Agnante Meze Bay Ridge

Agnante Meze is an American, Greek and Mediterranean restaurant located in Bay Ridge at the address 7802 5th Avenue.  The restaurant offers Alcohol, Beer & Wine, Wait Staff service with dine in feature, catering, take out and delivery.  Agnante-Meze has a neat open style layout which gives it the outdoor dining feel during the summer.  It has a really nice Brick-Style decoration on the inside, using cloths under glass on top of dining tables.  Very clean, sleek atmosphere that is pleasant for everyday dining as well as special occasions.

The menu (recently updated) features items from Appetizers such as Santorini Fava which is mashed yellow split peas, topped with chopped onions & herbs, tyrokafteri (Spicy cheese spread), Russian Salad, Ntakos.  The Agnante Meze Hot Appetizer have items such as the Agnanti Wrap which is thinly rolled pasty wrapped around creamy cheese and bacon, spartan kayianas which are the scrambled eggs cooked with cured pork, fresh tomatoes and olive oil as well as the Mushroom Kalitsounia from crete and many other app items which range from $6 to $14, with the Fish Meze Alaskan Salmon wrapped in grape leaves being served for $9.50.

Greek Feta Cheese, Cheese Saragli and the Traditional Saganaki are all found on the “Cheeses” menus with prices ranging at the $8 – $9 range, authentic soups ‘Trahanas’ can be had for $7.50.  Salads feature the Greek, Village, Salmon, Traditional, Farmers and Politiki which give it the origination Greek cuisine style feel, especially the Goat Cheese being included in some salads as well as feta.

The Agnanti Specialty is the Rooster Cooked in Tomato Sauce with imported Pasta Squares for 17 Bucks.

A nice portion of the menu features Seafood Creations with prices at a very fair $16 to $21 (Pretty cheap for seafood dishes that include items like this):  Grilled Salmon which is served with lemon and oil or spetsi9otisa sauce, fresh tomatoes, onions, feta and dill), Grilled Shrimp, Midia Krasata, Aegean Pasta, Kalamarakia and Sardeles.

Meat (Chicken Menu) at Agnante Meze has the Brizola, Grilled POrk Chop, Chicken Fillet, Biftekia and other unique dishes.  Tastes of Constantinople is also found on their menu with items like the Pastroumali which is the thinly sliced dried beef and cheese wrapped in fyllo, bekri-meze is chungs of meat saute in red wine, yogurt kebab features the ground meat patties on pita with yogurt and tomato sauce, Sigar Bourek is the fried homemade dough-rolls stuffed with a variety of cheese.

The menu terms using similar to Turkish and other regional cuisine has a different way of writing out dishes.

 

View the Menu for Agnanti Meze in Bay Ridge Brooklyn

 

Three New Pizzeria’s Opened on Staten Island

During the past 2 weeks Staten Island has experienced a growth in Three New Pizza Restaurants.
Lately South Shore has been a growing development of the Island, everything that’s new seems to be coming to the South Shore, recently Z-Two has had their soft-opening after franchise Cheeburger-Cheeburger, Buddha Lounge all made their mark.

So on to the Pizzeria’s, we have Cousin’s Pizza which recently opened on Arthur Kill Road followed by a grand opening of Bario’s Pizza and Pasta ‘Brick Oven‘, their second location on Staten Island, first being on Nome Avenue and finally which we wrote about earlier Grandma’s Pizza on Bay Street has just had their grand opening (or re-opening).

What else is coming soon to the South Shore?  Pronto Pizza, the quality that you know and like, the service that you always loved will be opening a new location sometime next month.
So please tell us what’s the deal with the South Shore? The past 3 years it has seen a boom in business, restaurants and more.

Grandma’s Pizza Grand Opening

Finally, after a long wait, Closed about 8 Months, voted by many visitors as being Staten Island’s best Grandma Slice is finally re-opened on the Bay Street Section of Staten Island.
Grandma’s Pizza is now owned by new owners but saved some of the cooking style and most importantly the Grandma Slice that everyone became such a fan of over the years.

