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MainSt5a0915NJLE_2023-09-15-05-20-28

Well, for today's main street in New Jersey, we're heading to a township that's always making multiple lists for being one of the best places to live. News. 12, New Jersey's Lauren De is in Parsippany, Troy Hills, highlighting local businesses and we are ready for this food tour. Um Me too, but I wanted to step outside but we have to get inside because it smells so good. I want to show you where I am though. Rajani Indian cuisine, we have to get inside Jay and his chefs are working so hard this morning. They made us Indian coffee, by the way, I don't want coffee unless it's made that way. So we're gonna go talk to Jay and find out what makes it so special and what makes this restaurant so special. Good morning, Jay. Everyone's here this morning. All your chefs are up early for us this morning. What makes your restaurant so good? We are, we are one of the facilities in, in. So we've been in business since 2011. This is a great place, great place to, you know, serve the food for our customers. We're really, really happy in this town. We are so happy for our customers and ourselves. We are ok. And you made some signature dishes for us this morning. Let's go see, because it smells so good in here. Look at all of this. Yeah, this is all our South Indian veg and non veg specials. Ok. So we have the Indian, you know, pancake. It's called DOSA. This do that one. This is another steam muffin called Italy and is made and the chilies and we made with so three type of chutney you can eat and deal with that. So you might have know about all the Indian food. I'm not sure. Ok, sure. And we have a chicken. Tikka Masala is one of the favorite food. It's a universal food now. Yeah. Yeah. So, and we have another signature specialist is a farm, is, is a, is a, like a full fish, is a golden reit. We a flat grill. We cook with all our specially made masal. It's one of the best food in, in this, in this area. I guarantee that no one can beat that out. You made it for news 12 this morning. I love that. I'm so happy to get you guys here here. So very, very thankful to that. So we also we also special in South India and north in both the dishes. So Indian food is mostly all about like a vegetarian has the biggest role. Like we are very special in south side of I mean south side of India part and also in north south of India part. So we, we mostly our customers are vegetarians and also we are also special in the non rich too. The has a chicken and goat and mutton and the fish. We are so specialist for that. Thank you so much for making all of this. I'm gonna dig in. I'm gonna drink more of my Indian coffee. What a great way to start. Main Street, New Jersey Jay. Thanks so much. We love trails this morning. That's where we are. There's all the crew guys. Thanks. You, look at that. We love it. Lauren, dude. He's from New Jersey. Oh, my turn around. Go back to them. I, I'm so jealous. The food. It looks amazing. And, you know, I tell all my friends who may, maybe if they've ever had Indian food. Um Dosa is a, is a good, like gateway to it and so is chicken Tika masala, which if you haven't tried it, you have to try it, not it and not, not. We'll have to try it.

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Well, for today's main street, New Jersey, we're heading to a township that's always making multiple lists, but it's good list being one of the best places to live news. New Jersey's Lauren de is in Troy Hills, highlighting local businesses there. So, Lauren, what cuisine do you have here this time? Italian. So we're going to find out why Per Hill is one of the best places to eat. Let's go into Ferrario. They are open early for us this morning. They usually open at 10 o'clock in the morning. They are, let's go inside. We have Dana or Dad Tony over here. Look at this, you call it sauce. I call it gravy. You're gonna get a lot of people. We are, it is 5 47 and we're already causing more a problem, but we call it the Sunday gravy because of the meat, the meatballs, the brother, all the pork sausage, the pork ribs. So that's where we get the Sunday meat gravy and your meatballs I heard were won awards. We did third place in North Jersey. So we're very proud of that. My grandmother's recipe. Um We stay true to all of our family recipes. That's why I think we're a special place and it's all family here. My dad, uh, Tony, he started it and my mom in 89. So this is just a little glimpse of our special specialties. Are these egg plants breaded egg plant. Our cutlets, our little mini pizzas just the way my grandmother made. My dad's, uh, fresh rolled with sharp provolone. And these are some of our top sandwiches. This is our Frank Sinatra. It's got the breaded egg plant. Dad's Fresh Mutz, his marinated sun dried tomato with the balsamic. This is my son's sandwich. Michael's Belly Buster. It's our homemade cutlet, sharp provolone, Saut Ed broccoli, Rob and the hot fryers. And then Tony. That sounds so good. And then Tony special sandwich. It's got all the Italian imported meats. His marinated roasted peppers and uh, a per. So these are, and then these are my, my great grandmother, my grandmother on my dad's side and my grandmother on my mom's side. So, uh, we owe all of this to all of their cooking and recipes. We're so happy to be here, grandmothers. She was our great grandmother and her two grandmothers. So she grew up with it at the stove. And if you look at the cookbook, she's at, at the stove, sitting standing on a chair with big mama, which is our great grandma. Big mama, grandma. You know, that is so Italian. By the way, I love it, we're gonna dig in. Thank you so much. And by the way, if someone wants to come, we'll post the address on our website because you got, you got to check this place out. We're in per Lauren de New New Jersey. All right, I'm gonna have an eggplant. Ok. Thing you guys want.

