Siren’s Bar and Grill

Great Egg Harbor Bay’s boat traffic provides the entertainment while the Anchorage handles cold beer and fresh catch, direct South Jersey hospitality with zero pretense.

Charlie’s has served its regulars as well as anyone on the entire Jersey Shore, cold beer and fresh seafood at a Great Egg Harbor Bay landmark that never needed a rebrand.

Gregory’s has anchored Somers Point’s Great Egg Harbor Bay waterfront for decades, the kind of place regulars have been coming back to for so long they stopped counting the years.

Baker’s Port Hole in Beach Haven has been cash-only, family-run, and not trying to impress anyone since 1936. That’s the whole pitch. It works.

Long Beach Island runs its own low-key, unlike-anywhere-else version of Jersey Shore culture, and the Sea Shell has given it a proper oceanfront bar for decades.