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  1. Safari tents on 100 acres of Maine waterfront, which is either an absurd concept or a perfect one depending on how you feel about glamping. Under Canvas plants its luxury tented camp just outside Acadia National Park, outfitting each unit with a king bed, wood-burning stove, private deck, and a proper en-suite bathroom so you never have to locate a flashlight at 2am. The Stargazer tents add sky-viewing windows for anyone who prefers their ceiling seasonal.

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  2. Glamping tents pitched 25 minutes from the South Rim, close enough to feel the pull of one of the planet's great holes in the ground without actually sleeping in it. Under Canvas Grand Canyon is a luxury camping resort where the surroundings do most of the decorating. Hiking, biking, and rafting fill the days, and if the canyon floor is calling, guided mule rides go all the way down, which sounds romantic until you're on the mule.

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  3. A glamping resort on 86 acres at the foot of the Presidential Range, where some tents have windows cut above the bed so you can watch the stars without leaving your sleeping bag. The experience across all the tents is deliberately low-tech: no wi-fi, just trails, rivers, and s'mores. Yoga classes and guided access to the surrounding White Mountains fill the days. Selected by the Michelin Guide.

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  5. A 17-story resort wrapped around an Art Deco original from the late 1930s, Loews Miami Beach spreads across Collins Avenue with nearly 800 rooms, multiple restaurants, and a pool that earns its keep in a city full of them. An Exhale Spa outpost handles the recovery side. It skews family and large groups, though the sheer scale means everyone turns up eventually, which is either a feature or a warning depending on your travel style.


  6. Rank 10206. Barbacoa Ramirez

    Hidalgo-Style Mexican



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  10. Porches facing Taylor Creek set the tone at this waterfront hotel in old Beaufort, where the marsh sits close enough to remind you you're on the Carolina coast. Rooms lean into the nautical without going overboard, shiplap walls and rigging-line details keeping things grounded. The Michelin Guide has it among its selected hotels. Live music on weekends pulls in locals alongside guests, which is usually a good sign about a place.

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  11. Named for a granite wall it sits about 80 miles from, this boutique hotel in downtown Merced splits its personality evenly between base camp and city stay. Yosemite is the obvious draw, but Merced is the last real town before the park swallows you whole, and the hotel leans into both sides of that equation. Practical for adventurers, comfortable enough for anyone who just wants a stylish room on the Central Valley rather than a tent.

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  12. A portrait of Magic Johnson made entirely from shoelaces greets you at the front desk, which tells you everything you need to know about this hotel. Graduate East Lansing sits just across from the Michigan State campus, and it leans hard into that fact, from emerald green everywhere to MSU initials in the carpets to basketball wallpaper in the bathrooms. Subtlety was never the brief, and the Spartans faithful wouldn't have it any other way.

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  13. One suite here is named for Tom Clark, a Civil War outlaw buried under Tennessee Street just to spite anyone who said they'd walk over him. GunRunner is a ten-suite boutique hotel in downtown Florence, with balconied rooms overlooking the city, walk-in showers, and a bar inlaid with honeycomb onyx downstairs. The Shoals' music and fashion history get their due too, but Clark steals the lobby conversation every time.

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  14. The painted beams and arched windows of a 1920s Moorish Revival temple still run the show here, even with chandeliers and patterned textiles layered on top. Hotel 1928 is a 33-room boutique hotel on Washington Avenue with a café, two restaurants, a library, and sitting rooms that reward wandering. Ten minutes from the Silos, it draws the kind of guests who appreciate a building with a past and a decent place to sit in it.

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  15. A 24-acre resort on a stretch of the Keys most people blow past on the way to Key West, Isla Bella sits near the east end of the Seven Mile Bridge with five pools, a sandy beach, and nearly 200 suites. It's a self-contained luxury resort, the kind where you could theoretically never leave the property, which for some people is a vacation and for others is a warning.

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  16. A Marriott on the Ithaca Commons, close enough to Cornell that parents' weekend fills the lobby fast. Rooms run a pacific blue and white palette with waterfall showers, and the higher floors catch Ithaca's tree canopy at its best. The hotel's own Monks on the Commons handles in-room dining, and the weekly calendar keeps things lively with tastings, trivia, and board-game nights, which is either charming or a lot, depending on your Friday mood.

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  17. A converted mid-century motel done up in faded Seventies palette, LOGE Westport is a boutique adventure hotel for people who drove two and a half hours from Seattle specifically to get wet. The Sands Cafe handles third-wave coffee and breakfast; a covered outdoor kitchen with a community grill handles the rest. There's a gear shop stocked for surf outings at Westport State Beach, and the rooms are comfortable without fussing over it.

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  18. A drive-in cinema where the hotel loans you a mid-century classic to park in front of it sets the tone at this outdoor resort on the edge of Grand Staircase-Escalante. Compact cabins and vintage Airstream trailers sit across 22 acres, with a swimming pool and bathhouse rounding out the setup. The central lodge has a lounge and general store for when the canyon light fades and everyone needs snacks and somewhere to decompress.

