by Fran Schumer

Porta, the Neapolitan pizza restaurant and dance club in Asbury Park, is a good time. The real surprise is that you can eat well at Porta: Even its non-pizza dishes are better than those at more celebrated and expensive restaurants in the area.

I ate at Porta on a crowded Saturday — the wait for walk-in customers at dinner on weekends is at least an hour — and on a rainy Tuesday night when the cavernous space was so quiet that each time the door opened, you could hear sea gulls' cries. On both occasions, the salads, pastas and pizzas were first-rate.

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Source: The New York Times