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THE fat lady has sung: Belle Via, the beloved Long Island City coal fired pizza restaurant on the corner of Vernon Boulevard and 48th Avenue has closed for good. There is a “For Rent” sign on the front and all the outdoor sheds have been removed.
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‘OH my, is it Ash Wednesday already?’ I thought upon seeing the black smudge on the forehead of a woman in the subway car after quickly swiveling my neck to avert my eyes from the homeless man with a pint of something clear in one hand and an unlit cigar in the other yet still enshrouded in a mystery miasma.
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WITH all that is going on in the world today we bring you the headline that a new gourmet market and deli called Luminescence will be opening up on 2nd St. just south of Borden Avenue in a new mega-tower along the waterfront. With a name like that I’d be hesitant to refer to it as a bodega, though these days they both probably sell more units of high alcohol beer in larger container sizes than the 12oz cans I used to swill back in the 20th Century.
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IT was a long 2021, and then it became 2022 and soon after came the opening of Sami’s Kabab House at 47-38 Vernon Boulevard. Originally scheduled to open over the summer, it is actually the second location in LIC, the other being north of the bridge on Crescent Street.
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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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