THE restaurant hits just keep on coming to Hunters Point and the greater Long Island City Metropolitan Area (population 63,000). Frankie’s Brooklyn Pizza and Matsuzuki Sakura have been announced as tenants of the new rental building Jasper located on 5th Street between 49th and 50th Avenues.
Frankie’s is “a collaboration between New York Fine Foods pizza truck, a Long Island City mainstay on 47th Road and 5th Street, and New York City catering giant Sage and Zest. It will offer a wide variety of personal pizzas, square pies, slices, cafe favorites, and a unique wine bar experience. With plans to extend their menu well beyond the 12” personal pies the truck is known for, the team at Frankie’s is taking a page out of Justin Fauci, founder of Sage and Zest’s playbook, offering full-scale catering, grab and go essentials and a multitude of dine-in options.” What more can I say?
“At Matsuzuki Sakura, restaurateur Sam Zheng brings more than 22 years of experience to his latest concept at Jasper. The restaurant is an upscale, family-style sushi and sashimi experience for the Hunters Point waterfront with a focus on fresh seafood and great service. The full menu at Matsuzuki Sakara will include hot dishes like yakitori as well as a range of sake.” You had me at fresh seafood, especially when it’s raw.
As for Justin Fauci, Sam Zheng – weren’t they in the bullpen for the 2009 Mets? Or was it 6-7 in the batting order for the ’05 Yankees? Pizza, sushi, my head is obviously elsewhere so happy to cut n paste and give a plug in order to leave the newsroom early so I can be bar side by 8:08pm.
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