Dining Out & About 2005/07 by Westmore News

It’s Cool to Eat Outside

Dining Out & About

You don’t have to go far to find great food. Just look inside! A Supplement to the

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Your guide to eating out in Port Chester, Rye Brook and surrounding areas.

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American American Legion Post 93

NOW OPEN Family Owned and Operated since 1982

Frank’s Italian Restaurant and Pizzeria

Eat-In • Take-Out We Deliver (minimum purchase $12) Catering On & Off Premises Sauces • Salads • Soups • Pizza Dough All Made Fresh Daily

23 Putnam Avenue Port Chester (914)

939-8299

Mon.-Thurs. 10:00 a.m. - 10 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 10:00 a.m. - 10:30 p.m. Closed Sunday • All Major Credit Cards

Come experience Sonora. You will not be disappointed.

78 Pearl Street Port Chester 937-5562

Black Bear Grille 2 South Water Street Greenwich, CT 203-531-6400 Specialties include: Black Bear Wings, Crisped Calamari, Chipotle Chicken Quesadilla, Portobello Salad, Spinach Salad (add grilled shrimp, chicken, salmon or London broil to all salads); Black Bear’s Pork Sandwich, Lobster Salad Wrap, Hudson Valley Grilled Chicken Sandwich, Grilled Veggie Wrap, Kobe Burger; Herbed Ricotta Ravioli, Cedar Plank BBQ Salmon, 14 oz. New York Strip Steak, Pan Roasted Southwestern Chicken, Black Bear’s Shrimp Penne. Private rooms seat 2585. Hours: Mon.-Thurs. 11:30 a.m.-1 a.m., Fri.-Sat. 11:30 a.m.-2 a.m., Sun. 4 p.m.-1 a.m. Free on-premises parking. All major credit cards.

Garden Plaza Restaurant-Diner Washington Park Plaza 261 South Ridge Street Rye Brook 939-8888

Old Homestead Bar & Restaurant

Brazilian Pantanal Restaurant 29 North Main Street Port Chester 939-6894

Central American El Tesoro Restaurant 92 Purdy Avenue Port Chester 935-9440

Chinese China House 170B North Main Street Port Chester 939-7288 or 939-7290

Great Wall Restaurant 140 Midland Avenue Port Chester 939-0068

Ho Sai Gai 544 Willett Avenue Port Chester 937-8337 or 937-8339

Manchu Garden Chinese & Japanese Cuisine

325 North Main Street Port Chester 939-0758

504 Westchester Ave. Port Chester 939-8688

Port Chester Coach Diner

Number 1 Chinese Restaurant

317 Boston Post Road Port Chester 937-0008

120 Westchester Avenue Port Chester 937-8465

The Pub

Panda Restaurant

Doral Arrowwood Anderson Hill Road Rye Brook 939-6620

Q Authentic Barbecue Restaurant 112 North Main Street Port Chester 933-7427

213 Westchester Avenue Port Chester 937-4699

Panda II Chinese Restaurant 32 Grace Church Street Port Chester 939-4310

Ray’s Café Rye Ridge Delicatessen & Restaurant

Nuevo Latino Cuisine

“Nothing about the food here is ordinary...” Excellent The New York Times 2004

Open for Lunch & Dinner Outside Dining Available Private Room Available • Cooking Classes 179 Rectory Street, Port Chester

914-933-0200

Also visit Pacificao Nuevo Latino Seafood at 316 Boston Post Rd., Port Chester www.sonorany.com

914-937-1610

Rye Ridge Shopping Center 126 South Ridge Street Rye Brook 937-2131

Sam’s Bar & Grill 1 Mill Street Port Chester 939-2001

Teri’s Tavern 134 North Main Street Port Chester 937-9695

Brazilian Café Brazil 37-39 North Main Street Port Chester 934-1600

International Café 103 Adee Street Port Chester 939-1002

176 South Ridge Street Rye Brook 937-0747

Sichuan Pavilion 480 Westchester Avenue Port Chester 939-8889

Wah Yuan Chinese Restaurant Post Road Plaza 262 Boston Post Road Port Chester 939-7776

Coffee Shops The Kneaded Bread 181 North Main Street Port Chester 937-9489

Waterfront Roasters 106 Purdy Avenue Port Chester 934-2232

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Outdoor dining spots remain a local draw By Jananne Abel

ven in a suburban, non-tourist community like Rye Town, outdoor eating is a simple pleasure people enjoy when the weather is fine. Whether it’s on their own deck or patio, at a casual eatery or fine restaurant, dining al fresco makes the experience twice as nice. From April to October—and especially during the summer months—restaurants that provide outdoor seating are definitely in demand.

