Ridgewood Restaurant Among NJ Monthly's Best Of 2020

RIDGEWOOD, NJ — Let's face it, 2020 has been a very difficult year for restaurants in New Jersey.

Shut down. Limited seating. Shifting to takeout service. In spite of those challenges, the state's dining continues to be some of the finest in the nation.

Ridgewood's Felina is one of the 30 restaurants highlighting that fact in NJ Monthly's best restaurants of 2020 list.

The publication, whose lists have become the go-to source for many in the way they capture the essence of the state's fine food establishments, has released its newest collection of the state's 30 best new restaurants, and they can be found throughout the Garden State.

Here's what they had to say about Felina:

"Still a young restaurant—it doesn’t turn two until January—Felina benefited from the foot traffic engendered by Ridgewood closing blocks off its main street during the summer. “Outdoor dining won us a lot of new customers,” says chef Anthony Bucco. That trend should continue as Bucco transitions the modern Italian menu from lighter pastas to richer ones and to braised meats “that warm the tummy.” Chef de Cuisine Martyna Krowycka, meanwhile, has perfected her pizza doughs, fermented three days for feathery-crisp crusts."

See New Jersey Monthly's full list here.