, 2008:
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Tom: Did I miss the Marroe Inn in Lawrenceville or Pete's Streaks originally in Chambersburg then on Chambers Street and finally his son opened again in Mercerville, and then on Hudson and Elmer. Now he took over the Old Monte'sBar.
Joe Battiste
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THIS FROM DAN SEEFELT ADDING "THE DONKEY PLACE" TO OUR LIST OF EATERIES. I CAN'T SAY I EVER REMEMBER THE PLACE. THANKS DAN!
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DAN WROTE
Great site!
Do any of you guys remember a restaurant on the corner of Flock and Quakerbridge Rd? I have it in my brain that it was called the Donkey Place because there was a donkey or pony there. I think my dad used to take me there to get pork roll. This was in the 60's, I think. Or am I dreaming.....Hey Tom,I just posted underTrenton area eateries updated. Do you remember theDonkey Place?Thanks,Dan Seefelt
Do any of you guys remember a restaurant on the corner of Flock and Quakerbridge Rd? I have it in my brain that it was called the Donkey Place because there was a donkey or pony there. I think my dad used to take me there to get pork roll. This was in the 60's, I think. Or am I dreaming.....Hey Tom,I just posted underTrenton area eateries updated. Do you remember theDonkey Place?Thanks,Dan Seefelt
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A REVISED LIST
A NUMBER OF VIEWERS ADDED A FEW NAMES. GARY LIPPINCOTT, CANDY JENS, ALAN WILDBLOOD REQUESTED THAT THE MIS-SPELLED WORDS BE CORRECTED AND THEY WERE. THANKS TO THOSE WHO RESPONDED.
THIS EMAIL FROM BOB HARRIS, HOST OF WBCB-AM RADIO'S REMOTE BROADCAST FROM ROSSI'S TAVERN AND RESTAURANT ON SEPTMEBER 10, 2007. IF THERE ARE ANY WE MISSED, PLEASE EMAIL ME AND THEY WILL BE ADDED.
THANKS TO "EAGLE EYED" CANDY JENS WHO ADVISED THAT WE NEED ANOTHER "T" TO CORRECT THE BARRETT'S LISTING. THANKS ALSO CANDY, FOR REMINDING US OF ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR EATERIES, MASTORI'S.
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TOM, BILL, LEE - - THESE ARE THE RESTAURANTS WE WANTED TO POST.
THE IDEA IS TO INVITE FOLKS TO ADD TO THESE. MAYBE WE CAN COME
UP WITH A GREAT LIST OF MERCER COUNTY RESTAURANTS.
YESTERDAY WAS FUN! Bob
Columbus Bar and Grill (Calhoun St.)
Rossi's
Casa Lido
Amici Milano
Trionfetti's
Bobby Vee's
Roly Poly
Marsilio's
Marsilio's Kitchen
Revere
Champion's
Zip's Steak House
JoJo's Steak House
Mike's Steak House
Pep's Steak House
Freeway Steak House
Jerry's (Hamilton and Kuser)
Jerry's Morrisville
Russ Ayers
Lanzi's
Diamond's
Roman Hall
Papa's Pizza
Louie's Tomato Pies
Maruca's Pizza
Roman Hall
Landwehr's
Chianti's
Old Heidelberg
Cedar Gardens
Barrett's El Condado
Giovi's
Del Rio
The Dog House
Malaga
Marroe Inn
Tony Goes
Casino
La Gondola
Heil's
SOHO Piccione's
Sal de Forte's
The Eagle Tavern
Johnny Boston
John Henry's
De Lorenzo's (Hudson St.)
De Lorenzo's (Hamilton Ave.)
Lorenzo's
Caesar's
Tattoni's
Texas Wieners (Warren St.)
Joe's Tomato Pie
Pica's Tomato Pie
Shuster's Tomato Pie
Hamilton Tomato Pie
The Triangle
The Beverly
Cook's Luncheonette
Bentley's
Browns (Hamilton and So. Olden
Bartolini's
Greenstreets
Banzai
Quaker Bridge Inn
Murphy's Chuck Wagon
Henderson's Club 50
Clede's Lunheonette
Carmen Armenti's
The Toddle House
Carteret Arms Lunch
The Trenton Club
The Clin-Mott
The Fickle Pickle
The Trenton Diner (Calhoun St.)
