If you're too highbrow to visit an arcade then let's call it a museum. They do have historical…read morebackground on the games. I learned about Mappy, obscure for good reasons, which oddly features a microwave in its cat-vs.-mouse battle. Silverball is acclaimed for its unique pinball collection but I veer more to video games, especially Super Breakout. An offseason weekday in Asbury Park means hotels aren't $400 but the boardwalk is also a bit too quiet at that time, so I'm thankful that Silverball helps create a sense of place year-round. (For my financial news nerds, Silverball's current rating average is 4.6 and there should be an "adjusted EPS"-type number that excludes any negative reviews about the food. I have nothing bad, or good, to say about Silverball's cuisine having never tried it but I assure you there's fine fare within the designated Asbury Park/Ocean Grove/Neptune/Bradley Beach Designated Metropolitan Area.)

What a great place to spend a day, with or without your kids, lol. It's an arcade that has numerous…read morepinball machines, skee ball, and other arcade type of games to play. The best thing is that whatever price that you pay, there is unlimited play time for that period of time that you purchased. NO digging for coins to feed into the machines, no time limit on the games, and there 's a whole assortment of different types of pinball machines and arcade games there to play. There's a concession area inside Silverball. Food served is typical for such a place as this, pizza, chicken nuggets, fries, food and drinks catering to children's tastes and priced reasonably. Definitely recommend visiting Silverball Arcade if you're in Asbury Park. You and your family will have a great time there:).

As a Christmas gift I treated my friends to a dinner where Matt Collins was the chef. Dinner was…read morewonderful. Matt brought everything- plates, glasses, all the food and spices and everything he needed to make a fantastic meal for all four of us. He showed up on time, and cleaned everything after he was finished cooking. Not only did he make four creative, savory courses, the food was just as aesthetically pleasing. I've since booked him for another event and can't wait to have him back. Chef Matt Collins is a skilled and entertaining chef.

I had Matt come to our home for our 2-year wedding anniversary, and let me tell u, he EXCEEDED our…read moreexpectations. He was so kind and personable, which made the experience a solid 20 out of 10. The food was INSANELY PERFECT, and we cannot wait to have him over again and again. You can only get food like this from someone that truly loves what they do. BOMB.COM

We had a few loose ideas and a hectic schedule. From that Lindsay took the ball and ran. She poured…read moreherself into every detail and made it a magical and enchanted evening. The guests left feeling deeply grateful for an extraordinary evening. Lindsay is affordable, hard working and imaginative.Highly recommended.

Let me preface this review by saying if you are thinking about getting a wedding planner in the…read moreNJ/NY area, definitely reach out to Lindsay! She is absolutely amazing and will help craft an event that is better than you could have imagined. She has been such a pleasure to work with, and would highly recommend her. Let me back up and give you some context. My husband and I knew we wanted to get married in NJ on my uncle's farm. The only problems with that were that we lived across the country in Portland and we didn't have a building to have the ceremony in. My husband and I also both worked full time jobs. We began to realize that we'd have some time constraints on our hands and hiring a wedding planner might not be a bad idea. After reading some reviews online, I reached out to a few planners and set up a couple of introductory calls to hear about their services and experiences. When I started talking to different wedding planner, every one of them started off by telling me about all of their packages and what was included in their service. Lindsay was different. Unlike the other planners who immediately went into their sales pitch, Lindsay wanted to hear our story and what we wanted in our wedding. It seemed like she genuinely wanted to help us create our special day, not just give us a cookie cutter list of services. This was such a refreshing and personal way of approaching wedding planning. I knew from that minute that I wanted her to plan my wedding. Lindsay of Simply Sunshine Events is an amazing events planner, coordinator, and event designer. She covers a wide array of events, from wedding and baby showers to corporate events and fundraisers. And every single review that I read about the company was simply glowing. Not only is she professional, candid, creative, and helpful, but she just seemed like someone who I would work well with. Ironically we both grew up super close to one another, so we instantly clicked on that part of our past. Even without that connection, I knew that we would get along well. We decided to get help on both the design portion as well as the planning portion of our wedding. I'm really not the most creative person in the world and I felt like we needed help putting together the overall vision. We were presented with a personalize design brief with a couple of different options. Once we decided on a vision, Lindsay was able to pick out vendor options that she thought would work well with the venue and overall theme. It was so much less overwhelming being able to choose out of a couple of highly recommended vendors than to have to choose from everyone in the area. Which leads me to another important thing that Lindsay brought to the table: experience. Not only has she worked with all of these people before, but she has seen all the ins and outs of doing a wedding at a "home" venue. Initially, we thought it would be more cost efficient and easier to have an at home wedding. However, it turns out that this makes the whole planning process much more difficult since we had to not only style a wedding but actually create a venue. Lindsay instantly knew all the things we needed to look into - a tent, flooring, a generator, bathrooms, the list goes on and on. She provided us super detail specific timelines of when we should do each task, as well as supplemental tools to assist us along the way. With Lindsay's help, my husband and I made a lot of the big decisions pretty early on in the planning process. I completely trusted Lindsay's opinion on vendors and that really worked out well for us. We had amazing food and cake tastings, had a florist meeting on site that was spot on, and have a Chaplain who gave me chills when going through ceremony options. The best part about the whole deal is that Lindsay can sometimes get her clients special discounts with vendors that she works with regularly, and passes those deals directly to her clients. Some planners will take those discounts as profits, but Lindsay has an awesome system where she charged us one flat fee for everything listed in her contract and helped us save money elsewhere. She was a huge help in constructing our budget and sticking to it. Overall, I'm so glad we worked with Simply Sunshine for both the planning and design part of our wedding. The wedding went off beautifully and I was so glad I could just relax and be fully present on the wedding day. Even though there was threat of rain all the way up to the actual day, we were able to execute a plan B (extra tents for the ceremony and cocktail hour) that most people had no idea was actually not what we originally intended. I was so thankful to have such an amazing team of vendors backing me up through the preparation and actual day, even when we threw curve balls at them. Simply Sunshine Events has made this whole planning process less stressful than I was initially expecting, and made our wedding day more amazing than I ever could have hoped for.

