Open for lunch and dinner, this neighborhood fave near the Bay Street Station whips up candied yams, BBQ ribs, fried chicken and fried whiting.
39 Glenridge Ave
Montclair
973.746.5600
Open for lunch and dinner, this neighborhood fave near the Bay Street Station whips up candied yams, BBQ ribs, fried chicken and fried whiting.
39 Glenridge Ave
Montclair
973.746.5600
And from Baristanet
http://www.baristanet.com/2007/08/montclair_has_soul_food.php
From the "Munchmobile" - Newark Star Ledger:
Call this Glenridge Avenue storefront hole-in-the-wall-soul: the fridges (3) outnumber the tables (2), with one display case stocked with buffet-line pans, the other filled with homemade des serts, and a boombox resting atop the soda case.
"Why 'MaDear's'?" said counterman Floyd Young. "Because it feels like a Grandma (cooking) type of place."
You can get breakfast sandwiches daily, and fish and grits on Saturdays, in addition to the usual menu. The trip's best value came here; a medium dinner with two ample sides and cornbread will cost less than $10.
Put the smothered pork chops at the top of your wish list. Top- rate smother, somewhere between straight gravy and a husky barbecue sauce, and pork chop, the trip's most tender.
The fried chicken, nice and crispy, was the day's second-best. Excellent yams, slightly sweet without being sugared-up. Fresh, almost feisty, collard greens.
Two disappointments: the lumpy mac and cheese, and the fried whiting, which should have spent more time in the fryer.
The sweet potato pie will bring a smile to your face, as the trip did to our band of Munchers.
"The South may have been the birthplace of soul food," McCusker said, "but in New Jersey, the descendants of those great cooks whose ingenuity created the cuisine are keeping it alive."