The outdoor dining experience has been ebbing and flowing in Port Chester and Rye Brook over the last several years with the number of restaurants offering a place to eat outside nearly doubling eight years ago and then leveling off with only subtle additions, deletions and upgrades since then. The phenomenon has caught on thanks to the Port Chester Board of Trustees which has encouraged sidewalk cafés through legislation and because savvy restaurateurs have realized it’s the way to go to increase visibility, business and/or add interest to their establishment. It’s also a way to make room for overflow crowds at smaller eateries which can accommodate many fewer patrons the rest of the year. For a small community, it’s amazing first of all how many restaurants there are—109 in Port Chester and Rye Brook—and of those how many—26—have an area set up where you can eat outside. That number is bound to increase by next summer once the restaurants within the Waterfront at Port Chester development are open since their management has indicated an interest in providing for sidewalk dining. All the restaurants that offered outdoor eating last year are doing so in 2004 except one, and one

brand new eatery has just upgraded a pre-existing patio. Over the years a handful of eateries have discontinued offering the outdoor dining experience because of the difficulty of providing enough staffing to serve both their indoor and outdoor venue or because not enough people were eating outside to make it worthwhile. Some restaurants offer outdoor table service while a number have just placed tables outside for customers who choose to take their food and dine al fresco.

The large deck behind Pantanal Brazilian Restaurant at 29 North Main St., which seats 60, opened last year. ered by yellow and green Bavaria (strawberry purée swirled through has the consistency of cream umbrellas. a pina colada), strawberry daiquiri, cheese. There are 37 pizza varietIn this tropical setting, patrons mojito (fresh muddled limes, ies to choose from, including desPort Chester may enjoy clams on the half shell, sugar, rum and fresh mint) or sert pies like banana and chocoThe newest outdoor eating spot Bluepoint oysters and a variety of Tropica Splash (coco rum, mango late as well entrée pizzas featuring in Port Chester is behind Tropica seafood appetizers, soups and rum and pineapple juice) are avail- such toppings as tuna fish, hearts Seafood Restaurant & Raw Bar entrées. They can choose from able to accompany meals. of palm, onion and mozzarella; at 23 ½ North Main St. After Taos appetizers like teriyaki shrimp, Tropica will also be offering shrimp, tomato sauce and catupiri; closed, this location had been crispy fried calamari, steamed special nights of interest from time or hearts of palm, escarole, mozzavacant for 18 months until Tropica littlenecks and Mussels Luciano, to time such as tropical luaus and rella, gorgonzola and peas. opened to diners on July 8, having entrées like lobster ravioli, shrimp clambakes. In addition, Monday Besides pizza, Pantanal offers tested the waters for a week when scampi, broiled scallops, grilled night is Lobster Night when you the traditional Brazilian dish salmon, Hawaiian mahi mahi, get a steamed or broiled Maine called Rodizio, continuous only drinks were served. Owner Phil Tremble of Port stuffed or steamed lobster or Cajun lobster filled with homemade sea- skewers of homemade sausage, Chester renovated the previous catfish. Buffalo wings, burgers, food stuffing, baked potato and pork, beef and chicken served with red brick patio to create a tropical chicken breast sandwiches and vegetable for $14.95 and free bar- rice, beans, fried bananas and effect with a bamboo entrance sirloin steak are among the non- becues will be held on Sundays French fries accompanied by the complete with thatched roof, two seafood choices. after 10 p.m. when there will be a tremendous salad bar; Feijoada, a Similar offerings are avail- $10 cover. large potted palms outside the gate, world famous Brazilian meal prebright colored birds, hanging able for lunch, including filet of Tropica is open seven days a pared with black beans, dried beef flower baskets, lots of potted fish sandwiches, as well as bas- week from 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. and pork; as well as chicken, short plants, including some exotic kets of scallops, shrimp and for lunch and dinner. rib and beef kabobs, a variety of ones, three waterfalls and torches. chicken fingers. grilled steaks, pork loin and chops, A long list of refreshing sumTen black wrought iron tables with The large deck behind nearby pasta, seafood and chicken dishes. dark green plastic chairs are cov- mer drinks such as a Lava Flow Pantanal Restaurant at 29 North You can also make the salad bar a Main St. opened last spring. meal for $13.95. Pantanal serves up Brazilian speHomemade desserts are another cialties and has a huge salad bar. specialty. The wooden deck seats 60 and Pantanal serves food from 12 features 10 green marble-look plas- noon to 10:30 p.m. seven days a tic tables with green plastic chairs week. shaded by navy Coors Light umbrellas emblazoned with At 23 North Main St., a lovely “Pantanal” in white lettering. Two little deck extends off the back of murals of Sugar Loaf Mountain in the building on the Abendroth Brazil, one with Rio de Janeiro in Avenue side of Pasta Per Voi for the foreground, a palm tree and a outdoor dining across from the parrot decorate the back of the Port Chester Marina. There two Pantanal building to provide at- square green resin tables with mosphere at this outdoor location matching green and wood grainalong with Brazilian music and a colored chairs plus a bench have working waterfall. The concrete been set up. The tables for two are base of the deck is painted blue covered with green Solé umbrelwith waves to resemble the ocean. las. Tiny white lights strung from The murals and faux painting were the awning and loads of colorful done by former Rye Brook artist flowers—window boxes filled Lynda Karanikolas, who now lives with them on the ledge of the deck, in Yorktown Heights. pots of them at the entrance to the A sign hanging from the deck restaurant, baskets of them hangadvertises that Pantanal serves ing from the awning and lampauthentic Brazilian pizza, which post—add ambiance. owner Richard Cuddy, Jr. deIt’s the perfect atmosphere to scribed as thin-crusted, made out enjoy Pasta Per Voi’s fine Italian of a dough prepared with milk and cuisine. The menu features appetopped with fresh puréed plum tizers, salads, interesting pasta The large deck overlooking the Byram River at Ebb Tide Seafood affords plenty of space for customers tomatoes and a special cheese from combinations, chicken, veal, seaBrazil called catupiri. The latter Please turn to page 6R of the 1 Willett Ave. eatery to consume its seafood specialties.

