Light Horse Tavern--Jersey City

201-437-8650

So the burbs has been unkind, at least culinarily.  The ol' wifey wife thought we should migrate to a slightly more urban area, but not traipse into the city.  The toll and a half an hour of baby sitting time is cost preventative, so Jersey City was a good pragmatic choice.  She did her research and decided on the Light Horse, a seemingly Brooklynesque bar with a comprehensive pub grub meets classic American cuisine menu.  I was hoping to find something akin to Walter's foods in Brooklyn, what I found was a mouthful of shit.

Let's start with the raw bar.  Gross, gross and grosser. It simply wasn't fresh.  Besides that, it was flavorless.  And gross.  And awful. Man, I'm sorry I can't give you more of description but what this restaurant delivered escapes words. The burger was average.  The drinks average.  Just nothing special. A plain old boring burger and beer, cleverly disguised within a seemingly hipster bar.  There was a gaggle of lanky twenty-something's celebrating a bachelorette party, and somehow even that sucked.  Perhaps the most prevalent mistake though was the lighting.  As in, there was none.  The lights when out over our table for a solid five minutes.  As we fumbled around in the dark our server repeatedly walked by without bringing me some rice crisps that weren't stale, and all we could do was laugh.

The food was passable if you're in missouri, but you're in the shadow of NYC which is a mere $14 and ten minutes by car and I'm telling you now just keep going.  I promised a while ago that I wouldn't bash non NYC restaurants as it's an unfair standard by which to compare.  This place was so atrocious, that I feel this is a public service record.