15 Fox Place

I came in with friends for a fancy night, prepared to take full advantage of the BYOB policy.
We were seated on the first floor, and were impressed with the service and the pacing of the food. The food ranged from «good» to «that was amazing, I wish we had more» — the portions are reasonable considering how many courses there are.
This was a great experience, I really recommend it. It can be as fancy or casual as you make it.

Let me start out by saying when you walk up to this place, you have no idea that you are at the right place… Once you walk inside and sit down, the «home cooked meal» vibe instantly hits you. This was by far the best dinner out i have had since i could remember. Once you sit down and are greeted by the amazing staff, the food starts to come out and it doesn’t stop for hours. I literally said the word «WOW» (Jimmy B Shout-​out) every time i bit into something that was served to me. The Polenta and stuffed peppers were so good, I literally asked them to please take it away from me because i could not stop eating it.
Dinners typically do not blow me away very often, but this place was truly special. We went with a large group of guys (a few being annoying food critics) and we all left ranting and raving about how good everything was. I literally cannot wait to get back to this place and do it all over again. DO NOT eat anything 5 – 6 hours before you come to this place because you are going to want to try everything.
If someone can come on here and say something negative about this place, please private message me because i need to understand how that is humanly possible. 9.5÷10

10 out of 5!
If you feel otherwise, my condolences for your lack luster ability to enjoy delicious food.
Came in on Saturday night with a group of 10, Sat in the front dinning room and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves.
Service was great as we were checked on constantly.
For the menu:
1) Olive Spread on toast: Absolutely delicious
2) Pizza Bread: Tasted like Pizza Fritta,
3) Peppers and Potato Chips: JC couldn’t have crafted something this fantastic
4) Stuffed Peppers: Goodness Gracious, Stop the madness
5) Baked Mussels: Stunning crunch from the homemade breadcrumbs
6) Palenta with a Sausage Gravy: Once again, JC couldn’t master this dish. Worth the price of admission.
7) Manicotti: Straight forward and delicious
8) Gnocchi with Broc Rabe: Delightful
9) Panzanella salad on what can only be described as a loaf of Zeppole
10) Mini Meatballs: Very light and crispy
11) Chicken Rollatini: By this point it was tough to breath!
12) Lava Cake: Get the casket ready!
13) Cannoli and Puff Pastry…
14) Coffee Espresso and Limoncello
A completely different dinning experience for most and very enjoyable for those who grew up eating like this! I can say without a doubt, we will be traveling to 15 Fox several times a year moving forward!
Small Tables to Large Parties, this is a knockout.
If I had to ask for 1 thing for our meal, it would have been to add rare red meat! That’s All!
Already working to convince the next member of the family to have his birthday here!

About 5 minutes from the Pulaski Skyway is a small 2 story house, cladded with aluminum siding, down a small side street, in a residential area of Jersey City that is the setting for a uniquely wonderful BYOB restaurant.
As you walk up to the front door you tend to wonder if you’re at the right address. You don’t see a sign in lights, valet parking, an awning or anything else that would suggest that you’re at an Italian restaurant. In fact, upon entering the restaurant you get a strong sensation you’re at your grandmother’s house in the old neighborhood. You’ll see décor and furnishings inside as if you just walk through a wormhole and went back in time.
With dining tables situated in different rooms throughout the 1^st floor of the house, eight of us were seated at a beautifully set table in the dining room located in front portion of the house. It truly felt as if it was Christmas Eve at my mother’s house. We opened some wine, made a few toasts and then the food started coming and coming and coming… and coming. I believe it was about 13 or 14 different items/​courses from a fixed menu served family style over a 3 hour span. Nothing fancy or pretentious, just simple Italian goodness on a plate, everything was spot on. The portions of each item brought out made it more of a tasting type of dinner. If there are 8 people dining, there were 8 mussels on the plate to pass around and so on.
One waitress, Michelle, is able to handle every table in the place and she was excellent. She did a great job describing each dish as she brought them to the table as well as staying on top of pouring the wine, clearing the dishes and whatever else was needed. Feel free to visit the kitchen and other rooms, I couldn’t believe they’re able to pump out all that food in that little home style kitchen.
You can walk by this place 100 times and may never know the delightful ways they are preparing food and the good times that are being had inside. At $ 130 a head (including tip) was it worth it? It seems a bit high for a BYOB, but if a place can make you feel as welcome and at home as we did, along with good food, good wine and wonderful people, in an atmosphere that’s nostalgic and comforting… yeah…it was worth it.

