Ventanas Restaurant & Lounge

Ventanas Restaurant & Lounge in Fort Lee is a fit when the night calls for Modern American–Asian–Latin fusion with sushi, a smart-casual dress code, enough menu range to satisfy a mixed group. The draw is its fusion cooking, with a listed price of $75 per person and hours that run especially late on Thursday, Friday, Saturday.

For someone who has already been once, the smarter second visit is to lean into the breadth instead of treating the menu like a standard single-cuisine dinner. The named signature dishes are Lobster Dumplings, Clothesline Bacon, K-Town Wings & Calamari Rings, Chicharron Pork Shank, Tokyo Lobster, the Ventanas Roll. It is not useful to frame the restaurant around a tasting-menu format; the clearer case is a Fort Lee restaurant where the table can order across Modern American, Asian, Latin, sushi directions without making the meal feel scattered.

Go for the recognized group dinner, not a narrow meal

The useful read: this is a better fit for diners who want variety than for anyone chasing a narrow menu. The restaurant-and-lounge identity matters because the concept combines a broad cuisine description, sushi, smart-casual dress, late hours on select nights. Groups can spread across multiple styles of food, which makes more sense when the table wants options rather than one tightly defined lane.

The Wine Spectator Award of Excellence (2026) gives the venue a concrete recognition point. That said, the strongest grounded reason to book remains the combination of fusion cooking, sushi, smart-casual dress, late operating hours on select nights. With a menu that can move from sushi to richer signature dishes, the better approach is to choose dishes as a table rather than letting every person order in a separate direction.

If the group is splitting seafood, sushi, signature dishes, start by deciding what should anchor the table. If the meal is anchored by Chicharron Pork Shank, Tokyo Lobster, or another named signature dish, make those choices early so the table has a coherent center. This is a practical approach because the menu highlights give the table multiple routes without locking everyone into one format.

The menu works because it is broad, but order with discipline

The main risk is over-ordering across too many directions. Sushi, fusion cooking, signature dishes can make a table feel unfocused if every guest orders independently. The better move is to pick a lane for the first half of the meal, then add one or two larger-feeling signature choices that fit the group’s appetite. For a repeat visit, the named items point toward a table built around contrast: something crisp or snackable, something seafood-led, one sushi choice, one more substantial signature dish.

This is also where the venue is more useful for groups than for diners who want a narrow meal. A single guest can still make a dinner out of the sushi and fusion side of the menu, but the $75-per-person listed price is easiest to assess when several people can share across the signature dishes. Smart casual works because the visit is positioned as more polished than an everyday drop-in, but it is not positioned here as formal fine dining. The result is a flexible Fort Lee option for diners who want variety, late hours on select nights, recognition without committing to a rigid dining format.