Read Restaurant Lorena's reviews, recent news, and why it was named one of the 100 most romantic restaurants in U.S.
Voted North Jersey's 2023 Best of the Best Restaurant
The results of the New Jersey Monthly Magazine 40th Annual Jersey Choice Restaurant Poll are in, showcasing readers’ picks for their favorite dining spots in New Jersey.
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Voted North Jersey's 2022 Best of the Best Restaurant
The results of the New Jersey Monthly Magazine 39th Annual Jersey Choice Restaurant Poll are in, showcasing readers’ picks for their favorite dining spots in New Jersey.
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Voted North Jersey's 2021 Best of the Best Restaurant
The results of the New Jersey Monthly Magazine 38th Annual Jersey Choice Restaurant Poll are in, showcasing readers’ picks for their favorite dining...
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Restaurant Lorena’s Moving to New, Larger Location in Maplewood
After a harrowing 2020, chef/owner Humberto Campos Jr. finds a silver lining during the pandemic.
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Lorena's in Maplewood serves superb French food
When was the last time you dined in a restaurant with bread service?
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The 9 Best Restaurants in Maplewood
Since its opening in 2005, chef Humberto Campos’s jewel box of French-inflected fine dining (named for his wife, Lorena) has been a standout not only in Maplewood but in greater Essex County and beyond.
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These 15 North Jersey dishes will never be taken off the menu
Dishes come and go but some are never ever taken off the menu. Why is that? Easy: Some dishes are just phenomenally, profoundly, positively delicious.
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Lorena's ranked #2 in N.J.'s top 10 restaurants
New Jersey fine dining had a mini-renaissance in 2005, as an exciting number of top-notch restaurants made impressive debuts during a banner year.
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Restaurant Lorena's Reviewed as a Top Ten for Holiday Dining 2005
Holiday dining is special in many ways. Not only does it afford us the opportunity to enjoy the bounties of the table, but also the joys of gathering together
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Restaurant Lorena rated a 4-Star Fine Dining Restaurant
How do you replace a beloved 4-star restaurant that has been sold? Here's the best answer: With another 4-star restaurant that doesn't miss a beat in terms of food,
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Readers' and Critics' Choice - Restaurant Poll Winners 2008
Our critics do a lot of eating, and every August we look back and share the best of the best with you. And you do the same by voting in our Annual Readers' Choice
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Restaurant Lorena's Reviewed as one of The 25 Best Restaurants 2008, "Best French Restaurant" and "Best Upscale Dining"
LORENA'S (Maplewood) Cozy, romantic,and a delight for its polished service and chef Humberto Campos Jr.'s entrancingly flavorful and beautifully presented
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Low-oxygen, low temperature cooking isn't without controversy
At Restaurant Lorena's in Maplewood, some of the specialty dishes take well to the sous vide process, and chef/owner Humberto Campos loves the result.
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Restaurant Lorena's Is Firing on All Cylinders
Dining at Restaurant Lorena's in downtown Maplewood is a bit like taking a drive in a high performance sports car. The experience is an exhilarating adrenaline rush
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Small Is Beautiful
The name of this five-month-old restaurant really ought to be Tough Act to Follow. It is called Lorena's, but food and wine enthusiasts will remember it as Jocelyne'
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Restaurant Lorena's Reviewed as one of The 25 Best Restaurants 2009 and "Most Romantic"
Take one stove with six burners, and nine tables that seat 32. Add two lovers with a passion for modern French cuisine, and you get the 4-year-old love child of chef
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Edge Restaurant Review of Lorena's
Lorena's defines intimate. You enter, through a slip of a passageway, a dining room that seats but 32. Tables are small, space between them is at a premium
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Restaurant Review: A Timeless Classic at Lorena's in Maplewood
Lorena's is tucked into a small storefront in Maplewood, a township that bills itself as a village, which seems quite pretentious until you actually walk around.
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Zagat Review
Close to "perfect", this "spectacular" Maplewood BYO overseen by chef Humberto Campos Jr. offers "sublime" cuisine with such "superb attention to detail"
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Restaurant Lorena's offers low-key elegance in Maplewood
There is no question that Restaurant Lorena's chef/owner, Humberto Campos Jr., is a master in the kitchen.
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Lorena's selected as one of OpenTable Diners' Choice 2013 Best Restaurants in America
The results are in and Lorena's was selected as one of the OpenTable 2013 Diners' Choice Top 100 Best Restaurants in America. OpenTable determined the list
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New Jersey Monthly selects Lorena's as one of the 25 Best Restaurants of 2014
For nine years, chef Humberto Campos Jr. has been bringing forth luscious food from a small kitchen. The BYO, named for his wife and co-owner, Lorena, is French in technique, but American in spirit.
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Restaurant Lorena's in Maplewood was chosen one of the country's top restaurants by OpenTable
Three New Jersey restaurants have been honored as among the best 100 in the country, according to information compiled by OpenTable.com.
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At Restaurant Lorena’s in Maplewood, a Menu Built Around Vegetables
Like many dishes I ate at Restaurant Lorena's, now entering its tenth year and among Open Table's top 100 restaurants in America in 2014, the warm crepe of crab and mushrooms reminded me of my early training as a critic. I was 8. My mother had a passion for fine French restaurants. The pricier the better.
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Restaurant Lorena's selected as one of the Diners' Choice Best Overall Restaurants in New York / Tri-State Area
Each month OpenTable analyzes more than 400,000 new diner reviews and Restaurant Lorena's was selected as one of the Diners' Choice Best Overall Restaurants
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OpenTable diners named Restaurant Lorena's one of the 100 Best Restaurants in America of 2016 & 2015!
Restaurant Lorena's has been selected one of the 100 Best Restaurants in America for 2016 & 2015 based on an analysis of 5,000,000+ reviews
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OpenTable diners named Restaurant Lorena's one of the 100 most romantic restaurants in U.S.
Open Table has selected six New Jersey restaurants as one of the most romantic restaurants in the entire country. The selection was based off an analysis of 12 million reviews of over 26,000 restaurants — all submitted by verified diners.
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