By Craig LaBan
From The Philadelphia Inquirer
Summer is the high season of new beginnings, especially for restaurateurs at the Jersey Shore, where the 100-day rush between Memorial Day and Labor Day is a chaotic blur of seafood, sunshine and long kitchen nights, and every year is an opportunity to write a fresh chapter. That was especially true of the restaurants I visited for Part One of my Shore dining series, which spans Long Beach Island and Atlantic City—and also skims the mainland coast for unexpected pearls.