Long Island

They are showing up at the market now. How do you like them prepared, and who does it best in our area?

Baldor Foods, a major Bronx-based wholesale specialty food supplier to the restaurant/hospitality industry in the metro New York area, has announced it will do home delivery for the first time. Min...

Hey there- I seem to remember a Long Island deep dish pizza restaurant called "My PI" (but spelled with the greek symbol for 3.14) There was one by the Sunrise Mall and one in Hicksville. Does a...

Get ready for the big plates! Just opened: Route One Family Style Italian Restaurant on Boston Post Road in Larchmont. It is in the same space that operated for many years as La Riserva. There have...

Hi everyone, I have been seeing what they call “orange clam” at sushi restaurants. I often make sushi at home and am interested in learning more about this “new” clam, but “orange clam” on the web...

Every Christmas my uncle brings over a few containers of sauce from Vincent's, one mild and one spicy. As those of you who have tasted it will know, it's got a very different taste profile than tra...

Remember the chain of crepe restaurants called The Magic Pan? Nana used to take me to the one in Beverly Hills & I'd always have the spinich crepes. Now I'm craving them (20 years later) and the p...

by Gastronomos 4 years ago

At dinner last night... at the diner... I was served a side monkey dish of lukewarm broccoli. I tried to add the ice cold butter from the little packet to the broccoli, but it wouldn't melt. I add...

by sadie 3 years ago

Dear NYC CH friends, Although I lurk on these boards nearly every day, today I'm writing with a general inquiry for a piece I'm writing. Specifically, on the Buttered Roll. It (by which I mean ...

At the risk of offending, and sincere aplogies if that is the case, I'd like to go on record and say that among nassau county, the 5 boroughs and westchester county, that nassau county, by a ...

by Gastronomos 5 months ago

https://www.newsday.com/lifestyle/restaurants/meritage-wine-bar-review-glen-cove-1.40058114 About Meritage Wine Bar: "...They're really trying to revitalize the downtown area of Glen Cove, an...

by Gastronomos 6 months ago

This underrated Sichuan dish made an appearance at my table when I visited Tao's fusion in Selden. No matter how you call this dish: Suan Tang Fei Niu 酸汤肥牛 / Beef with House Made Pickle in ...

Passed by the newly opened upscale Chinese restaurant in Jericho which was mobbed on a recent Sunday eve. Anyone been there?

by Scott_R 4 months ago

Well, it looks like we're going to be losing Fairway on Long Island. One of my favorite things there is the hand-sliced house-smoked nova salmon; the packaged stuff pales in comparison. Is there...

by Gastronomos 7 years ago

Occassionally I get a craving for Greek food but don't want to travel all the way to Queens if I don't have the time to cook at home. It can be an easy taco stand like place such as Gyro World o...

by Gastronomos 3 years ago

After a couple of really, really bad meals at two local (local to me that is) bbq type joints, I am still convinced that this Islands inhabitants do not know how to make and serve bbq. At all. I...