Keyport Restaurant in Top 25 Best In New Jersey

Keyport, NJ - We're sure you've eaten at Drew's Bayshore Bistro. This beloved, long-acclaimed Keyport restaurant has been ranked in New Jersey's Monthly's list of the top 25 Best Restaurants in New Jersey, 2016.

The magazine released its highly-anticipated annual list Tuesday. Chef Drew Araneo and his son, Andrew, are famous for their voodoo shrimp, which beat Bobby Flay in a throwdown flavor challenge in 2013.

Says the magazine of Bayshore Bistro:

The next gen has arrived, and not a moment too soon. Fresh from the CIA and internships, Andrew “Drew” Araneo’s 21-year-old son, Andrew II, has joined the Bayshore Bistro after what Dad calls “one of the busiest winters we ever had.” Bolstered by sous chef Mark Michael, 28, the team bangs out record batches of voodoo shrimp with spicy Worcestershire cream, its best-selling willpower destroyer, along with the blazing gumbos, jambalayas, crawfish étoufées and classic chicken and waffles that have kept the cash register ring-a-dinging since Drew opened here in his hometown in 2005. Andrew II is working up a revisionist pork braciole stuffed with tasso ham and provolone. Michael has won a following for his crisp pork belly on scallion pancakes topped with Coca-Cola glaze and a diabolical green sriracha he devised. Dad is glad it’s high summer and he can make his famous corn ice cream from fresh Jersey crop. “I’ve got things I’d love to change,” he admits, “but I can’t. I took off the salty-pretzel-chocolate-caramel tart, and people threatened me. It’s a great problem to have.” BYO. 25 Church Street, 732-739-9219.

Drew's Bayshore Bistro was destroyed during Hurricane Sandy by raging waters from the Keyport Harbor. However, they have since rebuilt and reopened at 25 Church Street - just down the road from their old location.