Rather see the building demolished and replaced than sitting empty! I look forward to having a new seafood restaurant in town.

Go yo Famous Daves for Chicken &
Ribs

Here,here!!...Been beggin' someone to put one in for years!!..hat and a Wegmans and the town is complete!

Stephen -- White Castle has had an interest in opening a location in Brick. Every once in a while they pop up on a planning board agenda, but they usually postpone their hearing. Not sure what's up, but eventually we could have one in town.

would say that is much better then seeing fat people roll out of fast food chains with great health im sure under all those large rolls.

Chickentown? I'd have to say go to Chicken and the sea if you want ribs or chicken. They have a much larger menu and I think their food is much better, the quality and freshness can't be beat. They have a lot of good loyalty rewards and specials too. Always a good deal and an excellent meal!

Interesting. Two almost identical word-for-word comments under different names. One shortly after the other.

Donna

1:44 pm on Thursday, October 4, 2012

Chickentown? I'd have to say go to Chicken and the sea if you want ribs or chicken, anything for that matter. Their food is much better, the quality and freshness can't be beat, especially by Chicken town's greasy slop.

Kristen A

1:49 pm on Thursday, October 4, 2012

Chickentown? I'd have to say go to Chicken and the sea if you want ribs or chicken. They have a much larger menu and I think their food is much better, the quality and freshness can't be beat. They have a lot of good loyalty rewards and specials too. Always a good deal and an excellent meal!

Please don't say it's going to be a Sonic, the one below Lacey Twp is AWFUL. I had heard so many great things about Sonic and then I went to the one down there and have been there three times and it was garbage. I usually give a place three chances before I write it off. I will never waste my money there again!

Except for maybe Snookie's Jersey Shore house in Seaside.

hey lisa...that wasn't crab u were eating! did u have the Robstah Craws too?

Donna - Beyond ensuring the physical building in which a business is located meets zoning and land use laws, the local government really has little-to-nothing to do with what businesses open in town.

The local municipal government (or planning board/zoning board) really can't micromanage the ratio of chains to locally-owned dining establishments. I think, sometimes, people have the impression that planning boards get to pick and choose which businesses get approval to open in town, however this is not the case.

seems to me me someone knows someone.... this isnt normal to see so many franchices to go up in one area unless its a Urban city area, which the way things are going that what brick will be in 15 years

There no reason why the big places and the mom and pops can't coincide together because, if you have great food and decent prices people will go to either. For example I have discovered the hamburgers and fries at Cervones Pizza on Rt 88. Go compare their burger for $4.99 against McDonalds if your in for a fast burger, there is no comparison! You get a burger and fries for $4.99 as Cervones that's just not the burger price like McD's. Cervones burger is very large and a good helping of fries compared to that measly piece of crap McD's is serving and Cervones is done over a grill that gives it that backyard BBQ taste. It would take at least 4 or 5 pattys from McD's to make one Cervone burger. Now say you just have that hankering for a bunch of fries, that's when you head over to Tony's Pizza on RT88, their fries beat Cervones and McD's, in fact their fries remind me of McD's when McD's had good fries. Then there's the little breakfast/lunch place on 88 that has cars parked all the way down the side street as their parking lot is usually full, I forget the name of it, it's packed like sardines almost everyday,and has really good food. Of course there"s the grand daddy of them all, The Rainbow, great food, great service, great prices and hard to get in to at times. All these places are owned by local people. How about In and Go on Midstreams Place for subs! Sorry Jersey Mikes, but they make subs like you used to.

Re: Planning Boards. They DO have the option and responsibility to make sure a building is in keeping with the overall tone of a given town. Our planning board was clearly asleep when they approved Auto Zone. Auto Zone was refused a license to operate in Connecticut based on their failure to keep in harmony with the existing town structures. Google it if you like. Let's hope this new restaurant is a better neighbor than that ugly orange box Auto Zone that I will never miss an opportunity to rag on.

We had an opportunity to have a Strand like theater in this town and the opportunity was blown. The Strand is a grand old theater built in the 20's and at first was not a movie theater but a vaudeville/stage show theater only, it was actually a theater where they tried out Broadway shows before they opened on Broadway (Jerry Lewis worked at the Strand way back when), the movies were added later as were the screen, pipe organ and the projector to show silent films. Building something like that in Brick would cost millions that we don't have, BUT the old Brick Plaza theater, the original movie theater in Brick, was built to have mini stage shows but none were ever done that I know of. There was a small stage and fly loft behind the screen which could have been expanded, if I remember right it sat almost 2,000 people before it was twinned. It would have been perfect for a cultural center and would have cost less than building a whole new place, we TRIED in vain to save the place, but greed does things to people and we met with the owner to try and persuade him to save the building, and the answer was a big NO, (actually he was one of the biggest dicks I've ever met in my life) Town hall wasn't interested either, it sure would have made a nicer cultural center than that piece of crap place they have now on Chamberbridge. Typical Brick!

brick does not have have high property tax.

brick does not have have high property tax

thats because new jersey people like real pizza...papa johns and dominos are terrible.

Calling that thing that Papa Johns and Domino's sells a pizza it's like having a painting of Honey Boo Boo's mom and calling it the Mona Lisa.

. . . yet there is not one good pizzeria in Brick. They all have the same pizzeria-style american pizza that you can get anywhere. There isn't one place that makes a good Chicago-style pizza, or a thin crust like Pete and Elda's.

I can't fault the chain restaurants though, it seems that overtime a 'mom and pop' opens up nobody goes and it goes out of business. These big chains wouldn't open if people weren't going.

Mike- have you tried Deninos on Mantoloking Rd? Thin crust and really good!

I believe one of the other patch.com town websites had an article which talked about how a lot of long time 'mom and pop' eateries were closing down, even though they were successful, because the owners children did not want to run a restaurant or store and work long hours like their parents did. So many good restaurants have closed in the past 15 years around here . . .

Actually it's not in Brick, BUT there's a place in Point Beach called Coal Fired I believe and I had the best pizza of my life there. It's on Arnold Blvd but hidden a little as it's off the street where an alley used to be. Give it a try you won't be disappointed.

Pizza, you want great pizza? The 2 best places in Brick are within a 1/4 mile of each other and just blocks from our house. The best are Brick Oven and Danino's, both on Mataloking Rd. near the American Legion.

Tommy's Coal Fired Pizza near Staples on Rt-70 is also great!......very thin & crispy!

Joseph- I think you're talking about Coal House

Donna- should we close down the movie theater since its owned by Loews? This is by far, the dumbest comment posted. When I take my family out, we eat dinner then maybe hit a movie and get dessert after. I support 3 places in one outing. The places gain revenue, employing all those people and then those places pay money in taxes which the town gains revenue from. Small minded people like you should buy frozen dinners, stay him and eat them in front of the TV and wish to bring back the "good old days."

what else would you like in suburbia- a power plant or manufacturing facility? Watch all the NIMBY posts then!