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Snowfall windfall, 2013 edition
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Since there’s going to be significant white stuff on the ground, two Long Island restaurateurs are ready, as ever, with their snow discounts.
In Huntington, Tutto Pazzo co-owner Joe Petrone said he is giving a 25 percent discount tonight and upping it to 50 percent for Saturday. This goes for food only.
And Uncle Bacala’s restaurants in both Garden City Park and Smithtown will give 25...
Read more »Farewell to FeelGoods Cafe, St. James
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FeelGoods, Kathy Gerdes and Nicole Lawrence’s friendly little health-conscious cafe, has closed. Earlier this week the women posted on their Facebook page that after a lot of “business soul-searching,” it became clear that “closing is the difficult but necessary move.”
Last March, the cafe's signature item, the vegetarian EdgyBurger, took first place in the new-product competition at the New...
Read more »Le Soir in Bayport reopens
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Having been closed by a fire last summer, Le Soir in Bayport quietly reopened Thursday. “We are a tiny restaurant and we’re still tweaking things after rebuilding,” said owner Janina Kaziewicz, who added that the restaurant was first born back in 1977.
On the traditional French menu: escargots Bourguignons ($12), canard rôti à l’orange ($31) and coquilles St. Jacques ($31).
Le Soir is...
Read more »Grapevine: Aromella and Arandell join the party
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Aromella, greet chardonnay.
Arandell, meet merlot.
They're the names given to two new grapes that grew out of a Cornell University competition that elicited more than 1,000 submissions.
Both grapes could be grown on Long Island. The two grapes were studied at the Cornell Cooperative Extension in Riverhead.
The winning were introduced today at the Viticulture 2012 conference...
Read more »Nick's Tuscan Grill and Grillfire, Long Beach: Closed
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Neither Grillfire nor Nick’s Tuscan Grill in Long Beach will be reopening -- two more restaurants taken down by superstorm Sandy.
Both had originally opened as part of the George Martin Restaurant Group but changed ownership about a year ago.
George Martin’s Grillfire in Rockville Centre and Merrick are still alive and cooking....
Read more »Forecast: lotsa snow; Prep: lotsa soup
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Before you go absolutely crazy listening to repeated weather forecasts, consider the only rational response: soup.
Good People's Farm in Huntington has three replies today. They're serving chicken noodle, miso and vegetables soups for $3.99 each. Pick up a fruit salad, too. Or a few pieces of sushi, just to put you in a better frame of mind.
At the NY Soup Exchange in Garden City, today...
Read more »Salumi, Massapequa: Lunch triumph
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A recent lunch at Salumi Tapas & Wine Bar uplifted an afternoon. These days, co-owner Lilly Karanova is also executive chef, and she’s clearly doing something right.
From the roster of small plates, a friend and I shared roasted Brussels sprouts, which were deeply flavorful rather than harshly cabbage-y, plated, in harmonious contrast, with chestnut cream lightly sweetened with pepper...
Read more »Sign of spring: Doppio coming to Huntington
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Expect a new, casual Italian restaurant in downtown Huntington this spring.
A Long Island branch of Doppio from Greenwich, Conn., is slated to move into the former site of Twisted Vine Cocktails & Cuisine, which is now closed.
The Greenwich restaurant's specialties included pizzas, panini, pastas, salads, soups and main dishes such as chargrilled steak and pan-seared scallops.
Owners...
Read more »Willy Parkers, Williston Park: Closed
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Willy Parkers American Bar & Grill in Williston Park is closed.
The dining and drinking spot, which was owned by brothers Louis and Rino Di Maria, had been featured on a 2012 episode of Food Network’s “Restaurant Stakeout.”
Updates on what will be going into the space will follow soon. ...
Read more »Souper Bowl VI: The results
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Souper Bowl VI, the sixth annual contest of Port Washington’s best soups, was played on Saturday and both the Judges’ Choice and People’s Choice awards went to Sullivan’s Quay for its coconut-butternut squash soup. “People were practically swooning,” reported Bobbie Polay, executive director of the Port Washington Chamber of Commerce, which organized the event.
The winning soup is a frequent...
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