Sometimes New Jersey fusion restaurants take two types of food that seemingly don’t make sense together and turn it into something delicious. Italian-Japanese food at Pasta Ramen in Montclair. Bonney’s Filipino-Jamaican barbecue in Metuchen. French-Asian dishes at The Roxy in Jersey City.

But occasionally restaurants take combinations that should work together and simply fail in execution.

No. 79 Bar Restaurant & Liquor Store opened in Hammonton two years ago offering Polish-Italian fusion fare. The combination certainly makes sense on paper. Popular Polish eats like pierogis and kielbasa and iconic Italian bites like chicken parm and flatbreads seem like they could mesh well.

Unfortunately, that just isn’t the case at No. 79.

I took a trip to Hammonton to try No. 79 recently an

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