Restaurant recommendations in NYC or Long Island

You can't go wrong with Bryant and Cooper in Roslyn or Peter lugar in great neck. I was at maroni Friday nite. Truly an epicurean delight.

 

Search is your friend. This is asked almost once a month.

 

if your in the glencove area i would reccomend La Ginestra in Glen cove, or Centro Cunina,in Geenvale have never had a bad meal at either of these resturants.

 

For French cuisine try Casis on Wall St. in Huntington Village.

 

You mean there is other food besides Italian and steak, I forgot, and chinese on Sunday's!

 

Well. if you factor in the impossible to overstate impact Caterina di Medici had on French cuisine . . .

(Before she showed up the French had no clue what a utensil was, had no clue how to do anything but roast meat, with exotic animal roasts marking special occasions -- and that was in Court! Seems that French aristocracy hadn't discovered the treasure that was/is peasant food, whereas Renaissance Italian gentry and aristocrats, with their far more rational, more benevolent, joyous outlook, took the very best of everyday commoner cooking and made it their own.)

 

The major problem LI restaurants have is that Queens, Brooklyn and Manhattan are a drive away. The other problem is that there simply isn't enough population density for truly great restaurants to make it (see how many big Manhattan names have tried to make in Americana, only to fail (I think Payard, who really went all out, was the last to fall.)

There is a fun, quality neoBistro you may want to consider, in Wheatley Plaza, Greenvale:

http://www.barfrites.com/#

Throughout last year the beautiful people dominated the scene. It's finally settled into what seems to be a nice grove.

There's plenty of good parking, every other car in this shopping center MSRPs at over $80K, and just about everyone stops and stares at any sports car of note (envy, genuine car-love, what's the difference in terms of the chances of you finding your car the way you left it?)

If you feel like giving sushi one last shot, Italteen3, try Matsuya in Great Neck:

http://matsuyasushi.com/

The decor is nuvo cheesy-neat and the parking lot is a nightmare. Their House Creations roles are exquisite and, on Friday and Saturday nights at least, as good as anything you'd get in a great but not famous Manhattan place. They're pricey: six roles and a bottle of Moet will just about kill $200 (tax and tip included.)

I hope this was worth your while, Italteen3

(When shooting Julie and Julia, location scouts had an easier time finding real looking bistros in NYC than they did in Paris. Manhattan is packed with them.)