Brick City Bite is rooted in Newark, NJ, a city of rich and diverse cultural heritage where food reinforces the identity of its people. In September 2024, Brick City Bite began with a simple mission: to understand the gastronomic lexicon of Newark and the world at large. We started in the Ironbound, one of the main arteries of Newark’s culinary heart, and have since traveled far beyond, exploring dishes from all over the world. Too often, our city’s vibrant food scene goes un

In New Jersey, restaurants can charge automatic gratuity on your bill. But here’s the deal— the inbuilt tip has to be clearly disclosed to the client prior  to them being charged. This is a vague legal guideline. Does the patron need to be notified of the automatically included gratuity before receiving the bill, or does the bill itself simply need to disclose it? Unfortunately, businesses don’t seem to make the rules any clearer to us. When dining at restaurants that include

Looking at the national food scene, there’s one thing we can see fading faster than America’s moral fiber and that is the family run, local restaurant. Too often, America’s concern when dining out is finding their social media moment that perfectly creates the illusion of living well or absolute convenience with no care for nutritional value. When we do want to spend a little money, the focus is always minimalist plating, working with negative space, small portions, and ingre