Closed since 2023. Jai-Alai Restaurant did not reopen after the five-alarm fire of September 2023. This site is kept online as an archive of the restaurant, its menu and its Basque-Spanish kitchen. What happened
Jai Alai Restaurant Basque Spanish Cuisine · Dover, NJ

Contact

Contact the Jai Alai

The restaurant stood at 73 West Blackwell Street in downtown Dover, New Jersey. Its telephone, fax and email address are kept here exactly as they were published while it was open.

Illustration of a vintage rotary telephone from the Jai Alai Restaurant contact page.

The restaurant is permanently closed. Jai-Alai Restaurant shut after a five-alarm fire in September 2023 and was reported in May 2024 as not reopening. The details below are historical. No reservations, orders or enquiries can be taken through this website. Read what happened.

Address

Jai Alai Restaurant
Basque Spanish Cuisine
Ignacio Cenicacelaya, Chef/Owner

73 West Blackwell Street
Dover, NJ 07801
United States

Telephone, fax and email

As published on the restaurant's original contact page.
Telephone 973-989-0916
Fax 973-328-7914
Email info@jaialairestaurant.com
Chef / owner Ignacio Cenicacelaya
Status Permanently closed (2023)

These details were correct while the restaurant was trading. They are listed here for reference and for anyone tracing the restaurant's history.

Street map of downtown Dover, New Jersey, marking Jai Alai Restaurant on West Blackwell Street between Prospect Street and Warren Street, with Bassett Highway to the north.

Where it was

West Blackwell Street between Prospect Street and Warren Street, one block south of Bassett Highway (US 46) and a short walk from the Dover station on NJ Transit's Morris & Essex Line.

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