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MainSt6a0915NJLE_2023-09-15-06-21-00

For today's main street in New Jersey. We're heading to a township always making lists for being one of the best places to live. Lauren do is in Parity. Troy Hills is showing off some local businesses. All right, Lauren, it's time for some more food. Here it is, it is time for Mexicans. So let me just set the stage. It feels amazing out here, by the way. Route 46 is right there. We are going to go into this is a fairly new restaurant and let me tell you this place is huge and it is such a cool vibe inside. So we got to show you around there. It is. Let's go inside. We have everyone waiting for us this morning and even of course some food. So there they are got the owners here. We have the one of the executive chefs here this morning. I mean this place, I love it that you, you walk in and you feel like you're gonna get something fresh, you're gonna get something good. We have Kenny Gino Francisco. Welcome to guys. OK. So tell us about this. Kenny is my brother Gino is a chef Francisco from Mexico who wants to come to try us our excellent Mexican cuisine, Francisco. I have excellent hands. My brother helps him out once in a while too. Please come and give us a try. So Francisco tell us what you made for us this morning. Uh We make a fresh guacamole, uh uh special lunch and, and the octopus. All right. So everything we try to make fresh and try to make a Mexican touch is good. It is really good. And, and Gina, what, what do you want to say this morning? You welcome to our place. This is me and my brothers opened a couple of restaurants in the area. One of the best over here I believe is uh this Mexican restaurant. And I really love the place I love, I love the, the town and I'm happy to be here. What time is this place open? Because you know, this place is gonna be the dinner from 11 30 till like 11 o'clock at night, every day. And the Fridays, we have a DJ come and give us a try. We've got great DJ from 9 30 till like 1 p.m. am sorry. Absolutely. Tonight's happening live. I'll be a lot of people here. 100%. Absolutely. Yeah, we do. Look at the bar. It's full of tequila. We got all tequilas out there. Listen, this is already a party at 6 17 this morning. I can't imagine what this place is gonna be like. It will be a lot of fun tonight. I'm gonna be here till at least 1:30 a.m. in the morning tonight again and make sure you join, make sure you're just sharp, just like them. Ok, we're in First trails this morning. Lauren do New Jersey. Lauren. You're gonna laugh because I just turned to Nick and I said, I'm surprised she hasn't talked about tequila or margaritas. And as soon as I said that we're looking at all the tequilas, don't I know you, I know you guys love talking about tequila at 6 18 in the morning.

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MainSt630a0915NJLE_2023-09-15-06-50-57

For today's main street in New Jersey. We're heading to a township that's always making less for being one of the best places to live news. 12 New Jersey's Lauren de is in Parsippany, Troy Hills this morning reporting on local businesses. Lauren, how is the food tour going? We've enjoyed it so far. How about you? Me too. I've enjoyed it. I'm probably gonna gain a lot of weight because I've just been eating my way through Parsippany. We're going to the Gourmet Cafe. They've won a lot of awards, but I want to show you this. Not only is the food wonderful, but Matt is such a giving person. So let's go in here. We're gonna meet Matt the giving person and we're gonna taste this wonderful food. Listen, they got a waiting area. So you know that this place is gonna be good. We have Matt here this morning, Matt. Good morning. Good. Thank you for waking up this morning. Thank you so much. You made us some food too. I did, I did. So what I have here is uh bolognaise just a little, uh, our Caesar salad, which is our best selling salad. And this is a current special. It's, uh, seared shrimp, sauteed spinach and a rice. Ok. And so what we do here is we serve lunch Monday through Friday. We serve dinner every night, uh, on the weekends, on the, on the lunch time we do private parties. We also do catering. I have, uh, and it's a Byob. It is a Byob thing. And, and also because the tables too, you said that you take your customers corks and you made the tables out of the custom tables. That's right. Yeah. So all these corks were uh customers wines that we saved the corks and we, and lay them into the tables and you value your customers and you value your town a lot because we read the sign outside. You're a giving person, you do a lot of fund raising. What do you do on Mondays on Monday? I do a program. I call it Make a difference Monday. And what I do is donate 10% back to the community. Uh local charities, mostly some national charities like Saint Judes and stuff like that. And uh I've been doing it since 2008. So it's been a, you know, small amount because, you know, Monday is a small place. We do about, you know, 1500 so 100 and 50 at a time, we're almost at 100,000 that have donated Matt. That's amazing. Such a great person to have in the community. We're right. Across from Smithfield. So I'm sure the community appreciates you being here as well. It's mutual, but it's a really great community and I'm happy to be here. Well, we are happy to be here and we are gonna dig in this morning. We're Hills Lauren de New Jersey.

