Chatham Restaurant’s Breakfast Sandwich Ranked As Best In NJ

CHATHAM, NJ — When not just any breakfast sandwich will do, head to Pascarella Bros. Delicatessen in Chatham.

It’s the home of the Taylor Ham, egg, and cheese sandwich, which the food website Chowhound rates as the best breakfast sandwich in New Jersey.

Pascarella Bros. Delicatessen’s take on the New Jersey breakfast staple is a “hefty” one. The sandwich consists of ever-so charred Taylor Ham, or pork roll, topped with a fried egg, gooey cheese, the salt-pepper-ketchup trifecta, all held together on a hearty kaiser roll.

“Everyone hypes the Taylor Ham, egg, and cheese sandwich for a reason…It's the best I've had,” one Google reviewer wrote. “This is a fantastic small deli, perfect for grabbing breakfast or lunch on the go. Staff is great, food is great, it's popular for a reason…This is going to become a spot I head to at least once a month.”

Pascarella Bros. Delicatessen is located at 34 Watchung Avenue in Chatham and can be reached at 973-635-3354.

To determine the best breakfast sandwich in every state, Chowhound looked at customer reviews on such sites as Yelp, TripAdvisor and Reddit, and narrowed the list down to restaurants whose breakfast sandwiches earned scores of at least 4.5 stars.

“In terms of the sandwiches themselves, we looked for key characteristics like freshness (no store-bought frozen breakfast sandwiches), the quality of the ingredients, and expert execution,” Chowhound said on the website. “Of course, great flavor was paramount.”

If you need to eat on the fly, Chowhound also ranked breakfast sandwiches at fast-food restaurants:

1. The breakfast burger at Carl’s Jr.
2. The chicken, egg and cheese biscuit from Chick-fil-A
3. The ultimate breakfast sandwich from Jack-in-the-Box
4. The Asiago sausage and egg sandwich from Panera
5. The Sausage McMuffin with egg at McDonald’s
6. The Egg McMuffin from McDonald’s
7. The sausage, egg, and cheese croissant at Dunkin’
8. The fully loaded Croissan’wich at Burger King
9. The sausage, egg, and cheese breakfast sandwich at Wendy’s
10. The sausage, egg, and cheese biscuit from Burger King