Tagged, food style

OK, damn it, I got tagged by Jin to do this survey.

The rules are simple. (Insert Tobin Bell voice: I just watched "Saw III.")

1. Add a direct link to your post below the name of the person who tagged you.
Include the city/state and country you’re in.

Nicole (Sydney, Australia)
velverse (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
LB (San Giovanni in Marignano, Italy)
Selba (Jakarta, Indonesia)
Olivia (London, England)
ML (Utah, USA)
Lotus (Toronto, Canada)
tanabata (Saitama, Japan)
Andi (Dallas [ish], Texas, United States)
Lulu (Chicago, Illinois, United States)
Chris (Boyne City, Michigan, United States)
AB (Cave Creek, Arizona, United States)
Johnny Yen (Chicago, Illinois, USA)
Bubs (Mt Prospect, Illinois, USA)
jintrinsique (Manitowoc, Wisconsin, USA)
Ace (Hillsborough, New Jersey, USA)

2. List out your top 5 favorite places to eat at your location.

3. Tag 5 other people (preferably from other countries/states) and let them know they’ve been tagged.

Here goes. Now, the rules say restaurants "in your location," so I'm going to stick with Jersey, rather than my five favorite restaurants anywhere, which might include Pennsylvania and other places. Plus, I'm going to skip places like Saladworks, the national chains that can afford their own advertising.

And Jin, you can't tell me copying all those f-ing links in the list wasn't a pain in the ass! How the hell do you do it?

Well, here goes! (In no particular order...)

1. Makeda, New Brunswick, N.J.: Ethiopian food, and the place I went on my first date with Marisa. Try the mushed-up lentil dish whose name I can never remember.
2. Old Man Rafferty's, Hillsborough, N.J.: A nice local chain version of the bar-and-grill variety, featuring fat sandwiches and many desserts. Big reubens and pastrami-on-ryes, etc.
3. Los Jalapenos, Hillsborough, N.J.: Real Mexican food made by real Mexicans, according to the menu (I couldn't find a Web site). They make great chilaquiles, and the tacos are the kind with radishes and cilantro, at only $2 each.
4. The restaurant formerly known as R.U.B. Hut, Manville, N.J.: The former maker of the best cheesesteaks in Hillsborough moved to Manville and went into BBQ. Expensive as hell, but oh-so-tasty. I get my ribs glazed.
5. Alfonso's, Hillsborough, N.J.: My local pizza joint, which is a nice little full-service Italian place. Pizza, spaghetti and meat sauce, calamari, the usual goodies.

And the tagging...

Um, Jewels already got tagged, and Jin tagged me, so it's not like I can come up with a lot of variety, here.

Marisa and The Lesley are here in Jersey. Stewie and Freak are in Maryland and Norman is moving somewhere.

Zoinks. I make no promises any of them will partake. But they're tagged!