{"id":2707,"date":"2014-12-26T18:16:36","date_gmt":"2014-12-26T23:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=2707"},"modified":"2014-12-26T18:16:36","modified_gmt":"2014-12-26T23:16:36","slug":"iconic-jersey-shore-restaurant-bar-torn-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2014\/12\/iconic-jersey-shore-restaurant-bar-torn-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Iconic Jersey Shore Restaurant, Bar Torn Down"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Demolition at the Berkeley Restaurant and Seafood Market, South Seaside Park. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n

Neighbors came, cameras in hand, Friday to say goodbye to the Berkeley Restaurant and Fish Market, which shut down in September after 77 years of serving fresh seafood to the Jersey Shore area.<\/p>\n

The Berk, as locals called it, opened in 1937 and later expanded to the two-story building that sat near the gate to Island Beach State Park ever since in the South Seaside Park section of Berkeley Township. A bar was added in the 1990s, solidifying the restaurant\u2019s status of an iconic Shore establishment where dates, laughs and plenty of fresh seafood and drinks were served day and night.<\/p>\n

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The restaurant was torn down Friday. By 2 p.m., a wrecking crew had all four walls down and the entire place \u2013 which survived Superstorm Sandy \u2013 had been reduced to rubble.<\/p>\n

Nick and Carol Barulic, the restaurant\u2019s owners, said they decided to close The Berk because they were retiring. In an announcement made on Facebook in August, the couple said it was a \u201cbittersweet\u201d decision for them to make after running the restaurant for 40 years.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe thank everyone in our past; our friends, our family; our employees past and present and all our patrons over the years,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n

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As for the demolition, \u201cSo many memories, lives, and loves will disappear in a matter of hours,\u201d the owners said earlier this week, in another social media post. \u201cSo many memories, lives, and loves will disappear in a matter of hours.\u201d<\/p>\n

The property on which the restaurant was built has been sold to the state in order to expand Island Beach State Park.<\/p>\n

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Demolition at the Berkeley Restaurant and Seafood Market, South Seaside Park. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n

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\u00a0 Neighbors came, cameras in hand, Friday to say goodbye to the Berkeley Restaurant and Fish Market, which shut down in September after 77 years of serving fresh seafood to the Jersey Shore area. The Berk, as locals called it, opened in 1937 and later expanded to the two-story building that sat near the gate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[77,765,24,669],"class_list":["post-2707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ocean-county","tag-barrier-island","tag-berkeley-restaurant-and-fish-market","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-south-seaside-park"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_0263.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-HF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}