Fernandez Ironbound Steakhouse Back Open!!!

[Smokin .50 1,907]

When I'm not pumping lead into the ground or sky, I like to chew on Iberian fare at Newark's Ironbound, and my favorite joint just opened back up about a week ago! So I figure that they got the kinks worked out by now and are up to speed so to speak. The Mrs. and I are planning on going there tonight for a little date since the kid is out of the house for tonight!

 

The Rodizzio they serve there is out of this world! You have to tell them to stop bringing the food or you'll BUST!

 

I'll be sure and report back on our experience!

[mipafox 438]

Best Rodizio in the US is in Ironbound. All kinds of good Port/Brazilian cooking. Several choices!

[Smokin .50 1,907]

I'm IN WITHDRAWAL!! Wife is on the home from work!! Let the DROOLING commence!

[gunforhire 826]

I might have been there once or twice. LOL

 

Great place, great people.

[hd2000fxdl 422]

I don't know if I will spell any of this right but there is another really good place I used to go to, a Portuguese place off Delancy St called Tony Dacaneca that I have never had anything that wasn't great. A really good Garlic Sauce that you could go through a a few baskets of bread and butter just with that.

 

Harry

[71ragtopgoat 23]

Awesome place. I am indeed jealous.

[Krdshrk 3,878]

What's this place? Brazilian steakhouse?

[Duppie 73]

When I'm not pumping lead into the ground or sky, I like to chew on Iberian fare at Newark's Ironbound, and my favorite joint just opened back up about a week ago! So I figure that they got the kinks worked out by now and are up to speed so to speak. The Mrs. and I are planning on going there tonight for a little date since the kid is out of the house for tonight!

 

The Rodizzio they serve there is out of this world! You have to tell them to stop bringing the food or you'll BUST!

 

I'll be sure and report back on our experience!

 

When next in the Ironbound and you want real Portuguese fare specializing in seafood,visit Seabra's Marisquera at 87 Madison Street,just off ferry. It's a little off the beaten path but is considered to be the best traditional Portuguese food in New Jersey. They have their own parking lot and is midway between two excellent supermarkets where I buy my Bacalao,Chorizo,bread,imported butter,olive oil,cheeses,olives and their great custom butcher. Around the block is a Brazilian Hamburger joint called Hambergao which serves a burger that has to be experienced in order to fully understand just how many savory ingredient can be fitted under a over sized bun.

[Duppie 73]

What's this place? Brazilian steakhouse?

 

Spanish/Portuguese Steakhouse.

[mipafox 438]

This thread is awesome. For those of you guys that are allowed to eat food, take the advice in this thread seriously. I am in that area quite frequently, but I really can't eat that food anymore. A couple times a year is still good I'm going to check out some of the places that have been mentioned that I have never been to. We like to hold some company parties at these places, and our business associations have at least one party at these places during the course of the year.

[Duppie 73]

This thread is awesome. For those of you guys that are allowed to eat food, take the advice in this thread seriously. I am in that area quite frequently, but I really can't eat that food anymore. A couple times a year is still good I'm going to check out some of the places that have been mentioned that I have never been to. We like to hold some company parties at these places, and our business associations have at least one party at these places during the course of the year.

 

Very popular for corporate events and dinners is Rio Rodizio at 1034 Mc Arthur highway. Huge place with decent rodizio and Sushi bar with live music on most weekends.

[hiker88 22]

When next in the Ironbound and you want real Portuguese fare specializing in seafood,visit Seabra's Marisquera at 87 Madison Street,just off ferry. It's a little off the beaten path but is considered to be the best traditional Portuguese food in New Jersey. They have their own parking lot and is midway between two excellent supermarkets where I buy my Bacalao,Chorizo,bread,imported butter,olive oil,cheeses,olives and their great custom butcher. Around the block is a Brazilian Hamburger joint called Hambergao which serves a burger that has to be experienced in order to fully understand just how many savory ingredient can be fitted under a over sized bun.

 

Seabra's "the Armory" in Perth Amboy is the place I go to for my Rodizio fix. It has plenty of parking and it's at the waterfront in P. Amboy with a nice view of Staten Island.

