This boutique hotel offers poolside lunch, a swanky cocktail bar, and a comely dining room with a New American tasting menu from chef and partner David Viana.

With pics of the Boss along the wall and regulars at the counter, this solid luncheonette-style deli, open since 1960, bakes its own bread and offers an array of sandwiches and breakfast items for its fiercely loyal clientele. If you’re looking for a pork roll (no one says Taylor ham down the Shore), egg, and cheese for breakfast, order it here. Cash only.

Ada’s serves a mix of Ethiopian and Dominican dishes with a wide selection of meat and vegetarian options including mofongo as well as samplers served on homemade injera. The owner’s presence lends warmth to the experience.

Look for rillettes, pimento cheese, giant salads, and a chophouse menu at this two-story restaurant on the revitalizing Main Street. Don’t miss the second floor back bar for a solid list of cocktails and a no-nonsense beer and wine list.

Wonder Bar is home of the yappy hour, an outdoor sandy area with picnic tables where dogs lose their minds with excitement as they swim in baby pools while patrons drink Budweiser. This Asbury Park institution also features a regular roster of local performers like Springsteen cover band, Tramps Like Us. And it’s home to one of the best burgers in town.

This small Mexican restaurant serves excellent tacos plus many other Latin American dishes like mofongo and Cuban sandwiches. Go for the tacos al pastor and send it home with the densely creamy flan or the coconut tres leches cake topped with peaches.

A red sauce spot on the edge of town, Jimmy’s is the kind of place that was founded in the ’80s and hasn’t changed since. This past year, Paul McCartney stopped by when he was in town, with other visits from Joe Pesci, Ray Liotta, Danny DeVito, and Bruce Springsteen. Try to grab a seat at the bar and grab yourself some antipasti.

Wild Air offers a diverse selection of lagers and wild ales each referencing works by literary giants. The brewery’s name evokes Ralph Waldo Emerson’s poem “Merlin’s Song.” Takeout is encouraged as you make your way through the tap list.

Here’s a second-level boardwalk venue with a view of the ocean on one side and the Stone Pony Summer Stage on the other. It’s more of a bar with high-octane cocktails as well as inventive mocktails, yet also sells snacks like za’atar fries, shawarma, pretzels and beer cheese, or skirt steak. If it rains, there’s also a handsome indoor bar with a fireplace.

With an original base in Fairlawn, New Jersey, Kimchi Mama opened a second location down the Shore a little over a year ago, bringing much-needed Korean cuisine to Asbury Park. For $10-12 you can get a filling bowl packed with meat, vegetables and kimchi over rice, accompanied by miso soup and extra kimchi. Share plates include Korean chicken wings, a crisp vegetable pancake, plus bubble tea and ice cream.

Fluffy, cakey donuts are made daily at Purple Glaze. If you’re a sugar fiend, you’ll like the fancy and filled flavor options such as maple bacon, banana cream pie, and cannoli, but the plain and glazed donuts are a balance of sweetness.

Look for towering sandwiches and elegant sweet plates like a berry skillet cake in Cardinal’s green and sunny daytime spot. Start or end a meal with a pillowy xuixo: a fried pastry filled with cream and coated in sugar, which originated from the Catalonia region of Spain.

Mexican-inspired, experimental dishes and petite tacos layered with unusual embellishments like chayote slaw and chimichurri create the dynamic flavor experience at Barrio Costero. The expansive cocktail menu follows suit, with a wide range of bright and zesty drinks.

Go the bar food or the seafood route at this restaurant at the start of Cookman coming from the beach. There are plenty of outdoor tables as well as an expansive dining room with floor-to-ceiling plate-glass windows for excellent streetscape people watching. For dinner, consider raw bar items, fish and chips, sausage and clam stew, or linguine with clam sauce.

Dimly-lit Bond Street offers casual bites for dinner or late night, including $10 burgers, $7 grilled cheeses with additions like bacon and apple, plus shoestring fries, onion rings, and more. The basement level of the bar hosts events and live music, accessed by passing through Bond’s connected partner restaurant, Capitoline.

At Talula’s, everything is baked, pickled, and fermented in-house: Sourdough loaves and pizza are essential to the menu, which features a roasted pastrami reuben sandwich loaded with red cabbage slaw, and the Beekeeper’s Lament pizza topped with soppressata and honey. Plant-based options are never boring here, like the “crab” cakes, hearty and layered in both texture and flavor.

Locals revere Taka for the upscale atmosphere and the inventive sushi rolls like the Jun-San, a medley of tuna, avocado, salmon, and yellowtail with scallion, caramelized soy sauce, spicy mayo, and crunchy tempura. The ceilings are lofty, orb-like lights hang above the bar, and sake casks line the back wall of the main dining room.

This is for anyone who doesn’t want to deal with frilly or precious restaurants. Think big chili dogs and crinkle-cut cheese fries presented in paper boats (with little plastic spears to deliver each fry to your mouth). This fast-food chain only exists in New Jersey; other nearby locations include Long Branch, the original, and the only one with an actual windmill.

Though it’s among the more expensive restaurants around, the atmosphere at Grand Tavern is relaxed and rustic, with wood-beam ceilings and fixtures evoking English hunting culture. The menu is small and refined, celebrating beef, fat, butter, and cream. Expect small plates like fried sunchokes, and dishes such a. short-rib sauerbraten. The dessert on rotation won’t disappoint, including sticky toffee pudding in a pool of caramel, topped with fresh whipped cream and flaky salt.