Award-winning LI based brewer Blue Point Brewery is hitting a milestone with 10 years in existence. In order to celebrate this great accomplishment (and our favorite seasonal beer, Blue Point Blueberry Ale), Blue Point is hosting a party with lots of beer, music and fun times. The event will take place on June 13th from 2-7pm. If you plan on attending, tickets will run you $65 or $15 for designated drivers. To find out more on this event and to purchase tickets in advance, please go to their website which can be found here.
*This event is 21+
Tucked neatly in the back lobby of a Winthrop Hospital building in Garden City lies Mumon Japanese Cuisine. Open for the better part of the last three months, Mumon is a bright star in the local asian cuisine arena on the island. Owned by a distributor of seafood up and down the east coast, it seems a likely fit and an assurance that Mumon will receive the finest seafood available on a continual basis.
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We've just had dinner at Mumon in Garden City, a newly opened asian restaurant. While we type up our review, click here to view our Flickr set in the restaurant. Hope you enjoy the pics!
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When our friend sought out a local spot to hit up for her birthday dinner with a few select friends, she hit the nail on the head in picking Besito in Roslyn. The second Besito on the island (the original is located in the village of Huntington) and one of the restaurants owned by local restauranteur John Tunney (also the owner of Honu and America Roadside Burgers) this restaurant achieves the sophistication of the palate and of the design that you would expect from this powerhouse owner. Located on the North Shore and in a shopping center with Kotobuki, a high-end Japanese restaurant, the crowd is as high-end as the food and drink offered.
The Tequila list is as long as the menu and is the hallmark of the restaurant/bar. Margaritas, specialty drinks and great cervezas round out the full bar menu as well.
Since we were early, we hopped up to the bar and sampled the drinks of the house. We ordered the frozen Pomegranate Margarita; served from a frozen machine and also ordered the red wine Sangria while we awaited the other 7 people in our party. The bar is long with soft pendant lighting above. The bar area is in the front of the restaurant and since the weather was warm on this Saturday night, the front doors were open to patio seating and we were greeted to a warm breeze off of the exterior.
Once we were all assembled and ready to be sat we all huddled together at the front desk (they won't seat you until the full party is within eye-shot of the hostess) we weaved our way to the back of the restaurant where they had set us up with a table for 10 in a quiet nook. To our left was a huge wall made up of what must have been more than 60 votive candles providing us with soft light. The atmosphere was very earthy with the ceiling made up of individual tree limbs (or something that resembled it) and light colors transporting us to a local village in Mexico.
Baskets of tortilla chips and bowls of salsa were generously placed on our table before we ordered. The salsa was fresh with a nice bite to it. Even though it was popular, the salsa was tossed to the side and largely ignored once the guacamole was placed. We ordered two bowls of guacamole, each expertly prepared table-side by a waiter and custom tailored to our tastes. We ordered one bowl mild with cilantro and a medium bowl without cilantro to appease all of the different tastes at the table.
Since there were 10 of us, I won't go into detail about what everyone ordered, but will share with you the two dishes that my wife and I chose. I chose the Bistec con Mole Chatino, a grilled New York Strip Steak topped with chayote squash, queso fresco. My wife ordered the Salmon Manchamanteles, a roasted wild salmon with crispy bananas, pineapple pico de gallo and mole manchamanteles. My steak was perfectly seasoned, well cooked and was on par with any steakhouse where I have eaten. The salmon was as fresh as could be, full of flavor, light and tasty all around. The crunchy banana was a nice juxtaposition on the softer salmon and aided in the textural enjoyment of the meal.
After dinner Churrizos (fried dough with sugar) were dropped on our table fresh out of the fryer and in a paper bag. Similar to the chocolate cookies that are served at the sister restaurant Honu these were a great end to a long dinner and left us satisfied, yet not entirely full.
Verdict: This isn't your mother's Mexican restaurant, and we're glad that it's not. With two locations to choose from on the island, we look forward to more Tequila, enchiladas and flavors that we have yet to experience.
* All costs associated with this dinner were paid for by East of NYC
With today being St. Patrick's Day, we took to the streets of Freeport and the waterside strip of Woodcleft Avenue to catch up on the restaurants and bars that line the area. Although not all of the locations are open, we did see a lot of green and white today with patrons lining up early to the bars. The weather was nice (did you know that 5 of the last 9 St. Patrick's Days have had snow in the forecast?) and there was virtually no traffic on the strip, so we were able to catch each restaurant in all of their glory.
Today is Fat Tuesday and we feel that drinking will make it just that much better! BBQ Inc. in Rockville Centre will be bringing the house down with drink specials and food specials all night long. If you have nothing to do tonight, we just made plans for you. Enjoy! 516-255-9191
12 S. Park Ave.
Rockville Centre, NY 11570
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