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Colombian

DELIGHTFUL OUTDOOR PATIO FOR YOUR DINING PLEASURE A Greenwich Tradition for 25 Years

Asi Es Colombia

Hubba

172 North Main Street Port Chester 934-7675

24 North Main Street Port Chester 939-7276

Delicias Colombianas

Kentucky Fried Chicken

36 Broad Street Port Chester 939-9425

262 Boston Post Road Port Chester 935-0741

El Rincon Paisa

McDonald’s Restaurant

130 North Main Street Port Chester 939-9364

321 Boston Post Road Port Chester 937-3355

La Hacienda Bar & Grill

Subway Restaurant

139 North Main Street Port Chester 690-9720

Los Remolinos Restaurant

DELICIOUS FAMILY RECIPES COZY VENETIAN MURALS IN DINING AREA Zagat Names it: “That little Italian gem in Greenwich.”

123 North Main Street Port Chester 937-7456

Contemporary American

203-531-7500

Penfield’s at the Rye Town Hilton

Fax 203-531-7546

699 Westchester Avenue Rye Brook 939-6300

228-230 Mill Street, Greenwich, CT PARTY ROOM AVAILABLE • CATERING • PIZZA

Kiosko Restaurant Authentic Mexican Cuisine All Homemade and Fresh La Casa of the Famous Mole Poblano SPECIALTIES Sizzling Fajitas, Enchiladas Verdes, Rojas or Mole, the Popular Carne Asada, Pargo ala Veracruzana, Mariscos ala Mexicana, Burritos, Fresh Corn Quesadillas, Chimichangas, Bistek Ranchero, New York Steak, Rib Eye, Tostadas, Flautas, Sopes, Tortas (sandwich) Cubana, Milanesa, Tacos al Pastor, Chorizo, Carnitas, Huevos Rancheros, and Much More. Serving Margaritas, Pina Coladas, Tequilas, etc.

Open 7 Days a Week from 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.

