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Where to eat in Perth Amboy, NJ
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A few places to eat in Perth Amboy
- Terrazza Restaurant Caribbean · under 0.1 miles
273 High St, Perth Amboy - Ciro's Italian Restaurant, Pizzeria & Bar · 0.1 miles
273 High St, 273 High St, Perth Amboy - Fu Lin Chinese Restuarant Chinese · 0.1 miles
79 Smith St, Perth Amboy - Amboy Asian Cafe Asian Fusion · 0.1 miles
271 King St, Perth Amboy - Bayside Creamery Ice Cream Shop · 0.1 miles
273 Front St, Perth Amboy
The closest few by distance from central Perth Amboy, 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 Perth Amboy.
The food scene in Perth Amboy
Open listings put 225 places to eat within 2 miles of central Perth Amboy, 59 within a ten-minute walk (half a mile). The most common: pizza (25), Mexican (17) and Chinese (14). 11 are fast-food counters; the rest are sit-down restaurants, cafés, bakeries and takeaway spots.
What stands out in Perth Amboy is Dominican, Spanish and Peruvian — types that are listed here at 15 to 52 times the national rate.
By type of food — tap one for what to order and how to spot a good one:
Pizza 25 Mexican 17 Chinese 14 Italian 12 Bakery 12 Dominican 11 Deli 10 Latin American 10 Ice cream 8 Peruvian 7
The food in Perth Amboy
Perth Amboy does not have infinite options, and that brings its own problem: you have been to most of them, and picking again is somehow still hard.
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Eating out in Perth Amboy
Perth Amboy has a population of about 51,982. Somewhere this size rewards knowing which places are actually worth the trip. Savor Scout searches up to 35 miles around Perth Amboy, so places just outside the city are still on the table when they are worth the drive.
How many places to eat are there in Perth Amboy?
Perth Amboy sits in Middlesex County, where the Census counts 646 full-service restaurants, 690 limited-service places, 197 cafés and snack bars and 66 bars — 1,599 places to eat or drink in all. Perth Amboy makes up about 6% of the county's population.
That works out at 18.6 per 10,000 residents, which is about level with the national median of 19.4 — a normal amount of choice, and a normal amount of indecision. Counter service edges out sit-down, which is the national norm.
Those county figures also cover New Brunswick, Sayreville, all within Savor Scout's search radius from Perth Amboy.
County-level counts from the US Census (2022) — how we got these numbers.
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Near Perth Amboy
- Sayreville, NJ — about 6 miles away
- Linden, NJ — about 8 miles away
- New Brunswick, NJ — about 10 miles away
- Elizabeth, NJ — about 11 miles away
- Plainfield, NJ — about 11 miles away
- Union City, NJ — about 13 miles away
Campuses in and near Perth Amboy
Each has its own page: what is within walking distance and a few places to start with.
- Middlesex College
- College of Staten Island CUNY
- Rutgers University-New Brunswick
- UCNJ Union College of Union County, New Jersey
- Kean University
- Brookdale Community College
- Seton Hall University
- Essex County College
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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