Diners, Drive-in's and Dives: The Ledge version

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by LukeA

Here's something a bit more mainstream. My breakfast this morning at the Little Red Bike Cafe, in North Portland...



The Fabiola: fried egg, house chorizo, white cheddar, and avocado on grilled ciabatta. I don't think it can get any better.

DAMN that looks good!!!!!!

[MissLadyLoki]

Hmmmm...the Long Island I know is kinda boring, but I think I got a few things from the depths of deepest, darkest Suffolk County.

J&R Steakhouse in Stony Brook is an interesting little chain. Me and my friend Sam had dinner there 9:00 at night after we had seen Avatar at the AMC down the road and the only thing I really remember is that their steaks are really good.

Ralph's Italian Ices in Farmingville (there's also ones in Stony Brook right by J&R and in Lake Ronkonkoma) have some pretty kickass ices in some very interesting flavors, such as rainbow cookie (my current favorite), Milky Way, Snickers...I could go on and on.

Of course, this is New York, and we do have pizza and bagel places. For pizza, check out Village Pizza in Farmingville. It took over for this other place called Michael's, but it's the best pizza in town, not to mention they have a little specialty my family in Queens knows and loves: garlic knot crust pizza.

Onto bagels, most people I know are nuts for Strathmore in Selden, but I prefer Bagel N' A Hole Lot More up in Port Jefferson. If you want a true New York bagel, go there. You'll be in for a real treat.

I probably have more, but gimme some time.

[LukeA]

Originally Posted by MissLadyLoki

I probably have more, but gimme some time.

I'll be listening when you do! (BTW, re: pizza- ever check out Carlo's Pizza Oven in Holbrook? I know they have another location in the area. You have no idea how hard it is to find meatball as a topping outside Tri-State area. gahh!)

One thing I got spoiled with by growing up on Long Island was the glorious overabundance of Jewish delicatessens. Its right up there at the tip top in terms of the culture shocks experienced after moving to suburban Phoenix.. I was so spoiled.

I grew up loving Benkert's Bakery (on Middle Country in Centereach - http://www.benkerts.com/ ), and now I see that they added a deli next door??!? Cassie, if anything about baked goods/deli foods interests you, I beg/implore you to check this place out and tell me if its any good!

[slc4236]

Epic Burgers, GrillInn on morse and Five Guys Burgers

[slc4236]

Epic Burgers,,, Tive Guys and GrillInn on Morse are all in Chicage.

[MissLadyLoki]

Originally Posted by LukeA

I'll be listening when you do! (BTW, re: pizza- ever check out Carlo's Pizza Oven in Holbrook? I know they have another location in the area. You have no idea how hard it is to find meatball as a topping outside Tri-State area. gahh!)

One thing I got spoiled with by growing up on Long Island was the glorious overabundance of Jewish delicatessens. Its right up there at the tip top in terms of the culture shocks experienced after moving to suburban Phoenix.. I was so spoiled.

I grew up loving Benkert's Bakery (on Middle Country in Centereach - http://www.benkerts.com/ ), and now I see that they added a deli next door??!? Cassie, if anything about baked goods/deli foods interests you, I beg/implore you to check this place out and tell me if its any good!

I've been to Benkert's many times and you don't get what you paid for IMO. You spend a ton of money on a gorgeous cake, but it just doesn't taste half as good as it looks. If you ask me, a Costco cake gives you mucxh more bang for your buck (spend 20 bucks for half a sheet cake that tastes delicious).

Yeah, the deli was added recently and it took over this restaurant-thingy that gave a Thanksgiving dinner to people who didn't have anybody.

I've never been to Carlo's, but whatever you do, don't go to Pauly's, which is in this shopping center right across from Cancos Tiles in Farmingville. Before we got Village, we used to have Michael's, and when that was closed for a few months, we needed a new pizza place, Pauly's being one of them. All I can say is their pizza is just nasty. The sauce is sweet, the cheese has a weird texture, but they do have a good Sicilian crust.

And as for Jewish deli, I can tell you 2 things: Ben's is garbage (and the one by the mall on 347 is now a Zan's, which is still garbage) and the best deli around is one way over on whatever-they-call-Middle-Country-Road-in-Western-Suffolk in Commack that's just called a Kosher deil that's small, in a shopping ceneter with Waldbaum's, and is probably the bets deli you'll ever have.