During the month of May at Macari, $1 of every bottle of Rosé sold will be donated to the American Cancer Society.
Rosé and Empanadas
On Saturday, May 2nd & Sunday, May 10th (Mothers Day), Macari will be serving a glass of rosé with La Nena’s empanadas for $12.
$10 for Macari Wine Club Members.
Saint Honore Pastry Shop
993 Port Washington Blvd
Port Washington, New York 11050
(516) 767-2555
The value of a neighborhoods real estate can be determined by its bakeries. Saint Honore on Port Washington Blvd. in my new favorite Long Island Bakery. Ive have enjoyed more mousse then Sarah Palin from many bakeries on Long Island and can tell you that no matter what part of Long Island you live on, its worth taking a drive to Port Washington to delight in everything that St. Honore has to offer. From fresh baked breads, to delicate and delicous patries, to fancy cakes with enough fondant to film and episode of Ace of Cakes.
While Saint Honore’s nearest competition Baked to Perfection is a worthy opponent and creates there own decadent treats, there service and style need an update. Saint Honore delivers the goods and goes above and beyond with friendly service and help descriving the goods it sells. My biggest disapointment at Saint Honore is that they dont take credit or debit cards. I am finding one of the common themes among good eating establishments is they often play by there rules. For the most part that means CASH ONLY. It is a shame two because you could easily max out your credit card feeding a crave in your sweet tooth. There is an ATM acrosss the street and another in a nearby drug store if you have to take some cash out. the shop can also be a bit busy during the holiday times. Plan ahead. Avoid the line.
Events this Spring at Martha Clara
Every Tuesday Night LIVE MIC MC & Host Rocky Divello Bring Your Dinner, Talent & Friends
April
Sat 18th – 12-4pm Cooking Demo w/ MUMTAZ & TROY
Sat 25th
7:30 – 10pm Nashville Songwriter’s Association International SONGWRITER’S SHOWCASE
to benefit the East End Arts Council
Featuring Martha Trachtenberg, Steve Farella, Pete Colombo,
Jerry Silverstein and special guests
$10 admission / For info 631 727 0900
8pm LONG ISLAND COMEDY FESTIVAL Purchase Tix
Sun 26th – 12-5pm Cooking Demo w/ LA BONNE QUICHE
May
Sat 2nd DERBY DAY
Food by La Bonne Quiche; Music; Stick Horse Races Open to the public;
food and wine additional
Sun 3rd – 12-4pm
2009 ALTERNATIVE HEALTH & WELLNESS EXPO Info
Thurs 7th – 7pm
6 COURSE WINE DINNER WITH CELEBRITY CHEFS ROBERT HESSE & SETH LEVINE
AS SEEN ON REALITY TV
RSVP by Thursday April 30th Purchase Tix
Sat 9th – 12-5pm Cooking Demo w/ EAST END OYSTERS
Sun 10th
MOTHERS DAY Complimentary Glass of Wine for Mom
Food by La Bonne Quiche food and drink additional
12-4pm Chocolate & Wine Pairing
$5 per person / FREE for Wine Club Members & Their Guests
12-4pm Last Chance Animal Rescue Fund
1-5pm Karaoke
Sun 17th
12-3pm COLUMBUS CENTER COBRA CLUB
12-2pm RUMPELSTILTSKIN’S YARN SPINNING DEMO
Fri 22nd – 8-12pm CONCERT – PERFORMANCES BY STEALING LUCIDITY, FOR THE GOOD WITH TIM PORTER & BIG RIVER RANSOM
$10 per person – RSVP by Thursday May 19th at 631 298 0075 x13 or marthaclaravineyards.com – food & drink additional
Sat 23rd – 1-4pm REDS, WHITES & BBQ BLUES
Food by Maple Tree; Music by Pamela Betti Please RSVP by May 20th Purchase Tix
Sat 30th
1-4pm KARAOKE
12-5pm Cooking Demo w/ EAST END OYSTERS
For more information on any event visit the Martha Clara Website.
Daisy Mays has been on my list of eats to try since I walked by their 11th Ave. restaurant about year ago. I was walking down 11th Ave. and was smacked in the face by the smoking smell of BBQ about three blocks away.
Today I got a chance to stop in a see what all the buzz is about. I walked in the corner located restaurant front and made my way over to the counter. When you walk in you are hypnotized by the smell of smoking slow cooked pork.
