Restaurants & Bars

Point Pleasant Beach Restaurant Makes NJ Monthly's Best-Of List

There's still a month left of summer for you to enjoy everything New Jersey has to offer – and not just the beaches and the boardwalks.

Poached Pear Bistro
Poached Pear Bistro (Google photo)

There's still a month left of summer for you to enjoy everything New Jersey has to offer – and not just the beaches, the boardwalks and the amusement parks.

New Jersey has some of the finest restaurants in the nation, but there has been no list that perhaps definitively captures the ambience of the state's fine food food establishments than New Jersey Monthly. And one of those best places is in Point Pleasant Beach.

Read more: 30 Best Restaurants in New Jersey 2019: New NJ Monthly Rankings

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Indeed, New Jersey Monthly says the state's restaurant climate is in a "golden age" and, as a result, the publication increased its annual list of the state’s best restaurants from 25 to 30 positions. Seven of the restaurants didn't make the top list last year, the publication said.

Here is the Point Pleasant Beach entry on the list:

  • Poached Pear Bistro, Point Pleasant Beach. NJ Monthly says: "Just blocks from the Shore and its siren call of deep-fried and sugary treats, Scott Giordano’s New American dishes deliver Ferris-wheel heights of pleasure of a more sophisticated sort."

Read the entire NJ Monthly list here.

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