Locals Flock to the Low-Price Restaurants - low fat mexican restaurant dishes

Written by RICHARD JAY SCHOLEMAUG
If you think about Huntington's restaurant, it may be the first to come to mindihart, Piccolo, Mazi, J. , Panama.
DeCarlo, Hugo.
These are outstanding, prestigious and special.
Restaurant on occasion.
However, many people tend to talk about one restaurant but go to another.
Huntington, perhaps a microcosm of the island, has a variety of popular restaurants, including storefronts in China, Italy, Greece, Mexico, barbecues, lunches, driving
Ins and soups and I call it "what do chefs like you do in places like this ? " Category?
According to the National Restaurant Association, the consumption of Americans is 4.
1 meal per week from home (
213 a year).
Although there is no local data, the island's lifestyle may lead to more out-of-Town Dining than this.
We know that there are not enough restaurants for the residents of the island.
Many people go six or seven times a week to relax. as-you-are sites.
Therefore, although the splurge is reserved for the milestone days, the hungry people are most often low.
Cooke In, Munday, J & J south side, Shack, Mediterranean Snack Bar, tacos BBQ, Los Compadres, Taormina, Imperial Hunan Sichuan and Kozy Kettle
As an acquaintance recently said, the advertisements in these places are restaurants that Americans flock to, especially on weekends. Almost half (46 percent)
Of all adults in the United States, a typical day is a restaurant customer.
With more and more working couples, retirees, empty nesters, busy 30-and 40-
As children grow, single, divorced and widowed people decide that they can eat outside.
AD Cook at No. 210, Depot Road, Huntington Station (424-2181)
The island offers the lowest price, the best southern fried chicken, ribs, pork chops, lamb stew, Caribbean dishes and Italian standards.
The amiable former teacher, chef and boss, Juanita Cooke, has created a gentle and harmonious restaurant that exudes family charm.
"It's different," Frank and Pat Matriciano said, "They often go there, and retirees Wardean and John Henry love the atmosphere of food and" shorts and jeans.
When the Steven Grossman family in rodix Hill ate at the Cook restaurant, he always ordered the jerk chicken (
Hotter every time)and his 10-year-
The old daughter Arielle was comfortable doing her homework while eating.
Although Cook is a relatively new person, many of Huntington's most popular restaurants on weekdays have been around for a long time, and they are as respected institutions as restaurants.
Three of these traditional attractions are 23-year-
Old Mediterranean Snack Bar, a Greek pub store located at 360 New York Avenue (423-8982);
The cottage is one of the most popular outdoor eating places on the island since 1920s, located on Route 25A in Vincent port (754-8989)
And J & J Southside, a popular family
Since 1939, there are pasta and pizza restaurants on 1624 New York Avenue (351-9797).
A typical review of the Mediterranean Snack Bar is Abby Uher, a busy North Port Single, who goes out to eat five or six times a week, as well as her wife and mother from South Huntington, Cathy sugeruMs.
Uhl, who put in a long day and then worked out in the gym, often went to the Mediterranean for "amazing salads, special soups and fresh fish ".
She seeks "light, health, no. fat or low-
Fat food with reasonable price and fast supply.
Sughrues believes that the snack bar is a family tradition and the food is always great in a warm and humble atmosphere.
"What's more interesting is that the same kind is the cottage, a roadside stall, which has found delicious food in a small kitchen since many childhood days.
Larry Milas, a North Harbor lawyer and foundation executive, agreed with his wife Maggie.
They sometimes ride a motorcycle to the cabin to buy steamboats and clams and see the annual opening ceremony as a symbol of warm weather. Mr.
Miras said that he "liked the spirit of this place", which reminded him of the happy days of the past. Nearly 60-year-
The old J & J South Side restaurant attracts people like Fred of Melville and Francine sharberg who have been there for 20 years;
The Kraus family in Huntington Bay, they have four boys aged 10, 9, 7 and 5, as well as James and Linda Perini, and their three young ones from HuntingtonMr.