A friendly and warm welcoming man with a white outfit and white hat stood behind the counter and waited to help me. I took a minute to go over the menu and try to make some last minute decisions on what i wanted to feast on. With things like Ribs, Chicken, ,Beans, Greens, Macaroni and Cheese all on the menu is was tough narrowing it down. With the smell of sweet roasting pork in the air I couldn’t wait any longer. A Pulled Pork sandwich with a side of beans and macaroni and cheese were ordered up. The persistent and some what funny guy taking my order also almost insisted that I get something to drink with my meal. Jokingly he mentioned that he didnt want me to choke on my food. The drink options were pretty endless from, canned soda, to sweet tea’s and beer. All great compliments to the menu.
With in 2 to 3 minutes our food was served up and we walked around to the sitting area. This is just like high school. Your food comes on a tray, you find a seat with some one you know, in this case my wife and you eat. The room itself is pretty consistent wit the BBQ food theme. Tons of wood paneling a few pictures and my favorite, an old faded Iron Chef poster.
The food. Man. The food. You know your food is good when you have to walk back to the counter you got it from and let them know. The pulled pork sandwich was smokey and rich with BBQ flavor. It was also not sauced. This is a big point because most other BBQ joints serve pulled pork soaked in BBQ sauce. When you taste pulled pork at many other places your tasting bbq sauce not the pork. Daisy May’s servers their pulled pork sand which up with out the sauce all over the place. All the flavor is in the meat. The sandwich also stayed together excellent on the bun. This is another rarity when it comes to pulled pork. Nothing dripped off the side or on my shirt. Alot of care was put into this sandwich. From the more then 8 hours the meat cooked slowly to the soft bread and final construction. Chef Adam Lang has a true passion for the details that are so often over looked. Even the meat it self tasted like it was combed through with a fine tooth comb. All the chunky little pieces of fat that you usually get pulled pork in sandwiches and tacos was removed before it hit the bun. Its either that or it just disappeared in he 8 hour+ cooking process. Either way eating it was care free. Its the small details like this that separate this from the rest. To say this mouth watering pulled pork BBQ sandwich occupied my thoughts for the rest of the day would not be an understatement.
If your in this area. You owe it to your self to stop in and get some smoked pig. This is was BBqs about.
There is Pizza, and there is Pizza. Salvatores Coal Oven Pizzeria in Port Washington offers up fresh, I mean fresh Brick oven roasted pizza. This is not that stuff served up by a guy named sal with sauce that comes from a bucket and low moisture skim milk mozzerella.
In a strip of stores on Shore Road in Port Washington there is a Brick Oven filled with Charcoal waiting to serve you lunch. I ordered a Tomato, Mozzarella and Basil individual pizza, that sized in at about 10″. ($6.25) I shared it with another person and it was more filling then I had expected. It was so good though I do wish I had had more. My pizza was made to order. The dough was pounded out fresh, and the 3 ingredients added. Then placed into the Brick oven to be fired and baked. About 5 minutes later my pizza came out, hot and ready with a few crusty burnt spots. Simplicity is one of the most common elements in all good food. One of the essentials of god cooking (and eating) are excellent fresh ingredients. This pizza was packed with fresh flavor. The smell of Basil creeped from the sides of the box as I went to open it and fresh crushed tomatoes sat on top of thin layers of fresh mozzarella cheese. In these few simple ingredients you can taste so much. The brick oven also adds its own signature flavor. You almost feel the smoke of the flaming oven in the crust.
This is high quality food. One of the best pizza I think i have ever had. Its the kind of pizza that reminds you how bad your local pizza place is.This is some of the best pizza this side of Long Island has to offer.
A few things worth mentioning. Credit, Forget it. This is a cash only establishment. There are also no slices sitting around. You get a fresh pie made for you or you suffer with your local low moisture pizza place around the corner. There are tabling for dining and other pasta dishes and the like aswell, but go and taste the pizza first.
Salvatores Pizzeria
124 Shore Road
Port Washington, NY 11050
516-883-8457
Restaurant Week comes to Long Island’s East End.
From Sunday to Sunday, all participating restaurants
offer a three course prix fixe for $24.95 all night
(except Saturday when it will only be offered until 7 PM)
With over 40 participating business this is great chance to try out some of the east ends best sites for food and wine lovers.
For more information and a list of participating restaurants visit the official website.
