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Best Italian Restaurants in NJ

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I wanted to post this last night, but I had just finished a Calzone the size of a sofa and was essentially out of commission for the next eight hours.

 

I went to Tarentella's in Medford, NJ for dinner last night.  I've been going there for he past 15 years and I quite honestly think it's the best Italian Restaurant in NJ. 

 

What say you all?  Where is the best place in the Garden State to get an Italian meal?

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I am predicting that one or more ex-New Yorker forum members will tell us we can't get good Italian food in New Jersey.

Additional guess - they will be from Brooklyn.

 

With the shortage of Italians we have in this state, they must be right. :)

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Main Street Trattoria in Metuchen isnt bad..  (but havent been there in probably 10 years)..

 

Spano's in Point Pleasant Beach is pretty good as well..

 

a place called Casanova's in Jackson wasnt bad, but they've been taken over by new management and havent been there since then..

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Here's the thing about Italian food...what most American's consider to be Italian food most Italians wouldn't feed to their pets. 

 

At the same time, Italian food is specific to a region....Northern, Southern...Coastal.

 

With all that said the only really good Italian restaurant that I personally know of is La Cippolina in Freehold.  A "cippolina" translated means small onion.  I haven't been there since forever but recall them being true to the heritage of Italian cuisine and offering regional diversity.

 

Mangia!

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Is that the one at the Calhoun ST bridge? If so, I live 5-6 minutes from there and never tried it and may have to...

Yup that's the one Antonio is a friend of the family he's from Italy as well as a renowned chef

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hmmmmmmmmm  I'm gonna have a hard time swallowing that one......  Red Hook back in the day ( i hate that phrase but) was a shite hole......I lives about a 1/2 mile away along the lower harbor by the piers...all longshoremen working class neighborhood and dive bars.... Red hook was a run down mess.......it was an area you NEVER went alone if at all.....

 

Now it is a cruise port..........  go figure...  I never heard of Red hook EVER being known for good chefs back then

Doesn't mean he's not a good cook..could be he just lived there but learned back in the old country....try it..you wont be disappointed...

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Luchento's on Route 33 in MIllstone (or Englishtown) used to be fantastic, but i also havent been there in probably 10 years.. 

Still pretty good, we eat there on occasion.

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