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JP's is good too. I like Sammy's. What other restaurants in the city that you would recommend for good seafood, since you seem to know what good quality seafood is? Aquagrill is awesome but pricey.
As a Marylander, I'd like to know this too for my next NYC visit
Where are those restaurants located? I tried Googling Portofino's and I got an Italian restaurant, and as for Lobster House I got some establishment in Cape May, NJ.
I've never been to Seafood City.
Portofino is an Italian restaurant but the focus is on seafood dishes. It's on the right hand side of the street.
: 555 City Island Ave, Bronx, NY 10464
(718) 885-1220
Lobster House is the restaurant on your immediate left when you cross the bridge. 691 Bridge St, Bronx, NY 10464
My advice is to skip Seafood City. Food is terrible. You stand in line to order and pick up it. No waitstaff.
Oh I don't know about all this "deserted" noise. But then again perhaps there is deserted and "deserted".
Back in the day when Capsouto Freres opened in Tribeca the place was considered a back water. Tribeca like much of the Westside of Manhattan below West Village was largely industrial and thus abandoned at night and on weekends. Yet the place took off and managed to hold on until Super Storm Sandy flooded the area. By that time Tribeca has become so hot it sizzled.
Ditto for places like Chez Josephine which opened when Times Square area was not something on the map of the well heeled. Then again we are talking about Manhattan...
For decades persons (mostly men and even then wealthy or with a generous expense account) headed out to Peter Lugar which is located in somewhat "deserted" area.
Bronx sadly likely suffers from a bad reputation that will take ages of gentrification to totally erase, if ever.
In a city where opening and running any business is not for the faint hearted and or those lacking in funds restaurants are one of the most dicey options.
You are looking at large start-up costs that amount to a huge gamble. Today as in the past new places that stand a heck of a chance of making it are started by chefs and or current/former owners of restaurants that are able to find successful backing (investors). The Asian restaurants (Chinese, Korean, etc...) have their own network/funding sources that will finance everything from nail salons to food places.
We are in a food desert. The only decent restaurant that we have on Grand Concourse is Giovanni's as long as it is not on the 1st of the month when a certain element is present. Otherwise more upwardly mobile Concourse residents dine Downtown, in Little Italy, on City Island, Inwood, Westchester and other small pockets of the Bronx. Although I love my huge space, neighbors, CHEAP groceries - dry cleaning - liquor store - efficient transportation and rent!!!
We are in a food desert. The only decent restaurant that we have on Grand Concourse is Giovanni's as long as it is not on the 1st of the month when a certain element is present. Otherwise more upwardly mobile Concourse residents dine Downtown, in Little Italy, on City Island, Inwood, Westchester and other small pockets of the Bronx. Although I love my huge space, neighbors, CHEAP groceries - dry cleaning - liquor store - efficient transportation and rent!!!
It'll get better soon. Retail has been booming in the Bronx last 5 years or so but it hasn't really spread to restaurants yet. I think it's only a matter of time though.
It'll get better soon. Retail has been booming in the Bronx last 5 years or so but it hasn't really spread to restaurants yet. I think it's only a matter of time though.
There are restaurants in the Bronx. There certainly need to be more but they will get there in the next 5 years.
Big Pun being the bronx's largest thing got a bit hungry and detroyed a restaurant or two in the boogie down.
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