Asbury Park-based Smith hospitality group has transformed their former Goldie’s vegan restaurant space into a new restaurant, the Happiness Luncheonette. The concept of the restaurant  “is pure fun and a little trippy,” Smith junior partner Mark Hinchliffe said in an email correspondence with the Sun. The restaurant and hospitality group is “taking food that makes […]

Giving thanks by giving back is a Thanksgiving tradition at Asbury Park’s ‘southern family style’ restaurant, At the Table. For the fourth year in a row, homeless and senior citizens will head to the restaurant on the day before the holiday to sit, warm up, and eat heartily. “It’s just our little give back to […]

Vegan restaurant Goldie’s will shut its doors after service on Sunday. The eatery is one of the four restaurants in Asbury Park owned and operated by Smith Group. The high-end restaurant with exposed kitchen opened the in the summer of 2013 as New Jersey’s first vegan restaurant with a liquor license, as previously reported in the […]

A local group of entrepreneurs that own several successful restaurants in Asbury Park will grand open their fifth venture in the city, Pascal & Sabine, Friday night. Pascal & Sabine takes its name from two characters in Albert Lamorisse’s fantasy featurette, “The Red Balloon”, according to Mark Hinchliffe, spokesperson for Smith, a partnership of local investors. Smith […]

Soon, restaurant goers will be able to add a new coal-fired pizza restaurant to the growing list of eateries available to them along Asbury Park’s downtown Cookman Avenue. The restaurant is a joint venture between co-owners Tom Affatato, Barry Judelson and Sackman Enterprises. Sackman owns the space, along with all of the other suites in […]