Jersey City Restaurant Recs?

In Jersey City or thereabouts? Price no object. Prefer BYO but not necessary if wine list is good.

Dan,

We ate at Ox at a recent offline in February. The food was great, do not recall their wine list though.


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Mike

Ox unfortunately closed a few weeks ago. A huge disappointment to the area.

I have not been, but have heard good things about Edwards Steakhouse. No idea about BYO or the list though. Skinner’s Loft has always been good and does allow BYO with a corkage fee. I had a good meal at Madame Claude Cafe (cash only, FYI). If Hoboken isn’t too far away, Anthony David’s is supposed to be very good.

Not sure if it is what you are looking for (quite possibly not) but…

A week or so ago we ate at Komegashi Too, which is on the waterfront – you get a nice view of big yachts and rippling water, and before or after dinner, there is a nice walk where you can look across at the skyline of downtown Manhattan. The moon was hanging just over the top of the buildings when we did it.

The food is Japanese with some creative “fusion” touches, and the wine list is what I would call creative, not a lot of great wines but good choices available for the food there at reasonable prices. A long list of sakés but these seemed aimed at the connoisseurs, lots of high priced choices.

Anyway we enjoyed it.

Parking would be impossible but there is a big deck across the street, free if you remember to get your ticket validated by the restaurant.

There are two Komegashi’s. Terrific sushi for very reasonable prices. Komegashi Too is the better place. Owner is really into wine. If you want to try and BYO let me know as I have an in there and they may do it for someone I know. South City Grill is across the street. Fun place to go after dinner for drinks. Women are hot.

Porto Leggero is excellent Italian with a very decent wine list. When I was in JC, I did all my business dinners there.

Soul Flavors is BYO. Small place, not high end, but food is very good. Great fried chicken and short ribs.

Michael Anthony’s is a new place. I haven’t been but I’ve gotten some good reports on food. I do not know what the wine list is like.

Light Horse Tavern has great beers and fresh oysters although probably not the season. Fun place to hang but I would recommend the other places ahead of this.

Madame Claude’s is spotty. French bistro fare and BYO. Again small place.

Let me know if you need more info.

Madame Claude tomorrow night…like the idea of cash only!

Mussels and Frites are good. Rabbit if it is on the menu. Hanger steak is a safe bet. I can’t recall what to avoid.

I will report back!

I would suggest avoiding Jaouen. [pillow-fight.gif]

Sorry I never saw this until now.

Tacqueria Downtown - great tacos, BYO
Madame Claude - no reservations, good French Bistro, BYO
Edwards Steakhouse - decent old school steakhouse. Not worth a special trip but good for what it is (I like their chopped salad a lot). IIRC corkage is something like $30.
Marco & Pepe - no reservations, corkage something like $15 if you call ahead and get the okay, great food, good wine list, great beer list, get the sweet potato fries
Soul Flavors - very good food (a rib eye steak with mushroom bread pudding special was fantastic on Saturday), $5/table corkage
Grand Sichuan - a branch of the NYC Grand Sichuans. Great (and wine friendly) smoked tea duck. BYO
Skinners Loft - decent food. they allow corkage but I’ve never brought so I don’t remember what it is.
Beechwood Cafe - good casual cafe dining, attractive ambience. Salads, pastas, etc. BYO

Dined at Madame Claude last night.

FYI, they do take reservations. Made one for 2 people for 7:30, no problem. We were actually 3 people and we came at 6:30, and that was a “problem.” Place was empty but they said that we had to eat outside because there was no space for us.

30 minutes later the place was packed! I guess that they were right.

Food was very good. The bill, with tax, tip, 4 apps, 3 entrees, 3 desserts, 2 extra sides, was $180.

I would recommend!

Group of 9 “kids” dining next to us brought magnums of Yellowtail. That was a new one…only in Jersey!

Wow, that’s great! I haven’t been since I left Jersey City and came back (no real reason than that it’s a longer walk than some other restaurants I also like) so they must have changed the policy sometime in the last 2 years.

Yes, it was usually Yellowtail or the equivalent on the other tables when I was there.