Porta Asbury Park

"A sibling to the one in Jersey City, Porta offers a solid collection of salads, sides like meatballs and Italian sausage, and pizzas like the Spring Betty with goat cheese, spinach béchamel, spring onions, artichokes, and pecorino Romano. The bar is endless and the room has little to mute noise, so if the party-level volume is not your scene, there’s the outside area with plenty of picnic tables with room to spread out." - Celia Buckley, Melissa McCart

"Porta is an offshoot of the original in Asbury Park with amazing wood-burning pizzas and live music." - Annie Fitzsimmons

"Arguably the restaurant that turned the Asbury dining scene around, Porta now serves hundreds of Neapolitan pies daily. The rest of the menu fills out with pasta, meatballs, and other Italian classics. Toward the end of the evening, the massive space becomes a nightclub." - Stefanie Tuder

"Philly has its fair share of restaurants in big, historic buildings, but most of them are white-tablecloth spots filled with people who look like characters from Clue. Porta is different. It’s the third location of an Asbury Park pizza shop and just like the first two, it’s fun. The walls of what used to be a furniture store are covered in graffiti, and the huge space is perfect for you to invite all of your friends, and then for them to invite all of their friends. After dinner, they even set up a dance floor, so you don’t have to split two Ubers six ways to get to a crowded bar in Fishtown." - Jordan Price

"Arguably the restaurant that turned the Asbury dining scene around, Porta now serves hundreds of Neapolitan pies daily. Toward the end of the evening, the massive space becomes a nightclub." - Stefanie Tuder