I bar-hopped for the 1st time in 15 months. It was glorious. Updated May 08, 2021; Posted May 08, 2021 Trevor Grossman prepares a drink at Laylow in Asbury Park Friday night, as bar seating resumes among loosening COVID-19 restrictions. John Jones | For NJ Advance Media Facebook Share New Jersey is finally healing, one cocktail at a time. As bar seating officially resumed across the state Friday, the latest of Gov. Phil Murphy’s loosened pandemic restrictions as COVID-19 wanes, Asbury Park was ready to party. Bars and restaurants throughout the Jersey Shore social hub were largely full, as gaggles of patrons wandered the Cookman Avenue downtown drag in search of their next beer.