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MainSt7a0915NJLE_2023-09-15-07-23-43

For today's main street, New Jersey. We're heading to a township that's always making multiple lists for being one of the best places to live. But clearly it should be on one of the best places to eat. We are seeing that here. News 12 New Jersey's Lauren de is in Parsippany, Troy Hills reporting on local businesses. We've got Indian Italian, Mexican, Lauren. What's next? Ok, let's add a whole bunch. We have Afghan Mediterranean and Middle Eastern. All in one place. This is Kebab Paradise if you know, you have to know this place. So we were talking to the owner here and he was saying that realtors tell their clients about this place. That's how popular it is. So we made it to the lake, the section of hills and let's go inside. Let's go fine. Let's go find some food because let me tell you, they made a whole dish for us for hot. Thank you so much for waking up early this morning. I was just bragging about you. Realtors tell their clients about your place. They do. They do. We've been, we're a Lake Hay Institution. We've been here for 20 years. We're celebrating our 20 year anniversary. It was started by my father Fahim and my brother Ali. And we've been here. We're a big part of the community. Uh, it's been, uh, it's been a great ride to say the least. Um, over the last 20 years we've opened up three other locations. We have one in Teaneck, one in Randolph. Yes. Yeah, absolutely. So, yeah, I mean, um, our customer base here is like, so diverse. We have teachers, we have doctors, we have all kinds of people come over here, people from Town hall, we've actually even had Governor Murphy here, believe it or not. So yeah, it's, it's, it's been great. We love our customers. Let's go see why people love this place, right? Because you have a whole like platter all made for us. The chefs are in here too. Oh my look at all of this. So right here as you can see, this is our like kebab combo. So we have some lamb chops, some uh lamb kebab, some chicken kebab and some co kabab with our famous of rice. And then this is the thing that everyone likes. These are our gyro platters. You have a chicken gyro platter, a lamb, a platter and then don't forget the famous white sauce by chef here. He's gonna throw some of that white sauce. This is what everyone asks for what's in the white sauce. I can't tell you they fire me right away. Well, you got to come down here and try for yourself or a Bob paradise like I want this section of Per Hills. Look at this amazing. Oh, thank you. I'm Lauren de New Jersey.

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For today's main street, New Jersey. We're heading to a township always making a list for the best places to live. News. 12 New Jersey's Lauren de is in Parts Troy Hills showing off local businesses this morning. We've seen all types here, food places, lots of food, but maybe it's time to take a little break from that food. I think so. I think it's time to take a little bit of a break. We're going to check out sales, hair cutting salon and let me show you this. This is how, you know, it's going to be a good spot when he got scissors right in the sidewalk there. We have lou your dad is Sal. I mean, he started this in the seventies in 1972. He opened up. We celebrated our 50th year and going on 51 years. Same, same exact location. So that's pretty cool. Should we take everyone inside and go see, because I think your dad's here too, right? He's, uh, he's up to something he's already working and now you're taking over. So now people can come see you. He says, Great, Scott. Watch your step. I love the steps. Going down here's Sal this morning and then this is your son too. So family affair this morning. Welcome to the place. Thank you. And you started this, what made you start this? Uh Well, I was working in another location and uh I was looking for a job. So I came into this town and uh for the interview and uh the, the guy said to me say, you know, you can, if you want, you can work here, you know, and, uh, if you interested, then I sell you the place. I said, you wanna sell the place? I said, yes. So why don't we talk about the price? How much do you want? So, and, uh, I told him and say, I give you, uh, I gonna give you two weeks because I gonna give you two weeks to notice. And, uh, I come back with the money and, uh, I give you the money and you gave me the key that was in 1972. Look at all the money on the wall too when you're doing here this morning, you know, we're gonna stay, we're gonna stick around for the next half hour. We chit chat a little bit more. How's that sound? All right. We're in the lake. I want this section. It's in Bars Hills, Lauren de New New Jersey.

