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A roadside farmstand with a raw bar is either a great idea or a very convincing fever dream, and Sweet Amalia is the former. The oysters come from the team's own aquaculture operation in the Delaware Bay, and the weekly menu pivots around whatever the chef finds interesting: falafel over cucumbers, grilled eggplant with peperonata, a BLT stacked with heirlooms. You order at the counter and eat outside at picnic tables. The New York Times put it on their Restaurant List.
The awards strongest first
- Esquire #38 · The Best New Restaurants in America
- The New York Times 2024 · The Restaurant List
- NJ.com #74 · New Jersey’s 99 greatest restaurants, ranked
- The Philadelphia Inquirer Eggplant Cutlet · The best dishes Craig LaBan ate
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Mid-Atlantic · Melissa McGrath
One number, weighted & current 76
How we scoreThe dishes from the writeups
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Italian cold-cut hoagies
“Certain standbys remain no matter the month, like the fried oysters on a grilled buttered roll and the Italian cold-cut hoagies.”
The New York Times, 2024 -
Grilled eggplant sandwich
The New York Times, 2024
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