Cardillo's Kitchen is heaven, if New Jersey is what you're hoping your final destination looks, smells and tastes like.

The breakfast-and-lunch hangout in Camfield Corners off Elm Lane in the Stonecrest area is one of those colorful places that shatters the myth it's mostly cookie-cutter cuisine in the southern suburbs.

Jackie Adams, Jill Cardillo and Maria Varela have jammed their three-year-old place with tributes to Jersey boys Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi, Big Apple sports teams and our police and fire heroes. Adams and Cardillo are sisters from Westfield, N.J.; Varela is a pal from Bethpage on Long Island, N.Y.

Cardillo's Kitchen doesn't just look the Jersey part, or sound it, given the owners' accents or the New York crowd that congregates there on Saturday mornings. Amid the omelets, sandwiches, Italian ice and bagels imported from Manhattan, the signature dish is a pork roll - a fried slice of pork served with a fried egg and melted cheese on a roll. Adams says the pork roll looks like a salami or bologna but has its own distinctive taste.

Sides can include home fries - not grits, chef Patrick Merchant of Rome, N.Y., says with upstate New York pride.