SERVING BREAKFAST, LUNCH AND DINNER

220 Westchester Avenue, Port Chester, NY Major Credit Cards Takeout 914-933-0155

Fast Food

Dominican Hollywood Chicken International 216 Westchester Avenue Port Chester 934-8137 Specialties include: shrimp cocktail, Cuban sandwiches, salads; beef stew, oxtail, grilled chicken, Chicken con Queso, sauteed steak with onions; pork feet, sirloin steak, barbecued ribs, Churrasco, Shrimp Enchilada, seafood salad, red snapper, fried squid, flan, pineapple cake. Open daily 6 a.m.11 p.m. Special orders, free delivery with $25 minimum purchase. Credit cards: AX, VISA, MC. Parking on street or in municipal lot.

Ecuadorian Los Paisanos Restaurante 118 Westchester Avenue Port Chester 934-7678

Rinconcito Ecuatoriano Restaurant 150 North Main Street Port Chester 937-7343

Fast Food

262 Boston Post Road Port Chester 934-5045

Subway Restaurant 302 Midland Avenue Port Chester 937-0022

Wendy’s Restaurant 303 Boston Post Road Port Chester 939-9417

Greek/American One Station Plaza 111 Westchester Avenue Port Chester 939-3416

Indian Tandoori Taste of India 163 North Main Street Port Chester 937-2727 or 935-9680

International Café Mirage 531 North Main Street Port Chester 937-3497

Sonora Nuevo Latino Cuisine 179 Rectory Street Port Chester 933-0200 Specialties include: Lobster and plantain bisque, traditional Colombian free range chicken and potato soup, tuna and yucca cake with mango and wasabi sauce, Ecadorian ceviche: shrimp, tomato base, avocado, red onions and citrus, lobster and avocado quesadilla, steamed Rhode Island mussels, pan roasted Chilean sea bass with white beans, chorizo and lobster broth, Sonora seafood paella, grilled lamb chops with wild mushrooms, mashed potatoes and roasted garlic mojito sauce, grilled skirt steak with mojito thyme sauce and lobster moro rice. Lunch: 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Dinner starts at 5:00 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday. Closed Monday. Cooking classes. Latin jazz music every Thursday. Private room available. Free on-premises parking.

Burger King 260 Boston Post Road Port Chester 934-7877

Dunkin Donuts 330 Boston Post Road Port Chester 939-8331

Garden Catering 140 Midland Avenue Port Chester 934-7852 or 934-7810

Irish/American Davy Byrnes Restaurant 538 Willett Avenue Port Chester 937-2106

Italian Hostaria Mazzei 25 South Regent Street Port Chester 939-2727

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Italian

Italian/Pizzeria

Marianacci’s Restaurant

Frank’s Italian Restaurant and Pizza

24 Sherman Street Port Chester 939-3450

23 Putnam Avenue Port Chester 939-8299 Specialties include: Cold antipasto, mozzarella fresca; pasta fagiola and cheese tortellini soup; Caesar salad with grilled chicken; fussili with broccoli, penne ala vodka, roasted pepper ravioli, baked manicotti; chicken Marsala; veal parmigiana; zuppa de pesce, shrimp fra diavolo/marinara; surf & turf; hot and cold sandwiches, cheese calzone, chicken rollup; lasagna pizza, four season pizza, Buffalo chicken pizza; veggie, tuna salad and steak wraps; New York cheesecake, tiramisu, Italian ice. Hours: Mon.-Thurs. 10 a.m.-10 p.m., Fri.-Sat. 10 a.m.-10:30 p.m., closed Sunday. Catering and delivery available. Major credit cards. Free onpremises parking.

Pasquale II Ristorante 2 Putnam Avenue Port Chester 934-7770 The great cuisine of Arthur Avenue comes to Port Chester. Specialties: Stuffed Artichoke, Linguine Pescatore (with chopped clams and shrimp in white or red sauce, Costata di Vitello (veal chops), Chicken Balsamic, Zuppa di Pesce (lobster, shrimp, calamari, clams and mussels in red sauce over linguine), Fusilli Primavera (zucchini, peas, mushrooms, broccoli in light red sauce, Veal Scaloppine. Homemade Cheese Cake and Tira Mi Su. Closed Monday. Hours: Tues.-Thurs. 11:30 a.m.-10 p.m., Fri. 11:30 a.m.-11 p.m., Sat. 3 p.m.-11 p.m., Sun. 1-9 p.m. Most major credit cards. Free on-premises parking.