You can view the Menu of Grandma’s on their Page:   Grandma’s Pizza Staten Island

Chinese Restaurants on Staten Island: A Variety or Similarity?

When I first started my venture working with WhereYouEat, I had a predetermined conclusion in min;, most Chinese Restaurants serve the same or very similar items,   You have your similar lunch specials, appetizers such as Egg-Rolls, Lo Mein, Rice, Dumplings and all the other standard food that we believe makes up a Chinese Restaurant.    At one point I was even questioning why should we put up local restaurant menus for Chinese Places if everything is so similar.

My discovery which has since starting, turned upside down as well as continues with every new restaurant we look deep into.
While many are very similar in their offerings, My conclusion now is that only about 20% are similar, although still very rarely on the same.

So what makes Chinese Restaurants and Take-Out places so different from one another?
My first discovery started with Asparagus, which I never knew could be found on a Chinese Restaurant Menu until looking through menus.   Some restaurants offer the Chicken & Asparagus, Shrimp & Asparagus and other various servings of the vegetable.   Some server skinny noodles, some offer various type of noodles for different type of soup specialties.  We will list all the different and variously unique Chinese Food found across Staten Island menus which make each of these restaurant ‘Unique’ in their own style and taste.

Before we get into that let’s take a look at various cooking styles.
The majority we see on the average take-out place is Hunan, Szechuan  and Cantonese.  These three styles are seen across at least 30% of all restaurants serving Chinese Take-out. Hunan is known for using Chili Peppers, Shallots and Garlic, it is mostly known for being dry hot, spicy food.  Szechuan is known being stir-fried, steamed or braised, it is often cooked until chewy.  Items such as the Kung Pao Chicken or Twice Cooked Pork lives up to the spicy standards of Sichuan or Szechuan Cuisine.  The flavors of the dish are supposed to be well balanced and not greasy, spices are used in moderate amounts to not overwhelm the natural flavors and ingredients.  The major ingredients are onion, sugar, salt, soy sauce, cornstarch and vinegar. Therefore the Cantonese Cuisine is one of the least spicy, lo mein, mei fun and other rice noodles.

Other regional cuisine include Hong Kong, Fujian, Zejiang, Anhui and Xingjiang, all cooked with different various styles.  The majority foods are Rice, Noodles, Soybeans, Wheat, Vegetables, Herbs, Seasonings with different types of meats.  Tea is authentic part of Chinese Cuisines for beverage which is why many local Staten Island Restaurants provide a few tea bags with every order.

So across the island we have many of these cooking styles, ingredients and twists.
From the south shore we have a few standard take-out places, which don’t specify which cooking style they use, an example when you look at Chen’s Garden on Arthur Kill Road.  Although they do specify they only use “White Meat Chicken”.  You should always be able to contact them and ask which cooking style they use.  A few Chinese Restaurants on Staten Island are setup as “All You Can Eat Buffet”, offering you to pay a single price while letting you select from a various of different Chinese Food Items, Staten Island only has two larger more popular restaurant known as King Buffet on Richmond Avenue and China Buffet on Hylan Blvd in the Hylan Shopping Center.   Cheng’s on Forest Avenue is a great example of Hunan, Szechuan and Cantonese cooking styles as well as many others such as China King, China Taste and about 30% of all other restaurants.

Some local Chinese places decide to give a little feel of Japanese and incorporate the two together, Sushi and Standardized Chinese in one place,  some other places decided to incorporate a few various Asian Cuisine, Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese, Thai.  Although our island has a few all in one Asian Places, we have 2, one is on Hylan Blvd at the address 2224 Hylan Blvd, Bay House.

