Restaurants & Bars

Wayne Restaurant Among NJ Monthly's Best Of 2020

New Jersey's top magazine released its list of best restaurants that delivered quality in a year where dining out has been challenging.

WAYNE, 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.

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

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The publications, 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 Viaggio:

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"Until Covid-19 pretty much shut down dining and travel, 2020 was looking bright for chef Robbie Felice. Named a semifinalist for the James Beard Foundation’s Rising Star Chef Award, the 29-year-old was also invited to enter a national pasta competition in California. The competition was cancelled, but at Viaggio—as at his other restaurant, Osteria Crescendo in Westwood, also a NJM Top 30—Felice continues to show the potency and finesse that got him those honors to begin with."


See New Jersey Monthly's full list here.

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