Food in Rutherford

An Italian pastry shop on Ridge Road with cannoli, sfogliatelle and cookie trays in the case and cake orders taken at the back. It opens at seven in the morning and stays open to eight at night, which is a longer day than anything else on foot from the Renaissance Meadowlands. Hours move with the season and shorten in the run-up to a holiday.

Daily, 7am to 8pm. Shorter around holidays and in some seasons

An Italian market and sandwich counter on Park Avenue, with the prepared-food case along one side and the deli slicer at the back. Sandwiches are built to order and most of the trade is people carrying them out. It opens at nine and closes at six on weekdays, earlier at the weekend.

Mon to Fri, 9am to 6pm. Sat, 9am to 4pm. Sun, 9am to 3pm

A breakfast and lunch house at the top of Park Avenue, open from seven thirty in the morning until three in the afternoon every day of the week. The menu is pancakes, eggs and omelets, and the turnover is quick enough that a table usually comes free. Nothing here runs past mid-afternoon, so it is strictly a before.

Daily, 7:30am to 3pm

A roadside stand on River Road since 1928, where the hot dogs go into the fryer until the casing splits and the result is called a ripper. You can order it barely fried, well done or charred black, and the mustard relish is the other half of the reason people drive here. There is a counter on one side and a bar with table service on the other, and it is open from eight in the morning until ten at night.

Sun to Thu, 8am to 10pm. Fri and Sat, 8am to 11pm

The Rutherford branch of the Neapolitan pizzeria that started on West Houston Street, working a wood oven and a short list of pies. It runs continuously from noon, with a break in the early evening only on Mondays, and it has a bar and tables on the sidewalk. Tuesday is pasta night and Wednesday is pizza night at a fixed price.

Mon, noon to 3pm and 4pm to 8pm. Tue to Thu, noon to 3pm and 4pm to 9pm. Fri and Sat, noon to 9:30pm. Sun, noon to 9pm

A fully vegan bake shop that opened on Park Avenue in 2007, back when almost nowhere in Bergen County was doing it. Cupcakes are the core of the case, with cake truffles and cookies beside them, and there are gluten-free and soy-free versions of most of it. It sits at the far end of the Park Avenue shops, a walk past the main cluster.

Tue to Sat, 10am to 5:30pm. Closed Sunday and Monday

A Paterson Avenue diner in the Carlton Hill part of East Rutherford, open from seven in the morning to eleven at night, seven days a week. It runs the full diner card with breakfast served all day, and the booths turn over fast enough that a wait is short. This is the latest kitchen in the batch.

Daily, 7am to 11pm

A 1950 diner on Orient Way in Lyndhurst, renovated but still built around the counter and the booths. It opens at seven every morning and the kitchen runs the standard diner card from breakfast through to dinner. This is the nearest sit-down to the Renaissance Meadowlands that is not inside a hotel or a highway plaza.

Mon, 7am to 4pm. Tue to Thu, 7am to 9pm. Fri, 7am to 10pm. Sat and Sun, 7am to 9pm

A German bake shop that has been in the same Park Avenue storefront since the building went up, still working a brick oven that is more than a century old and a mixer nearly as old. Crumb cake, black and white cookies and rye come out of it. There is no seating, so it is a counter you stop at rather than somewhere you sit, and it is only open Thursday through Sunday.

Thu to Sat, 6am to 6pm. Sun, 6am to 2pm. Closed Monday to Wednesday