The American Diner (State and Olden)
Pat's Diner
Fritz's Diner
THE IDEA IS TO INVITE FOLKS TO ADD TO THESE. MAYBE WE CAN COME
UP WITH A GREAT LIST OF MERCER COUNTY RESTAURANTS.
YESTERDAY WAS FUN! Bob
Columbus Bar and Grill (Calhoun St.)
Rossi's
Casa Lido
Amici Milano
Trionfetti's
Bobby Vee's
Roly Poly
Marsilio's
Marsilio's Kitchen
Revere
Champion's
Zip's Steak House
JoJo's Steak House
Mike's Steak House
Pep's Steak House
Freeway Steak House
Jerry's (Hamilton and Kuser)
Jerry's Morrisville
Russ Ayers
Lanzi's
Diamond's
Roman Hall
Papa's Pizza
Louie's Tomato Pies
Maruca's Pizza
Roman Hall
Landwehr's
Chianti's
Old Heidelberg
Cedar Gardens
Barrett's El Condado
Giovi's
Del Rio
The Dog House
Malaga
Marroe Inn
Tony Goes
Casino
La Gondola
Heil's
SOHO Piccione's
Sal de Forte's
The Eagle Tavern
Johnny Boston
John Henry's
De Lorenzo's (Hudson St.)
De Lorenzo's (Hamilton Ave.)
Lorenzo's
Caesar's
Tattoni's
Texas Wieners (Warren St.)
Joe's Tomato Pie
Pica's Tomato Pie
Shuster's Tomato Pie
Hamilton Tomato Pie
The Triangle
The Beverly
Cook's Luncheonette
Bentley's
Browns (Hamilton and So. Olden
Bartolini's
Greenstreets
Banzai
Quaker Bridge Inn
Murphy's Chuck Wagon
Henderson's Club 50
Clede's Lunheonette
Carmen Armenti's
The Toddle House
Carteret Arms Lunch
The Trenton Club
The Clin-Mott
The Fickle Pickle
The Trenton Diner (Calhoun St.)
The American Diner (State and Olden)
Pat's Diner
Fritz's Diner
Floyd's Diner
Peter Pan
The Savoy Trenton
The Savoy Trenton
Buckley's Route 130
The Savoy Route 130
Town and Country Diner Route 130
The Flamingo Room
The Swan Room
Peroni's
Clio's
The Glendale Inn
Timothy's Steak House Pub
Tortugga Coastal Cantina
The Famous Restaurant
The Blue Danube Adeline St.
Eddie's Donuts
Baldassari Regency
Chick and Nello's
Massimo's
Crecco's
El Dorado
Freddies
General Quarter's
Leiggi's (Mary Marks')
Conti's Pizza (Princeton)
Lahier's
Alchemist & Barrister
Parfait House
Tony Cal's
Lockwood's
Hudson Beer Garden
White Horse Bowling Academy
Lawrenceville Inn
Washington Crossing Inn
Acacia
Fedora Café
Fezziwigs
The Swan Room
Peroni's
Clio's
The Glendale Inn
Timothy's Steak House Pub
Tortugga Coastal Cantina
The Famous Restaurant
The Blue Danube Adeline St.
Eddie's Donuts
Baldassari Regency
Chick and Nello's
Massimo's
Crecco's
El Dorado
Freddies
General Quarter's
Leiggi's (Mary Marks')
Conti's Pizza (Princeton)
Lahier's
Alchemist & Barrister
Parfait House
Tony Cal's
Lockwood's
Hudson Beer Garden
White Horse Bowling Academy
Lawrenceville Inn
Washington Crossing Inn
Acacia
Fedora Café
Fezziwigs
Jarick's (Became Rick's Drive In)
Betty and Bill's Route 33
Royal Coach Diner (Rte 206 near White Horse Bowling Academy)
Blimpie's
The Beacon (Later Giovi's)
Mastori's
Colony Coffee Shop
Don't forget to add the Colony Coffee Shop ( downtown Trenton) to the list!
