In honor of International Women’s Month back in 2024, The Hoboken Girl partnered with local restaurant Alessio’s to create The Hoboken Girl breakfast sandwich as a fundraiser for York Street Project, a Jersey City-based non-profit dedicated to helping individuals in need of shelter, food, and education in the Hudson County area.
After becoming a permanent fixture on the menu due to popular demand, our readers helped us choose the second non-profit to benefit from sandwiches: the Hoboken Public Education Foundation (PEF), a non-profit organization that supports Hoboken Public Schools and its students. Over the course of 2024, we donated over $5,000 to the two non-profits, and now have a new reader-chosen charitable partner to benefit: Hudson County CASA, a non-profit organization that connects children in the foster care system with advocates. You can order The Hoboken Girl at any of the three current Alessio’s locations to contribute to the cause (and your breakfast order).
Every quarter, we’ll announce a new non-profit to donate our sales to. Read on to learn more about The Hoboken Girl x Alessio’s sandwich collaboration which took months to develop, as well as what’s to come for our sandwich for a cause, and of course, where and how to enjoy it.
Photo Credit: Hannah Taub
The March 2025 Update
After selling almost 2,000 sandwiches in 30 days last year, it was excitedly decided that our collaboration was going to continue — and will continue to give back to local non-profits, too. Every quarter, we’ll be switching the non-profit we’re giving back to for a portion of the sandwich, in hopes of raising awareness for local non-profits as we go. This quarter, we’ll be giving back to Hudson County CASA — a non-profit organization that connects children in the foster care system with advocates.
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The Collaboration
This collaboration took months to come to fruition, and the entire Hoboken Girl team worked with Alessio’s on the ingredients, taste-testing multiple versions of sandwiches before picking our favorite — and we can confirm that it’s delicious (and gluten-free, if you want it to be!).
Where to get it:
- 539 Park Avenue, Hoboken, New Jersey
- 99 Franklin Street, Jersey City Heights, New Jersey
- You can also order online for delivery or pickup!
*Breakfast is served from 7AM-3PM
The sandwich was only supposed to be available at both Alessio’s locations for March 2024, where The Hoboken Girl team donated our portion to the York Street Project. But due to popular demand, we brought it to the menu FULL-TIME, and now give back to a different non-profit each quarter.
Photo Credit: Hannah Taub
Ingredients:
‘The Hoboken Girl’ breakfast sandwich consists of:
- Scrambled eggs
- Cheddar cheese
- Caramelized onions
- Avocado
- Homemade crispy hashbrowns (gluten-free*)
- Jalapeno + avocado aioli
This can be served on sourdough bread or a wrap.
The bread or wrap can be substituted to be gluten-free*
There are also dairy-free options available (no cheese).
The sandwich as stands is vegetarian.
*Not confirmed as 100% Celiac-certified, so if Celiac, proceed with caution.
Alessio’s also recommends adding breakfast sausage or bacon to the sandwich.
Every quarter, we’ll pick a new non-profit to donate to for the next three months. This quarter, we’ll be giving back to Hudson County CASA.
About Alessio’s
Photo Credit: Hannah Taub
Alessio’s, which has a location at 539 Park Avenue in Hoboken and 99 Franklin Street in Jersey City, is an Italian pizzeria and cafe that serves up everything from coffee, breakfast sandwiches, and pastries to pizza, paninis, and gelato. Owner Luca Infantino was born and raised in Italy and moved to the United States in 2011. After living in Weehawken, Luca fell in love with Hoboken and paved his way in the fashion industry before taking the jump into food service and opening up the Hoboken location in 2020. The Jersey City location opened in summer 2023, and the cafe’s next project — Terrace by Alessio’s — opened in Hoboken’s Northwest Resiliency Park last spring. Alessio’s also has two kiosks in Pier A Park during the summer months, and is opening up its newest venture called Casa Italia Gourmet Market at 6th and Park Streets in Hoboken soon.
Alessio’s — named after Luca’s son — has quickly become a staple in the Mile Square and is known for its authentic Italian products and the real feel of an Italian cafe. The spot prides itself on the quality of its food, customer service, and being involved in the community. “We are proud to be a “community-based” business, a safe place for children, students, families. Alessio’s always supports charity requests, events sponsorship, etc,” Luca shared, “Partnering up with The Hoboken Girl has been a dream come true.”
About Hudson County CASA
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Hudson County CASA (Court-Appointed Special Advocates) was founded in 1976 and is a national non-profit organization dedicated to advocacy work for neglected and abused children. CASA supports children by providing dedicated advocates to look after their well-being in various areas. Many cases that CASA supports involve situations of parental neglect, drug or alcohol abuse, and inappropriate conduct that children witness from family members.
The work that CASA does is made possible by dedicated volunteers who are assigned children who need the resources. This means that CASA relies on volunteers to make these efforts possible.
Volunteer options and ways to donate can be found on the organization’s website. We will also be donating a portion of the sales of the sandwich for this quarter to Hudson County CASA, with more to come. So keep enjoying your sammies, for a cause!
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Make sure to tag us @thehobokengirl + @alessios_cafe on social media to share the fun and let us know how you like it. Mangia!
What’s Coming to the Hidden Grounds Downtown Hoboken Space?
Hoboken is already full of incredible coffee shops, but here at The Hoboken Girl, we always welcome another addition. Back in July 2024, local java staple Hidden Grounds announced the closure of its downtown location at 79 Hudson Street. Now, a new Korean café and bakery will take over the space. A construction permit was spotted on the door on Tuesday, February 25th for a cafe/bakery shop, and a worker confirmed with HG that Blue Angel Artisan Cafe + Bakery will open its second Hudson County location there. Read on for what we know so far about Blue Angel Artisan Cafe + Bakery coming to Hoboken, New Jersey.
The Details
A member of the HG team spotted a construction permit on the door of 79 Hudson Street in Hoboken — the former downtown Hidden Grounds location — on Tuesday, February 25th, 2025. The construction permit was issued on November 25th, 2024, and states that the construction is "interior renovation of commercial space (A) as a cafe/bakery shop."
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A worker then confirmed with HG that the empty storefront will soon be home to Blue Angel — a Korean cafe and bakery.
An opening date is not known at this time. The Hoboken Girl has reached out to Blue Angel Artisan Cafe + Bakery and this post will be updated with any further information.
About Blue Angel
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Blue Angel is a Korean artisan café + bakery based out of Fort Lee, New Jersey. The Fort Lee storefront is located at 1640 Schlosser Street Suite C2 while the Hoboken storefront will be its second Hudson County location.
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The menu consists of handmade French-Korean baked goods like cakes and pastries, as well as sandwiches and freshly brewed La Colombe coffee and espresso. There's also a variety of dairy-free and gluten-free items. View the full menu here.
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