Let me start by saying that i thought the resturant concept (dinner in a house vs. a typical resturant) is really interesting and unique and for that you should go. The family owners/​hosts and waitress were so kind and a pleasure to talk to you.
There was ALOT of food and we were prewarned as much. Some of my favorite dishes were the stuffed peppers and the chicken entrée. My only suggestion woudl be to eliminate a couple of the appetizers as it would save the owner money and give the customers a chance to indulge a little moe in other courses. It would also be good if the could incorporate more veggies into the mix.
Again, I suggest you go for a great experience and fun with friends or family.

Have heard a ton about this place and was finally able to surprise the hubs by taking him here for his birthday a couple of weeks ago.
Previous reviews here are mostly accurate. It’s a TON of food. It comes out fast on small plates and it seems never ending. I think we counted at least 16 courses, including 3 dessert courses. The waitress warned us not to feel like we had to eat everything and I’m so glad we listened! We were definitely stuffed by the end.
Overall, the food was good. Not great. Some courses were much better than others. You can certainly get an overall better meal somewhere else. But you come here for the experience. It’s different than your regular JC restaurant. The hospitality is amazing. The owners come out and great everyone. They have a beautiful patio that you can experience during «intermission», which is much needed!
If you are looking for a unique experience in JC with good food and great hospitality, this is definitely the place to go!

Went for a friends birthday dinner. It’s a house with no signs, and street parking only. The staff is welcoming and the family who owns Fox place is actually in the kitchen ! Each room has its own theme. It’s B.Y.O.B. Everything is delicious and I mean delicious !! But hands down everyone’s favorite was the polenta. If you can get a reservation. You will feel like you are family and won’t want to leave.

Super friendly, very Mexican tacos shack, small place but great food. Specials on weekends like pozole or mole, you got to be here early. Food runs out soon

I’m a fond believer in supporting the mom and pop shop. And I love family run businesses that are creative. However, I also enjoy delicious food that doesn’t all taste like it has been deep fried in oil.
Don’t get me wrong. Food was good. But it does taste about the same plate in and plate out. I was looking for a wider range of palette. And made some protein and maybe a fresh salad. Everything was good but just too similar. And boy too much food. At the end I did not like myself very much. Stuffed like a thanksgiving turkey! And I eat a lot but it was just every thing was heavy heavy heavy.
Great service and really cute grandmas house appeal. I’m just needing more diversity in the dishes.

You don’t need to read any reviews to decide whether or not to try it. Just make the reservation and go. You must experience this delightful offering of great food and wonderful staff. Truly exceptional and so much food to love.

When thinking about a restaurant, it’s important to consider what they are trying to do. 15 Fox Place is presenting itself as an elite Italian establishment, not only in their décor and service, but in their price, and unfortunately, they fall short.
So let’s begin with the good parts. The house is beautifully decorated and the seating arrangements are lots of fun. As people have mentioned, you feel like you are at a dinner party among friends and family. You can walk around and see everything, and the owner comes by to talk to you throughout the meal. Very enjoyable. Also fun to talk to other people there. Also great is the BYOB. I brought two great bottles of wine and it was fun to drink them without having to think about the 100% markup.
We now come to the food. Another review mentioned quantity over quality, and unfortunately this holds true for the most part. Some of the food was quite good such as the polenta and stuffed peppers. Unfortunately, most of the food was pretty standard Italian fare, stuff you can get at pretty much any Italian place around. Ranging from plain pasta to lousy «mini pizza» to desserts that just didn’t taste very fresh. Another unfortunate thing from my point of view was that everything made was very inexpensive. I’m not saying I need caviar or crab legs, but having a piece of meat or fish that wasn’t ground beef or breaded fried chicken might have been nice.
So this is where I come down. Without taking into consideration the price or quality, I had a fun night in a beautiful home. But at $ 90 a person, (more like 110 after tax and tip), 15 Fox Place fell well short.

