New Jersey restaurants

I asked my friends who contribute to the Original Egg Harbor Twp Area Happenings 08234 Facebook page to help me find those who go out of their way to make our dining experience special.

With the holidays just around the corner, here are your favorite Ocean County restaurants to take family and friends when they visit the Jersey Shore.

It's time to go to Flavortown.

It is far from breaking news, but New Jersey has a lot of restaurants. It's the number of restaurants and our rank in the nation that may come as a surprise to you.

You really haven't completed your New Jersey culinary journey until you've been to our state's most unique restaurant.

This major publication nailed it when they chose this as New Jersey's most iconic dessert.

The experts say this is one of the great New Jersey hole-in-the-wall restaurants.

If you've had one too many on any given night, this is apparently the restaurant you're most likely heading to.

We all know how great the food in New Jersey is, but do the national experts agree?

Food is always a great topic to write about. We love our food here in Jersey and we love talking about the great restaurants that we have here in the Garden State.

When you think diners, you think Jersey. When you think of "retro" diners you think of Jersey and the east coast.

One website has made its choice for the coziest restaurant in New Jersey. Do you agree?