Italian Restaurants in Tuckerton, New Jersey

Visitors to Tuckerton, N.J., can enjoy a number of outdoor activities---from water sports at Long Beach Island or a nature tour of Sheep Head Meadows to canoeing on Tuckerton Creek, fishing in the Great Bay Marina, or playing tennis at Tip Seaman County Park. You can also visit a number of local museums and art galleries in town. After a day of outdoor recreational activities or indoor pastimes, you can work up quite an appetite. For those craving Italian food, stop by one of a number of local restaurants to sample some authentic Italian cuisine.

Grapevine

Grapevine, a casual, family restaurant that serves Italian cuisine, serves hot and cold appetizers, such as jumbo shrimp cocktail, oysters on the half shell and baked clams casino. Soups include New England or Manhattan clam chowder and baked French onion soup. You can also order salads, entrees and pasta dishes, including baked stuffed flounder, cheesy crab casserole, chicken Marsala, broiled pork chops, filet mignon, seafood Alfredo, linguine with clam sauce, and eggplant parmigiana. A kids' menu is also available. Grapevine is open on Monday to Friday from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. and on Saturday and Sunday from noon to 10 p.m. (as of January 2010).

Grapevine
364 E Main St.
Tuckerton, NJ 08087
(609) 296-7799
thegrapevinenj.com

Panini Bay LLC

Panini Bay LLC is an Italian restaurant that serves appetizers, salads, soups, entrees, and side dishes. For lunch, try the warm or cold paninis, pastas, specialty sandwiches, or salads. Paninis include sharp cheddar and fresh tomato, roast beef, horseradish and mustard cream, and prosciutto, Sicilian salami, sharp provolone cheese and roasted red peppers. Specialty sandwiches include the chicken cutlet parmigiano, eggplant parmigiana and Mamma's meatballs parmigiana topped with melted mozzarella. For dinner, order the fried calamari, Mamma's meatballs and sausage, fresh mozzarella and tomato salad, bacon and cream pasta, grilled yellowfin tuna, pasta with white clam sauce, four cheese ravioli, or veal Milanese.

Panini Bay LLC
101 Parker Rd.
Tuckerton, NJ 08087
(609) 294-4281
http://www.paninibay.com/

Angelo's Pizzeria

Angelo's Pizzeria serves 16-inch-round and 18-inch-round pizzas for lunch and dinner. You can order pies with anchovies, black olives, broccoli, eggplant, meatballs, mushrooms, pepperoni, and sausage. Specialties include cheese steak, Hawaiian and Sicilian pizzas. You can also order entrees such as steak with peppers and onions. Specials are served on Sundays and Wednesdays (as of January 2010). At Angelo's Pizzeria, you can order for dine-in or take-out.

Angelo's Pizzeria
682 Rt. 9 North
Tuckerton, NJ 08087
(609) 812-9600

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Article Written By Veronica Romualdez

Veronica Romualdez has been writing as a freelancer covering various topics since 2004. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in communication with a major in advertising and public relations from Assumption College and completed a course in interior design in 2002. Many of her articles have been published online.

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