Before I drop any more knowledge on this place, come here hungry and come with your loosest fitting pants. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
I’ve been to 15 Fox Place for a Unilocal Event and for the full dining experience. Our hosts Mary Lou and family rolled out the red carpet each time and welcomed us into their home and treated us to some really delicious food. To manage expectations, the food served at 15 Fox Place is not molecular gastronomy or a combination of fancy and expensive ingredients. This is home style honest to goodness comfort food. Those of you wanting shots of uni and sake with caviar need not read further.
A typical meal at 15 Fox Place goes like this:
You sit down. You’ve prepped for the meal to come. The first item comes out, you hungrily gobble it down. MOAR! MOARRRRR!!! you quietly scream on the inside. Then the next one comes out. You guzzle that up too. You hope that there’s enough for seconds as the plates get passed around. You may ignore common sense and dive in for another helping. Then the third one comes out, and you think you’re hitting your stride. You mow it down. And on and on for the first 6 or 7 items… and then you start feeling full. The food continues to roll off of some mystical conveyor belt piping hot and you struggle to keep up with the onslaught of food. By the time you’ve had 10 or 11 dishes, Mary Lou or someone else will walk in and tell you to take a break. You can walk around the house, loosen the belt, and if absolutely necessary, drop off some excess weight in the middle of dinner. You feel a little flushed from the food, but you hang on. You can do this, you try to reassure yourself. Then you sit back down and the conveyor belt rolls on. You feel sweaty. You’re totally full. At some point, the salad comes out. THE SALAD?!? Doesn’t that come out before the main dishes? Surely. You then get courses 14 and 15 and that’s the stuffed shells and the pastas and even more stuff. You beg for the meal to end but you just can’t stop eating the food. Finally… you see the finish line. A molten chocolate cake. It signifies dessert. The ordeal is over… so you think. Then the cookies come out. Then the struffolies. Then the homemade zeppolei stuffed with cannoli cream. And then… you top it off with a shot of homemade limoncello, and you wonder how you didn’t rupture your stomach. You thank Mary Lou or your host/​hostess for a wonderful meal, and you manage to get home in a food drunk state and you sit on your couch for hours egging on your stomach to digest. You can’t even sleep from the fullness.
Then you start planning for the next time you’re going to be back. :)

Fabulous food that will delight your tastebuds cooked by the owners and served in a wonderfully decorated setting. Come hungry. Bring a couple bottles of nice wine:)

This is a meal I’ve had 4 times in 4 years. Every November since 2011, myself, my dad and clients go to 15 Fox Place with about as much wine and cocktails as we can carry.
This is one of those experiences that cannot be understated. You can get better food in NYC, but you can’t get a better, more authentic familial dining experience anywhere that I’ve found. You aren’t going to a restaurant, you are going to a family dinner with top-​notch food. It ain’t Michelin, but holy crap is it good. So good. The polenta alone is worth the price tag. The opening courses are always great with the pizza openers, and having the lemon pasta was amazing. Main courses vary each year, chicken or filet is usually offered apparently, and it’s always great!
The husband and wife walk around during the meal and talk it up with the guests, they really care about what they do. The desserts and homemade limoncello are great as well!
BYOB, there are plenty of places to go, but the staff opens and serves you while you dine. You’ll be there for 3 hours, heads up! There is a break halfway through, you get to socialize and talk with the rest of the diners.
Oh, and the food is all actually homemade. No crazy professional dining equipment. You are in a home, and that’s what makes this place exceptional. One of my favorite restaurants in the world for sure.