Colony Coffee Shop
This from Gerri Apostolos:
Don't forget to add the Colony Coffee Shop ( downtown Trenton) to the list!
25 comments:
The Columbus Bar and Grill on Calhoun, one of John Baldassari's first places as chef
Are all of these gone? One favorite that's still around (I think!) is a diner on the "V" of Routes 130 and 206 just above Bordentown - name escapes me, but the memories are still there.
Candy Jens
Now I remember - Mastori's! BTW, I think Barrett's (on the River Road) was spelled with two "t"s.
Candy Frenking Jens
Great site!
Do any of you guys remember a restaurant on the corner of Flock and Quakerbridge Rd? I have it in my brain that it was called the Donkey Place because there was a donkey or pony there. I think my dad used to take me there to get pork roll. This was in the 60's, I think. Or am I dreaming.....
This is being relayed via Ronnebergstrasse in Berlin from Lois Majarowitz of Newkirk Avenue, who is just learning about computers.
(This year I attended) a reunion of Rose Palumbo Gadsby's father's drive up stand - NEVER CALLED A RESTAURANT - not as fancy as Stewart's - at the n/w intersection of Flock Road and Quakerbridge Road. It was called "Palumbo's Hot Dog Stand". It did have a life-size replica of a donkey pulling a cart out in front of the shack-like building.
I remember the roly-poly well. A
hang-out for punks in the middle
60's. Formerly known as Gray's
Steak House. Very nice place then.
I know. I grew up around there.
As for the Columbus Lounge, I saw
Count Basie there in the late 60's.
AWESOME ! I grew up in Trenton. I
miss my wonderful city.
Tom - Just to clear up the Giovis/Beacon info - the site became Giovi's but the Beacon building did not survive. The lightship beacon that still stands was from a lightship named the Nantucket. A picture hung in the original Beacon building in the 1960's. From a Beacon carhop!
How about thsose Casino hot dogs? Peppers and potatoes is a mustard sauce.
There was the old LaRoma Pizzeria across from the bank on S. Broad and Hudson. Sam smoked Parodi cigars while he flattened the dough with his fingers, and never a roller. He cooked his pizza in an industrial coke fired oven that was so hot, the pizza peel would bust into flames if it wasn't wet.
His sauce was great -- from Italian tomatoes. Yeah, he used Bertolli olive oil, and Maggio whole milk mozarella -- never the cheap stuff.
There was never air conditioning. If you wanted to eat it there, you had to sweat, first. Seeburg juke box consoles were at every table.
Just down S. Broad, there was Frank's. One block away but a world of difference. A gas fired oven. A lighter sauce. Mayne he dusted the shredded mozarella with a little flour and fresh oregano.
At the head of the center aisle was a 1930s vintage Rock-Ola juke box that played flat 78 platters, not 45s.
Anthony's steak house -- S. Clinton Ave. During Prohibition this place was a huge speakeasy. Though Anthony cooked a good steak there was always action in the back room. He took our nickels and dimes by the hundreds in illegal pinball machines -- the 25 hole Bally types that racked up huge scores. Then he paid you for your wins, if you ever did.
Emil's Steak House was on Cass St. The meat was great but Emil had a different twist: he fried the steaks, used great rolls, but wound up using a slight Italian style BBQ sauce and fried potatoes. I can still taste it 45 years later.
Crabs at the Clin-Mott across from Roeblings at Clinton and Mott.
Gliba's. A Hungarian joint. Czardas music every Friday and Saturday. The old Hungarians really knew how to party. We lived downwind, and as a kid you could smell the stale beer and cigarettes from six houses away.
Across the block was Ernie Kovac's Mom's place on Genesee St. That was another wild joint in the 50s. Ernie was already big-time. He brought home Edie Adams in 1957 and I knew what love was. ;-)
Sorry to ramble. The 'Burg was a great place. Tons of history there.