Bay House serves up a great mix of Sushi, Thai, Chinese, Vietnamese and Malaysian Cuisine.  Offering items such as Pad Thai, Thai Basil, Teriyaki Chicken for Lunch.  Sushi Menu includes Stripe Bass Cucumber Roll, Taro Tempura, Oshinko, Salmon, Asparagus, Avacado and other unique Japanese Items.  Some Bay House Signature Dishes include all various type of Asian Cuisine such as China Crispy Dried Beef which is flank steak, Vietnamese Grill Pork Chop, Beijing Style Beef, Turmeric Chicken, Thai Red Snapper, Twin Soft Shel Crab, Steam Flounder Fillet, Mongolian Steak Cube, Saigon Jumbo Shrimp, Shredded Roast Duck.  Appetizers, Various Noodle Soups like the Chicken Udon, Roast Duck Noodle, Tom Yum Kung are a rare find on standardized Chinese Menus.  Appetizers like the Tom Kha Kai which is Thai Style Chicken soup cooked in coconut milk, mushrooms, lime and galangal.  Salads feature items such as crispy smoke salmon skin salad, crab rangoon and roti canai is on the appetizer.
Bay House is one of the more unique Asian Cuisines on Staten Island, with a twist of all in one, but they do it good.  They now even serve Live Lobster on the Menu for only $9.99, it’s a great find, the lobster is also cooked authentic.

Some various forms of the Japanese & Chinese cuisine started included deals, people love Sushi, especially us and restaurants like the Red Apple on Hylan Blvd, which is well established restaurant that was (to our knowledge) the first to introduce the term ‘All You Can Eat Sushi Buffet’, for a single price $15.95, a patron gets to sit and enjoy a huge variety of sushi without worrying of not being able to try them all.  Sushi is actually supposed to be a term used for a single piece, but it is now converted to rolls and served with 6 pieces per roll.

Of course Staten Island is filled up with many good, great, delicious and some not-so-great Chinese Restaurants here.  Maybe someday in the future we’ll go in and look at other ones.

If you are looking for it, here is a list of all Chinese Restaurants on Staten Island, so you can now go through and find the one’s you like, and make sure if you are dining out to remember to take some photos and share them on the site , also write your review.

Red Apple Staten Island

Chan’s Red Apple has a few changes and specials for the summer.  Staten Island now has it all, All You Can eat buffet at Red Apple now comes with a special appetizer from Japan on the weekends,  Authentic and unique, who else gives you the highest quality sushi in an all you can eat buffet under twenty bucks with a special appetizers?  Please note that the app is served only on the weekends.

Also some of you may have heard that Red Apple is now a WhereYouEat Media Advertising Partner offering our visitors a special and unique promotion, with a few coupons online such as 10% off, $3 off and $5 off you can’t go wrong.

Red Apple in Staten Island Restaurant Menu & Photos

Photos Added 

Before we leave off this note, profile & news update, we have to let you know they have a new awning sign changed from the yellow to burgundy outside.  Inside is similar and the quality is the same (Always Great).
Please remember to leave your reviews, likes & dislikes, comments and photos on the restaurant page linked above.

Xing Wong Bay Ridge

This Chinese Asian Restaurant located in the heart of Bay Ridge offers fast service and quality food delivered fast to your home or office every day.    Open during the weeks at 11am until 11pm and stays open until 11:30pm on the weekends.  This restaurant at the time of writing this profile has 2 likes with 100% of whereyoueat visitors liking this establishment, they are featured in the section of ‘Cheap’, with food entree’s being below $8 with the exception of chef specialties reaching $16 or even higher for some seafood exceptions.

View the Xing Wong Restaurant Menu, Photos & Information

The main slogan states that “Our Manager “Jenny” has served Chinese Food in the Bay Ridge area since 1995.  Since the opening of the restaurant, The Xing Wong restaurant has served many New York City officials and politicians, including celebrities.  In July 2009, Xing Wong restaurant was filmed on location for the movie Boy Wonder.  Many of our loyal customers continue to visit the restaurant for our quality dishes.”

The restaurant also states that they use Zero Grams Trans Fat, 100% vegetable oil without any MSG.  Gift certificate is available, they accept credit cards with a min of $15 and offer delivery to the entire Bay Ridge for over $8.
Also something not seen on all restaurant menus we list is  that they accept all Competitor’s Coupons.

