Sayreville, New Jersey, is located in the eastern part of the state on the Raritan River. The city shares a border with New York (via a waterway that separates it from Staten Island) and is surrounded by the buroughs of Perth Amboy, Edison,and South River. While Sayreville is a small and sleepy town, there are several restaurants worth stopping at when you're in the area.
Covello's is an Italian seafood restaurant open for lunch and dinner. The lunch menu includes appetizers such as mozzarella sticks and clams on the half shell, cold salads, various Italian style wraps, hot and cold sandwiches, pasta dishes and full entrée platters like chicken Parmigiana and cheeseburgers. The dinner menu adds several veal, seafood and chicken dishes (such as veal Marsala, chicken Neapolitan and lobster tail). There is also a small selection of steak dishes. Corvello's offers catering services and has a special room for parties with various beverage and meal packages.
Covello's Italian Seafood Restaurant
1792 State Highway 35 North
Sayreville, NJ 08872
(732) 727-6388
covellosrestaurant.com
The Sayreville Bar & Restaurant is a nice, quiet neighborhood establishment that prides itself on good food and gracious hospitality. The restaurant offers a full bar. The menu includes garlic shrimp, grilled shrimp salad, blackened chicken Alfredo, french dip, baked flounder and a steamed crab leg platter. All meals come with an all you can eat buffet of homemade soup, salad and mussels. Top off your meal with one of the restaurant's desserts, which are made in-house daily by the pastry chef.
Sayreville Bar & Restaurant
7 Cecelia St.
Sayreville, NJ 08872
(732) 725-8319
sayrebar.com
Nunzio's restaurant is located on the border of Sayreville and South Amboy, just off of the New Jersey Turnpike. This restaurant has been family owned since 1995 and offers fresh made-to-order meals. The menu spans Italy, with dishes such as a pasta dish with your choice of pasta and sauce, lasagna, veal Milanese, chicken Franchese, scungilli, gnocchi in a chicken vodka sauce, various hot subs and steak sandwiches, and pizza. There are also several dinner specials like chicken pesto and fried flounder. Nunzio's offers catering trays that can feed up to 20 people.
Nunzio's Restaurant
521 Raritan St.
Sayreville, New Jersey 08872
(732) 727-1060
nunziosmenu.com