Restaurants in Asbury Park

The staff at Marley's Gotham Grill makes diners feel at home by serving up an extensive lunch and dinner menu of home-style entrees and grilled favorites. Handcrafted burgers are taken up a notch as hot sauce and pulled pork crown the beef patties, while paninis hold grilled and breaded chicken with marinara sauce and mozzarella between buttery slices of bread. The laidback eatery also puts a spin on traditional chicken wings by slathering them in forty types of sauce, from savory garlic parmesan to spicy red thai curry.

When not sating diners' appetites, the wood-accented restaurant stays busy sponsoring softball teams, hosting holiday parties, and running Texas Hold 'Em games, which involve using a deck of cards slathered in castor oil.

Bagel Talk Inc's flavorful rounds emerge piping hot from the warm embrace of the shop's oven, destined to be slathered in cream cheese, stacked into sandwiches, or served alongside steaming cups of coffee and tea. Diners pick their bagels and toppings from a spacious glass display case and settle down to devour eats at tables beneath pendant lights. Bagel-smiths slice Boar's Head meats and cheeses to fill a selection of sandwiches, and breakfast eats load up with bacon, eggs, and cheeses. A dulcet parade of muffins and cookies begs to be included in desserts or given as payment to pigeons starring in online videos.

Honey’s sumptuous decor evokes its sweet namesake at every turn, from the glowing yellow light dripping lazily over exposed-brick walls to the warm wooden chairs from which patrons dip morsels in crocks of rich fondue. Batches of melty dip feed up to six people, who dip anything from garden veggies to grilled chicken into gooey cheese, or drag fresh fruit through the dark waters of a decadent chocolate fondue. The loungey restaurant also boasts a menu of Latin specialties including enchiladas, burritos, and fajitas full of grilled shrimp and lamb. And for a liquid jolt that’s easier to enjoy than drinking champagne from a plugged-in toaster, the eatery offers wines by the glass or bottle and a variety of signature martinis—many of which are infused with the eatery’s titular ingredient: honey.

Waiters in pristine white coats and bowties burst through Prime Burger's kitchen doors toting dishes perfected since the eatery's inception in 1938. The menu leads with the Prime Burger Deluxe's stack of two juicy beef patties, and an all-day breakfast selection delights late risers and owners of roosters stuck in military time. Elevated counter stools hearken back to the original malt shops, and booth-style seats feature trays that elevate baked-daily desserts to each diner's level. All around the restaurant, wood-paneled walls, conical, retro light fixtures, and earth-toned accents exude nostalgia and tales accumulated from the chatter of happy regulars throughout the decades.

The passionate staff at Il Brigante enrapture palates with a menu of steaming pasta slathered in slow-cooked ragus, tender cutlets of chicken and veal, and savory pies toasting beneath imported meats and cheeses. The trattoria pays tribute to the culinary culture of southern Italy, taking its name from the Robin Hood-esque brigands that wandered the hills of Calabria to ensure that regardless of income, only the worthy received the last slice of pizza. The décor exudes a rustic European air, with bottles and woven baskets hanging from exposed-brick walls as the open-air pizza counter lends glimpses of chefs tossing dough disks high into the air before roasting them to sizzling perfection in the wood-burning stone oven.