Pictures added for this restaurant.

Fried specialties dishes feature items such as Fried King Crap Sticks, Golden Fingers, Fried Whiting Fish, Fried Scallops, Boneless Crispy Chicken in Honey Or Garlic Sauce.  If you are fan and just love Chinese Fried Chicken, for some reason they make it with their style and it tastes really good, check this place out, it’s not really greasy.

Appetizer Combination has some of that fried fantail shrimp, bar-bbq spare ribs.  Appetizer feature items such as Fried Plantain, Apple Sticks, Onion Rings, Roast Pork Egg Roll.  Soups have the regular standard served with crispy noodles, House Special Soup.  Asparagus is on the menu with most entree portions, Seafood, Chicken.   They also feature and serve Singapore Mei Fun as well as Moo Shu pancakes, go check out the photos of what these pancakes look like by using Google Image Search.   They also feature a special diet menu with items such as Shrimp & Squid, Steam Triple Delight, Green Jade Delight and Twin Asparagus which is served with Shrimp & Chicken, prices are pretty great with highest items entering only in the $10.50 range.

Now for the Chef’s Specialties, items such as Tai Chin Chicken are on the menu, Dragon & Phoenix offered with Jumbo Shrimp w Chili Sauce, Hot Bean Sauce, Rainbow Delight served with Jumbo Shrimp, Fresh Scallops, White Meat Chicken, and assorted Chinese Vegetables in special white wine sauce.

This was a complete Profile Written for the restaurant Xing Wong located in Bay Bridge Brooklyn, 11209.

Menus & Photos now listed for Healthalicious

After many requests kept piling in, we have finally added the Menu & Photos for Healthalicious in Brooklyn.

Click here to see the Menus Listing for Healthalicious

Healthalicious Brooklyn

The restaurant Healthalicious is now listed on WhereYouEat.

This healthy restaurant menu can be found here:  Healthalicious Brooklyn Restaurant

The reason this is posted under Staten Island is this is just a test of WhereYouEat Media Scoop posting.

Healthalicious on 86th Street

Looking for the Direct Link to the Menu/Photos & Information for Healthalicious:  Link is at the bottom of the article.

This is the Health Conscious Kitchen which serves all food that is Grilled or Baked, with a slogan line of Eat Well, Feel Good, Look, Great. This restaurant offers Free Delivery with a $10 Minimum and gives Free Fruit Salads to all orders over $40. The menu starts with with Breakfast, Egg White Wraps Only which you can convert into platters for an extra buck and a half. It goes onto Platters offering items such as Greek Omelette to Russian Omelette which has Nova Salmon, Tomatoes and Onions. Sweet Breakfast features items such as French Toast, Halla French Toast, Whole Wheat Pancakes and a full Crepe menu for only $1.95 per crepe with items such as Nuttela, White Chocolate, Caramel, Whipped Cream, Strawberries (What a way to start your day!!).

Bagels are offered in Plain, Sesame, Everything, Onion, Cinnamon Raison, Poppy, Garlic and Whole Wheat. You can also have these as Toasties for the same price of .85. Choose your toppings such as Butter, PB and J, Scallion Cream Cheese, Egg and Cheese, Lox Spread, Baked Salmon, White Fish. Prices are great with most expensive bagels or toast being at $6.95 which is the Nova Lox with Cream Cheese.

