The Anchor’s Bend bar and Asbury Festhalle & Biergarten have teamed up to bring Asbury Park Oktoberfest to the Anchor’s Bend inside Asbury Park’s Convention Hall this weekend. Asbury Park Oktoberfest features six draft beers from Radeberger, HofbrauHaus, Hacker-Pschoor Kostritzer, Brooklyn and Paulener breweries and a specialty keg from Weltenburger. Bottled beers include selections from […]

Cameo Bar, a watering hole on Main Street that caters to the gay population, will move to a space in downtown Asbury Park. Johnny Mac’s House of Spirit’s owner John McGillion confirmed his plan to relocate the bar to 722 Mattison Avenue, in the old Tabernacle of Glory church location. McGillion closed purchase on the […]

A rooftop beer garden may be coming to downtown Asbury Park. Restaurateur Andy Ivanov owns a beer garden in Hoboken, Pilsener Haus [pictured above]. He and his wife were principal owners of Radegast beer garden in Brooklyn, and now he’s set his sights on Lake Avenue for his next location. “We want to introduce the whole […]

A downtown tavern is set to expand upward. The Bond Street Bar will add upstairs seating and rooftop bar by summer 2014, owner Pat Fasano said today. The first floor has operated as a bar with a food menu for about two years, Fasano said. The bar and picnic-style table on the first floor tend […]

A planning board hearing on the proposed massive expansion of Johnny Mac’s tavern has been postponed to April 8. The board was slated to hear the application again on Monday, March 18, but architectural renderings were not complete in time, assistant planning and zoning officer Barbara Van Wagner said yesterday. Owner John McGillion, with his […]

APVibe and downtown businesses are celebrating a milestone this week — a new website devoted to informing visitors about events and activities in downtown Asbury Park. Started by Morgan Sackman [pictured, from left] and Rose Crean, APVibe is a marketing campaign intended to promote downtown Asbury Park as a dining and cultural destination. Both Crean […]

Plans for a bar serving a gay clientele at the former Adriatic restaurant site have been changed to a “gay-friendly” restaurant, owner John McGillion said this week. The Candy Bar, at 1409 Kingsley St., was originally conceived as a bar to attract a gay demographic. McGillion wants to operate it as a restaurant instead because […]

The planning board was scheduled to hear an application for a large-scale expansion of Johnny Mac’s at its meeting last night and later vote on the matter, but it was tabled because officials said plans came in late to City Hall. John McGillion, the Main Street tavern’s owner, said he was unaware of a deadline […]

Local restaurateur Marilyn Schlossbach is set to open her very first food-free bar to the public this weekend. The bar will be called Asbury Park Yacht Club, a tongue-in-cheek nod to boating culture found in other parts of New Jersey. Schlossbach and her husband Scott divide their time between Asbury Park and Normandy Beach, and […]

With John McGillion’s purchase of the Bistro Olé building, a beer garden is one step closer to Main Street. McGillion, owner of Johnny Mac House of Spirits, is scheduled to close on the purchase of the neighboring building this Friday. Bistro Olé, a restaurant serving Spanish and Portuguese cuisine, will remain in operation, he said. […]