How can restaurants function with no water pressure? Forget the bottled water, have you tried your tap lately? Not too much output, I'm afraid. Would be nice to eat out, though.....

I hope anyone who can, patronizes our community retailers - including restaurants - at this critical time. I know many residents in our community are dealing with their own overwhelming damage. Those of us who are more fortunate ought to support our neighbors in every way we can including preserving the vitality of our downtown. In fact, it would be nice to see the Mayor and Town Council Members asking everyone to pitch in both in terms of supporting via dollars and helping with the clean up in eery way possible - even just clearing smaller tree branches off the streets. While our first responders are doing everything they can, there is so much damage, facilitating centrally organized community volunteering would be excellent idea to hasten our clean up. I spoke to a firefighter yesterday evening who told me that they have a list of 400 homes waiting to have water pumped. I also talked of folks who had pumps but no power and were searching for generators. It would be great to connect anyone who has a generator with those needing pumps. Also, Taylor Park is a mess and once any safety issues are addressed, will need lots of work. There is mud on the paths, the playground is a mess. This is such a vital community resource, restoring it to a state where it is safe and accessible is important to many families in our community including those who will be dealing with the aftermath and continuing stress of storm damage and clean up for a long time to come.

I agree with MainSt07041. Where is the Health Department? What water are they washing fresh fruits and vegetables in? What about sanitary water for hand washing? Even if the water is running, it is not sanitary and should not be used in any way for food preparation. I am having enough issues keeping my home kitchen clean, but I am not feeding the community.

Agreed. I wanted to get coffee this morning at DD and pizza at La Strada tonight, but I am hesitant given the possibility of water borne contaminants in every aspect of of food preparation.

Laura Griffin: Can you provide a follow up story here with regard to restaurant cleanliness and the health department visiting Millburn restaurants???

Carolyn: 400 homes need basements pumped? They should call a private remediation company. I hope the people who expect the MFD to pump their basements for free are not the same ones who continuously bitch and moan about municipal taxes.

went to shop-rite this morning for water. Floors were brown and the smell was terrible..

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word is that Starbucks shouldn't be serving drinks made with water since their brewers don't heat to a high enough temp. summit starbucks was open for business a short while before being closed down by corporate for that reason

Just had a delicious meal at La Cucina. They said the board of health stopped by yesterday to make sure they were boiling their water. They are serving bottled water (Poland Spring) from 5 gallon bottles to their customers at no additional charge.

Walked by Starbucks in town and it's closed. Don't know why they don't buy jugs of water and stay open - they would still make a profit.

Relax and enjoy the restaurants that are still open. There are many to choose from.