These people treat the vendors that work for them like garbage. They take your money but can't be…read morebothered to provide the service they promised. Supposed to get a credit for this year for being screwed over by them last year, and they haven't responded to my emails since promising it. beware.

Kitschen's is the catering arm associated with some of the best restaurants at the Jersey Shore,…read moreincluding Langosta Lounge and the Daphne Grill in Asbury Park. I was looking for a caterer a party at my home and they seemed like a perfect fit to make the evening special. I made a fantastic choice! Every single aspect of the experience was superb. Marie and her team made the arrangements easy and the event very special. The food was beyond my expectations, which were already high given my love for their restaurants. We had the Luau with a roast pig. Every single item was unbelievable. And when the party was winding down, they left our place looking even better than when they arrived without disrupting the party what-so-ever. If you are planning event I can't recommend Kitschen's more. Call Marie and enjoy an amazing evening.

Amanda was great. We contacted her with maybe a week and a half notice. She turned around a…read morefantastic menu and service was wonderful. Easy to work with and served great food. I highly recommend!

I was very skeptical about hiring of a day of coordinator at the beginning but what a great…read moredecision to move forward with Tara. Tara boxed everything off exactly how we imagined and managed the day perfectly as well as coordination the week prior. She was always accessible and extremely kind to all our guests and vendor yet assertive and efficient. Would highly recommend.

If you want to have a hassle free event, call Tara!!! I was all prepared to do it all myself, but…read morewas advised to GET HELP! We had two events in a row... We had our daughter's wedding ceremony for 75 people in our backyard on a Friday night, and her celebration party in Williamsburg (at the W Loft with 125 people) on Saturday night. We rented everything from tables to silverware, trees to LED lights, for both nights. The details seemed infinite and were something I really would not have handled well during my daughter's wedding/celebration parties. Tara was on top of everything and I never turned into Momzilla! Thanks, Tara, for making our events easy, wonderful, and chock full of only great memories!!

My second time using them and I can't say enough good things about them. Great service, and…read moreequipment

If I could give them 0 stars I would. They probably have their own people rating them so don't be…read morefooled by the reviews like I was. Absolute trash service. I will attach pictures just to show proof of how disgusting and dirty their quality is. Rented from them for my bridal shower, bring it in with it filled with dirt and holes all over. Dance floor was cracked and chipped everywhere. They delivered it on Monday call them back and tell them all of this. The lady's response is "well this is a rental company so there is going to be ware and tear", spent almost $3,000 and that is the response I get no apology or anything. She then tells me that she is going to have her manager call me, this was at 2pm I call no response back. I email them and she claims she called but they do seem to tend to lie so I didn't get any call. finally tuesday morning i call again and she says she's going to take care of it and to give her till 10am to get a response. 12pm comes around still no response, she finally calls me at 6pm and says that they are going to deliver ALL new WINDOW walls. So today comes around and the crew comes to our house and says where Are the walls. LOLLLL. I call Leslie, the manager and say your crew is at your our house asking for walls, she says a new crew is coming and everything is going to be okay. then 15 minutes pass and the crew that Just asked us where the walls are and claiming they don't have any walls says they have 4 walls only. I call Leslie again and she says "yes that is correct". Mind you she didn't even bother to mention that to me Once. Ask them to completely remove the tent so I can go with someone else & her response is "I don't have anyone to take it down and we closing until the 27th." My bridal shower is this weekend, the 20th. and the whole time they care more about proving you wrong instead of showing any type of empathy. I am religious as well and understand the closing of religious holidays but if you are so religious you should also want to make sure you are a good person. If they do choose to respond to this it will be on why WE are wrong and they will not take accountability for ANYTHING. I don't know how they sleep at night. Again don't let them fool you with whoever they paid to get these reviews.

The staff is amazing. Mickey and Minne were awesome. Highly recommend! We had such a magical time…read moreat our daughter's party because of them.

Had a chase character come for my son's birthday for an hour. The condition and quality of the…read morecostume was great ! The party host took pictures and led activities for the kids and they loved every second of it ! They were on time prepared and professional. We did one hour and it was a perfect amount of time.