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MY how time flies. It looks like it’s been three years since we last did our annual Long Island City Restaurant Round-Up. Given the boost in readership for this issue every year, you would think it would have been circled in red ink on the calendar ad infinitum. Alas, The Editor is not a very good Publisher. No Murdoch genes to speak of, but food we know, so here we go:
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Food, glorious food
What is there more handsome
Gulped, swallowed, or chewed
Still worth a king’s ransom
GIVEN the latest surge and enduring nature of the pandemic, let’s start 2022 off with a bang by publishing our highly anticipated annual LIC Restaurant Round-Up™1. I hear that Pete Wells prints it out each year on high quality paper and sheaths it in a 14k gold binder, Michelin refers to me as ‘L’Edituer’ in hushed tones, while the folks at Eater hand it out to all the newbies with the declaration “May this be your inspiration, and may you someday be half as good.” I hear.
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Does LICtalk have a ‘cover curse?’ Last year we bemoaned the difficulty many local restaurants have getting open, honing in on the travails of Mothership Meat Company and using a picture of the nearly completed R40 Argentinian restaurant as our cover photo. Fast forward a year and the latter has yet to open for business and no one answers the phone…
Nevertheless 2020 looks to bring a bounty of new restaurants to Long Island City, but before we dig in here’s a select role call of those who passed in the last decade for you nostalgia buffs: Lounge 47, Mario’s Deli, OpenDoor, The Riverview, Ihawan (yeah, LIC once had Filipino!), and The Crab House – v1., v2., a little latino and a head fake. Plus a special decadal award to the Most Resilient: The Shannon Pot, having existed at three different locations in the last ten six years. Then finally a look to the unborn of the new decade, most notably the future tenants of Dorian’s and that hole in the ground across the street from it?!? Oh to have 2020 vision.
Goin’ where the chilly winds don’t blow
Goin’ where the chilly winds don’t blow
Goin’ where those chilly winds don’t blow
I don’t want to be treated this away
IF ever I give consideration to opening a restaurant in LIC/NYC, I need but utter three words to myself and the inspiration will instantly dissipate: Mothership Meat Company. The lengthy timetable for getting this restaurant open in Dutch Kills is enough to crush any prospect of a decent IRR, not to mention a BBQ-lover’s soul.
Thus, I have decided to list all three returnees from last year in the Coming Soon category as opposed to the “Not-So-Soon” category in the hopes that their dreams, and ours, will be realized.
Despite Amazon’s not-so-imminent arrival and the bounty of retail space being created at the ground level of the many towers going up, there have been surprisingly [Read more…] about LONG ISLAND CITY 2019 RESTAURANT ROUND-UP
Last year’s ‘it’ food was poke, which came and left Long Island City with barely a trace. Crabs have vanished too. In previous years I speculated baby food and roadkill might gain traction in LIC. 2018 looks to be [Read more…] about LONG ISLAND CITY 2018 RESTAURANT ROUND-UP