Ice cream on a bitter cold day. Red vinyl booths and warm wood panelling. A soda fountain, trays of homemade candy; vintage lantern sconces, a quaint mural. The booth where Tony Soprano (maybe) died.
How can you not be nostaglic about Holsten’s in Bloomfield, one of our readers’ choices for a most essential restaurant in North Jersey?
In a world of fast-casual eateries and viral food trends, Holsten’s Ice Cream, Chocolate and Restaurant is an anachronism. That’s the appeal: its warmth, its familiarity and its simplicity…