Jersey City Parks Coalition

Celebrate Jersey City’s dynamic food scene and enjoy a delicious three-course dinner in one of our beautiful parks. Each dinner will be created by a guest chef, and all proceeds will support the Jersey City Parks Coalition in our mission to empower residents to develop, renovate, use and maintain their community parks and public spaces of Jersey City; thereby revitalizing neighborhoods and lifting communal and human spirits.

Please contact us with any food allergies or for vegan/vegetarian options.

Dinners Start at 6p Sharp!

Chef Mory Thomas. Square 1 Community Eatery, 283 St. Paul's Avenue, Jersey City

About Square 1

Our menu focuses on solid, global culinary techniques, celebrating deliciously fresh, wholesome, and natural ingredients served in a friendly and relaxing environment. It consists of grab and go or made-to-order items in the mornings and offering up wholesome grain and vegetable driven salads, simple yet delicious sandwiches and seasonally appropriate soups as well as locally roasted coffee, great teas, bakery items and desserts. We have options for all lifestyles: meat lovers, vegan, gluten-free and vegetarians alike.
We hope to provide this nourishing and delicious food within a much needed down-to-earth and friendly environment. Come experience all we have to offer.

Special thanks to ShopRite/Inserra Supermarkets, Liberty Realty | THE SKOLAR GROUP, Citizen’s Bank, Kobrick Coffee, and Chef’s Warehouse for sponsoring this event.

Hospitality courtesy of Alex Sartoga and Haven House

Logo and graphic design by Catalina Aranguren of Argia photography

  Please, join our monthly community meeting to learn about the different projects The Jersey City Parks Coalition is working to benefit your park. Have a park-related idea? Bring it to the table and we can certainly discuss it. Meet the leaders of your respective community parks. Location: Lincoln Park Administration Building, (Past the Casino Building)  

Plates for Parks at Van Vorst Park
Celebrate Jersey Citys dynamic food scene and enjoy a delicious three-course dinner in one of our beautiful parks. Each dinner will be created by a guest chef, and all proceeds will support the Jersey City Parks Coalition in our mission to empower residents to develop, renovate, use and maintain their community parks and public spaces of Jersey City; thereby revitalizing neighborhoods and lifting communal and human spirits.
Please contact us with any food allergies or for vegan/vegetarian options.
Dinners starts at 6p Sharp!

Tickets are available for purchase using the Brown Paper Tickets link below:

https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4253377

Chef Colleen Christi Willett, Co-Owner of Bread & Spoon, Jersey City

About Colleen Christi Willett -

Colleen Christi Willett is the Chef & Co-Owner of Bread & Spoon, a catering and specialty baked goods company that focuses on balanced, delicious, accessible meals for everyone. She runs Bread & Spoon with her husband, Steve.

Colleen believes cooking and eating healthfully should be fun, delicious, interesting and most importantly, shared. Sourcing, preparing and discovering the components that go into each meal allows us to be more in touch with the flavors, aromas and nuances of the foods we eat, their impact on our local economy, and on our planet. Bread & Spoon sources over 80% of its produce, meats and seafood from vendors and providers within 75 miles of Jersey City.

Special thanks to ShopRite/Inserra Supermarkets, Leda Duif of Sawyer Smith Residential, Green Villain, The Tenmarc Building, and Chefs Warehouse for sponsoring this event.
Hospitality courtesy of Alex Sartoga and Haven House
Logo and graphic design by Catalina Aranguren of Argia photography

Please, join our monthly community meeting to learn about the different projects The Jersey City Parks Coalition is working to benefit your park. Have a park-related idea? Bring it to the table and we can certainly discuss it. Meet the leaders of your respective community parks. Location: Pershing Field Vietnam Veterans Community Center  

Please, join our monthly community meeting to learn about the different projects The Jersey City Parks Coalition is working to benefit your park. Have a park-related idea? Bring it to the table and we can certainly discuss it. Meet the leaders of your respective community parks. Location: Lincoln Park Administration Building, (Past the Casino Building)

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