[mipafox 438]

Seabra's "the Armory" in Perth Amboy is the place I go to for my Rodizio fix. It has plenty of parking and it's at the waterfront in P. Amboy with a nice view of Staten Island.

 

You can't get good Rodizio between Route 78 and the Tropic of Capricorn. There might be a flyer or two in Elizabeth, but, Perth Amboy? Give me a break j/k

 

That blasphemy is like trying to get a cheesesteak north of Route 80 or south of the Delaware state line. They are like two exclusive food zones that overlap slightly with all kinda enzymes collaborating and shit.

[dgstinner 11]

The Rio Rodizio on 22 near the PC Richard flagship store is also pretty good.

[hiker88 22]

You can't get good Rodizio between Route 78 and the Tropic of Capricorn. There might be a flyer or two in Elizabeth, but, Perth Amboy? Give me a break j/k

 

That blasphemy is like trying to get a cheesesteak north of Route 80 or south of the Delaware state line. They are like two exclusive food zones that overlap slightly with all kinda enzymes collaborating and ****.

 

I kid you not... there is one in P. Amboy and it's owned by the same guys who operate the Seabra resto in Newark... and it's not too far from my work.

[Smokin .50 1,907]

I'm glad I started this thread! Never knew there were so many Foodies on this Forum! So many near & wonderful places to try! I'll need to pop a second Lipitor before I go on a "Pub Crawl" for Rodizio, Picania, the seafood and that crazy hamburger somebody posted about.

 

Maybe we ought to try to put together a little end of year Party for this Forum membership, since quite a few of us know the Ironbound and think with our stomachs??

 

Anyway, just got back from Fernandes and it's just like I remembered it! I had the Picania (Round Steak, sliced thin, nice & medium rare) and the Mrs. had the Rodizio. New to the line-up was a cheese-stuffed pork loin that looked gooey and NOT dried-out by any means! She was so full from all of the other cuts, she didn't have the room to force it down, LOL! The place was running like a finely-tuned Swiss watch, and they appeared to not have missed a beat! The upstairs will reopen next week, so for now everyone eats downstairs in the main dinning room and bar area. NO PROBLEM for a Friday night. We got there around 6:45 and we were seated immediately. The place really filled-up (which means they're doing well) around 7:30 which is typical of this genre and culture for a Friday. Service was extremely attentive, but not too much so. Help appeared to be glad to be back working and everyone was all smiles, like going to a family party. Sangria was perfect, meal was perfect, and the car jockey knew my car before I handed him the ticket--which is par for the course as I'm come to expect at this place. All in all I'd give them a 9.5 for tonight!

 

Take care and remember to tip your servers!

 

Dave

[mipafox 438]

The Rio Rodizio on 22 near the PC Richard flagship store is also pretty good.

 

It's a little off-topic, but I used to sample a monitoring well at the flagship property back in the mid 90s. It was a 4-inch casing and screen, standard tiny little monitoring well, but it was a little deeper than most overburden monitoring wells in NJ until you get closer to the Coastal Physiographic Plain. I still have my logbooks for sampling this well. I don't have them in front of me. It was about 60 feet deep or so.

 

We would put two 12-volt whale pumps in series and some PVC tubing down this well to purge it prior to sampling. I could take all of that stuff and lift it over my head 50 times with one arm. It was maybe 10 lbm tops.

 

Once it got down this little well, we had problems. It started dragging the pumps, the tubing, and the cord down the well, deeper than the total depth of the well (only about 60 feet). Pulling with at least a hundred pounds of force, even with the pumps turned off. (Just throwing that out there for people that don't understand that these tiny pumps can't provide any force like this anyway.) Usually with a severe tugging motion, like a tug of war between some buff guys down in the Earth and one or two guys up top, until we got the rig back or the conductor cables broke. It was crazy. We had a hand truck with a hose rack to move around the equipment and the hose would be pulled so hard that the hand truck would fall over and get dragged across the parking lot to the wellhead. Attached to only 10 pounds of gear that's not even turned on and couldn't do that even if it was.