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  19. The first major new lodge near Yosemite in living memory sits just outside the park gate on Highway 120, and it reads as a quiet argument that "national park lodging" doesn't have to mean thin walls and sad buffets. Rooms are clean-lined and contemporary without trying too hard, and the villas sit somewhere between hotel suite and vacation home. The spa and restaurant both punch past what you'd expect from the genre.


  20. SCP stands for Soul, Community, Planet, which tells you most of what you need to know about this small, environmentally minded boutique hotel on the Oregon Coast. Six private rooms and a handful of hostel-style bunks keep the scale deliberately human, and a co-working space called SCP Commons means you can pretend your beach trip is actually a workation. Younger, outdoorsy guests who find the typical coastal lodge a bit much tend to gravitate here.

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  21. A hotel that has been part of Purdue's campus forever, the Union Club Hotel sits right in the thick of university life without drowning in school-spirit decor, which is a harder needle to thread than it sounds. Rooms feel current, the on-site restaurant leans seasonal with a French tilt, and the whole place carries enough personality that you'd book it even if you had no particular feelings about Boilermaker football.

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  22. Glamping at its most self-aware: canvas tents pitched near Bryce Canyon with views of Mount Dutton and Adams Head, so you get the red-rock scenery without the part where you sleep on a root. Under Canvas splits the difference between a hotel and a campsite, leaning hard toward the hotel side, and the formula has spread to national parks across the country fast enough to suggest the compromise is popular. Zion and a handful of other Utah parks are an easy drive.

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  23. Glamping with Mount Hood on the horizon: Under Canvas sets safari-style tents across 120 acres of the White Salmon River Valley, an hour from Portland. Each tent comes with a king bed and a private deck, which makes hiking and rafting feel optional rather than mandatory. The indoor-outdoor café runs on regional food, and evenings wind down with live acoustic music and s'mores, which is either charming or a lot, depending on your constitution.

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  24. Canvas tents with king beds, wood-burning stoves, and full private bathrooms pitched outside Glacier National Park, open mid-June through mid-September. Under Canvas has rolled out this upscale safari-camp formula at sites across the country, and the formula is honest: hotel-grade comfort dropped into genuine wilderness, no shuttle bus to the experience required. Guests who'd never touch a sleeping bag find themselves actually sleeping outside, which is either the point or the joke, probably both.

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  27. Wood-fired hot tubs on the patio set the tone at this 21-cabin hotel near Island Park, Idaho, where Japanese-influenced minimalism does a lot of quiet work. Efficient kitchens, considered artwork, an on-site sauna, and cold-plunge tubs fill out the amenities. Yellowstone is a half-hour drive, but the Henrys Fork River pulls its own weight, with serious rafting and fishing before you even cross the border.

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  28. Rank 10229. Happy Baos

    Northern Chinese

    Tucked just off the food court at Mekong Plaza, this Northern Chinese bao shop has outlasted neighbors that came and went while it quietly became a fixture. Handmade dumplings arrive chewy and properly sealed, with steamed buns and xiao long bao filling out the menu. Dan dan noodles and a cucumber salad round things out for anyone who wants something beyond the folded stuff. Phoenix New Times named it the best dumplings in Phoenix.


    Address
    66 S Dobson Rd, Unit 112, Mesa, AZ 85202, United States
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    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Saturday 11 AM–9 PM

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  29. Rank 10230. CATCH

    Sushi

    A steak-and-sushi restaurant inside Scottsdale Fashion Square, which tells you exactly who the room is built for. The menu runs from raw fish and specialty rolls through wagyu and pasta, so you can arrive with shopping bags and leave with a bill to match. The herb-roasted branzino, served over lemon rice, has drawn particular attention from local critics. Not cheap, but the kitchen takes the food more seriously than the setting might suggest.


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    7014 E Camelback Rd, Scottsdale, AZ 85251, United States
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    Closed now, opens 4 PM

    Saturday 4 PM–10 PM

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    294 Grove Ln E, Wayzata, MN 55391, United States
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    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Saturday 11 AM–10 PM

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  31. Rank 10232. Abang Yoli

    Modern Korean

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  33. Address
    1011 Cedar St, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
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    Closed now, opens Sat noon

    Friday Noon–9 PM, 5 PM–9 PM

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    Tock
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  34. Rank 10232. Baguette Delite

    Vietnamese


    Address
    381 Old Post Rd, Edison, NJ 08817, United States
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    Closed now, opens 10 AM

    Saturday 10 AM–10 PM

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  35. Rank 10232. Bamboo Grill

    Filipino


    Address
    54 S Washington Ave, Bergenfield, NJ 07621, United States
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    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Saturday 11 AM–8:30 PM

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  36. Rank 10232. Bivio Pizza Napoletana

    Neapolitan Pizzeria


    Address
    107 Pine St, Montclair, NJ 07042, United States
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    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Saturday 5 PM–10:30 PM

