The team behind Four Food Studio, the high-profile, ultra-modern dining and drinking destination in Melville, has dreamed up what looks to be another must-eat for LI foodies. Occupying the two-story building that once housed Harper’s and Royal Lancer, the multi-million dollar renovation creates one of the largest restaurants on the Island, at 21,000 square feet, just steps from the Queens border.
Reststar, the same restaurant group that made French food friendly (Bistro’s Cassis/Citron, etc.), Argentinean accessible (Café Buenos Aires) and breakfast funky (Toast and Co.) now presents “Belgian Alsatian” at Moules et Frites in Syosset. Labeling it as a “biergarten bistro” attempts to say it all.
Near the movie theater in Long Beach comes this franchise from Colombian-born Raul Silva’s Morristown, N.J. original empanada parlor. Open since January, they boast 70 different varieties of these flaky turnovers—a cross between fried dumplings and meat pies—all cooked with no trans fats. Try the basics like beef or chicken, or the offbeat like Hawaiian (ham, cheese, pineapple).
The space that Wok N Roll inhabits has a long history of interesting Asian restaurants. Recently and quite briefly it held Zong’s Shanghai, offering soup dumplings and other delights. More than 15 years ago it housed the only Vietnamese eatery on Long Island at the time, but that fell by the wayside as well.
If there’s a restaurant on Long Island more difficult to find than Pita House in East Setauket, well, I suppose I’ll never find it. It’s not that it’s out of the way, (it’s behind the Wild By Nature on Rte. 25A), it’s just that its located inside an office complex called Heritage Square. Armed with [...]
Lounge Burger
751 Wantagh Ave., Wantagh
516 934-0900
The lounge is the elevated bar offering candy martinis—Sweet Tarts, Jolly Rancher, bubble gum—but early on a cold Saturday it could have referred to the 25-minute wait for our burgers, when we were the first customers. Making it worse was the lack of heat flowing down too slowly from the [...]
