There is something very Jersey City about finding one of the area’s most talked-about brunch plates inside a revived old luncheonette on Montgomery Street. Cafe Alyce does not sit on a glossy waterfront strip or wave people in with a giant neon brunch gimmick.
It lives at 641 Montgomery Street in McGinley Square, across from The Beacon, in a corner of the city where neighborhood regulars still matter more than trend-hunting crowds.
The space once housed the Medical Center Luncheonette, and the new version keeps a bit of that old-school bones-and-breakfast energy while serving a menu that jumps from bulgogi beef breakfast skillets to shakshuka grits, butter chicken, house-cured salmon, and cocktails at a vintage bar…