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Gross has owned Fat Jack's since 1992; he franchised the restaurants for a time but said he gradually shut them down, not happy with franchisees who he said didn't operate up to his standards. He's been in the storefront at the south end of the Black Horse Pike for about two years, with a small but welcoming storefront in a shopping center that also includes a Dollar General, a car wash, a CVS and other small businesses like a check-cashing outlet, a gym and a pizza place. With the restaurant still closed to indoor dining, the family is renovating an old Pizza Hut building on the Black Horse...

Holy smokes! BBQ smoker swiped from NJ business Photo Credit: Fat Jack's BBQ Have you seen Fat Jack's smoker? Fat Jack's BBQ, a longtime South Jersey barbecue business on South Black Horse Pike in Williamstown is asking for the public's help after someone stole it's $30,000 smoker. Owner Glenn Gross took to the business' Facebook page to write "smoking meats is the lifeline of our business." Some time after the eatery closed 8 p.m. Sunday, June 13, and opened Monday morning at 9, someone swiped the smoker, which was both booted and locked. He said this is the second time the smoker had been s...

N.J’s 32 greatest BBQ joints, ranked, for National Barbecue Month Updated 9:04 AM; Today 6:45 AM Ribs, pulled pork, brisket sandwiches, The Bearded One, Rt. 33, Monroe (Middlesex County) Peter Genovese I NJ Advance Media for NJ.com Facebook Share Nothing gets me going quite like the smell of smoked meats: ribs, brisket, chicken, you name it. Sunday is National Barbecue Day, part of May’s National Barbecue Month, which honors barbecue in general (burgers and dogs on the grill, etc.), but here we’re talking traditional Southern barbecue, one of my three desert island foods, along with d...

Before Highland Tap & Burger and Uncle moved into a row of storefronts at West 32nd Avenue and Vallejo Street, there was a divey Mexican bar and taqueria on the block called Aztec Sol. It was a little rough, the kind of place where fists might fly if you didn't follow the proper pool table etiquette. But the tacos were great, and the selection of tequila rivaled anywhere in town at the time — even the fancy gringo places. And you don't even have to look back a decade (Aztec Sol closed in 2011) to remember nearby Dickinson Plaza, home to a couple of local sandwich and coffee shops, among ot...

(3 out of 5 stars) "Let me preface this by saying that I am a huge fan of all three of these brilliant artists. Busdriver may be on of the greatest free style rappers in the US and Radioinactive's style and ability to use rhyme and alliteration to stream out dozens of words on each beat is damn near godly. Combine these two verbal wizards with Daedelus, who can turn 1940's soundtracks and keyboard sounds into techno benevolence, and you'd think you'd have the recipe to the greatest CD ever. Or not... Apparently, the grouping of these three mega talents spelled diaster when it came time to...