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.

News Updates

The restaurant world on Staten Island has a few changes around the Island.

• Il Pomodoro on Hylan Blvd has just moved locations, 3 blocks down and a smaller spot which no longer has the outdoor dining available.  The pizza still looks the same, thin crust, they lost the room to ‘Brag’ with the huge sign they used to put up that reads “World Pizza Champion” that was meant to counter Goodfella’s that used to be next door.  If you checked out Il Pomodoro before, you may have to refresh the page or the older photos may load.  WhereYouEat Media is now creating archives of restaurant photos, for future ability to go back into history. Il Pomodoro on 1776 Hylan Blvd.
• My Family Pizza has a new, attractive, cartoonist style, which is very clean and pleasant.  ’My Family Pizza’ has some great Specials Online, Click here to Check out My Family Pizza Menu.
• King Buffet, Which is guaranteed by WhereYouEat Media to be Staten Islands Largest and Freshest All You Can Eat buffet (As of May, 2011), has some Hour Changes, they are open a bit later daily, but also open up a bit later for lunch. Check Out King Buffet Here.

Other News to Report:

• We are continuing with on-going menu updates throughout the entire Island.
• Grand Openings Coming Soon:  Lunchbox will be openings May 15th.  Manor Sushi (Next to the new Self Serve Yogurt Place) on Manor Road should be opening in the next couple of weeks.   Sandwiched INN should be open in Great Kills as of this week, we will confirm and get them listed right away if the information is accurate.

North Shore Staten Island Updates

We are comprehensively updating North Shore these few weeks and have a few openings, closings and changes to report.
(Click on the Restaurant Name to View the Menus, Photos & Complete Restaurant Information)

Grand Openings:

• Mr. Rice on Port Richmond, located on Walker Avenue has just opened up.  It is a Chinese Cuisine, Take out and Delivery with some traditional Chinese ‘Soup’ on the menu.  The menu features you basic Chinese Food Fare, Lunch Specials, Combos and the rest.
• Gyrolicious also opens up on Port Richmond, located on Bennett Ave.  If you remember the previous restaurant ‘Harrah’s’ at the same location and similar cuisine.  Serving Breakfast and Lunch, Gyro’s, Burgers, Egg Sandwiches.  They offer Delivery and Curb-Side pick-up.

New Listings:

• Mandarin House,   Not sure how we missed this place, but it is finally added to our Database.  Menu, Photos and All.

Closings & Changes:
(These are not 100% Confirmed, but we were aware that some have been closed for a while, they will be removed after 2-week follow up of closing to make sure they are not just closed for vacation, violation or any other reason).
-> If you have any information on these locations, please let us know by leaving a comment, e-mailing support@whereyoueat.com or contacting us at 800.865.8997 (ext 2).

• Estella’s Bar and Restaurant
• Emocione’s
• Moe’s Place
• Santa Barbara
• Healthy Grill
• Honduras Patio
• City View
• Los Paisonos
• La Campena

 

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News Update: Menu Updates, Openings, What’s coming Soon

Note:  We are fully aware of the growing number of outdated menus in our database and have already organized a plan for continuous menu updates.  These will begin next week, so you should see all Staten Island menus updated within about 12 weeks.  Thank you for all the ‘Incorrect Information’ and ‘Outdated Menu’ form requests.

• Changes
  • Nakata Sushi which serves Half-Price Sushi and Sashimi have received their liquor license and now serve alcohol (Saki and Beer).
  • Menu update and Photos for New Asha (North Shore), Also added Critic Review link.
  • Menu update and Photos for Il Forno (South Sore)
• New Listing
  • Joe Bella Focacceria in the Pleasant Plain shopping center on the South Shore.  This is a Grand Opening pizzeria which features a Wood Burning Brick Oven, Sicilian Specialties including Panella and the other basic Pizzeria items.
• Coming soon
  • Grand Opening:  Li’s in New Dorp
  • Opening Soon:  New Chinese Restaurant on the North Shore next to 101 cafe, in the same lot as Mitoushi Sushi
  • Opening Soon:  Pizzeria Giova on New Dorp Lane

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Weekly Restaurant news

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List of updates:

• Mad for Chicken, which recently changed name and gave up agreement from the previous franchise, is now closed for business.
• Lava lounge is officially closed and the new establishment will not be serving food at the current grand opening announcement.
• Shaggy’s Cheese-steak will be opening at the previous La Villa location on Hylan Blvd, in New Dorp.  Maybe we can get something close to real Philly Cheese Steaks around here?
  –> Just Listed:  Click here to View the Menu (Updated October 18th, 2010)

New Season Restaurant Changes

A few changes happened around Staten Island in the past few weeks.

