Oysters, Weiners & Big Ice Cubes: Lunch at Jockey Hollow Bar & Kitchen

by Melody Kettle


He had me at "Weiner Vault." As if two floors flush with cuisine and the best cocktails in New Jersey weren't enough, restauranteur, Christopher Cannon, saw fit to add a biergarten-style Weiner Vault - complete with a neon sign and all forms of tubular and spherical meat product - in the cellar of Jockey Hollow Bar & Kitchen, his three floor epicurean dream run amuck.  Michael White kerfuffle be damned - Cannon is my kinda guy! 

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Jockey Hollow to Open in Vail Mansion, Morristown

by Melody Kettle


A couple of weeks ago, I went to see The Waterboys  at the Mayo Performing Arts Center, in Morristown, with my good friend, Sharon.  As it was impossible to find street parking in Morristown on a Saturday night, we followed  signs to one of the many public decks, an in doing so, we passed a most stunning mansion, with a long reflective pool in the front.  

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