Restaurants in Bayonne

Diners take the reins at The Burger Bistro, which encourages them to customize their own burgers with six different patties and more than 20 different toppings. On traditional beef, organic lamb, or even shrimp patties, visitors cobble together a topping spread that might include pickled jalapeños, horseradish cream sauce, fried mozzarella, or applewood-smoked bacon. Each location also keeps diners on their toes with regular specials, which have included a turducken burger and sliders with waffles for buns. The donut burger—an occasional special that replaces buns with glazed donuts—earned the bistro a mention on CBS. For dessert, the eatery invites you to build an ice cream sandwich with vanilla, red velvet, or mud pie ice cream slipped inside a shortbread, Belgian waffle, or chocolate chip cookie sandwich.

In a dining room the 2010 Michelin guide described as "a fresh, modern interior soaked in beautiful, natural light," according to their website, servers at Indian Clove deliver a diverse roster of Indo-Chinese dishes. As patrons sip salted, spiced lassi, daily lunch buffets heap plates with both vegetarian and nonvegetarian entrees. Grilled-chicken tikka and lobster cook inside the traditional clay oven known as a tandoor as chefs with a "serious talent for Indian fare," according to Michelin, prepare classics such as samosas and lamb vindaloo. Drinks and live DJs complement these classic flavors in the bar and lounge, where hanging orange lamps sprout from carefully watered light bulbs to illuminate cocktails.

Average people burn more than 500 calories during a night's sleep; more if they're dreaming about running from ravenous koalas. Because every menu item at Energy Kitchen has fewer than 500 calories, you can offset your intake with only a little shut eye. With this Groupon, you get a $20 gift card for $10, which will arrive via snail mail within seven days of your email request. You can buy an unlimited number of gift cards, your balance is transferable, and the cards are good at all nine New York and New Jersey locations. So distribute these card-shaped gifts with reckless abandon to your office mates, manga-centric book club members, or relatives with multiple personalities.

Obao blends the flavors of Thai, Malaysian, Filipino, and Vietnamese traditions to forge a slew of creative pan-Asian dishes. The restaurant's downtown location opens to a cozy 25-seat noodle bar where diners pump chopstick-flexing muscles with a range of stir-fried and soup-based savories, and the capacious rear dining room lavishes patrons with enough room to spread out or sculpt life-size statues of dining companions out of rice.

Nature’s Grill’s three locations in Bay Ridge, Cobble Hill, and Caesar’s Bay aim to create a healthier community by crafting fresh, made-to-order dishes from original recipes, natural foods, and high-quality ingredients. The restaurant’s health-first approach includes an aversion to microwaves, preservatives, and puddles of melted mercury, which is evident on its expansive menu, which fills bellies with smoothies, protein shakes, and savory wraps packed with grilled chicken, salmon, and tofu. Nature’s Grill’s inviting interior includes dark hardwood floors, exposed-brick walls, and bright glass cases used to display toppings.

Pitas wrap their soft shells around crispy falafel, whose sizzling heat is quickly extinguished by creamy dollops of hummus. Sharp skewers gather marinated cubes of beef and lamb, holding them captive over charcoal grills. Each of these dishes emerges from Karam Restaurant’s Lebanon-inspired kitchens alongside a slate of spinach pies, stuffed peppers, grape-leaf sandwiches, and grilled cuts of shawarma. Comestibles can be enjoyed in-house, or toted away via take-out or delivery for at-home savoring or to utilize in all-pita performances of The Epic of Gilgamesh.