Whether you call it Mardi Gras, Shrove or Fat Tuesday, the end of carnival season will be celebrated locally on Saturday. Organized by the Asbury Park Chamber of Commerce, the Third Annual celebration features an  afternoon of family-friendly mask making ahead of the night’s Happy Hour and Masquerade Ball  according to Executive Director Sylvia Sylvia-Cioffi. […]

A military appreciation program initiated by Monmouth County Clerk Christine Hanlon launched Tuesday morning at Taka on Cookman Avenue, one of its first participating business in Asbury Park. The ‘Honoring our Heroes’ program connect Veterans to their communities, Hanlon said. “[The program] does that by engaging businesses in a visible way,” she said. Retailers, restauranteurs […]

Taka restaurant began serving customers at their new Cookman Avenue location Thursday. The official move from their Mattison Avenue space to a prominent corner space at the intersection of Cookman and Bond streets came shortly after members of the Asbury Park City Council Wednesday approved a request to transfer the restaurant’s liquor license from the […]

Public testimony at a previous planning board meeting has prompted owners of Taka restaurant to rethink the facade renovations at their new Cookman Avenue location. Rather than the cultured stone facade planning board members granted preliminary approvals on [shown below], owners will attempt to restore the existing brick facade currently hidden by a stucco finish […]

Owners of Taka Restaurant on Mattison Avenue have signed a 5-year lease on the old Synaxis space on Cookman Avenue and have tentative plans to move the restaurant into the new space next year, according to Taka co-owner William Kessler. In May, when Kessler and his business partners,  Taka Hirai and David Martocci, applied to transfer the […]