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Bagels and pizza are about technique and ingredients, not water. When I lived in New Orleans the best pizza you could get was Dominos, Papa Johns, etc. until this dude from Brooklyn moved down there and opened a NY style pizza place complete with the proper ovens (need very high temperatures for good crust) and ingredients (dough starter, decent mozzarella, and sauce that doesn’t come from a jar). It was as good as anything you could get around here, until the local unions started breaking his balls over having ingredients shipped in without them wetting their beaks.
Well one of my favorite towns in Long Island with very good restaurants at reasonable prices is by far Hicksville. Ton of variety and cultural food. Some of the restaurants have an asian twist to it too. I forgot the pizza place but it had like chicken masala pizza (indian style) and it was great. Only downside is the traffic you may hit to get to the restaurants (probably the only area in Nassau that I feel I'm in the busy streets of Queens not LI).
Bagels and pizza are about technique and ingredients, not water. When I lived in New Orleans the best pizza you could get was Dominos, Papa Johns, etc. until this dude from Brooklyn moved down there and opened a NY style pizza place complete with the proper ovens (need very high temperatures for good crust) and ingredients (dough starter, decent mozzarella, and sauce that doesn’t come from a jar). It was as good as anything you could get around here, until the local unions started breaking his balls over having ingredients shipped in without them wetting their beaks.
There's a guy who posts on the Raleigh forum, originally from Queens and then lived on LI - my favorite story he tells is that when people come to visit him from NY, he goes to Brueggers and buys bagels and then puts them in a plain brown bag, brings them home and his guests say "wow you actually can get a pretty good bagel here!".
On Long Island italian, chinese, sushi, greek owned diners, casual sit down chains like applebees, fast food joints, and over priced seafood, and steak joints are basically what is available to any one who drives through.
I want to try something off the beaten path. Well, there are a few indian places, and kebab I think, but I have tried all that too.
What is good restaurant on Long Island that isnt in one of those common styles? Are there any good german beer gardens? What about scandinavian food? Any eastern Euro? Spain? No latin please, I have tried all that.
For kosher/halal, I highly recommend The Beach Bakery Grand Cafe in Westhampton Beach. Long Island's Newsday had a great article about it in today's edition, which I posted about over on the Judaism forum. Here is the link to my posting: Jewish-Muslim relations on Long Island
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