This Old-School Middlesex County Diner Is Serving Up NJ’s Best Comfort Food

What do you consider comfort food? To me, it's something you eat that immediately reminds you of home, or a time from your life that no longer exists. For example, whenever I have lasagna, it reminds me of Sunday night dinner at my Grandma's house. It's food that brings you a sense of comfort.

What Are Comfort Foods?

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Popular comfort foods are things like pot pie, meatloaf, stroganoff, anything that's hearty, and brings you a sense of nostalgia when you bite into it.

I was talking to a co-worker the other day about comfort food, and he mentioned CJ McLoone's has one of the best meatloaf dishes he's ever had. A prime example of comfort food.

Where Can You Find The Best Comfort Food In New Jersey?

But where would you go in Jersey to have the best comfort food money can buy? According to the travel experts at Only In Your State, there's a diner in Middlesex County that is home to Jersey's best comfort food.

Now, I would like to mention that pretty much any diner you go to in Jersey is going to have mouth-watering comfort food. It's kind of what makes New Jersey the diner capital of the country.

The Metuchen Diner Is Home To NJ's Best Comfort Food, According To Experts

Regardless, according to Only In Your State, the Metuchen Diner has the hands-down best comfort food dishes in the state. They say it's the Liver and Onions that did it for them, but also the fact that the Metuchen Diner still has that old-school diner feel, and a massive menu that has something for everyone.

Personally, if I'm getting comfort food from a diner, it's something more along the lines of a grilled cheese sandwich and a cup of tomato soup from the Rainbow in Brick, but to each their own.