This place is unique, comforting, and very filling. Fifteen courses of Italian food. Wow. First, the place is so homey, and almost every table has its own room. It is like eating in someone’s house but not having to do the dishes! It is BYOB and our party of 5 brought red and white wine. They were very attentive in opening the wine and taking the empties.
We started with a small cracker with olive tapenade, there were olives on the table when we sat down. The following is a list of courses we had. My favorite was the eggplant rotini. Two others liked the spicy peppers on the homemade potato chips. Everyone loved the creamy polenta. The dessert was killer. We took lots of leftovers home.
1. Mini pizzas
2. Peppers stuffed with breadcrumbs
3. Spicy peppers over homemade potato chips
4. Eggplant Rotini
5. Polenta with a sausage sauce
6. Mussels with breadcrumbs
7. Crab cake
8. Crêpe manicotti
9. Lemon pasta (spaghetti)
10. Meatballs and peas
11. Panzanella salad
12 Pomegranate granita
13. Chicken rolls chicken and bread crumbs rolled together), mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes (lots of brown sugar yummy)
14. Cookies– Biscotti and zuccarini
15. Pastry — cream puff with cannoli filling.
I would have liked more vegetables. One friend commented he would have like fish and or beef too.

Wow. There just aren’t enough stars to give this place.
On its own, the polenta with arrabiata sauce is simply one of the best things I’ve ever eaten. As I said at dinner with my friends, «I thought I was making polenta in my kitchen: clearly, I was wrong.» To say it has the consistency of hot ice cream may sound somewhat odd, but that is the only way to describe how creamy and just incredible it was.
The hot peppers were definitely hot, but if you love your food spicy, as I do, you will love them. The stuffed peppers were amazing, the eggplant rolatini was the best I ever had and the cannoli cream-​stuffed zeppole will blow your mind at the end of an epic meal.
We had so many bottles of wine, so much good food, and had such great hosts (the people who own the place are JC longtimers and invite you to walk around the house, the beautiful backyard garden and to converse warmly with them), I wish I could live there. Sadly, I am not so lucky; probably a good thing or else I would become obese pretty quickly.
Simply put, you have to go. Everything was spectacular and it’s worth every cent!

I hate to be the one to give this place 3 stars but I have to be honest… this place is definitely quantity over quality.
We came in with high expectations given all the positive reviews, so for my in-​laws anniversary and FIL’s bday (combined since it’s only a day apart) the hubs and I decided to invite them to 15 Fox Place. Overall it was a pleasant experience but nothing to rave or write home about. We will not be back because the food was just blah… tasted like they made a tray of catered food and divided it amongst the tables.
Décor/​ambiance 4 stars. Cozy and lovely little house, décor is very grandma’s traditional Italian home… if I had an Italian grandma.
Food 3 stars. It’s solid Italian food, but nothing mind blowing. There is definitely a large amount of food! So for about $ 100 pp, it was worth it and the value was there. The only standout/​memorable dish is the polenta and lemony pasta dish. Otherwise it really tasted just like any wedding venue or party menu… and it seems like breadcrumbs was the main ingredient for many dishes. Like I said, it tasted like they did a catering menu, cooked in bulk and the distributed the food amongst the tables based on number of guests.
Service 2.5 stars. While our sever was a nice guy, however no one instructed him on how to be a proper wait staff at a decent restaurant or prix fixe menu institutions. Since 15 Fox didn’t provide a menu, we expected the server to enlighten us with the rounds of food presented. But he neglected to inform us what course we were on and what dishes were being brought out or highlight any key ingredients. We ended up having to ask him several times what the dishes were… and we heard another table ask the same questions as well.
In summary, it’s a cute little joint. But with an abundance of amazing restaurants in NYC that is just a short PATH ride away I will not be back to 15 Fox Place.

