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I was unable to attend last week’s town hall liquor license meeting, due to my being away for Spring Break on some beach getting really sunburned. By all accounts it sounds like a few residents got out their pitchforks and torches to cut the knees off of a few small businesses, while the silent majority ((of potential patrons)) will just be denied the pleasure of a few new and interesting restaurants.
Of greater interest, [Read more…] about MORE LIC RESTAURANT NEWS
Even when I’m away, I can’t stay away. I have no idea if I’m in Cancun, Daytona, or Palm Springs right now, as spoken words have become incomprehensible, [Read more…] about SPRING BREAK BREAK
Back in the 19XX’s, a new Chinese restaurant opened up in my town in the New York suburbs that served Szechuan food. It was a huge departure from the traditional Cantonese cuisine dominant in the U.S., embodied by the conventional egg rolls, spare ribs, and chicken chow mein. Nowadays, things have come full circle, as all the crazy diversions to Flushing have left us wanting for the simplicity of that era. I’d give my right arm for a great egg roll, and a few fingers more for some pungent old school Chinese mustard.
Well those days might be gone, but with the arrival of Hibino, Long Island City finally gets its first breakout restaurant. ((Tournesol came before LIC in its present incarnation)) [Read more…] about HIBINO LIC: THE REAL DEAL
The restaurant bounty keeps coming in 2014. Only a month after LICtalk published it’s industry-renowned annual LIC Restaurant Round-Up, we have news of two more previously unannounced restaurant openings. [Read more…] about TWO NEW RESTAURANTS COMING TO LIC
This Sunday, March 9, LICtalk turns two years old ((which is like a decade in “LIC years”)). Though we’ve come to view ourselves as literary virtuosos, others might think that we’re still wearing diapers. The one thing that can’t be debated, is the massive amount of change that has occurred in this town over those two years. [Read more…] about HAPPY 2ND BIRTHDAY LICTALK!