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Right on the Hudson River, Jersey City’s Battello will once again host the annual fundraiser event “The Tasting” to benefit Eva’s Village in Paterson, NJ. The event includes 20 of

“My joy,” that’s what Gioia Mia translates to. The newest Montclair restaurant occupies the space held down by Chef Ryan DePersio’s Fascino for the last twenty years. Earlier this year,

For 20 years, Chef Ryan DePersio’s Fascino—nestled on a busy Bloomfield Avenue in Montclair—has wowed North Jersey diners with inventive Italian cuisine and a focus on seasonality and local ingredients.

The Battello team and I are sitting at a salvaged barnwood table near the bar—the same one I sat at back in 2015 when we first met. Next to us