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Tony Caputo

tops diner

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The best of New Jersey takes us to tops diner this morning in East New York. Yeah, our Tony Caputo is there. He's been talking all morning long how he's blown away. Tony. I'm describing this diner as even though it's old and historic to a degree, but it's the 2023 version of how diner should be. I mean, I've been saying all morning long, it's like the Seinfeld episode. I'm blown away. I mean, the whole time everything I see in here, I'm absolutely blown away. You got folks behind the bar now ready to go, ready to make some delicious drinks like these Jimmy Galina is with us. He's the owner here. You own it with your brothers and it's brothers who get along. Absolutely. I couldn't do this without them. I say it all the time. You work with your family. That's the question I asked. Do you get along? Absolutely. We love it. We love working together. We appreciate everything we do and we're humble and we just love being a part of the community over here and representing, you know, diners in New Jersey and we feel like we want represented to the fullest and you set the bar high. We love, we love New Jersey and we love, uh, tops diner. You set the bar high. What are, what are these are, uh, memos? I'm drinking a bellini over here, believe it or not. Uh, sometimes I look around the restaurant on a Sunday and I see more mimosas and Beli and cups of coffee, which is, it just shocks me, you know, and it's a great thing now enjoying themselves. They're, they're just having a good time here and that's what we want. We want to bring happiness to people. We want them to come out here and, uh, have a good time. Wow, here we go. I mean, last hour we talked about chicken and waffles. Are you kidding me? I mean, we have to put out, it's too big to put on one plate. Wow. Wow, that's a meal. That's a meal. Wow. Lucky Rudy is here with me, photojournalist, Rudy Boat. Uh, Jimmy, this is, this is, this is mind blowing. If I ate all that I would not die just for a week, Jimmy. You know, I couldn't move. Yeah, it's crazy. It's definitely a meal where it's, it's filling. But, uh, we, uh, hand batter ourselves. It's pressure fried juicy. You can see the, you know, the juice is coming out right there. Wow, we've got Mike's hot honey over there. It's so, oh my gosh. I want to be careful because I want to let Rudy and anybody else who wants some have some as well. But I'm going to dig right in too. I mean, you were telling us last hour you need a reservation basically to get in here on the weekdays. Like right now you don't, the place holds 300 people. We've got 50 60 tables in here. So it's vice versa. I mean, weekends definitely make a reservation coming out for lunch. You know, depending if it's a holiday reservation. But there's chances sometimes where you come in and there's open tables. So we recommend both but always recommend to make a reservation that way we know you're coming and we can get the best handball available for you. The ladies were like, it's too early. Don't put, I'm sorry, ladies, I can be rude like that. Oh, the other one ran away. I think she took off on it. It's never too early. It's too early. They are getting it done this morning and it's fantastic. Jimmy Gale, owner to Steiner. I think you have set the bar for diners here in the garden state. You have set the bar, my friend. We'll talk to you again next hour. Fantastic. I'm not moving. I'll be here next hour because I'm not moving for an hour right now. Enjoy. They're gonna have to wheel you out. I know I was gonna say he's not moving because he's going to eat all that. He's not moving because he can't literally move I wonder if he's gonna drink all that too. Those drinks look good. Those Bellini text us if you do tell me absolutely great. Now, if you have a place that's the best of New Jersey. Well, we want to know about it. Email us at news 12 N J at news 12 dot com. Or just put it on our social media pages.

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 News 12 New Jersey’s Tony Caputo visited Tops Diner in East Newark to check out the menu and updated design.

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News 12 New Jersey’s Tony Caputo visited Tops Diner in East Newark to check out the menu and updated design.

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