Got to come here for Grams Birthday dinner a few weeks ago, I made sure to take pictures of EVERYTHING I ate there so I could truly prove to you how great this meal really is. When we arrived the woman at the door greeted us and showed us to our seats. We sat upstairs to the left in the large room rite next to the kitchen. Usually its one large table but this time we did four separate tables in that room which was nice because we all had plenty of food to share for each table. As I said before in my previous review this house has been converted into a restaurant and all the rooms have been turned into dinning rooms. It’s BYOB here so make sure you bring your booze!
Once we sat down we poured our wine ordered our sodas and such. The way they dress the table is beautiful and elegant. On the table they had put out olives out on the table so we started to snack on those salty babies.
Shortly after they brought out an olive tapenade served on the most delicious buttery cracker.
Next up we had spicy peppers with house made potato chips sprinkled with parmesan cheese (I wasn’t a fan of these too much being I can’t really handle spicy foods but I ate the potato chips and dipped it in the spicy oil).
One of my favorite things they make are these little mini pizzas that are fried up and splashed with marinara sauce and topped with fresh grated parmesan cheese (absolutely delicious).
Now the next thing they served is my absolute all time favorite thing on the menu hands down THE STUFFED PEPPERS! Let me just tell you that i honestly don’t really care for peppers at all but these I just can’t get enough of. They are cubanelle pepper that are stuffed with meatless stuffing made up of bread crumbs and mushroom stems (ABSOLUTELY AMAZING) I literally will fight to the death if there are extras!
Up next was the Polenta Arrabiatta with spicy red sauce with spicy homemade sausage (it is so creamy and delicious).
Shortly after we finished the polenta out came the crab cakes that were served over some type of herb oil and drizzled with balsamic. You could really taste the crab in it which is hard to come by with most crab cakes usually just a lot of fillers but not these.
After the crab cakes came the stuffed mussels which I wasn’t too crazy about I prefer clams but they were still tasty, they tasted like clams oreganata just with mussels.
Up next was the eggplant rollatini, thin eggplant slices (can’t remember if it was breaded or not) filled with a ricotta cheese and herbs for the filling and smothered in red sauce. My boyfriend went crazy over this.
The waitress then brought out a small piece of an Italian Easter pie called Pizzagain (full pie in Italian) which is made up of ham and prosciutto, mozzarella cheese baked in a pie along with some other secret herbs and spices.
After we rested for a few minutes out came the homemade manicotti which is a thin piece of pasta filled with a ricotta cheese and mozzarella topped with red sauce and baked.
After these two pasta dishes out came another one, this time Orecchiette came out with asparagus in a light lemon cream sauce that was so good I ate it all. (it wasn’t easy but I did it)
Soon after they brought out the meatballs and peas served with a few pieces of bread. The meat ball was unlike I’ve ever had before, I’m used to my mother and grandmothers fried meatballs. These I think were fried slightly and then cooked in sauce being how tender and flavorful they were.
Out next came the salad served in a fresh baked loaf of bread baked in-​house if I’m not mistaken. It was an arugula salad with mini mozzarella balls, cherry tomatoes and some sort of spring bean that was tossed in a light vinaigrette.
After the salad out came our real main course of chicken breast topped with prosciutto and sun dried tomatoes. The mashed potatoes it came with were delicious and so creamy and topped with a light gravy of sorts. The roasted brussel sprouts were out of this world and are my favorite vegetable. I ate as much as I could of this which was only a bite being how stuffed I was, but they were kind enough to wrap it up for me to take it home.
Once all this was brought out to us we were completely stuffed the offered coffee, tea, or espresso. I chose coffee and it was delicious and served cute sugar cubes that I love.
For dessert they served a delicious lava cake topped with a perfectly sized scoop of vanilla ice cream. It was so delicious I could honestly eat that every night and be the happiest girl in the world.
Shortly after the waitress brought out what seemed to be and Italian version cheesecake made with ricotta cheese and chocolate chips.
Now it was time for the homemade lemon chello. Once again another acquired taste.
Finally out came the Italian cookies and the end to the dinner. The cookies consisted of biscotti, some type of seasame seed cookies, and round cookies topped icing. Oh and can’t forget peep!

