Another Beloved Toms River, NJ Restaurant Has Closed For Good

The food scene near the Jersey Shore is constantly changing, what's here one day may be gone the next.

For example, the Chubby Unicorn off Route 9; was one of my wife's favorite places to grab a donut every now and then, and they seemed to have closed out of nowhere.

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More on the Chubby Unicorn here. 

A while ago, there was a really popular Hot Dog spot off 37, it was one of the last places to grab a bite to eat before you hit the bridge into Seaside Heights.

It was called Chomp; it was a pretty popular spot, which closed seemingly out of nowhere one day only to leave us asking "What's next?"

What was next was a place called Big Dogs Cafe.

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If you're not familiar, Big Dogs Cafe did breakfast, lunch, and some dinner stuff and had a wide menu.

I went once or twice and absolutely loved it, and was even more excited when I saw they opened a second location in Bayville. 

But now the rumor mill is churning about what's really going on with Big Dog Cafe.

I saw on the Toms River Facebook Group that someone tried to visit the Big Dog location off 37 and it looked closed in the middle of the day.

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No sign on the door, but the door was locked.

People started wondering what was going on.

Just the other day I drove by the Big Dog Cafe off 37 and noticed a sign in the window, and it wasn't a good sign.

For Rent.

Then, when you Google Big Dogs Cafe, it comes up as a permanently closed location.

It's never a good day when a cool little local business goes under, especially one that seemed to be doing pretty well.

Hopefully, we will see Big Dogs return in the future, until then we're left asking "What's Next?"

Sadly, we've lost a lot of great restaurants over the last year.