Phone company employee Sharpenberg and his wife, who worked at Macy's, both ended their day at dinner time and often went to Johnson & Johnson, where they first met owners and employees
The basis of the name, as well as special orders and concerns are now their norm: vinegar peppers on sausages, for example.
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On Long Island, Chinese restaurants made a trip to Italian restaurants for their money.
In many ways, they are ideal for those who want food that is not pretentious, cheap --in or carry-out food.
Small Empire Hunan and Sichuan storefront restaurants located at 329 West Street (421-4726)
Huntington is a perfect example of four of itcourse $10.
95 special menus and the possibility of ordering, in addition to more sophisticated Chinese local dishes, include carefully prepared old Chinese Gold Songs such as egg foo young, chow mein, egg rolls
Advertisements Frank and Barbara Collins send them food once a week from the Empire because they like simple good cooking but don't like to eat it often --
Crowded restaurant.
Many people who like to be disappointedto-
Especially on weekends, the Earth restaurant is OK and sometimes more upscale.
Doctor Vincent Bayari from Islip and his wife, Filis, manage his office and he visits many expensive islands and city hotspots,
Bayali said that the sauce and pasta of the Taormina restaurant, with Huntington-
Smith town line at 34 Veterans Highway in Commack (499-6900)
It is fresher and better. the pasta should be cooked and the veal is tender.
Taormina in the square
Sterns Center is a friendly place to serve hard, simple Italian soul food at manageable prices.
Two Taormina regulars, Joseph Silver, and his wife Barbara, eat out almost every night because they work "crazy time" and "easier ". '' Mr.
Silver, who runs a restaurant supply business at Patchogue, admires Taormina's consistency, quality, value, cleanliness, service and most of the food.
The latest entrance to Huntington is Kozy Kettle, soup-
Centered restaurant, 366 New York Avenue (547-5388)
People like Katie Goodrich of Cold Spring Harbor have discovered this, he has two children, a busy schedule and a desire to avoid "greasy, salty meals ". '' The 12-and 16-
Innovative soup for $3 an ounce. 99 to $5.
49 provide her with many varieties, low prices, good homemade quality, simple menu, eat-in-or-
The choice she sought.
For a while, there was a town lunch center in every village on the island --
Ice cream shop with stalls at the back and counters and stools at the front.
Munday's at 259 Avenue (421-3553)
It is such a place that in the evening, this Huntington landmark adds burgers, chips, soups, sodas and ice cream, and appetizers and entree dinners for only $9. 95.
Luba and Nando Busi at Huntington Bay Mountain, who are not eating outside on weekends due to the crowded crowd, found Munday to be a perfect weekday location, "not only because of its food, also because of its display.
Wendy and Fred Penzer live in the north of the village, and they have been regular visitors to Manday for 13 years.
Now they put their 6-year-
The old son who studied restaurant etiquette there.
Two different, modest Mexican restaurants located at 335 New York Avenue, tacos Grill (423-4141)
And Los compass, 243 Walt Whitman Road, Huntington Station (351-8384)
Also very (
Understandable)popular.
The tacos Grill, the first Mexican restaurant on the island to offer healthy food, has spawned many imitators.
Fresh, soft, well madeon-the-
The tortillas are free of oil, grease, additives or pigments.
Pure, healthy, manufacturedfrom-
The scraping here is also the most expensive on the island.
In Los Compadres, the authentic food almost jumped off the plate, saying it was Mexico.
For those who want to make dishes from the suburbs south of the border or American, this is not a place. It's a low-
Down, friendly, cheap, nononsense eat-
In or out of the restaurant (
Its slogan is "the hottest takeout"Out in Town'')
This attracts discerning diners, close to the nearby Walt Whitman Mall, and far from the ocean outside Nassau and Suffolk.
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A version of this article was printed on page LI14 of the National edition on August 30, 1998, with the title: local people flock to the low
Price restaurant.