The 2026 Cape May Recommendations Megathread
Greetings, neighbors. As discussed here, let's get another comprehensive list going of ALL the spots that we recommend to people looking to visit our little resort town this year... or perhaps even clue in some of our longtime residents to spots they might be unfamiliar with or operating on outdated info. This thread will hopefully get pinned for easy reference for potential visitors. If you care to see 2025's results, look here
On or about May 20th, I will edit this body with the tabulated results for each category, giving the Top 3 recommendations for places to go here in Cape May OR surrounding areas (definitely stay within Cape May County, but preferably within 10-15 miles). Big chains - Wawa, Dominos, Starbucks, etc. - will be discarded.
If you want to qualify your answers with some testimonials (i.e: "__________ is the best winery because their staff is top notch" or "________ is the greatest spot for breakfast, you have to try This or That") go for it; if it makes the cut I'll add in footnotes or otherwise annotate if it's particularly insightful. This may be more important for the final category: which places here in Cape May to avoid - overpriced, diminished quality, horrible wait times, etc.
The form is set that all answers are optional, so if you have nothing to suggest for a category, you can just leave it blank and move on.
Note: I opted to use a Google form to hopefully make the results a bit cleaner and easier to tabulate. I made it sign-in only to prevent anyone gaming the system and casting more votes, but I am NOT getting your email addresses
I've removed the Google sign-in FOR NOW. If things start looking squirrelly, I'll reactivate it.