Only NJ Spot on Hotel Restaurant Top 100? A Cape May Gem
By: Eddie Davis | Published: 2025-08-01 03:00:00 | Source: nj1015.com
A new list of America’s top 100 hotel restaurants includes only one hotel restaurant from New Jersey.
Cape May’s Ebbitt Room in the Virginia Hotel.
The top 100 list was created using data from a survey of over 1,500 American consumers who have dined at a hotel restaurant within the last five years, as well as flight and hotel searches on the search engine Kayak and restaurant data from the online restaurant reservation service, OpenTable.
A Little History on the Virginia Hotel
Originally known as the Ebbitt House, the Virginia Hotel was one of the first hotels to be rebuilt on Jackson Street after the Great Fire of 1878 destroyed 35 acres of Cape May.
A 2017 article in Boxer Brand recalls the transformation of the Virginia Hotel in the 1980s.
“Before its owner, Curtis Bashaw and his…
