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GAMEHAUS is coming to Long Island City this Fall! What is Gamehaus? An “omni-functional event space that will be operating a:
ST. PADDY”S DAY is the perfect occasion to break the news that another bar & grill is coming to Vernon Boulevard! The owners of The Baroness Bar and the The Huntress Bar, both located in Dutch Kills, are bringing their show and vittles to 47-18 Vernon Boulevard, previously home to The Corner Bistro which closed last year.
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My usual Super Bowl routine is a Swanson Salisbury Steak Dinner washed down with a quartet of cosmopolitans. According to the label this meal provides 43% of the saturated fat and 31% of the sodium that my body requires every day and a lesson in chemistry I didn’t pass in high school.
Or I could amble down to John Brown Smokehouse where …Whoa, this place is jam-packed with crazed football fans decked out in red and white, didn’t realize this was the NYC meeting place for Niner fans! Looks like I will be trekking back to my ground floor hovel in an unglamorous stretch of LIC near the Mongolian border to watch the Bay City Niners battle Shakira ‘KC’ Lopez.
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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
Ship ahoy, Transmitter Brewing is setting sail for the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Begun in 2014 in a location under the Pulaski Bridge, the successful brewery requires a [Read more…] about TRANSMITTER BREWING LEAVING LONG ISLAND CITY FOR NAVY YARD