Tamborim Brings Brazilian Cuisine to Jersey City - Eater NY
"Tamborim ('tambourine'), a Brazilian restaurant that opened last December, just a few steps from the PATH station. It was founded by Michael Casalinho, who is Portuguese and grew up in a Brazilian neighborhood in Newark’s Ironbound. Tamborim is a cave of a place, with a Brazilian theme to the décor, including distressed wood walls opposite a long bar with basket-woven stools, and a ceiling that soars to two stories, dwarfing intimate tables set in niches. A wall of sugarcane stalks stands at the end of the room, while the open front of the restaurant spills tables tucked among potted palms onto the sidewalk. Brazilian cuisine not only incorporates indigenous and Portuguese elements, but also African and Middle Eastern ones in a cuisine loaded with seafood and river fish, pork and beef, and tropical fruits and vegetables. Starch staples favor corn, tapioca, and yuca, but little wheat." - Robert Sietsema