Staten Island:

• The Restaurant San Marco is now under new management, Currently keeping the same menu but changes chef’s.
• Next door we have Mona Lisa that shut it’s doors at this location and moves across the street.  On the other side of Annadale Mona Lisa is under same ownership.
• Buona Pasta in Great Kills changes it’s name to Gusto.  The restaurant has underwent a full renovation which seems to be more spacey.
• The African Restaurant on Victory blvd (Mai Africa) closes and a Mexican Restaurant “El Lobito Loco” opens.
• Uzbekistan restaurant on New Dorp lane also changes owners and the new restaurant is now called Elite.  (Menu is still the same).

Some Site News:

Additions to Whereyoueat this month include a new Search Selector.  The technology now makes finding restaurants by name, zip code, restaurant type, price range, features and services they offer as simple as two clicks. Select the search, drop down and submit.

Visit Staten Island or Brooklyn to view the new search selector above the city map.

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Preview of Week Ahead

August 16 -
A Grand Opening of Red C, a Meditarenean cuisine which is located on Richmond Road next to Espana Royale will be listed this week.
A new Yogurt Place on New Dorp Lane.
And continuation of Menu Updates will take place this week.

Enjoy your Summer.

News Updates

Island Grand Openings:

Grand Opening of Estella’s Bar and Restaurant in Port Richmond.
View Menu and Photos of Estella’s Bar on Staten Island

Grand Opening in Great Kills at the old location of Portobello Cafe on The Water is Roe’s Portside Cafe featuring Uncle Louie G’s.
View Menu of Roe’s Portside Cafe

Francesca’s Steakhouse  now offers 2 for 1 dinner seven days a week.
View Francesca’s Italian Restaurant Menu and Photos here

What recently Closed on Staten Island?

• Exotic Cafe on Clove Road
• Tokyo Seafood and Sushi Buffet

What Recently Changed on Staten Island?

• Dosi Cafe has a new Owner, New Chef and a New Updated Menu and photos of the Deck.
  View the Restaurant Page of Dosi Cafe

News Update

As you may have heard we recently released information that WhereYouEat will be developing Version 3.0 of the website.  This version will be a much more Stable and Secure loading website and include some user interface upgrades and featres.

After the traffic to the  website grew, we began to experience many server hosting problems.  The problems vary from not being able to access the website, menus and photos not loading up properly and other various issues which happens at times during busy hours.
(Please note that if you do experience this problem, it’s usually back up smooth within a few seconds so please press F5 to refresh the page after about 10 seconds or so).

This is happening because many users from a small local area are accessing the website at the same time and putting too much stress on our servers.  We haven’t expected this much traffic at version 2.0 development, currently we are receiving 24k unique visitors per month and most of the stress happens during 4pm – 6pm.

Version 3.0 is being developed with a new platform coding language which will allow us to find more compatible serving (Cloud Hosting) which will spread our website through multiple servers and allow for a much better, smoother and stable browsing experience.
-> Hopefully the website will be live somewhere in September, but we do not want to make any promises as we know how many problems arise building a custom web app.

Now for some small restaurant news:
-> Restaurant Reviews (Critic) are currently on hold.
-> Cangiano’s (Which was a neighborhood supermarket from 1970′s) has shut it’s doors.
-> Cheeburger Cheeburger is coming to South Shore Staten Island and will be opening it’s doors July 12.

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News for Tuesday June 15th

• A&S Pizzeria on Stuyvesant Place recently renovated and added a new dining room which deploys as a Party Room.
• Angelo’s pizzeria in Midland Beach is closed for the time being, a sign hangs outside stating “Watch for our New Opening”.
• Steiny’s Pub has a kitchen which is open Monday-Saturday 11 a.m.-7 p.m.
• Downtown Cafe across the street from the courthouse on 99 Stuyvesant Place is now known as A&M fresh bagel and deli.
• Moe’s place is closed and in process of renovating, it is likely to be named St Marks Pizza.
• Lukwarma; A Sri Lanken Restaurant is coming to Bay Street and Broad Street replacing a Mexican Bar.
• Dina’s Hideaway Kitchen is now re-opened, the new menu should be added shortly.
• Brisis a Spanish Restaurant on Stuyvesant Place has been shut down by the Board of Health.
• French Tart on New Dorp lane is now for Rent also shut down by the board of health.
• St. George Parish Grill has hour changes.

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