Legendary Jersey Shore Diner Is Back After Long Closure

POINT PLEASANT, NJ — The OB Diner, a Point Pleasant landmark for decades, is welcoming customers again as the summer tourist season begins to pick up speed.

The diner, which closed in March 2025 for renovations, has been a fixture at 1519 Richmond Ave., serving breakfast, lunch and dinner since the early 1960s.

It reopened May 11, billing the launch as "reviving a legend" and "where nostalgia meets a new era" on the diner's new Facebook page. That includes staying open until 3 a.m. on the weekends for those late-night cravings.

The menu (you can see it here) includes the classics you can think of from eggs and waffles and pancakes to French dip, club sandwiches, fish and chips, burgers and disco fries (see the Diner's Most Wanted Platter appetizer). It also includes the "OB Taco Truck," which is dedicated to tacos, tostadas, burritos and other Mexican fare, a section dedicated to Eggs Benedict titled "Meet the Bennys" and several dishes that you'd more expect to see in more expensive restaurants, such as sourdough bread served with fig and avocado spread, brie or whipped mascarpone cheese (see the OB Most Wanted).

Specials are announced regularly. Recent offerings included 12-hour braised pork ossobuco and mushroom arancini topped with pulled short ribs, Tuscan salmon, prime rib, and a birria ramen fusion bowl, according to its Facebook page.

The diner was purchased for $1.7 million by Krishna Real Estate Investments LLC of Lyndhurst, according to the deed in Ocean County land records. Krishna Real Estate shares its Lyndhurst address with First National Realty Management.

The new team at OB Diner is led by Chef Diego Sanchez, who was born in Peru and "forged in the fire of New York City’s culinary scene," according to his biography on the diner's new website.

Sanchez is "a disruptive force redefining what it means to cook with purpose, precision, and passion," the website says.

The goal, according to the website, is to revive the comfort of classic diner dishes but adding a twist that is "fresh, fun, and just a little unexpected. "

"It’s all about making you feel at home while making every bite a little more exciting," according to the website.

"As the American dining culture shifts, we recognize we must strive to recreate the 1950 renaissance that birthed the diner as we know it today, all the while preserving the historical and cultural identity that made diners the model all others hope to emulate," the website says.

Sanchez, the founder of 39 Degrees North, a diner in Manahawkin, and At The Point diner in Point Pleasant Beach, has competed on the Food Network's "Chopped" and on "Beat Bobby Flay".

He told the Asbury Park Press he is leasing the diner for now with plans to purchase it from the new ownership.

The diner's storied history has included its share of ups and downs, including a two-year closure from early October 2012 before it finally reopened in 2014.

The diner is open daily at 6 a.m. and closes at 10 p.m. Sundays through Thursdays, with a 3 a.m. closing on Friday nights and Saturday nights.