I stopped by Moe’s Southwest Grill this afternoon for lunch. Moes has go to be the best place to get a burrito in Long Island. They do offer other things on the menu like fajitas, nachos, and the usual tex mex goods as well. If your going to Moe’s though your going for a burrito. The burritos are priced at about $7. Needless to say one burrito will more than likely stuff you. I had the “Joey Bag Of Donuts” Burrito. I dont really get the name but it had nice helpings of rice, cheese, pic da gallo, chicken (you can your choice of pork, chicken or steak) and beans. The burrito also came with some warm salted tortilla chips on the side to round out the meal.
All i can really say was that the burrito was stuffed and delicious and I was stuffed when i finished it. Ive tried some burritos at other places on Long Island but theres no competition for Moe’s. Taco King in Franklin Square has reaally great Tacos and Quesdillas but they cant keep a burrito together. There is nothing worse than trying to eat a burrito with the tortilla fallinng apart and food coming out of it. Moe’s has better tasting ingredients and seals the Tortilla on the grill. Once they roll the burrito its closed for good. There is also a big difference in the quality of ingredients. Moe’s uses good fresh ingedients and you can taste it. If you want myestery meat in a bag go to Taco Bell.
Moe’s is a great place for a healthy filling lunch and will satisfy your “Run To The Border” crave with out having to get 10 tacos off the $0.99 cent menu and run to the bathroom later.
For more info check out:
Moe’s Southwestern Grill
Locations:
14-A Atlantic Avenue, Oceanside
2565 Hempstead Turnpike, Eastmeadow
90 Northern Blvd.
Greenvale
Thumbs up for free drink refills.
Well I’m new to the world of wine and I’m always looking to learn and share my wine experiences with other people as well. I’ve been tasting and drinking wines for almost a year now and here are some of my favorites. Note: $50 a bottle wine experts can go else where. This page is for us who are just starting out and like to drink wine more than we like to pay for it…
Jacobs Creek – Shiraz (Australia)
Davinci – Chianti (Italy)
Yellowtail – Shiraz (Australia)
Beringer Pinot Grigio – (California) Cheap and good for cooking.
Many Wine stores offer tastings. Dont be afraid to go. All wine is not created eqaul. The more you try the more you will see how much they are different from type to type and estate.
So last night I made my way though the Long Island weather to Majors Steakhouse in East Meadow. The popular steak house was not pakced at all but that was due to the April Nor Easter. Other people i know that have eaten there tell me the place is always full and for good reason. The Steak is right on the money.
Upon sitting down in the restaurant I was served a bowl of complimentary assorted pickles. A nice change to the usually free Cheesy biscuits or Tortilla chips. In the pickled selection there was also a pickled red pepper of some sort that looked kind of like a tomato. It was both sweet and spicy and kept my lips smacking with heat while I waited for the main course.
About 10 minutes into my wait for the main course I was presented with the goods. I had ordered the Majors Steak which was a 24 oz Rib Eye loaded with beef. At a little more than an inch thick and seared to perfection my mouth was watering. I had a few bites and realized this was just Rib Eye heaven. The steak was not seasoned heavily. The steak was cooked to allow the true flavor of the cut and meat come through. After a few bites I was reaching for the steak sauce out of curiosity. How much better could this get? Well.. Alot. Major’s Signature Steak Sauce is sweet, tangy and delivers a nice little bit courtesy of the Horseradish on the ingredient’s list. It also taste like it would be pretty mean with shrimp too… The steak was served with your choice of potatoe. I went with the fries. They were okay but next time i would probbly try the mashed Potatoes.
Over all it was a great place. A steak and a glass of wine could set you back about $30 to $40 per person. With all that steak it would have been nice for them to toss in a free garden salad or vegetable with the meal. They do offer them as additional items at about $3 to $4 each. The over all look of Majors Steak House was simple, sports meets western. Autographed New York Jets Footballs and other sports memoriblia are showcased with pictures of cowboys and cows. I like meat alot but sitting there eating a 24 oz Rib Eye steak with pictures of Cows looking at me did make me feel kind of bad. Sure was good though.
Next time i’m going for the Porter House and mashed Potatoes.
For More Information:
MAJORS STEAKHOUSE
284 East Meadow Ave, NY 11554
516-794-6600
MAJORS STEAKHOUSE
8289 Jericho Turnpike
Woodbury, NY 11797
516-367-7300
Recipies from FoodandWine.com