New Jersey Restaurants - Casual and Fine Dining Restaurant Ratings and Reviews

New Jersey restaurants are a mecca for dining enthusiasts. Here you will find reviews and ratings of many of the best restaurants in NJ.

This web site is one of the largest collections of fine dining restaurants in New Jersey with continually updated, comprehensive, ratings and reviews.

The dining experience in New Jersey, with over 23,000 restaurants to choose from, can run the gamut from the Jersey shore casual family restaurants that serve up fried sea food, burgers, and pizza, to the Newark's Ironbound district with many reasonably priced ethnic Spanish and Cape May Restaurant Portuguese restaurants, to the many fine dining restaurants that can be found in the communities of Cape May, Atlantic City, New Brunswick, Montclair, Morristown, Jersey City, and many other smaller communities in New Jersey.

While our focus has been on fine dining restaurants, we are now following the trend to casual dining and are including restaurants that have an unusual twist to offer diners, or are a very popular eatery in their community.

A fine dining restaurant differs from a casual dining restaurant or eatery and takes in the full dining experience and includes well prepared high grade food, ambiance, decor, and well trained and attentive service without being rushed to quickly turnover tables. Fine dining restaurants tend to be more expensive and are popular for special occasions.

Whereas a casual dining restaurant, or eatery typically offers a menu with a lower grade of food ingredients, less care and creativity in the preparation, and high table turnover. Eateries tend to be less expensive and offer larger portions to satisfy hunger. Casual dining restaurants or eateries tend to be popular with budget minded people, or for a night out with groups of friends, or for families with small kids.

New Jersey Leisure guide is the largest single source of all-inclusive, impartial New Jersey restaurant reviews.

Unlike other sources that review restaurants on the basis of a single visit by a restaurant critic, or on the basis of restaurant diners, our restaurant ratings and reviews take into account a wider audience and are the result of a compilation of many sources, including restaurant critics and diners who have eaten there. Learn more about the process we use to rate New Jersey restaurants.

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Best Restaurants in New Jersey by Category

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