Four words can describe the dining experience at the brand new K.Pacho: stupendous, outrageous, delicious, and outstanding. These adjectives especially describe the featured dessert, called a Mexican frozen hot chocolate. Served in an enormous margarita glass with cinnamon and homemade churros in a warm cajeta sauce and topped with whipped cream, it’s a show stopper [...]
Choosing the right restaurant for romantic Valentine’s Day dinner date can turn even Casanovas into klutzes. So for all you Queens cupids, here are some dinner deals that will be sure to make this Valentine’s Day one to remember. Aegean Cove, Astoria, Greek: The restaurant is offering a three-course prix-fixe menu for $49.95 per person. [...]
Good food takes time. Great food takes a lot of time. Excellent food takes about six months. Alobar opened on Vernon Boulevard after months of the usual batch of roadblocks faced by new restaurants in every corner of the city. During that tenuous time, residents would regularly peek in and examine the fully decorated space [...]
The word “comfort” always brings me back to Sunday afternoons at my grandparent’s house watching the New York Mets in the late 80s. My grandfather always had a colorful way of describing his love for the Mets – it was tumultuous, and sometimes a tad vulgar, but memories of our Met-chats always make me smile. [...]
It’s a pleasure having Maria’s Mediterranean Seafood & Grill as a neighbor, only a few steps from our office. Not only do we all enjoy their specialties, but even before you enter, the lovely flowering plants in the front are making the block more beautiful. It’s inviting even before you enter this family-owned place. Usually [...]
Competition amongst Italian cuisines on Cross Bay Boulevard is fierce, with an array of long-standing, established eateries lining the main road in Howard Beach. So when longtime restaurateur Bruno Rinaldi opened up Bruno-Ristorante Italiano on the boulevard — close to seven weeks ago in September — he knew he would have to find a way [...]
London Lennie’s staff learned how to find the perfect bottle of Bordeaux, which has risen in global popularity as both a high-end and everyday drinking wine. Stuart Randall, the president and founding partner of Bayfield Importing, Ltd., which specializes in estate-bottled wines and spirits from around the world, recently joined London Lennie’s owner, Leslie Barnes, [...]
While the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) officials are cleaning up restaurants throughout the city, restaurant owners are claiming their wallets are being cleaned out at the same time. Starting in July 2010, the DOHMH made it a requirement for restaurant owners to post the letter grade results of their sanitary inspection. [...]
The corner of 71st Place and Cooper Avenue in Glendale has a long history of good food and great beer — now that historic meeting spot is home to a new restaurant looking to carry on that tradition of revelry in the neighborhood. Edison Place opened this past March with a nod to the past, [...]
Howard Beach hot spot — Danny’s Szechuan Garden — will be back in business soon. The popular Chinese and Japanese fusion restaurant temporarily closed at the end of June this year to relocate and is scheduled to reopen before December. But fans of the cuisine won’t have to travel much further than usual to get [...]
