{"id":201,"date":"2016-12-16T02:03:26","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T07:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=201"},"modified":"2016-12-16T10:55:33","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T15:55:33","slug":"mellow-mushroom-restaurant-to-open-in-toms-river-on-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2016\/12\/mellow-mushroom-restaurant-to-open-in-toms-river-on-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Mellow Mushroom Restaurant, Bar to Open in Toms River on Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_202\" style=\"width: 730px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-202\" class=\"size-full wp-image-202\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/mellow_mushroom_bar_toms_river.jpg\" alt=\"The bar at Mellow Mushroom, Toms River. (Photo: Mellow Mushroom)\" width=\"720\" height=\"637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/mellow_mushroom_bar_toms_river.jpg 720w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/mellow_mushroom_bar_toms_river-300x265.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/mellow_mushroom_bar_toms_river-475x420.jpg 475w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/mellow_mushroom_bar_toms_river-640x566.jpg 640w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/mellow_mushroom_bar_toms_river-681x602.jpg 681w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-202\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The bar at Mellow Mushroom, Toms River. (Photo: Mellow Mushroom)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Fans awaiting the grand opening of the first Mellow Mushroom restaurant in New Jersey will only have to wait a few more days.<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant&#8217;s first location in New Jersey,\u00a0located in the Harvard Square shopping center,\u00a01111\u00a0Route 37 west, will open Monday, Dec. 19, the restaurant chain said via social media\u00a0this week. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pg\/MellowMushroomTomsRiver\/photos\/?ref=page_internal\">location<\/a> had opened its doors to employees and their friends and family members last week, sparking rumors that it was open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>At a township council meeting this week, the governing body approved the transfer of a liquor license to the establishment. The license was moved\u00a0from inactive status \u2013 it had previously been <a href=\"http:\/\/micromediapubs.com\/liquor-license-transfer-route-37\/\">used by a gentlemen&#8217;s club<\/a> \u2013 to active status upon the transfer, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Mellow Mushroom is known for its pizza, calzones and hoagies \u2013 but it goes beyond the average pizzeria. The chain\u00a0offers a full bar with ultra-modern-meets retro decor, craft beers aplenty, a vegetarian and gluten free menu, plus\u00a0frequent events and entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant will be open from 11 a.m. to 2 a.m.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2016\/12\/mellow-mushroom-restaurant-to-open-in-toms-river-on-monday\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fans awaiting the grand opening of the first Mellow Mushroom restaurant in New Jersey will only have to wait a few more days. The restaurant&#8217;s first location in New Jersey,\u00a0located in the Harvard Square shopping center,\u00a01111\u00a0Route 37 west, will open Monday, Dec. 19, the restaurant chain said via social media\u00a0this week. The location had opened [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[49,11],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-toms-river-life","tag-mellow-mushroom","tag-toms-river-nj-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/mellow_mushroom_bar_toms_river.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}