First off to the owners– sorry it has taken me so long to post my review. Sadly it slipped my mind. I promised I would, so here goes…
I was brought here on a Friday night recently for a friends bday. All I was told is that it was some no menu/​16 course Italian meal in a private house that is really a restaurant. I was advised to bring wine and make sure I’m there before 7:30. After hearing this, I was quickly intruiged.
Upon arriving, we walked inside and quickly noticed the grandma’s house vibe. We were quickly greeted, told that to «feel free to walk all around the place» and then sat with our other guests. We sat in a small/​semi-​private room for four right near the kitchen. Ambiance was off the charts. I just had the sense I was in for something good, and I was certainly right.
For starters, the olives & peppers greeting us were lovely, the deep fried pizzettes were incredible. Then the peppers came out! The stuffed peppers were flavorful and incredible, & the hot peppers on the home fried potato chips were both super hot & super flavorful!
I’m probably messing the order of this up as it was several weeks ago, and several wine bottle were drank @ dinner. Next came a tomato salad in a bread bowl that was excellent, the seafood items I sampled but didnt eat much of as I dont really enjoy seafood. A manicotti arrived that was second only to my mothers, followed by an intermezzo of lemon sorbet & the finale– chicken saltimbocca.
The chicken was excellent, as was everything. None of the food was mind blowing, but each and every coarse was very good to excellent. The accompanying desserts, which enduced food coma, were a blur of amazing sweets.
Where this place excells is in its owners; they are some of the nicest people I’ve encountered in a long time. Before the main course came out, we chatted with them for about 20 mins in the kitchen, and they were genuinly great people! They werent your usual restaurant owners, they took an interest in us as customers, not just tooting their own horns. Thats rare for restaurant owners.
I will definetly be back at some point. Its worth a drive to Jersey City just to experience true hospitality & excellent food!

This place is legendary. Review over.
Now, I won’t be eating here on the regular or else I’ll just be a fattie but as a special occasion, this place is a MUST. Set off less than a mile from Journal Square this place is a JC gem. You can’t call yourself a JC foodie until you’ve dined here. I’ll give it to ya straight then go into detail.
The experience was 5 stars the food was a 4.5. I cannot recommend this place enough but the food is extremely heavy, filling and I just wasn’t a fan of the filet mignon. However the disappointing entrée doesn’t take away from my final rating: 5 stars. For a fun and unique night out in Jersey City this is it, especially if you are trying to crush wine and eat simple, authentic, old school Italian fare.
First of all the hosts are just the most special people on the planet. I hug them. I don’t know if you’ll be able to swing it but, they are just so lovely. They make you feel at home in their home and it’s really just so comfortable. No stuffiness of dining at a restaurant here, just relax and settle in.
It’s BYOB which is definitely a must since this place per plate is bit pricey; with gratuity about $ 115 per person but you leave never wanting to eat again. To be honest that isn’t the best feeling but, every once in awhile, go ahead, you deserve it.
The anitpasti is downright amazing: stuffed peppers, olive tapenade, polenta with sausage chunks, pizza friti, all some of the best Italian cooking I’ve ever tasted. Grandma’s cooking has never tasted so good. It goes on for hours. Then the pasta courses which were down right special. Oh, a perfectly dressed salad in a bread bowl was thrown in there too. How about that.
Then the main meal. Ughhh. The steak. Too much. I would have been happier with a lighter fish dish, ½ chicken, something. The steak was cooked well done and if asked, I would have asked for it medium. That was the one minor off of what was a perfect and super fun evening. To be honest, it doesn’t even matter since by the time the steak came I was so full and could only taste a bite. The coffee, dessert and homemade limoncello was of course a delightful way to end the evening.
This food gorging and wine fest was all in the privacy of me and my party. They have separated dining rooms so you can enjoy that privacy so my party of four who were 6 bottles of wine deep didn’t disturb the whole place with our shrieks of laughter and rowdiness. This was an amazing experience and I look forward to going back in 6 months after I’ve digested the last meal from 15 Fox Place. Thank you to the hosts for this spectacular experience.
**** Make reservations ahead of time.