• Somers Point, New Jersey, is located 10 miles southwest of Atlantic City and offers local attractions such as William Morrow Beach and Somers Point Historical Museum. Whether you travel to this Jersey shore city by car or boat, make sure to stop in at one of the local restaurants that offer waterfront dining, seafood specialty dishes and classic American comfort foods.
  
  

The Doc's Place

• The Doc's Place, near Harbour Cove Marina, offers indoor and patio dining. The casual restaurant's lunch menu includes Oriental chicken salad, red onion and liverwurst sandwiches, seasonal vegetable wraps, herb-encrusted tilapia filets and filet mignon. The dinner menu includes Kobi beef sliders, steamed clams, buffalo mozzarella salad, fettuccine Alfredo, rack of lamb and flank steak.
  
  The Doc's Place also offers an early-bird dinner menu that includes jumbo lump crab cakes, barbecued shrimp and scallops and roasted chicken. The restaurant closes during January and holds seasonal hours the rest of the year.
  
  The Doc's Place
  
  646 Bay Avenue
  
  Somers Point, NJ 08244
  
  609-926-0404
  
  thedocsplace.com
  
  

The Crab Trap

• Located on the grounds of Somerset Plantation, the Crab Trap offers seafood-inspired dishes in its upscale dining room. The restaurant's early-bird dinner specials include a choice of entrees such as baked flounder, fried seafood platter or chicken Parmesan, served with either soup or salad, vegetable, potato-of-the-day and fresh-baked bread.
  
  The Crab Trap's regular dinner menu includes entrees such as blackened redfish, sesame-encrusted tuna steak and combination platters--fried shrimp and ribs, deviled crab and filet mignon, and lobster tails and prime rib. The restaurant's lunch menu includes salads such as buffalo chicken salad and Newport spinach salad and entrees such as baked crab Imperial, Jersey ocean scallops and shrimp and broccoli pasta. The Crab Trap is open all year.
  
  The Crab Trap
  
  2 Broadway
  
  Somers Point, NJ 08244
  
  609-927-7377
  
  thecrabtrap.com
  
  

The Inlet Restaurant and Bar

• Sprawled along the shore of Great Egg Harbor Bay, the Inlet Restaurant and Bar offers year-round indoor dining and seasonal waterfront dining. This casual restaurant offers a raw bar that features peel-and-eat shrimp, oysters on the half shell and ahi tuna. Appetizer selections include crab nachos, buffalo wings and steamed mussels. Dinner entrees include Gulf shrimp scampi, steamed Maine lobster, fish and chips, grilled mahi-mahi and shrimp po-boys. The Inlet Restaurant and Bar hosts private functions of up to 2,000 people.
  
  The Inlet Restaurant and Bar
  
  998 Bay Avenue
  
  Somers Point, NJ 08244
  
  609-926-9611
  
  inletrestaurantnj.com