[Damjan 73]

Good info here. I was just craving some Rodizio and have not had one for ages.

 

Casa Vasca is my favorite joint in the Ironbound

 

http://www.casavascarestaurant.com/Casa_Vasca/Welcome.html

[Duppie 73]

I kid you not... there is one in P. Amboy and it's owned by the same guys who operate the Seabra resto in Newark... and it's not too far from my work.

Seabra has it's name on everything from the import/export warehouse to a liquor store but the Seabra restaurants are not owned or operated by the same people. Seabra Marisquera is the original and was sold to 9 long time waiters about 12 years ago,up to today the senior waiters have to basically buy in to work there. Pride in ownership and it shows in the food and service.

[matt6669 71]

man I should not of read this thread at 1:46 am as I am now starving.

 

Anytime anyone wants to meet up in the ironbound for some eats let me know. It's the only reason I'll go to that shithole of a town anymore now that I graduated and don't have to go back there on a daily basis.

[hd2000fxdl 422]

. It has plenty of parking and it's at the waterfront in P. Amboy with a nice view of Staten Island.

 

Yea, it is a pretty nice view, I used to be able to walk to the place, I had a nice place on the water front right down the street but sold it to build my current house.

 

Harry

[Daedalus 19]

Many locals (and I) enjoy Campino's on Jabez Street in Newark. The food is great, the bar fantastic and they have their own lot. It's kind of out of the way (off Delancey off Rt.1) but worth it.

[Jersey Joe 4]

I went to college in Newark so spent many hours in Iberia and others. Was just there for lunch a couple weeks ago. Red Sangria is just Mother's Milk to me!

[mipafox 438]

Many locals (and I) enjoy Campino's on Jabez Street in Newark. The food is great, the bar fantastic and they have their own lot. It's kind of out of the way (off Delancey off Rt.1) but worth it.

 

I go to Campinos at least once a year. Very small party, can count on my few fingers, with a very rich man. It's a simple impromptu lunch or dinner, not something arranged. As far as I know.

 

The shrimp and veggies are great! They give too much meat, and it's a little dry. I'm NOT talking Rodizio, just regular menu dishes. I've been going there for about 6 years I think. I probably won't be there again until Christmas season. But, this year, I will assert myself. I want one less piece of meat and double the veggies. What they do to those veggies is crazy. It makes me cry. And then I come. It’s pretty embarrassing.

 

Iberia Penninsula, I have only been there for catered parties. And, I can tell you, the food is crazy mad.

[Duppie 73]

In keeping with the theme,We just got back from Seabra Marisqueira where we had dinner for 9. 2 seafood platters,1 cold consisting of imported Portuguese crab back dip,cracked cold lobster,jumbo shrimp,kumamoto oysters,sea snails,razor clams, and octopus salad.Hot platter had grilled lobster,gambas in garlic sauce,cockles in white wine,garlic,olive oil and cilantro,mussles in a spicy tomato sauce,clams casino,grilled bacalao,sardines and Mozambique prawns.Additionally 1 order of rare beef steak Portuguese style with ham and fried egg, and pork with clams and fried potatoes in white wine and paprika ,cod fritters and house potato chips and garlic rice,2 bottles of decent Douro Tinto, 6 Super Bocks,flan,molotov and espressos all around...... an epic meal. But in retrospect I regret the fact that I've already reviewed them on Yelp and Chowhound because in the decade I've been dining there I have never seen so many people waiting for a table.

Give it a shot next time you're in hood and bring your appetite.

[Smokin .50 1,907]

I'll say that sounds like an "Epic" Meal! Glad you & the Clan had a great time! Seems to me all that was missing was a Cuban Montecristo #2 for second dessert, LOL!

[Duppie 73]

I'll say that sounds like an "Epic" Meal! Glad you & the Clan had a great time! Seems to me all that was missing was a Cuban Montecristo #2 for second dessert, LOL!

 

I'm partial to Bolivar Coronas extras myself and a decent Port but you have the right idea.... Cheers.