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mindysmuchiesJG_2024-03-08-07-06-19

All right, we take you all the way to North Jersey this morning for another edition of Main Street, New Jersey. We're in Norwood today. News, New Jersey's Lauren de is highlighting local businesses there. And Lauren, you're at Mindy's munchies. What are you snacking on? Ok. You ready to eat chocolate or at Mindy's munchies? There is a huge sign that says, come on in. So Raquel Marlo, what do you say? We go on in, let's go on in. We'll let Mark go at first, Mark, you could go get the candy first. We have the mayor here, people with Norwood this morning. I mean, what a, what a store? Look at all this chocolate. This is amazing. What do you sell here? Don't you sell? I mean, what don't we sell is a lot of like we are so happy with all our Oreos. Look at all of these. You are so unique now, especially we have things that you're not gonna get anywhere else. So if you look over here, the ultimate Smore is one of my favorite all time favorite. It's perfect for any event. And then if you don't like marshmallows, let me bring you over to all our chocolate covered pretzels. You're not gonna get these anywhere whenever I bring them somewhere. Everyone's like, where did you get them? Mindy's munchies? I don't even see a drop of chocolate. I think they're all covered with sprinkles and M and MS, everything is hand dipped. Every single item is personally hand dipped. Ok? And this is also gonna be franchised too. Marlo. Where are you bringing Mindy's Mindy's munchies to Portland Maine. There you go. New Jersey goes to me and New Jersey comes to me. So what else do you offer here? Because you have parties. You have a huge party room back here. This is great. We do birthday parties. We do ladies night out. Um, they're fantastic events. They are. Um, yeah, well, what age group do you recommend for these parties? Um, kids from 6 to 11 have are the perfect age. Ladies can be any age for ladies night. We supply um sushi, a nice salad. Um, a whole bunch of different things to dip. Um, bring your own wine. Um, kids parties. We do. Oh, a whole bunch of stuff. We start off with dipping chocolate pizza. Um, cupcakes. You got a lot going on, you got a lot going on homemade and you have all the chocolate set up over there for us. Mayor. What, what are you eyeing up over here? What are you gonna do? I love a chocolate covered Oreo. It over to a chocolate covered Oreo. All right guys. What do you say? We have some Oreos, chocolate covered Oreos. Let's do it. Look at this Saint Patrick's Day. Easter covered. We're in Norwood this morning.

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Main street, New Jersey on this Friday takes us to North Jersey Norwood today. New some New Jersey's Lauren de is highlighting local businesses. Now she's at fantastic food and flavors. Lauren. Ok. We are at fantastic foods and flavors. Guess what? You don't need a passport to get here. We are in New Jersey Lama. One of the owners here. This is fantastic. Tell everyone at home what this place is all about. Thank you. Thank you. Um This is a Mediterranean food market with imports from Lebanon, Italy, France and Spain. We have artisanal goods as well as consumable items in our food market. Um We also serve breakfast, lunch and dinner seven days a week but more to come on that a little later. Yeah, we're gonna spend two segments here because you have so much. Let's show everyone. Let's go shopping, let's go shopping in Beirut. Yes. Yes, this is great. This is our Lebanese section. As you can see. We have lovely soaps. We have um Zaatar and then over here we're entering our Italy Milan, let's go to Milan Napoli. Let's go to Naples a little Paris. Yeah. Um France and then Spain and these are all specialties that you would get in each country. Everything has been curated and imported from those four countries. Um And then back here we have fresh pasta, we have charcuterie, imported cheeses, an olive bar, we have cakes, pastries, chocolates. Macaron. Really trying to cater to every kind of foodie. This is a go out of your way, please. If you were a foodie in New Jersey and you don't have a passport if it expired. Like mine did. You got to come here and you're also doing classes too. And that correct? On bails Monday. Right. Monday. Our co, our FFF academy which is cooking classes with Mediterranean cuisine for um, all age groups and lama. You're gonna have some food for us next time we come back. Right. I naked time. Goodbye. I'm not in New Jersey anymore. Just kidding. Back to you. We're in Norwood.

