Where To Eat In The Wildwoods
The Best Restaurants In Wildwood
Our favorite spots for everything from apple fritters to serious BBQ.
Wildwoods BBQ is a casual spot in North Wildwood—get the pulled pork, a link or two of the Aussie sausage, and the brisket.
Russo’s is the place to go when you’re craving a good cheesesteak in North Wildwood, but the 50-plus-year-old deli also makes a very fine hoagie.
One of the best parts of summer is crab night, and a great place to do it is The Crab House at Two Mile Landing, where locally caught crabs are all-you-can-eat.
Eat Some Seafood
Point Lobster Co.
Besides supplying lobster to most of New Jersey, Point Lobster Co. in Point Pleasant makes one of the best lobster rolls in the state.
Dock & Claw is for anyone yearning to relive childhood memories of clam shack dinners Downashore.
Run by a commercial fisherman and his family, Hooked Up Seafood is worth the line—try to arrive between the lunch and dinner rush, sometime between 3pm and 5pm.
Spring Lake Seafood is a great place to eat fresh, locally-caught fish and high-quality sushi.
Where To Eat In Cape May
The Best Restaurants In Cape May
20 spots for oysters and crab cakes, beach sandwiches, and classic Cape May dining.
The Rusty Nail in Cape May has good drinks, solid barbecue, and a big sandlot with a fire pit in the middle.
This family-run Mexican restaurant serves some of Cape May’s best tacos and tortas.
H&H is really just a shack on the side of the road in Cape May, with a big deck where you can get fresh, steamed seafood caught that day.
Beach Plum Farm is known for its dreamy farm-to-table dinners, which center around the fruit, vegetables, herbs, and meats grown and raised on the 62-acre property.
The Best Ice Cream
Skipper Dipper
Skipper Dipper is one of our favorite spots for ice cream on Long Beach Island.
If the Shore is the land of soft serve, Sundae Best in Avalon makes a strong case for hand-dipped ice cream.
Hoffman’s makes the best ice cream in Spring Lake with more than 40 different flavors.
Barry’s Do Me A Flavor is a counter-service spot in Beach Haven with some great sandwiches and ice cream.
One of the best ways to spend an evening in Avalon after a day at the beach is getting some ice cream at the Freeze.
Where To Eat In Sea Isle City & Avalon
Fishin’ Pier Grille
Fishin’ Pier Grille is a tiny tacklebox of a restaurant right on the boardwalk in Avalon that serves some of the best breakfast food in town.
Giovanni’s is a family-run deli in Sea Isle City that makes a truly outstanding hoagie.
Kohler’s recently moved to a new location, but the beloved spot is still churning out the same breakfast treats it has since 1949.
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