This jazzy place has a pictorial history of the famous “grease trucks” that occupied a campus parking lot for 20 years until banished by the university to make way for new construction. Now this storefront is one of the few vestiges remaining, serving dozens of the hero sandwiches known as subs, piled with an inordinate quantity of fillings that include meat, cheese, lettuce and onions, french fries, and copious amounts of dressing.

Open since 1933 in a three-story, rambling white frame house west of the campus, Olde Queens Tavern is a classic campus watering hole. It features special events, along with cheap drink specials, poker tournaments, ugly sweater contests, and live DJs. The premises was renovated in 2017, and is open till 2 a.m. every night. Where does the name come from? When it was founded, Rutgers was called Queens College.

Thomas Sweet Ice Cream is a New Jersey-based mini-chain founded in Princeton in 1979. It offers 30 flavors that tend to be on the creamy side, including faddish ones like birthday bash (containing cake), vanilla Heath Bar crunch, banana pudding, and kiwi strawberry soft serve. Then there are ice cream sandwiches, shakes, cakes, pies, smoothies, and sundaes, the latter with all sorts of syrups, fresh berries, and candy toppings.

Mamoun’s Falafel has popularized the falafel sandwich on several campuses in New York and New Jersey since 1971, and also serves as a haven for vegetarians and those who like to eat quasi-healthy, for a meal or two at least. The Middle Eastern menu is bare bones, but is vegetable heavy, wholesome, and the perfect thing to take on a picnic or for a quick bite in the way to class. The Rutgers branch is the chain’s most luxurious looking.

The Frog & The Peach is New Brunswick’s farm-to-table bistro, founded in 1983 by Rutgers grads Jim Black and Betsy Alger, owned since 2012 by chef Bruce Lefebvre. It offers lunch, dinner, and Sunday brunch, with prix fixe menus of several courses. Special events are the order of the day, including an annual peach tasting.

This downtown pizzeria has been around since 1972, and is a local favorite for its surreally large, thin-crust slices with plainish sauce and the usual amount of cheese. The slices need to be folded to be eaten, New-York style, which means the crust is a bit floppy. An unusually large range of toppings is available, including ground beef, anchovies, and fresh tomatoes. Also recommended are the white slices, the cheesesteaks, and, somewhat unexpectedly, the jalapeno calzones.

Punto y Coma (“period and comma”) is a playful Oaxacan restaurant typical of the kind that have appeared in New Brunswick over the last two decades. It is located in a white frame house, with dining rooms upstairs and down. The menu includes Oaxacan tamales wrapped in banana leaves, and picaditas — like ridged sopes willed with black beans and cheese.

The “pizzeria” part in the name refers to the Oaxacan tlayuda, which is a crisp masa platform topped with an assortment that often includes black beans, avocado, crema, chorizo, and jalapenos — a quintessential street food in the capital of the state. This wonderful diner with murals and street views of the neighborhood offers a full Mexican menu.