Hash House A Go Go is well-known in the Midwest and even Vegas, but this is the first eatery in N.J.
Eating, drinking and being merry appears to be on the menu for coming attractions at the Moorestown Mall.
Hash House A Go Go takes the farm to fork model and gives it a twist when it opens its first restaurant in New Jersey in December.
The menu offers oversized portions of Midwest inspired comfort food, serving breakfast, brunch, lunch and dinner daily. The restaurant will source many of its menu ingredients from local New Jersey farms.
“Our goal is to provide great service, great food, and great value – with portions just like your mama would serve you,” the company website said. That includes pancakes as big as “the steering wheel of a tractor.”
Happy hours featuring local beers and signature cocktails are also promised.
Another new restaurant brings a familiar name to a new Moorestown location. Joe Italiano’s Maplewood, a family-owned Italian restaurant for nearly 75 years with locations in Hammonton and Mays Landing, is renowned for its freshly-made pasta and celebrated meatballs in red sauce — a.k.a. “gravy”– as well as for signature seafood creations. The Moorestown location will put a fresh face on its menu with an array of brick-oven options.
It is also expected to open before the end of the year.
N.J. mall with empty space isn’t opening a Gap or Macy’s. It’s trying something different
Mall owners the Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust announced earlier this year that HomeSense and Sierra Trading Post were also recruited to fill the space of a Macy’s that closed here last year.
The Macy’s in the Moorestown Mall was one of three in New Jersey that closed in 2017.
PREIT is also partnering with an entrepreneurial incubator to offer space to startup companies in one of its premium malls.
The project is expected to premiere in November at the Cherry Hill Mall. It will feature a group of startup retail ventures in an 11,000 square-foot area near the mall’s flagship Nordstrom’s store. The Cherry Hill Mall, one of the first indoor malls on the East Coast, four miles away from Moorestown down Route 38.
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