Oh how we love to eat here in Bergen County and with a kaleidoscope of cultures, we have a simply amazing choice of restaurants, specialty food stores, wine shops, cheese shops, fish markets and more.
Do you prefer organic food? We have 3 organic food supermarkets by Whole Foods, 2 Trader Joe's and 2 Fairways (a local supermarket owned by the same family for generations). Want to pick up some fresh fish or sushi but you’re too late for the fish market? Not to worry - our regular supermarkets have both.
How about fruit and vegetables? You’ll find fresh produce stores throughout Bergen County. And, of course, there are delicious bakeries with a coffee bar nearby. Speaking of coffee, we have 20 Starbucks coffee shops too.
As for restaurants, here’s just a sampling of the diversity you’ll find - Argentinean, Armenian, Cajun, Creole, Caribbean, Chinese, Columbian, Cuban, French, German, Greek, Indian, Irish, Italian, Jamaican, Japanese, Korean, Lebanese, Mexican, Moroccan, Pakistani, Philippino, Spanish, Thai, Southwest Tex Mex, Turkish, Vietnamese as well as steak houses galore.
And there’s that particular New Jersey treasure, the diner. In fact, diners are so special and so unique to this area that I’m doing a segment just on diners. If you’re local, how about sending me your favorites and a bit about why you love them?