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MainSt8a0915NJLE_2023-09-15-08-18-48

Well, for today's main street in New Jersey, we're heading to a township that's always making the cut for the best places to live. News. 12 New Jersey's Lauren de is in Parsippany, Troy Hills showing off local businesses. Lauren, you've talked a lot about food this morning. Tell us about now your last stop here on the tour. Yeah. And I love that Nick, I loved you to cut because we're at haircutting salon. We have the mayor here, Barrio. You were just in here a few days ago, right? Yeah, 222 days ago, I got my hair cut here. My father got his hair cut here, my son, me, so we've been here and is a good, good man. He's a trademark here in, he definitely is his son is here and even Lou and then Lou's son is here. Everyone's here. So how does it feel? I gotta ask you, how does it feel to be the mayor of one of the best places to live in New Jersey? For me? It's phenomenal. I wanted to be since I was in high school and I said I was gonna be and it came true. Um of course, I lost along the way. Then I came back and I won and it's great to represent the community you grew up in. That's amazing. But hey, you win some, you lose some. Right. Keep on coming back. And so we went to Indian cuisine, we went to Italian, Mexican, Afghani, Middle Eastern, everything. There's everything is here in Parsippany, Troy Hills Lake. I always say the greatest thing about pars is diversity. We have a very diverse community and they open their arms to me. They treat me as a part of their family and everybody here. So I, I'm, I'm so like, honored to be the mayor of the township. That's awesome. Well, thanks for letting us in here. Sal thanks for uh opening up early. Everyone. You want to wave back to the studio. All right. Thank you. All right. Thanks everyone. We're in. Like, I want the area right now. This is where I live over here. Well, there you go. I'm Lauren de New Jersey.

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Main Street New Jersey: Highlighting the very best of Parsippany 

For today's main street in New Jersey. We're in Parsippany, Troy Hills. Our Lauren de reports on the local businesses that help drive this community of some 50,000 people. Hope you're hungry because there's a lot of food about to be featured. Here comes the first dishes from Rajani Indian cuisine. We've been in business since 2011. This is a great, great place to serve the food for our customers. We are really, really happy in this town and we are so thankful for this spread. Who's ready for Italian? Come inside Ferrero's Italian Deli, all of our family recipes. That's why I think we're a special place and it's all family here. My dad, uh Tony, he started it and my mom in 89. So this is just a little glimpse of our special specialty. That's a lot. And look at all of this from Gourmet Cafe. Do a program. I call it Make a difference Monday. And what I do is donate 10% back to the community, uh local charities, mostly some national charity like ST Jude's and stuff like that. So great. And by the way, these tables are custom complete with customers quirks from wine bottles. Hey, check out this bar and plates at Mila Gross. Canny is my brother Gino is a chef Francisco from Mexico who wants to come try us some excellent Mexican cuisine. I got fresh guacamole and the there's still more. Let's head to the lake. I Waha section of town to Kabab Paradise. The Afghan Mediterranean and Middle Eastern restaurant is celebrating its 20th year summer base here is like so diverse. We have teachers, we have doctors, we have all kinds of people come over here. People from town hall, we've actually even had Governor Murphy here. Believe it or not. This thing about Parton is diversity. We have a very diverse community and they open their arms to me. They dream as a part of their family and everybody here. So I'm, I'm so honored to be the mayor of the township. So before we end our tour one last stop, it's where the mayor gets his haircut. Sal's haircutting salon on 51 years. It's the same, same exact location. So it's pretty cool. And Sal his dad is still cutting hair. I give you the money and you gave me the key that was in 1972 in First Toy Hills. Lauren De News. 12 New Jersey.

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Main Street New Jersey: Highlighting the very best of Parsippany

Rajni Indian Cuisine

Ferraro's Italian Deli

Milagros Mexican Cuisine

Gourmet Cafe

Kabab Paradise

Sal's Hair Salon

Talking with Mayor James Barberio