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    7908 Long Beach Blvd, Harvey Cedars, NJ 08008, United States
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    Closed now, opens 4 PM

    Saturday 4 PM–9:30 PM

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    Resy
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    1519 Como Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414, United States
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    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Saturday 11 AM–Midnight

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    2935 Girard Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55408, United States
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    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Saturday 11 AM–Midnight

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    600 E Hennepin Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55414, United States
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    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Saturday 11 AM–9 PM

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    539 E Main St, Manasquan, NJ 08736, United States
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    Closed now, opens 9 AM

    Saturday 9 AM–3 PM, Noon–Midnight

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    961 Ukiah St, Mendocino, CA, United States · Littleriver
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    Closed now, opens Sat 5 PM

    Friday 5 PM–9 PM

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    Resy
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    2412 Nicollet Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55404, United States
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    Closed now, opens 10:30 AM

    Saturday 10:30 AM–10 PM

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  50. Rank 10232. Crabbae

    Cajun & Creole



  51. Address
    1677 Route 27, Edison, NJ, United States
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    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Saturday 11 AM–2 PM, 5 PM–9 PM

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    404 Marlton Pike E, Cherry Hill, NJ, United States
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    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Saturday 11 AM–9:30 PM

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    3864 Crenshaw Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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    Closed now, opens Sat 10 AM

    Friday 10 AM–9 PM

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    Address
    128 Cleveland Ave N, Saint Paul, MN, United States
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    Closed now, opens 4 PM

    Saturday 4 PM–10 PM

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    1003 Black Horse Pike, Hammonton, NJ 08037, United States
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    Closed now, opens noon

    Saturday Noon–7 PM

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    3501 Nicollet Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55408, United States
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    Closed now, opens 10 AM

    Saturday 10 AM–10 PM

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    401 Centre St, Beach Haven, NJ 08008, United States
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    Closed now, opens 8 AM

    Saturday 8 AM–10 PM

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  61. Address
    8651 Ca-128, Philo, CA, United States
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    Closed now, opens Sat 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–8 PM

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  63. Rank 10232. Kelsey's

    Southern


    Address
    1545 Pacific Ave, Atlantic City, NJ 08401, United States
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    Closed now, opens 4 PM

    Saturday 4 PM–10 PM

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    118 Wilson Ave, Newark, NJ 07105, United States
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    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Saturday 11 AM–11 PM

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    104 Washington St, Hoboken, NJ 07030, United States
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    Closed now, opens 7:30 AM

    Saturday 7:30 AM–10 PM

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  66. Address
    44 Leigh Ave, Princeton, NJ 08542, United States
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    Closed now, opens noon

    Saturday Noon–10 PM

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    241 Main St S, Stillwater, MN 55082, United States
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    Closed now, opens 11:30 AM

    Saturday 11:30 AM–9 PM

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    Address
    233 Main St S, Stillwater, MN 55082, United States
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    Closed now, opens 11:30 AM

    Saturday 11:30 AM–9 PM

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  70. Rank 10232. Louisa's

    Seafood


    Address
    104 Jackson St, Cape May, NJ 08204, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Saturday 11 AM–3 PM, 5 PM–11:59 PM

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  71. Address
    388 E Main St, El Cajon, CA, United States
    Hours

    Closes soon, midnight, in 28 min

    Friday 9 AM–Midnight

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  72. Rank 10232. Meals by Genet

    Ethiopian


    Address
    1053 S Fairfax Ave, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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    Closed now, opens Sat 6 PM

    Friday 6 PM–9 PM

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  73. Rank 10232. Mi Ranchito Cafe

    Mexican Wine Bar


    Address
    425 S Center St, Stockton, CA, United States
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    Closed now, opens Sat 7 AM

    Friday 7 AM–7 PM

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    3917 B Market St, Edina, MN, United States · Minneapolis
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    Closed now, opens 4 PM

    Saturday 4 PM–10 PM

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    5119 Asbury Ave, Tinton Falls, NJ 07753, United States
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    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Saturday 5 PM–9:30 PM

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    Address
    2260 Como Ave, Saint Paul, MN 55108, United States
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    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Saturday 11 AM–9:30 PM

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    Resy
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    Address
    4959 Penn Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55419, United States
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    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Saturday 11 AM–10 PM

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  78. Rank 10232. Noroc Restaurant

    Eastern European


    Address
    4715 Manzanita Ave, Carmichael, CA, United States
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    Closed now, opens Sat 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–9 PM

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    Address
    510 Groveland Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55403, United States
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    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Saturday 5 PM–10 PM

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  80. Rank 10232. pastaRAMEN

    Italian Noodle Shop


    Address
    6 S Fullerton Ave, Montclair, NJ 07042, United States
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    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Saturday 5 PM–11 PM

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    Resy
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  81. Rank 10232. Peck Peck Korean Fried Chicken

    Fried Chicken Korean


    Address
    250 Degraw Ave, Teaneck, NJ 07666, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Saturday 11 AM–7 PM

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