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Where to eat in Jersey City, NJ
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A few places to eat in Jersey City
- Fiesta Grill Filipino · 0.1 miles
819 W Side Ave, Jersey City - Samakmak Seafood Seafood · 0.1 miles
772 W Side Ave, Jersey City - Sammy's Halal Doner Kebab · 0.1 miles
919 Montgomery St, Jersey City - Alnooor Middle Eastern · 0.1 miles
774 W Side Ave, Jersey City - Gusto Latino Latin American · 0.2 miles
745 W Side Ave, Jersey City
The closest few by distance from central Jersey City, not a ranking — local places listed ahead of chains. Listings from Overture Maps open data (September 2026); hours and openings change, so check before you go. Want one picked for what you're craving instead? Ask Savor Scout in Jersey City.
The food scene in Jersey City
Open listings put 721 places to eat within 2 miles of central Jersey City, 37 within a ten-minute walk (half a mile). The most common: pizza (65), Indian (62) and deli (32). 37 are fast-food counters; the rest are sit-down restaurants, cafés, bakeries and takeaway spots.
What stands out in Jersey City is Dominican, Filipino and Indian — types that are listed here at 9 to 18 times the national rate.
By type of food — tap one for what to order and how to spot a good one:
Pizza 65 Indian 62 Coffee 36 Deli 32 Mexican 32 Chinese 29 Bakery 28 American 24 Sandwiches 22 Italian 20
The food in Jersey City
Jersey City has plenty of places to eat, and that is the problem. A ranked list of thirty gets you no closer to a decision than you were before you opened it.
Savor Scout picks one restaurant in Jersey City and tells you why it picked it. Say what you're craving and it reads menus and reviews for that specific dish, rather than sorting places by overall star rating. Free, runs in the browser, and one search needs no account.
Eating out in Jersey City
Jersey City has a population of about 257,342. Enough choice to argue about for twenty minutes, which is usually what happens. Savor Scout searches up to 35 miles around Jersey City, so places just outside the city are still on the table when they are worth the drive.
How well supplied is Jersey City?
Jersey City sits in Hudson County, where the Census counts 635 full-service restaurants, 579 limited-service places, 227 cafés and snack bars and 97 bars — 1,538 places to eat or drink in all. Jersey City makes up about 36% of the county's population.
That is 21.6 per 10,000 residents, comfortably above the national median of 19.4. Enough range that the deciding takes longer than the eating. Sit-down and counter-service places are close to balanced, with the edge to sit-down.
Those county figures also cover Bayonne, Hoboken, West New York, Kearny, all within Savor Scout's search radius from Jersey City.
County-level counts from the US Census (2022) — how we got these numbers.
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Near Jersey City
- Hoboken, NJ — about 3 miles away
- New York, NY — about 4 miles away
- Kearny, NJ — about 5 miles away
- Bayonne, NJ — about 5 miles away
- Newark, NJ — about 5 miles away
- West New York, NJ — about 5 miles away
Campuses in and near Jersey City
Each has its own page: what is within walking distance and a few places to start with.
- Hudson County Community College
- New Jersey City University
- Stevens Institute of Technology
- CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College
- Pace University
- New York University
- The New School
- Fashion Institute of Technology
How this differs from Google Maps and Yelp
Maps and Yelp are directories: they rank everything nearby and leave the deciding to you. Savor Scout makes the call and shows its reasoning — the match score, what it beat, and the evidence behind the pick. The underlying place data comes from the same public sources, so the difference is the selection, not the data.
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