Diners' Choice: American restaurants in New Jersey

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Updated June 05, 2025

Looking for restaurants with the best overall American cuisine in New Jersey? You’re in the right place. Each month OpenTable analyzes more than 400,000 new diner reviews. We sort the results by category to help you discover new favorites. It's a great partnership: you reserve, eat, and review. We listen...and deliver the results for all to benefit. Enjoy!

Hapgoods Resturant

4.9

4.9 (168)

$30 and under

American

Mountain Lakes

About the restaurant

Open And Airy Eatery, BYOB Serving American comfort fare, Located in the Serene & Historic Town of Mountain Lakes.

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BarryVIP

Dined on Jun 12, 2025

A delightful place for a quiet meal. If it’s nice you can eat outside, but the inside dining room is great. Our second visit - lots to choose from on the menu

Cafe Loren

4.9

4.9 (1896)

$31 to $50

American

Avalon

About the restaurant

The Café Loren was opened in 1978 and offers fine dining in an atmosphere of casual seashore elegance. For four decades our menu has kept pace with American culinary trends. Over the years our heavy French influence has given way to American cuisine, a happy hybrid of styles, methods and ingredients from around the globe. Our menu can best be described as "American Coastal Cuisine". American because of our diverse preparations and Coastal because of our emphasis on seafood. But meat lovers have not been forgotten. We offer superbly prepared lamb, veal, beef and pork.

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TerryVIP

Dined 5 days ago

Consistently excellent creative food with fresh ingredients. Recommend unqualifiedly.

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Stella A Kitchen and Bar

4.9

4.9 (568)

$30 and under

American

Lakewood

About the restaurant

Casual fine dining in an eclectic atmosphere, serving dinner Wednesday-Saturday.
Booking special events on Sunday and Monday evenings and luncheons everyday.
Stella will be closed from Jan 1- Feb 4 2025. We look forward to seeing you Feb 5!

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Louis

Dined 4 days ago

Stella is one of our very favorite restaurants, and we have eaten in many in this country, Europe and the Dutch Caribbean. Excellent menu with interesting specials and a good wine list. The food and service are excellent. Highly recommended.

d'floret restaurant

4.9

4.9 (747)

$30 and under

American

Lambertville

About the restaurant

Husband and Wife team, Dennis Foy and Estella Quinones, are committed restaurateurs who counterbalance each other’s exacting artistic standards. Estella’s passion for design and Dennis’s interest in painting clearly reflects this sensibility.

The exciting twenty-eight seat restaurant d’floret is a modern elegantly-lit stage, featuring an open kitchen and adjoining dining room that exhibit the chef’s dual passions: Foy’s paintings and culinary mastery. The space is accented by a floor-to- ceiling Black Walnut Nakashima panel, lighting by Ayala Serfaty, the Israeli artist, with Arnie Jacobsen modern Classic chairs, finishing the sleek warm welcoming room.

Please note, due to high demand and limited seating, in addition to online holds we require diners call the restaurant to reconfirm your by 12pm day of, or it will not be honored.

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Julie

Dined 3 days ago

This restaurant is a gem. Always a true delight, with every bite evoking pleasure. The service is also fabulous.

Canal House Station

5.0

5 (404)

$50 and over

American

Frenchtown

About the restaurant

Christopher Hirsheimer and Melissa Hamilton—the women behind Canal House Station—are cooks, writers, and artists. In 2007 they founded Canal House, which includes a publishing venture and a culinary, photography, and design studio. Their cookbook "Canal House Cooks Every Day" received a James Beard Award in 2012.

In 2019, Christopher and Melissa opened Canal House Station, a hidden gem tucked into an elegantly restored 1870s train station on the banks of the Delaware River in Milford, NJ. Their idiosyncratic, modern American cuisine is inspired by local ingredients that are ripe and in season in Hunterdon and Bucks County. They are two women, cooking together, and sharing their love of gathering people around the table to eat good food. They have been nominated twice for a James Beard Foundation “Best Chef: Mid Atlantic” award.

Canal House Station offers "Sunday Dinner" every Sunday. It is available for Private & Corporate Events, and Celebratory Gatherings throughout the year.

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ScottVIP

Dined on Jun 15, 2025

Best food and experience by far. Timing cadence of courses was perfect, staff very friendly, food top notch! We brought our 9 year old son and he loved everything as much as we did!

Harvest Moon Inn

4.9

4.9 (795)

$31 to $50

American

Flemington

About the restaurant

Innovative American cuisine in an elegant but
comfortable ambiance.

Dress Code - Business Casual

Renovated c. 1811 stone building - Tent and patio seating outdoors

Charlie Kutz at piano Friday and Saturday evenings on patio

Award-Winning Chef/owner, Stanley Novak, CIA graduate.

Facilities for Garden Weddings, Indoor Weddings, Bridal Showers, Baby Showers, Bar Mitzvah and Bat Mitzvah, Corporate Events & Parties.

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TomVIP

Dined 2 days ago

Great service, food and ambiance. A place to go to.

Rue 561 Bistro

4.7

4.7 (499)

$50 and over

American

Toms River

About the restaurant

B.Y.O.B. Bistro, we are not your typical restaurant dining experience. Our mission is to bring the best tasting highest sustainable foods from all over the world to the shore. A local bistro with an innovative touch of the future with modernized trendy dishes that will satisfy. We only use the Highest of quality hand cut meats and wild caught seafoods that are crafted to perfection located off the jersey shore coast.

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DonnaVIP

Dined on Jun 15, 2025

WENT FOR FATHER'S DAY WITH OUR FRIENDS - SERVED BY CHRIS - ORDERED BEET SALADS AS A STARTER FOLLOWED BY SURF AND TURF FOR ME / MY HUSBAND HAD THE RIB EYE STEAK ALONG WITH THEIR FRIES SHARED - OUR FRIENDS HAD PORK - ALSO A STRIP STEAK WITH FRIES SHARED AS WELL .. BYOB. MY HUSBAND HAD THE CHEESECAKE ALONG WITH EXPRESSO - WHAT A WONDERFUL EVENING TO SPEND TOGETHER !!!! A LITTLE PRICEY BUT WELL WORTH YOUR TASTE BUDS TO ENJOY QUALITY CUISINE . MANAGER /OWNER SAYS HELLO TO EACH GUEST -

Twisted Tavern

4.8

4.8 (137)

$30 and under

American

Hammonton

About the restaurant

The Twisted Tavern is located at Pinelands Golf Club and provides Good Food and Good Fun in a relaxed atmosphere.

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thomas

Dined on Jun 15, 2025

Food was exceptional and excellant options not found at a "golf course" restaurant. Everything ordered was phenomenal. Highly recommend

The Grand Tavern

4.9

4.9 (1216)

$31 to $50

American

Neptune

About the restaurant

Beef, fat, butter and cream. Isn’t life Grand?
#beeffatbutterandcream
#isntlifegrand

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Arnold

Dined 6 days ago

Food and drinks are well prepared and always delicious. The Chicken Milanese over Polenta was excellent!

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4.9

4.9 (7996)

$30 and under

American

Freehold

About the restaurant

Top 1% of restaurants in the world
Ranked one of the Most Romantic Restaurants in the United States 4 years in a row!
*Reservation times are not guaranteed. As a high-volume restaurant we will do our best to accommodate you as close to that time as possible.

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Nicole

Dined 4 days ago

Great ambiance, good selection of food and our server Marc was very personable and attentive

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