Provare Trattoria Doral Arrowwood Anderson Hill Road Rye Brook 939-4554

T&J Villaggio Trattoria 223-225 Westchester Avenue Port Chester 937-6665

Tarry Lodge 18 Mill Street Port Chester 937-3070

That Little Italian Restaurant 228-230 Mill Street Greenwich, CT 203-531-7500 Specialties include: Pasta Fagioli, fried calamari, spinach & portobello, classic Caesar salad, gorgonzola salad; Penne Puttanesca, Manicotti Classico, Gnocchi Pomodoro, Tortellini & Salmon Alfredo, Chicken Parmigiana (with tomato sauce & mozzarella), Veal Campagnola (mushrooms, garlic, peas & onions), Chicken/Veal Scarpariello (hot sausage, pepperoni, mushrooms & rosemary), Atlantic Salmon, Shrimp Scampi/Marinara, mussels; variety of home specialty pizzas including traditional, salmon & goat cheese, artichoke & more; calzones & sandwiches. Catering & party room available. Open Tuesday through Sunday. Parking lot behind or street parking.

Antonio’s Pizza and Restaurant Pathmark Shopping Center 130 Midland Avenue Port Chester 939-5137

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MISTI RESTAURANT “Our Specialty is Roasted Chicken”

Authentic Peruvian Cuisine SERVING Breakfast • Lunch • Dinner Peruvian Pepper Steak Chicken Dishes Pork Dishes Seafood Soup Fried Seafood Shrimp Dishes

Italian/Pizzeria Frankie & Louie’s Restaurant 414 Willett Avenue Port Chester 939-0202 Specialties include: Mozzarella sticks, fried calamari, zucchini sticks, grilled chicken salad, Caesar salad, antipasto, pasta fagioli, tortellini soup, eggplant parmigiana wedge, veal & pepper wedge, Penne a la Vodka, homemade manicotti, Chicken Marsala, Veal Cutlet Milanese, scungilli marinara or fra diavolo, shrimp marinara; meatball, mushroom and Luigi’s Special pizzas; stuffed pizza; focaccia, baked ziti, lasagna, salad and broccoli gourmet pizzas; sausage & pepper and chicken roll calzones; fresh baked cakes and pastry. Weekly specials. Mon. & Tues.: Large pizza plus 50 chicken wings. Wed.: Family Style Night. Thurs.: Ravioli Night. Sun.: Pasta Madness. Hours: 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Mon.-Sat., 11 a.m. 10 p.m. Sun. Catering available. Free delivery lunch & dinner. Credit cards: AX, VISA, MC. Ample free parking in lot.

Marini’s Pizzeria 46 North Main Street Port Chester 937-5120

Michael’s Famous Pan Pizza 125 Midland Avenue Port Chester 939-2241

Mirabello’s Pizza Trattoria 199 South Regent Street Port Chester 934-2900

P & D Pizza

Italian/Pizzeria

POLLO A LA BRASA

508 Westchester Avenue Port Chester 939-8845

OPEN - 7 Days • 9 a.m. - Midnight

110 North Main St., Port Chester, NY Delivery Available Se Habla Español

Frankie & Louie’s Restaurant

Specializing in Catering Parties Available - On or Off Premises Ample Free Parking in Rear Daily Blackboard Specials 414 Fax Orders Welcome Open for Lunch Fresh Baked Cakes for All Occasions

Every Wednesday

Each Dish Serves 2 to 4 People Choose from Luigi’s Special Menu • Pastas • Chicken • Fried Calamari $ 95 • Eggplant Rolatini • Veal • Sausage & Peppers Price Includes Salad

227 Westchester Avenue Port Chester 939-4134

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for Lunch & Dinner

Willett Ave., Port Chester, NY Fax: 914-690-0996

Large Pizza Pie Plus 50 Chicken Wings

Rye Ridge Shopping Center 136 South Ridge Street Rye Brook 937-2511

T & J Pizza & Pasta

FAST FREE DELIVERY

Every Monday & Tuesday

Family Style Night

Kohl’s Shopping Center 529 Boston Post Road Port Chester 939-8000

Pizzeria

914-939-0202

WEEKLY SPECIALS

Pizza & Brew Restaurant

Pizza Pasta & Things

Lunch Specials Takeout also

939-9437

Every Sunday

Outside Dining Available

Pasta Madness with salad $

1095

Choice of: Linguini Marachiare (Sautéed garlic, clams, shrimp and scallops in a marinara sauce)

