NJ Business Openings, Closings: New Restaurants, Breweries, More

NEW JERSEY - Good morning, New Jersey Patch readers! Welcome to Patch’s Garden State Business Brief, a short round up of storefront openings and closings around New Jersey.

Openings

• The newest Burlington store is getting ready to open its doors in New Jersey’s largest city.
• Feeling hungry? A new authentic Mexican restaurant has opened its doors in Manahawkin.
• Asbury Park Brewery opened to the public in its brand-new home on Friday.
• Premo Cannabis, the brand-new marijuana dispensary in Keyport, opened earlier this month.
• A Bloomie's store (a new concept launched by Bloomingdale's) is scheduled to open this fall 2024 at the Grove, the high-end collection of shops/eateries on the Red Bank/Shrewsbury border.
• Vacationers will have a new luxury hotel to stay in this summer with the opening of Coastal Chateau, Ocean City's first "BiteSized" boutique hotel. It opened Memorial Day weekend.
• Bakeria 1010, what was once one of South Jersey's most popular pizzerias is returning this summer with a new home in Ocean City.
• Cherry Hill Mall signed leases for several new businesses expected to open within the next year: Alo Yoga, Kendra Scott, Dry Goods, Rowan and more are all slated to open storefronts at the mall.
• Raccoon Taproom in Collingswood will hold its grand opening June 1, bringing new life to the former site of Devil's Creek — Collingswood's first craft brewery, which shuttered in December.
• Classic Cake has opened a new store in Cherry Hill at the Short Hills Shopping Center (486 Evesham Rd.) The bakery was among several establishments consumed in a fire at the strip mall in March 2020 — weeks before COVID-19 restrictions took root in New Jersey, sending businesses into further upheaval.

Closings

• A hardware store in Montclair is closing after more than a century in business.
• Another Bloomfield deli, Benny’s Deli Café, has closed up shop at 220 Hoover Avenue.
• TGI Fridays has closed its Brick Township location, according to reports, five months after it shuttered seven other New Jersey locations without warning.
• Sam Ash, once one of the nation's biggest retailers of musical instruments, will close all locations, including the Cherry Hill store.