Be honest. How many stores, bars, or restaurants do you know that are so great you’d be willing to drive more than an hour?
Especially in New Jersey, where driving is a stress-filled combat sport. I’m looking at you, GSP South on a Friday afternoon in summer. A national survey of thousands of people was done by Advance Funds Network to see which small businesses across the country are so popular their regular customers would be willing to drive over an hour to experience them.
To inspire such passionate devotion, most of them were about food, but not all. Some exceptions were Easy Street Records in West Seattle, Washington and Chamblin Bookmine in Jacksonville, Florida.
Here in New Jersey, the most drive-worthy small business though was indeed a restaurant. It’s in Bradley Beach, and it’s been around a since 1947.
Vic’s Italian Restaurant
Vittorio “Vic” Giunco and his wife Carmella immigrated from Genoa, Italy in the early 1900s. Vittorio eventually opened a bar in Bradley Beach when prohibition ended which was very successful…