Long Island restaurants: This week’s reviews

Roasted chicken with whipped potatoes and green beans is a recommended main course at brook23 bar + kitchen. Credit: Barbara Alper
In this week’s Newsday, Peter M. Gianotti reviews brook23 bar + kitchen, Lynbrook's new gastropub “devoted to craft beers on tap, fare that goes with brews, major TV sports and the perpetual pursuit of a good time.” The high-decibel spot, he writes, “delivers almost everything the short-lived Village Square didn’t.”
Joan Reminick visits Huntington’s Stella Blue, “an eccentric new eatery named for a Grateful Dead song. Inside, posters of Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison, among others, evoke the days of Woodstock. So does much of the background music.”