Stretch's Chicken Savoy

Monello

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Elegant in it's simplicity. Good story. It's the state dish of New Jersey.

Celebrity customers are just one part of the Belmont's repute. A far greater part is evidenced by a sign visible from the sidewalk: Stretch's Chicken Savoy. There are plenty of dishes available on the Italian-American menu, but this is the one people come for, from near and far. It's a simple dish: Cut-up chicken rubbed down with a fat handful of garlic, hard cheese, and herbs, then roasted in a screaming-hot oven and splashed with vinegar, which sends aromas of schmaltz and spice right up to your nose.
It's now a dish found all over—but only in—northern New Jersey, and as with most hyper-regional foods, its devotees are as idiosyncratic as its birthplace.

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Monello

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Belmont tavern chicken savoy facebook picture. Sure has a lot of likes and fanatics of this dish.

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Monello

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Asking What Exit is a NJ joke.

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