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Asbury Park

New downtown bar opens its doors

Prohibition serves up American food, cocktails from a bygone era

By Jill Bartlett


Downtown Asbury Park’s newest bar and restaurant, Prohibition, is open for business. The restaurant is a modern take on the prohibition-era speakeasy. It offers prohibition-era cocktails and an American food menu in an elegant but casual atmosphere, according to co-owner Frank Gullace. “We want to make it as nice as possible, but for people to […]

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Sep 20, 2014
Asbury Park

Asbury Park’s Old Man Rafferty’s shutters its doors

Owners of Shore House Bar and Grill will bring new concept to space

By Jill Bartlett


For the first Wednesday in nearly seven years, downtown Cookman Avenue mainstay Old Man Rafferty’s will not open for service. Restaurant owner Mark Jakuboski had a contract in place for owners of the Shore House Bar and Grill in Point Pleasant to purchase the Asbury Park location at the corner of Emory Street and Cookman Avenue in […]

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Jul 30, 2014