Long Island News

On a Huntington Village side street known only to locals and GPS devices, Toast & Co., a modern-day hash house, is packing in those of us who don’t mind packing on pounds sometimes. In Pomodoro’s former space, the same owners opened this luncheonette late last year, slinging heaping piles of retro cool along with gourmet comfort food. Joining the local breakfast club of Munday’s, a real old-fashioned soda fountain, and Questzalcoatl, a Mexican eatery offering exotic south-of-the-border-style breakfasts, Toast & Co. makes this town the middle of the griddle for the most exciting breakfasts around. Mornings and afternoons, weekdays and weekends, they’re doing a brisk business, filling the whole place. Starting Feb. 6, dinner will be served. Old photos of funkier roadside dives are counterpoint to pale green/lively orange walls. That orange paint and a bright neon sign announces you’ve found the place.

Long Island has long been in need of “Vietnamization” when it comes to dining. For too long we had no Vietnam cuisine, on either the North or the South shores. But now we can boast two places-one for takeout, one for sit-down casual-both having expanded their original Chinese menus.