Westwood Restaurant Among NJ Monthly's Best Of 2020

WESTWOOD, 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.

Westwood's Osteria Crescendo is one of the 30 restaurants highlighting that fact in NJ Monthly's best restaurants of 2020 list.

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 Osteria Crescendo:

"If one dish can capture the spirit of a restaurant, at Osteria Crescendo it just might be chef Robbie Felice’s whole deep-fried octopus. Bronzed and tangly, it’s quite a sight, and quite a treat. The rest of the menu may not be as visually arresting, but is equally devoted to unabashed gustatory pleasure, whether Sicilian eggplant cappellacci or whole branzino with smoked tomato and black-eyed peas. Opened in 2019, Crescendo again joins its older brother, Viaggio, in Wayne, in our Top 30. Unlike Viaggio, Crescendo has a liquor license, and its signature cocktails are worth exploring."

See New Jersey Monthly's full list here.