Between Christmas and New Year’s, New Jerseyans are heading to diners for comforting meals like hot turkey sandwiches and ...

Traveling New Jersey’s backroads revealed 14 mom-and-pop diners, with half delivering pure nostalgia in food and atmosphere.

The steel, old school diner overlooks a busy part of Route 9, and is a truly classic New Jersey Diner. I went there for the ...

In early summer 2025, the USA Today Network New Jersey team spoke with diner owners, authors, researchers and everyday patrons about the state of the New Jersey diner. Here are eight takeaways from ...

New Jersey is known as the diner capital of the world for two reasons: having more diners than any other state and having the most robust diner manufacturing industry Diners in New Jersey evolved from ...

But maybe not as much as you used to. They're closing. They're changing. Some would say they're evolving. And so, this summer, our food and features team at The Record and The Asbury Park Press ...

In late 2020, in the wake of pandemic-created restaurant closures, we proclaimed the 24-hour Jersey diner was on life support. Many previous 24-hour diners had curtailed their hours; only a handful of ...

As diners close their doors across New Jersey, the community reflects on the nostalgia and memories tied to these ...

On appearances, Nick Kallas would seem to be bullish on diners. The Broad Street Diner in Keyport, which he owns with his wife, Maria, was named one of the best in the country last year by Time Out, ...

Adam Sandler made an unexpected stop at Tops Diner in East Newark this week — and left a generous tip, staff said. The actor and comedian ordered chicken noodle soup and the chicken francese, a ...

New Jersey could soon throw a lifeline to one of its iconic but dwindling institutions: diners. A pair of top state lawmakers have introduced a proposal in Trenton to give new tax breaks to diners and ...