It’s time to pisco everybody! Jora, the Peruvian Restaurant on 11th Street at the foot of the Pulaski Bridge, has officially opened. They are currently serving dinner every day of the week starting at 5:30pm. But as any self-respecting South American knows, who eats dinner before 9? Thus they will be open until late.
According to the owner, Alejandro Rojas, “We are pretty close to full service, minus a few dessert options.” More importantly, they have a full liquor license and are standing ready to serve the neighborhood much needed (and deserved) alcoholic beverages. Because as anyone with four kids and three wives knows, sometimes beer and wine doesn’t cut it.
Not only is the long wait for Jora finally over, but UBER, the ride-sharing service whose NYC headquarters is here in LIC, is offering a hometown special to mitigate the G-train suspension: get one free ride anywhere between Nassau Avenue in Greenpoint and Court Square until August 31. Check out the link below.
No G-train, No Worries – free Uber transfer
Chocolate Factory Announces Season – now you can go to Greenpont for pierogis, and come back to LIC for Chocolate for free
One-Bedroom in LIC for $1,450 – who says there’s no affordable housing available in LIC? Sometimes you just don’t get amenities and views.
A Perfect Saturday in LIC – ughh, these lists always fail to capture the real LIC
Citibike Poised for a Big Infusion of Cash – so it may come to LIC soon after all
Queensie says
July 28, 2014 at 3:35 pmLong overdue, I thought that place would never open!
Yo says
July 28, 2014 at 9:20 pmCapybara anyone?
LICmom says
July 29, 2014 at 8:00 amI felt terrible for the owners as they paid rent for over a year, maybe closer to two, without opening. Glad to hear they were able to see it through.
Anonymous says
July 29, 2014 at 11:36 amNot bad but not amazing either. Needs some work. I know they just opened but lots of hiccups. I suggest you stay away from the soups until they figure them out. Took 2 hours or so for dinner. They are very very very slowwwwwwwwwwwwww.
Amadeo Plaza says
July 30, 2014 at 6:10 amThe seafood soup we had happened to be very good. But yes slow as molasses. And one of the servers — the younger guy — was see I fly disinterested in helping us with simple things if it didn’t fall within his strict realm of responsibilities. Want a menu? Sure. Want some chips? Sure. Need to get a $20 bill broken? Can’t help you. Talk to the other guy.
mike says
July 31, 2014 at 5:08 amjust another lame mediocre restaurant for lic
why is every business that opens in this area so lame?
there are some places don’t get me wrong but so many of the new places
are very amateurish
Anon says
July 31, 2014 at 9:03 amThis is the kind of food best served in some hole in the wall, a food cart, or in a neighborhood filled with Peruvian immigrants, not in a tarted up place in a yuppie neighborhood. That’s the problem with LIC. Like all boom towns, it lacks authenticity . So don’t be surprised if the cerviche or pad thai or whatever sucks.
George De Stefano says
August 16, 2014 at 10:27 amYou don’t know what you’re talking about, and your condescending, borderline racist tone sucks. I ate there last night. It was very good, and I’ll be back.