Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Atlantic City from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Atlantic City
Knife and Fork Inn and Old Homestead Steakhouse hold Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence. Dock's Oyster House has an exceptional wine program and an extensive wine list.
Knife and Fork Inn is a Classic American Steakhouse & Seafood restaurant in Atlantic City. Its wine program is exceptional, the wine list is extensive, and it holds Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence for 2026. The 1912 room has hand-painted ceilings, mahogany millwork, and a legendary bar, and the kitchen serves a la carte and prix fixe.
Dock's Oyster House is a Classic Seafood & Raw Bar restaurant in Atlantic City with an exceptional wine program and an extensive wine list. The Dougherty family has owned the restaurant since 1897, and the raw bar offers up to 10 oyster varieties a night.
Old Homestead Steakhouse is a Classic American Steakhouse in Borgata, a New York steakhouse outpost that serves the Gotham Rib Steak and hand-massaged Wagyu beef. It has an exceptional wine program, an extensive wine list, and Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence for 2026.
These are the city’s older dining voices, from Italian-American rooms to soul food and sandwiches. They sit outside the resort core and show how Atlantic City eats day to day.
Chef Vola's is a Classic Italian-American restaurant, family-owned and set in a private home basement since 1921. It holds a James Beard America's Classics award from 2011, serves family style, and has a BYOB policy.
White House is a Classic American Sub Shop near Arctic Ave that serves massive, meat-packed Italian subs and has celebrity wall photos. Its Opinionated About Dining Cheap Eats in North America listing is Recommended for 2026 and ranked #439 for 2025.
Kelsey & Kim's Southern Cafe is a Southern Soul Food restaurant in Melrose Park. Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives named it a Featured Restaurant in 2026 for authentic Southern soul food, including fresh-to-order fried chicken.
Atlantic City and Borgata hold exceptional wine programs in our guide. Knife and Fork Inn and Dock's Oyster House are in Atlantic City, and Old Homestead Steakhouse is in Borgata. Knife and Fork Inn and Old Homestead Steakhouse hold Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence, and Dock's Oyster House has an exceptional wine program and an extensive wine list.
Atlantic City has no Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide. Gordon Ramsay Steak in Harrah's Resort serves Beef Wellington and prime aged steaks, with an extensive wine list.
Knife and Fork Inn and Old Homestead Steakhouse hold Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence in our guide. Citywide, 9 restaurants hold a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence and 5 hold Best of Award of Excellence.
Knife and Fork Inn in Atlantic City and Old Homestead Steakhouse in Borgata hold Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence, and both have exceptional wine programs with extensive wine lists. Knife and Fork Inn is a Classic American Steakhouse & Seafood restaurant, and Old Homestead Steakhouse is a Classic American Steakhouse.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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Selected entries from the current guide for Atlantic City.
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Chef Vola's on South Albion Place is one of Atlantic City's most closely held dining experiences: a cash-only, reservation-required room that has operated for decades well outside the casino corridor. The format rewards preparation over spontaneity, and the regulars who return season after season are its most reliable testament. Plan ahead, bring cash, and treat the booking process as part of the experience itself.
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Kelsey & Kim's Southern Cafe on Melrose Avenue brings Southern cooking traditions to Atlantic City's residential dining scene, operating well outside the casino corridor where most visitors concentrate their attention. The kitchen draws on the kind of ingredient-rooted cooking that defines regional American soul food, making it a reference point for locals seeking something grounded in culinary tradition rather than resort spectacle.
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The Knife and Fork Inn at 3600 Atlantic Ave is one of Atlantic City's most historically significant dining addresses, a century-old building that predates the casino era and has shaped the city's fine-dining expectations. It sits in a category apart from the boardwalk restaurants and casino buffets, representing a quieter, older strand of Atlantic City hospitality that rewards visitors who look beyond the gaming floor.
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Old Homestead Steakhouse brings one of New York's oldest chophouse lineages to the Borgata Hotel, Casino & Spa in Atlantic City. The outpost channels the original Manhattan institution's commitment to dry-aged beef and classic American steakhouse form in a casino-resort setting that draws both serious diners and Borgata regulars looking for something beyond the gaming floor.
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White House on Arctic Avenue has anchored Atlantic City's sandwich culture for decades, earning consecutive recognition on Opinionated About Dining's Cheap Eats in North America list from 2023 through 2025.
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Angeloni's Club Madrid occupies a corner of Atlantic City's residential Arctic Avenue corridor, sitting at a remove from the casino strip's volume and spectacle. The address places it squarely within the city's older dining tradition, alongside Italian-American rooms that predate the resort era's current form. For visitors cross-referencing Atlantic City's independent restaurant scene, it belongs in the same conversation as the city's other long-standing neighbourhood tables.
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Atlantic City's casino buffet format reaches its most ambitious expression at the Borgata, where volume and variety operate at a scale that reflects the property's broader position at the upper end of the city's gaming resort hierarchy. For visitors weighing options across the Boardwalk and Marina District, this is the buffet that locals and regulars consistently use as the reference point against which others are measured.
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Located on Atlantic Avenue at 2825, Cafe 2825 occupies a stretch of Atlantic City that sits outside the casino corridor, where the city's longer-standing dining culture has historically concentrated. The cafe operates in a neighbourhood context shaped by decades of independent restaurants, placing it in the same conversation as the Italian-American and seafood institutions that define the city's non-gaming dining scene.
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One of Atlantic City's oldest surviving restaurants, Dock's Oyster House at 2405 Atlantic Ave has anchored the city's seafood tradition since 1897. The room carries the particular weight of a place that has outlasted casinos, Prohibition, and several eras of urban reinvention. For raw shellfish and mid-Atlantic seafood, it remains the standard against which newer openings are measured.
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Girasole on Pacific Avenue occupies a quieter stretch of Atlantic City away from the casino corridor, where the dining room operates in a register closer to a neighborhood Italian than a resort property. The kitchen draws on classic Italian-American traditions, and the room rewards those willing to look past the boardwalk's louder options for something more considered.
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Gordon Ramsay Steak at Harrah's Resort Atlantic City brings the celebrity chef's signature steakhouse format to the Jersey Shore casino corridor, where it occupies a distinct tier above the property's casual dining options. The setting and menu pitch squarely at Atlantic City's high-roller dining circuit, making it a reference point for guests who want a formal steakhouse experience alongside the gaming floor.
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Tony's Baltimore Grill on Atlantic Avenue is one of Atlantic City's most enduring pizza and Italian-American institutions, operating from the same address long before the casino era reshaped the city. The format is unpretentious and consistent: a counter-service rhythm, a room that rewards familiarity, and a local following that has never required a publicist. For the city's dining scene, it represents a distinct register from the resort corridor entirely.
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Selected entries from the current guide for Atlantic City.
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Selected entries from the current guide for Atlantic City.
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Atlantic City
Selected entries from the current guide for Atlantic City.
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