Rigatoni Napolitano (Pieces of chicken, sautéed onions and mushrooms in a marinara sauce) sauce)

Ravioli Night

Bowties Calabrese (Mixed vegetables in a creamy pink

Every Thursday • Cheese Ravioli • Meat Ravioli • Vegetable Ravioli Price includes salad

Shells Paisano (Sautéed onions, bacon, peas and grated

cheese in a white sauce)

Fusilli A La Chef (Sautéed garlic, shrimp, mushrooms and peas in a pink sauce)

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Outdoor dining spots remain a local draw food and meat dishes. In addition, customers can select a lobster from the restaurant’s tank and have it prepared any style. Some summer specials offered on a recent visit included cold seafood salad, lobster and shrimp cocktail, freshly made Maryland crab cakes, Rigatoni Michael with onion, diced plum tomatoes, pignoli nuts and shrimp in a roasted garlic white wine sauce, chicken on the bone Scarpariello with hot sausage and mixed peppers in a rosemary lemon white wine sauce, oven roasted loin of veal sliced and served over mashed potatoes in a brandy mushroom sauce, pepper crusted salmon served over a bed of spinach in a reduction Dijon mustard sauce and grilled filet mignon served with capers, horseradish and mustard. For lunch, ¾ pound black angus burgers, a number of wedges such as sausage, peppers, sliced potato and onion with broccoli rabe; Italian combo; and chicken parmigiana; and other sandwiches including turkey club; Cuban pork and hot open steak are on the menu in addition to salads and entrées. Hours are Monday through Thursday from 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m., Friday from 11:30 a.m. to 11 p.m., Saturday from 5 to 11 p.m. and Sunday from 4:30 to 9:30 p.m.

for lunch or dinner, included grilled wild salmon with sautéed Portobello mushrooms, sautéed soft shell crabs with pesto garlic sauce and Maine steamers with parsley garlic butter. Besides food, bait and tackle can be purchased and boats can be rented at this location. Lunch is served Tuesday through Sunday from 11:45 a.m. to 3 p.m. and dinner the same days from 4:30 to 9 p.m. The restaurant is closed Mondays.

The deck wrapping around the back of F.I.S.H. at the end of Fox Island Road gives diners a nice view of the Byram River. other desserts. Sonia Jacob, the wonderful dessert chef who concocts all of these delicacies, has carried over from the previous owner. Sandwiches and breakfast foods are also available. Café Brazil is open from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.

