Best Chicken Parm in Cherry Hill, NJ

Chicken parm in Cherry Hill, NJ: our top picks

Be honest about the geography: most of the best-known parm within reach of Cherry Hill is across the Delaware. Ten miles gets you to South Philadelphia, the neighborhood many South Jersey Italian families came from, and its old red-gravy rooms are a short drive over the bridge. Closer to home, Route 70 runs through town as Marlton Pike. Croce Pasta, a compact Italian market on Marlton Pike West, was opened in 1990 by Joe Croce, who came from Italy; his family still makes the pasta and sauces in house. Up the road, Caffe Aldo Lamberti is the Cherry Hill staple for a big Italian night out.

On 9th Street in the Italian Market, Ralph’s says it opened in 1900 under Francesco Dispigno, and the family’s fourth and fifth generations, the Rubinos, run it now. Its claim to be the country’s oldest Italian restaurant has doubters, though not by many years. A block over on South 10th Street, Dante & Luigi’s dates itself to 1899; its current owners took over in 1996 and make the stocks and sauces from scratch. Back on 9th, Villa di Roma has been in the De Luca family since 1963, a long barroom known for red gravy that reopened in late 2022 after three months of pipe repairs.

Out on South Broad Street at Porter, Scannicchio’s is a corner BYOB that Christian Varalli opened in 2003, modeled on his father’s Atlantic City original; the veal parm comes on the bone. In Center City, Giuseppe & Sons fills a big basement on Sansom Street. It opened in 2018 with the Termini Bros. bakery family, who left the next year, and the veal parm stayed on the menu. A few blocks west, Osteria Ama Philly on Chestnut Street is the city sibling of Osteria Ama in Chadds Ford and West Chester.

1. Osteria Ama Philly (Philadelphia) — Parm Score 93. Chicken parm comes up in 3 of the recent Google reviews we sampled, and the tone is positive. It is on the menu, too. 4.8 on Google across 3,421 reviews.
2. Scannicchio's (Philadelphia) — Parm Score 84. Chicken parm comes up in 1 of the recent Google reviews we sampled, and the tone is positive. It is on the menu, too. 4.7 on Google across 658 reviews.
3. Giuseppe & Sons (Philadelphia) — Parm Score 82. Chicken parm comes up in 1 of the recent Google reviews we sampled, and the tone is positive. It is on the menu, too. 4.4 on Google across 1,427 reviews.

We ranked 26 restaurants within 10 miles of Cherry Hill, NJ. 19 of them have the parm confirmed, by reviewers or on their own menu, and Parm Scores run from 56 to 93. Confirmed places rank first; the rest are well-reviewed Italian spots where the parm is not yet confirmed, and pizzerias and steakhouses need a mention to appear at all. How Parm Score works.

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