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mediterranean2_2024-03-08-10-42-36

It's another edition of Main Street, New Jersey here on a Friday. And today we are in Norwood. Our Lauren Du has been highlighting local businesses. She's still at fantastic food and flavors, trying some food. Lauren. Ok. We are still at fantastic foods and flavors la. You hooked us up this morning. Ok. So tell us what we have a little bit about this place. Of course. So we're a Mediterranean market with imported goods from Lebanon. It to leave France and Spain behind me is our marketplace. But now we'd like to show everyone our cooking skills. So we have breakfast, lunch and dinner, seven days a week from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. And these are just some of the items we'd like to highlight and these are definitely go out of your way places. You have a great parking lot here too. So you don't need to take a plane to get here. Just drive your car. Yep. Yep. So here we have a very traditional way of serving eggs from Lebanon called Bed BFF. Just means clay in Lebanese. We have a sa which is a Lebanese flatbread and we did two combinations today. We did our zaatar combo versus our cheese. We then from France are showcasing our nutella crep uh over here and then some coffee. And you're saying this is not espresso and it looks like it. What is it? That's a Lebanese coffee right there. Put these sugars in there, soaked up sugars too. It's like the shape of a rose and then we have a mini madeleine from France and what is the matter? And uh Jordan, right? What do you guys have going on? Well, it looks like we have some pizza, pepperoni, some paella and llama. I'm sorry, what is this called? Again? Here we have a Lebanese lamaine which is again cooked on massage, but it's ground beef. We have a Keta platter over here. Um and then over there we have our soup of the day which is a cream of mushroom soup. Jordan. You're having soup at 8 a.m. There you go. And Juno, what do you got? What do you got? Juno? Some candies. I a little bit of a chop Carol fresh delivery, right for you. Look at that our Lebanese dessert called Ismail and then um some cheese tastings from France and Spain complete with the flag on top. Yeah. Lma. This is amazing, fantastic foods and flavors. They truly is fantastic. Nick and Simon. Let me know what you want. I can package it up and take it right to you.

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86vineJG_2024-03-08-08-19-10

For today's main street, New Jersey. We take you all the way north to Norwood News. 12, New Jersey's Lauren de has been highlighting local businesses. It's been a fun morning. Lots of food. Lauren. Where are you now? Ok, last stop, we're gonna have a lot of fun. We have Frank here. 86 and Vine. Ok. We have a lot going on here. What's going on? We have a lot of stuff going on. Uh First and foremost. Welcome into our cocktail bar wine parlor. We have a variety of different foods available to you. We have to do our own customized boards and own charcuterie boards. We have a variety of flatbread pizzas. We make all our cocktails in house. We have 55 wines by the glass. So there's a lot of stuff going on here. Give us a shake. Let's go. Let's give everyone a shake this morning. We can do it this morning. Here we go. It's all about the shake. The aesthetic here is just really great. Thank you. I appreciate it. I love it. I love the ceiling down to the tiles. We have the mayor that's chopping here. He's ready to go. You ready to go? Oh, it's great. This is a great establishment here in the borough of Norwood. All right, Frank, let's take everyone to the wine vending machine. Frank, a wine vending machine. How does that work? Yeah. So, pretty much, uh, we had these machines flown in from Italy. It gives you the opportunity to try 24 different wines at all different poor levels. And if you like the wine, you get to purchase it right over here in the bottom. I mean, some of these are pretty, they're up there and you get to taste them, which is pretty cool. I mean, when was the last time you got to try something that was 100 and $70. Definitely. I don't remember that one or probably ever. And then if you want, you have all, you have everything here. You have retail space here as well. Exactly. We have our master seller over here on the left side. We have 460 wines that have all been tasted by me so that you ensure that we're selling you something that I would drink personally and all price points too. By the way, something is less than $20 in here. You don't need to spend $180 for a bottle. But if you look at that, this is so great. You got the, I love the Chesterfield sofa that you have here. I love the Vibe Mary. We have a great spot here in Norwood. I mean, this is for, if you're a wino, you're a foodie. This is fantastic. Well, we have a great variety of different businesses here in Norwood. We are, uh, excited. Our downtown has come a long way over the last 10 years and we look forward to, uh, successful businesses and, uh, a great, great and Jordan, you're having a fun morning with us here. We're all, we're eating. We had a lot of food this morning guys. We're in Norwood, Lauren Dune. I love New Jersey. Sign my neck, tell me what you want. I'm gonna go take one for you. Ok?

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News 12’s Lauren Due visited a coffee shop, a confectionary, a Mediterranean restaurant and a liquor store for this week's Main Street New Jersey. 

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