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.

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.

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.

News this week

Rinconcito Paisa on the North Shore moves to a new, much bigger location.  Adding a larger dining room as well as liquor license will now make this restaurant Staten Island’s Colombian dine in.  Menus & Photos will be coming very soon.

In great kills we noticed a new restaurant, opening soon called Cleopatra Lounge with tags below it that state Healthy Food & Music, let’s see what’s up with this place as soon as it opens up.

Victory Coffee Shop

You may have noticed a while back that Staten Islands somewhat Popular Diner, The Island Coffee Shop has closed it’s doors.  Located on Victory Blvd, the owners had to close up shop and are currently moving to a new location (not yet opened).  At the same time another restaurateur opens up a new establishment at the previous location of Island Coffee shop, the name is Victory Coffee Shop, the place is brightened up and renovated, looks a bit larger now with new seating booths and counters.

Victory Coffee shop has just opened it’s doors during the past 2 weeks, Check out The Menu and Photos on Victory Coffee Shop restaurant page.

On the other note, what happened to the original Island Coffee Shop?  They are in the works to relocating to manor road, About 6 Blocks away, just around the corner at the previous location of ‘Master Pizza’, which also recently closed down, the location is of course much bigger and the competitions is growing for the spot to be Staten Island’s number one diner.  Especially with so many local diners in the area, maybe multiple can be winners.

Bin 5

As we reported not to long ago and created a walk-around for Bin 5, which had a soft opening last week, menu should be up early tomorrow, you can check this link for Bin 5 restaurant page.

Momma’s Cooking

Grand Opening on the North Shore we have Momma’s Cooking.  From the same owners and management that brought to you Famous Fish of Staten Island on Bay Street, bring us a similar menu but a more convenient location for residence on Castleton avenue.

The daily menu features items similar to Famous Fish which include Fish Sandwich, Whiting Fish, Sailors Catch, Grilled or Fried Tilapiea, Jerk Chicken, Oxtails, Scallops, Crab Cakes and More.

The menu features Fried Fish items, Soul Food cooking style and desserts such as Red Velvet Cake, Carrot Cake, Banana pudding.  Sides include items such as Mac and Cheese, Peas, Coleslaw, Sweet Plantains, Macaroni Salad, Yam Fries and more.

Check out the Menu for Momma’s Cooking on Castleton Avenue.
Check out the Menu for Famous fish of Staten Island on Bay Street.

Red Apple

Sometime many years ago, Staten Islanders experienced it’s first ‘All You Can Eat’ Sushi Buffet, in a dine in style, being prepared as you order.  Slowly this trend spread across the island and is now offered in many Japanese Sushi restaurants.   If it would be possible to discover the first place that introduced this to Staten Island, it would go long tracing backwards.  Red Apple may have very well been the first Japanese Restaurant on Staten Island to offer All You Can Eat Sushi Buffet.

These ‘All You Can Eat’ are very different from the Chinese Buffet’s,  It is a Sit-Down, Dine-In Atmosphere where the server comes around every few rounds to take your order for some more sushi.  Red apple has always been known to serve highest quality sushi available, with great presentation, service and atmosphere.  They were rated a whopping 3 Stars by the Staten Island Advance which is the highest rating given out by the Advance.

This restaurant profile is written for the purposes of Red Apple, Red Apple is located on Hylan Blvd with Street Parking, There are Coupons online on the Restaurant Page linked below.

Red Apple Restaurant Staten Island (Menus, Photos & Reviews)

The photo of the outside needs to be updated, the sign is no longer yellow.  Updates are coming soon.

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