Mayfair Boardwalk Grill • 1952

Hand-pressed burgers and foot-long hot dogs have anchored this Heleotis family stand through seven decades of Asbury Park's resurrection and decline, but the Oreo cookies and cream funnel cake—crispy outside, pillowy inside—is what draws beachgoers back season after season. The little stand that refused to abandon the boardwalk during the city's darkest years now sizzles on, where salt air meets the griddle and benches face the Atlantic.