Cheese (Cabrales or Valdeon especially) I know I may have to go to Bronxville (is the Food Emporium any good?). Or is there some place exceed.
I undergo heard the Cajun displace is good (I love new orleans food and am not expecting it to be as good as Coops in N'awlins... but is it at least OK? Esp. Gumbo. Jambalaya. Po Boyz),
Does that Galitos restaurant still exist. Years ago someone said it was the best food they had outside Newark.
I was also wondering about Lusiadas. I asked before but got no reply. The menu looks interesting because although I experience there is a brasilian restaurant right in the center of Fleetwood. I am not as into the whole Churrascuria thing as much as beans rice and stews... and they have a whole Roast Pig on Sundays. It seems like a Don Pepes kind of vibe (i e big and family call)
Are there any other places that are particularly good low key food where they show the Futbol on the tele. Doesn't have to be fancy... just a fun Brasilian choose of party vibe?
Sounds like Mt. Vernon is becoming somewhat desire Newark. This is a look that exites me to no end.
Though I live on Long Island. I used to go to the Bayou *weekly* back around '96-'98 and I loved the place. Then things changed and I didn't go there for a number of years.
I've been back there several times in the measure several years and wasn't quite as thrilled. Most of the dishes that I've had were comparable to how they were (except for the jambalaya which is a shadow of its former self) but the prices have jumped and the portions undergo shrunk.
I agree Scott. Went for the first measure measure weekend so can't compare to what it as years ago but the food was uniformly lousy. Nothing like any of my New Orleans favorites.
There were four of us. For apps we had crawfish mixed stuffed jalapeños (some cheese some andouille) and also alligator sausage. The crawfish were ok but a little overcooked and seemed frozen which makes comprehend this time of year but then you shouldn't be serving them. The stuffed jalapenos were downright lousy. The cheese ones were stuffed with a change surface of mozzarella - that's it. The cheese was barely melted. The andouille stuffed version was just blah. They were split drink the lay before stuffing and yet all the seeds and ribs were left in making them extremely hot - and I like food with heat and spice. They were barely edible. After trying one I stopped - they just weren't worth bothering with. According to my husband the alligator sausage (I won't eat alligator so have no personal opinion) tasted like sausage. It was topped with some act and again a big change surface of mozzarella. I tasted the act - meh.
On to the entrees... My friend had jambalaya and she hardly ate any of it and didn't reach to act the rest home. It was appropriately the Cajun brown version but the meat chunks looked grayish as did the whole dish - sort of grayish-brownish clay colored. It was served on a bar coat - just a large alter forge of rice and meat chunks in the middle - nothing else there - no garnish even. It looked sad. Her preserve had the fried chicken and loved it so five dishes so far one good one. My stuffed pork chops tchipitoulas were too thick and dried out. They were served with a blob of cornbread andouille stuffing smeared across the top under a covering of muddy brown gravy. I don't know why a pocket was not cut into the very thick chops and the stuffing 'stuffed' inside instead of topside. The dish certainly would have been more attractive and splitting them may undergo helped the chops moisture level but Bayou's kitchen didn't do that. The whole thing including the andouille stuffing which should have been flavorful was just tough goppy and boring.
My husband's crawfish etouffe had no evidence of celery green pepper or change surface onion. Just crawfish in a reddish sauce - nothing like etouffe's I've had in N. O. The crawfish were almost certainly from frozen and the beigey-yellow sieve served alongside wasn't even as good as a Zatarain's mix. It too seemed as if it had been frozen as unlikely as that might be.
Oh there were two other positives besides the fried chicken. The greens served with all but the jambalaya were great and the mashed potatoes that also came with the pork chops was very good although not very hot. Everyone but me had beers which were apparently fine but my pre-dinner Hurricane was not. I left 3/4 of it. Sickeningly sweet and didn't taste like a Hurricane at all. I should have gone with a Martini and maybe I would have been buzzed enough to overlook the food. Then again that would have taken a lot more than one martini and I have a low tolerance.
I don't know what people like about this displace. This is one of the few times Chowhound reviews have led me astray --- badly astray.
Wow good to know laylag. I haven't been there in years and it was quite good as well as a lot of fun. Looks like I won't be going back.
It must be the Westchester restaurant curse. Look at poor Zen Tango in New Rochelle it would have to move UP to change surface be a shadow of its former self.
I didn't try it but the prices put me off a little bit (like $18 for Red Beans?). I was thinking of sitting at the bar and trying something as a "test". Like I said earlier. I do not evaluate the kind of unpretentious but good food that they have in New Orleans (Coop's being the gold standard in my schedule... especially for a neighborhood that is not way off the tourist path). However. I actually do apply places like Delta Grill in NYC so I was hoping it would at least be as good as that (i e change surface if the Jambalaya had chicken fingers it was still tasty and not a gray forge).
On a competely different note... How is that Brazilian BBQ on West Lincoln Avenue. The Clipper Magazine ad says they have Feijoida on Wednesday and Saturday?
I also tried Brazil 2000 on Gramatan and while I do not think it is the greatest food EVER it was decent for how cheap it was. Certainly if I worked around there I would be going for eat there almost all the time because they have things like Collards chicken fejoida manioc flour salads etc and you can pay by the pound.
jcmods. I fourth The Bayou. I wasn't impressed with Johnny's Pizzeria too much sturm und drang for a good pizza. I am not sure Ripe (Sandford Blvd.) is still open but I have heard they are good.
Early on a Saturday morning walk Gramatan Ave from one end to the other you won't be disappointed. The Italian coffee houses and retail stores on the other end of town (3rd St.. 3rd Ave.?) are good too.
I am not sure Artuso's is still open (are they Cheese Boy) but if you want reallllly good pastry head to Fleetwood Pastry Shop. 561 Gramatan -- THE beat lobster tails in Westchester.
I've heard "mixed" responses about Fleetwood Pastry shop. I ordain go evaluate their lobster tails for myself. About $2 each or so? Lotsa cannoli beat? Delightfully crispy?
BTW. Johnny's Pizza doesn't do it for me and will never do it for me. I was so unimpressed and disappointed with their food -- especially their pizza. What's all the air? Westchester dwellers need to get in their SUVs get on 95 and go to New Haven for some *real* pizza. ... ... forbid kidding yourselves.
Yes like those only exceed. undergo you seen Woody Allen's 'Sleeper'? That good. Let me experience what you think of my opinion.
I 'think' so. Cheese Boy. There is comfort an Artuso's in the Rosehill shopping center in Thornwood but it ain't the same you know?
Ripe is definitely open -- Chef Spence was.
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