The next page of the menu has the Salads and Salad Sandwiches; Start with the size of the salad (Small or Large) which comes with Crisp Romaine, Mixed Greens, Baby Spinach and add items from the .50 menu has Tomatoes, Corn, Broccoli, Sweet Pees, Chick Peas, Bean Salad, Cucumbers, Sprouts, Carrots and some more. The .75 menu offers Cherry Tomatoes, Raisins, Eggs, Egg Whites, Roasted Peppers, Cranberry, Apples, Artichokes & Parmesan Cheese. On the $1.25 Toppings you get to choose/add items such as Avocado, Portabello, Cashews, Albacore Tuna, Ham, Bacon, Mixed Cheese. The most expensive toppings is at $2, Grilled Salmon, Grilled Steak and Baby Shrimp.
Healthalicious in Brooklyn also has a complete Salads Menu with Spanish Salad, Sunset Shrimp, Asian Salad, Chef Salad, Fish Delight Salad. Prices are just great for this healthy type of food with the most expensive salad being only $7.25 which is the Chef Salad with Turkey, Cherry Tomatoes, Roast Beef, Green Peppers, Ham, Cucumbers, Cheddar Cheese. Each item also has dressing recommendations, making it very convenient to choose what goes good together.

Dinner Platters menu items include Grilled Chicken served in sauce of Cajun, Barbeque, Teriyaki, Pesto, Honey Dejon, Fajita or Buffalo which is Spicy. Salmon Platters can be had for $8.95, Grilled Steak with also various sauces and the Protein Platter for $10.25 is offered with Grilled Steak or Chicken, Three Egg Whites and Two sides, letting you choose from various items such as Sweet Potato fries which are baked, Brown Rice, Asparagus or Mexican style corn on the cob served with butter, salt or chilly powder.

A Separate Baked Potatoe menu with items like Alfredo Mushroom potato, Carbonara bacon potato, sauteed spinach and feta cheese, a la vodka potato, pesto roasted peppers and fresh mozzarella. You can also add Grilled Chicken, Ham or Turkey for only $1.95 or Steak & Shrimp for $2.25.
Pasta is served as Regular or Whole Wheat and comes in flavours such as A La Vodka, Pesto Penne, Pasta Primavera, Carbonara Penne with Crispy Bacon and Alfredo Mushroom Penne.

Some Mexican flavor include Quesadillas, also with a choice of tortilla as Regular, Whole Wheat, Garlic, Black Bean. Shrimp Quesadillas are $6.25 with various other items being cheaper such as Chicken or Veggie. You can also add Guacomale, all Quesadillas come with Sour Cream and Salsa.

The very interesting menu continues to the Sandwiches which can be had on White Toast, WHole Wheat Toast, 7 Grain, Regular or Whole Wheat Rolls. You have the option of adding Cheese, Seasoned Fries, Sweet potato fries. You also can convert this into a Panini, Wrap or Hero for an extra $1.

Delicious Wraps, Paninios or Heroes have unique menu items, Items from the sea like Tunalicious, Shrimpalicious, Fishalicious served with Filet of Sole, Sauted Spinach, Tomatoes, Light Tarter Sauce (This was simply delicious, I had it while on my mission to collect the menus and enjoyed it very much).

Burgers are also served at this place with Signature Angus, Turkey Burger, Buffalo Burger, Fish Burger and Chicken Cutlet Burgers. You can also convert any burger into a wrap and add cheese, fries or sweet corn.

Fresh Juices is also served at this healthy restaurant, protein shakes, fresh fruit juices, smoothies and desserts such as low fat yogurt muffins. Lean Body, Matrix Shakes, Nitrotech shake is all good before work outs.

While in this establishment, I noticed how well they care about all presentation, cleanliness of the place. A Clean salad bar lets you find exactly what you want to eat.

Menu, Photos & Information for Healthalicious:  Healthalicious Brooklyn Restaurant

Z Two Grand Opening on the South Shore

14 Months of waiting when development was started on this restaurant, South Shore was excited to see this place being built.

Finally, after this much wait, comes to the South Shore a Restaurant packed which so much goodies, such a beautiful design by talented management, clean layout clearly defines which part you feel like sitting at; will it be the Bakery for Breakfast or the Main Dining Area for lunch or Maybe you feel like stepping into the Bar/Lounge area for some after work drinks, the late night hang out. Not to single out the outside portion which also decorated comfortably has an inviting feel of going eating outside in the Spring or the Fall.

All that is just the beginning, check out the Menus and Photos right here: Z Two Restaurant Page