Out in Hamilton, my family always stopped at Carl's Del Rio Restaurant, across the street from Greenwood Cemetery (where my grandfather and my newborn brother are buried). This place always smelled of the open wood fires used to broil the meats. Loved this joint -- prolly long gone.
Best, y'all! Eat up!
Bill, currently from San Jose, CA
THS Class of 64
Pete's Steak House!My Dad Rocky DiNatle could be found there most days or at Armand's Donuts.
Pete;s later became a night club.. Peppermint Lounge.. for ot Tonzi's Peppermint Lounge.
Tom - Do you or anyone else have a picture of Gravatt's Frozen Custard place on S. Broad St. next to Vic Rice's driving range? Could it be posted? The younger generation has no idea what a landmark this was! Lakeside Girl
Tom:
A correction please! Cent Ani is Italian for "100 years" the resturant mentioned was in fact owned by Felix Muccioli, and located on Genesee, and Anderson.
You have it mixed up with Cout Felix's place who by the way was Polish, and his "saloon" was located on Anderson, and Woodland a few blocks away from Cent Ani.
Felix to my memory never served food, unless you considered stale lance peanut butter crackers food!
Felix played in the middle of the bar, with a top hat on. When a woman went to the ladies room, she was surprised by Felix's sound effects.
Felix's brother worked for me in my appraisal business.
Great memories. Back to Ted Forker's lunch wagon, there was another "Lunch Wagon: located on South Warren St. where Factory, Warren, and Lamberton Streets converged. It was "Happy's Diner" and was located along side of the Sunoco Station, across Assumpink Bridge from Sharpless Ice Cream.
This is the 30's and 40's, in great South Trenton.
Speaking of which, no one ever bothered to mention the super Jewish Deli's we had in the Valley of the Isrealites". Living in Virginia, it took my wife Joan and I seen years to find a Jewish Deli that matched the great Ben's deli on Market, and Lamberton Sts. We found it in Virginia Beach today, and guess what the owner operator is form New Jersey!!! you gotta love it.
Regards
Mike Kuzma
THANKS FOR THE CORRECTION MIKE. AS USUAL, YOUR RETROSPECTIVES PROVIDE HISTORICALLY INTERESTING INFORMATION AND ARE MUCH APPRECIATED.
TOM GLOVER
OOPS, there's a mistake in the comments made by Mike Kuzma in December 2010 about Cent Ani owned by Felix Muccioli. Felix did not have any brothers; he had two sisters. The restaurant served Italian food/pizza and when Felix remarried, his wife, Candy, worked in the restaurant.
There was a Lawrence Luncheonette on Hermitage.
THANKS TO ALL YOU FOLKS ABOVE WHO CONTRIBUTED YOUR THOUGHTS, CORRECTIONS, ETC. TO THE LIST! THAT'S WHAT MAKES THIS SITE WORTHWHILE.
TOM GLOVER
How about bartilonis bar chambers st great pizza also
Anyone remember the Roly Poly sandwich shop on Stuyvesant Avenue or the chicken delivery place on Hermitage Ave that had a car with a large fiberglass chicken mounted on the roof?
Gus Heinz, at Liberty & Chambers st. ended with a major fire & Gus suffered a fatal heart attack at the scene
Anyone remember name of eatery on the corner of Mifflin Street before John Henry bought the place?
Count Felix corner of Anderson and Hewitt. Brother Eddie. Not woodland
What was the name of the diner near state and broad. Was the Beverly on north warren later to become armentis. Or was the Beverly near stat and broad. The famous was on state street across form envious vorhees. Near Montgomery
Felix muccioli wife candy downs lives in fla.
I had my wedding reception there Sept. 25,1971.The next month in October it burnt down.
I never was there but I remember was Mrs.palumbo talked about the business her and husband had when I did her hair,all the kids use to hang out there.she made lots of homemade food as she told me.miss u ginny!
gunny! Probably cooked for my wedding reception in 1971 and knew my dad,frank omalley.
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