This NJ Restaurant Was Named the #1 College Town Eatery

This Princeton institution is a favorite of both college students and locals.

PJ’S PANCAKE HOUSE

All college towns have their local favorite eateries where students spend their late nights (or early mornings, depending on how late!). They’re the places to while away an afternoon getting coffee, doing homework, meeting with friends and faculty members and scarfing down food that beats anything offered in the college cafeteria.

Of course, when it comes to the top college town eateries, a NJ restaurant took the number one spot!  The Wall Street Journal ranked the best college town eateries and PJ’s Pancake House in Princeton was number one.

A Princeton institution since 1962, the original PJ’s on Nassau Street still has lines out the door every weekend, no matter the weather. Students, professors, university staff and locals come for the pancakes, but as anyone who’s been knows PJ’s offers so much more than breakfast. You can get steak, mac n cheese, burgers and even tacos here. There are now six PJ’s locations (Ewing, West Windsor, Robbinsville, Kingston, Princeton and Lawrenceville) but the one in downtown Princeton is the special spot alumni fondly remember.

Here are the other eateries that made WSJ’s list:

Charlie’s Kitchen in Cambridge, Massachusetts (Harvard)
Mory’s in New Haven, Connecticut (Yale)
V & T Restaurant and Pizzeria in Manhattan (Columbia)
Duff’s Famous Wings in Amherst, NY (Canisius)
Korner Store and Deli in Oakland, Maine (Colby)
Peninsula Creamery in Palo Alto, California (Stanford)
Rube’s Steakhouse in Montour, Iowa (Grinnell)

Do you have a favorite college town greasy spoon, pizza joint or wings place that you just have to visit when you’re there? Sometimes, the memories are even better than the actual food!

Read more:

Quintessential NJ: Food and Drink
Jersey’s Best Diners
Open Table Says These Restaurants Represent The Best in NJ — Do You Agree?

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