Had dinner in Ironbound yesterday (Newark, Elizabeth: high school, professionals, restaurants)
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I had dinner in Ironbound yesterday. I ate at Adega Grill. Man, that roast suckling pig is salty.
Ironbound is such a unique and peculiar place to me. A middle class brazilian ethnic hub in the middle of grimy Newark, Elizabeth, and Hudson County on top of being smack in the heart of NNJ's (if not the whole country's) most densely packed urban area.
Are Brazilians big in Newark's political machine? Did The Sopranos ever do an episode featuring this place? They should have. I hear Portuguese but also a lot of vernacular american english. I dont think I ever met a Brazilian American before. I only met handful of brazilians working as wait staff/restaurants, BJJ instructors or strippers. I had no idea they have their own hub. Even the Green Fields Churrascaria in Hackensack is owned by a Korean.
What is the stereotypical occupation of Brazilians in America? Does these people ever leave their hub?
there was a period when i was probably in high school that my mom would pick up my brother in newark airport with me and then take us to a portuguese restaurant in newark. it still strikes me as a strange thing for my mom to have done.
I don’t know the exact demographics, but I associate Ironbound more with Portuguese than Brazilian.
It's traditionally Portuguese and some Spanish, too. My friend grew up there, and her parents were born in Spain.
But, since NJ has such an influx of Brazilians over the past 10 - 15 years, some have come to the ironbound because Portuguese is their language, and some of the restaurants now feature rodizio, which is a Brazilian grilled meat fest.
It's traditionally Portuguese and some Spanish, too. My friend grew up there, and her parents were born in Spain.
But, since NJ has such an influx of Brazilians over the past 10 - 15 years, some have come to the ironbound because Portuguese is their language, and some of the restaurants now feature rodizio, which is a Brazilian grilled meat fest.
I had dinner in Ironbound yesterday. I ate at Adega Grill. Man, that roast suckling pig is salty.
Ironbound is such a unique and peculiar place to me. A middle class brazilian ethnic hub in the middle of grimy Newark, Elizabeth, and Hudson County on top of being smack in the heart of NNJ's (if not the whole country's) most densely packed urban area.
Are Brazilians big in Newark's political machine? Did The Sopranos ever do an episode featuring this place? They should have. I hear Portuguese but also a lot of vernacular american english. I dont think I ever met a Brazilian American before. I only met handful of brazilians working as wait staff/restaurants, BJJ instructors or strippers. I had no idea they have their own hub. Even the Green Fields Churrascaria in Hackensack is owned by a Korean.
What is the stereotypical occupation of Brazilians in America? Does these people ever leave their hub?
I know a couple Brazilians who are white collar professionals. Brazilians come in different varieties, northern Brazilians typically have Native and African lineage (from the Slave trade there that started before and lasted longer than in the US), however anyone that probably meet travelling abroad is from Central and South Brazil which are primarily German and Italian decent and for the most part look like a typical Fredo from old school Newark.
I had dinner in Ironbound yesterday. I ate at Adega Grill. Man, that roast suckling pig is salty.
Ironbound is such a unique and peculiar place to me. A middle class brazilian ethnic hub in the middle of grimy Newark, Elizabeth, and Hudson County on top of being smack in the heart of NNJ's (if not the whole country's) most densely packed urban area.
Are Brazilians big in Newark's political machine? Did The Sopranos ever do an episode featuring this place? They should have. I hear Portuguese but also a lot of vernacular american english. I dont think I ever met a Brazilian American before. I only met handful of brazilians working as wait staff/restaurants, BJJ instructors or strippers. I had no idea they have their own hub. Even the Green Fields Churrascaria in Hackensack is owned by a Korean.
What is the stereotypical occupation of Brazilians in America? Does these people ever leave their hub?
Agree, it is an interesting place. Used to have a customer located in the Ironbound district, and lunched at one or two of the places.
Thanks. Couldn't think of that word. That's the meat fest.
It's also referred to as "Rodizio".
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