Edison Travel Guide

If you're looking for some basic diner food (think club sandwiches, burgers, waffles, eggs . . .), then the Menlo Park Diner isnt' a bad option. It's located in exactly what you'd expect from a diner, a long, retro looking place with booths and tables and a cashier up front.

Favorite Dish: I had an omelette, which was decent if not great.

Ashoka is a good north Indian restaurant located just off of Oak Tree Road in a little strip mall on Marconi Avenue. The food here is excellent and not too expensive and the service is attentive. We were here for dinner, but at lunch they have a buffet.

Favorite Dish: We ordered a number of dishes here to allow and shared plates and everything was good. Try Chicken Tikka if you're not used to Indian food. If you are, get a little more daring and try something new.

My buddy Tom and I decided to try some South Indian food. Dosai Express is a fast food sort of place serving mostly Dosai (the large crepe looking thing on Tom's plate) and Idli (another South Indian specialty made of rice and lentils). It's very basic inside, but packed with Indians.

Favorite Dish: We had a two Dosais, some idly and some vada. All were good and very cheap.

We were out grocery shopping at our local Shop Rite, we decided to stop someplace for lunch before going Home. We walked by this Thai Restaurant and looked at the Menu, we had never had Thai food before and heard that it was spicy and hot, well the menu showed both and that they had meals that didn't look like they would be too spicy or hot.

We found out upon entering that this is a second Bangkok Cuisine Restaurant; the first is on 8th Ave in Manhattan. The dining room is full of light with a gigantic fish tank full of exotic tropical fish (I kept looking for Nemo). The waiter brought us glasses of water and the menu, we went with the lunch special menu, any of 16 entrees all priced by what you want in your meal, Chicken$6.95, Beef $7.95 & Shrimp $8.95. All meals come with Jasmine Rice (except noodle dishes), Thai Spring Roll or Soup or Salad.

We both had a fragrantly delicious Soup called Tom Ka Gai, it's a combination of chicken with coconut milk, lime juice, onion & straw mushrooms. I've never had anything like it before, it was a shame to eat, I just wanted to sit and smell it all day.
The entrees came with fresh brewed tea that was full of flavor, my Wife had Gai Pad Pak, sautéed chicken with mixed vegetables and garlic, I had Pad Thai Chicken, stir fried noodles, chicken, egg, bean curd, bean sprouts, and ground peanuts. Both dishes were served communal style so we could easily sample each others entrees.

The food was wonderful and the service was attentive.

Favorite Dish: The Soup called Tom Ka Gai, it was just out of this world.

Mughal Express on Oak Tree Road and the upscale Ming (across the street in the shopping center) both owned by the Mathanis serve the most authentic Indian style Chinese food in the USA. I fly all the way East every now and then just to eat this delicious food.

Mughal Express serves stand-up Chinese fast food (with other types of food as well) and Ming serves sit-down Chinese only food in elegant surroundings. The food is cooked by Chinese chefs who grew up in India and cooked for some of India's finest Chinese restaurants.

Favorite Dish: The chili-garlic noodles and "anything" (chicken, vegetables, etc) Manchurian.

There's not much to do in the way of nightlife in Edison. New Brunswick, New Jersey is only about 15 minutes away, so if you're into the college town scene (Rutgers University) you could head down to the bars there. Otherwise, New York City is just a 40 minute train ride away!

Dress Code: We ended up at the TGI Fridays bar one night and surprisingly had a good time chatting it up with some locals.