For lease · Avalon, NJ

Turnkey restaurant space at The Circle

2,342 square feet on the busiest corner in Avalon. A 1,245 SF dining room, two prep rooms, walk-in cooler and freezer — and the equipment stays.

Contact for rate · 2108 Dune Drive, 08202

2,342 SF
Gross floor area
1,245 SF
Dining room
914 SF
Kitchen & prep
On application
Rate

The opportunity

Walk into a working kitchen

This is not a shell. The space has traded as a pizzeria, the equipment stays, and the dough operation that ran here daily can start again on day one. For an operator, that is a season saved and a fit-out budget avoided.

Photographs of the kitchen, the two prep rooms and the cold storage sit with the floor plan and the walkthrough — a form away.

  • 737 SF across two separate prep rooms
  • 85 SF walk-in cooler, plus a 47 SF freezer
  • 1,245 SF dining room under a 9′ 10″ ceiling
  • 2,342 SF gross, all on one floor
The domed pizza oven behind the counter, boxes stacked ready for service.
The oven, mid-service.
The service counter and kitchen pass, with stools along the front.
Service counter and pass.
The dining room under a high pressed ceiling with ceiling fans.
1,245 SF of front of house.
The brick-paved patio with umbrella tables and string lights.
The patio, in season.

Two prep rooms, 737 SF

Food Prep 1 and Food Prep 2 give 737 square feet of back-of-house across two separate rooms — the reason the outgoing pizzeria could make its dough on site daily. Separating dough work from the hot line is hard to retrofit and rare at this size.

Walk-in cooler and freezer

An 85 SF walk-in cooler and a 47 SF walk-in freezer are already in place. Cold storage at that scale is among the most expensive things to add to a restaurant after the fact.

A 1,245 SF dining room

Over half the floor area is front of house, under a 9′ 10″ ceiling, with glazing along two elevations. Room to seat a summer crowd rather than turn it away.

Turnkey, equipment in place

The kitchen conveys. An incoming operator takes over a working restaurant rather than building one out — no waiting on a fit-out, no equipment budget before the first service.

The Circle

Avalon’s central intersection: the corner between the causeway and the beach that effectively every visitor passes. Irreplaceable frontage in a fully built-out barrier-island market.

An affluent catchment

One of New Jersey’s five most expensive ZIP codes, with a $2.36M median sale price in 2025. A summer population with money to spend, walking past the door.

The Circle

The corner between the causeway and the beach — the one nearly every visitor crosses.

Aerial view of the restaurant on its corner at The Circle, Avalon.

The location

Avalon, 08202

One of the wealthiest postcodes in New Jersey, on a barrier island that draws some forty-five thousand people at the height of the season — most of them past this corner. The strip they walk down is fully built out and zoned B-1: there is no room to add another trading address to it.

45,000Peak season populationOn a barrier island under two miles across
$139,167Median household incomeNearly half of households report over $150,000
$2.36MMedian sale price, 2025One of New Jersey’s five most expensive ZIP codes
Top 100US ZIP codes by sale priceAvalon has placed there five years running
New Jersey ZIP codes in the US top 100, by 2025 median sale price
Deal 07723
Deal 07723: $3.50M
$3.50M
Stone Harbor 08247
Stone Harbor 08247: $2.55M
$2.55M
Short Hills 07078
Short Hills 07078: $2.40M
$2.40M
Avalon 08202
Avalon 08202: $2.36M
$2.36M
Allenhurst 07711
Allenhurst 07711: $2.10M
$2.10M

Avalon 08202 ranks 75th nationally and sits among the five priciest ZIP codes in New Jersey, alongside Deal, Stone Harbor and Short Hills.

View as table
New Jersey ZIP codes in the US top 100, by 2025 median sale priceMedian sale price
Deal 07723$3.50M
Stone Harbor 08247$2.55M
Short Hills 07078$2.40M
Avalon 08202$2.36M
Allenhurst 07711$2.10M

Source: PropertyShark, 2025 median closed sale prices

The corner

2108 Dune Drive, at The Circle

Where Dune Drive meets 21st Street: the junction between the causeway and the beach, which almost everyone arriving on the island crosses. Frontage here is fixed supply — there is no second Circle to build on.

Dune Drive seen from above The Circle, running north between the shops and the bay.
Dune Drive from above The Circle, looking north.

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Outdoor covers

A patio that seats a summer crowd, in a town that fills to forty-five thousand.

The brick-paved patio with umbrella tables and string lights overhead.

3D walkthrough

Walk the kitchen before you drive down

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