Eats

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.

1. trademark pending, once I scrounge up the fifty bucks to register it [↩]

Wind in the willow’s playin’ “Tea For Two”
The sky was yellow, and the sun was blue
Strangers stoppin’ strangers just to shake their hand
Everybody’s playing in the heart of gold band, heart of gold band

COVID, shmovid, omicron, omacaroon, the world wide web is crackling over the news that sweetgreen is coming to Long Island City. More specifically to 25-35 44th Drive on the corner of Jackson Avenue at the base of a big TF Cornerstone tower.

A new market is coming to Long Island City, and by ‘new’ we also mean a new concept. MogMog is coming to 5-35 51st Avenue and it will offer premium sushi grade fish, Japanese cooking items and grocery.

Chun Yang Tea is coming to 49-10 Vernon Boulevard in Long Island City, formerly the home of Something Sweet. Chun Yang is a bubble tea shop with four other locations in NYC, proliferating the explosion in Asian mini-chains across the city.