The patio at Café Mirage, the late night eating spot at 531 North Main St., also near the Greenwich border, is a popular outdoor venue in Port Chester. Fifteen silver metal rimmed tables for two with glass tops and matching silver metal chairs that can be pushed together to accommodate larger parties are shaded by two large beige umbrelFurther down Main Street near las. This lovely spot is surrounded by a white trellis fence to provide the atmosphere of a French café. Overhanging trees, potted flowers, window boxes on the fence filled with pink and white flowers and candles on the tables add to the charming atmosphere. Some of the summer specials being offered by proprietor/chef Dave Haggerty at this international eatery, where the full menu is available until 2 a.m. on Friday and Saturday, are pomegranate margaritas; arugula, grapefruit, gorgonzola and pignoli nut salad with poppy The small deck at Pasta Per Voi, located at 23 North Main St., is adjacent seed vinaigrette; Thai ginto the well-landscaped entrance on the Abendroth Avenue side of the ger lemongrass shrimp, the Asian sampler (a lobster restaurant. spring roll, tuna dumplings wrought iron and black metal the Greenwich border figures one and crispy noodle shrimp); as well tables with green plastic chairs, of the most visible outdoor eating as gazpacho, carrot ginger, and seven topped by cheerful green areas in Port Chester, the well- tomato with avocado relish soups. Oysters, little neck clams on and yellow Bavaria umbrellas and landscaped red brick patio in front three by blue Corona Extra ones, of Pasquale II Ristorante across the half shell and traditional provide a tranquil place to eat in from Cumberland Farms at 2 shrimp cocktail are always availthis garden setting shaded by trees. Putnam Ave. Here customers dine able from the raw bar. The regular menu includes unShrubs surround the deck and at seven grayish tables and matchpotted plants and window boxes ing chairs covered with sky blue usual sandwiches; coconut curry sit on the railing encircling it. A San Pellegrino sparkling natural shrimp; farm raised ostrich in a fountain with a waterfall that flows mineral water umbrellas. A buffer bordelaise sauce with mashed pointo a pool has been created at the of shrubs, trees and flowers sur- tatoes and spinach; seafood gumbo; front of the patio as you enter the rounds the patio and helps create barley risotto with shrimp, chicken, a tranquil setting. Tiny white lights chorizo, sun-dried tomatoes and courtyard. Property owner Richard Cuddy on a white picket fence along the mushrooms; and plantain crusted and his son, Richard Cuddy, Jr., perimeter of the patio and music tilapia with mango salsa, black took over the operation of Café piped outside add to the pleasant beans and rice, to name a few. Café Mirage is open for lunch Brazil last June after the previous atmosphere. Fine Italian cuisine is featured Monday through Friday. Hours owner moved to Florida. They have kept the food and setup much at Pasquale for lunch and din- are Monday through Thursday the same as it was before with ner—homemade pastas, chicken, from 12 noon to 12 midnight, Fritypical Brazilian cuisine in a self- veal and seafood as well as fine day from 12 noon to 2 a.m. and serve format in two buffets, one for wines. The lunch menu also in- Saturday from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. The restaurant is closed Sunday. hot food and one for salads, priced cludes a handful of sandwiches. Hours are Tuesday through from $2.99 to $9.99 per pound For the third season Ebb Tide depending on how much meat you Thursday from 12 noon to 10 p.m., opt for. Meat selections include Friday from 12 noon to 11 p.m., Seafood’s large deck overlookbarbecued chicken, pork, sausages Saturday from 3 to 11 p.m. and ing the Byram River at 1 Willett or steaks cooked on the rotisserie. Sunday from 1 to 9 p.m. Pasquale Ave. is open for dining. There’s Café Brazil also offers individual will be closed for vacation from lots of activity at this location with a marina in front and boats appetizers, beautiful cakes and Aug. 22-28. Just down the street at 37-39 North Main St., the courtyard at Café Brazil got a makeover last year when a deck was constructed on a portion of the courtyard you walk through to get to the restaurant. In this highly visible outdoor dining area patrons can eat Brazilian specialties and consume luscious homemade desserts. A combination of 10 black

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coming and going. The gray deck features 11 picnic tables shaded by Corona Extra blue and white umbrellas and Budweiser red ones. Window boxes filled with marigolds and decorated with red, white and blue banners add to the atmosphere. Torches lit at night help keep the bugs away. Billed as a seafood deli and fish market, Ebb Tide sells fresh fish and seafood to cook at home or various preparations of seafood for takeout or eating on the premises. A sign set up at the corner of Abendroth and Willett avenues advertises new shell lobsters for $6.99/lb., jumbo lobsters for $7.99/lb. and live crabs for $2.99/lb. Fried shrimp, fish sticks, fish and chips, scallops and calamari; steamed lobsters, shrimp, and clams; and sautéed shrimp, soft shell crabs, scallops, mussels and clams are on the menu as well as daily specials. You can also get seafood sandwiches such as a crab cake burger, fish filet, clam roll or lobster roll; raw oysters and clams; chowders and lobster bisque as well as side dishes like corn on the cob and coleslaw. A grilled chicken sandwich, hamburger and hotdog are available for land lovers. Some recent specials, available

For the fourth year customers can eat outside at the tiny enclave at the back of Sonora, the nuevo Latino eatery that opened in May 2001 at 179 Rectory St. A deck around the side of the restaurant off Rectory Street is hidden by tall trees and bushes. Black ceramic pots with a floral design filled with tropical pink flowers ring the ledge of the deck—painted a pretty shade of red—where a total of 16 people can dine at various table setups. Tables are covered with white cloths and the black metal chairs that surround them have bamboo seats and backs. In this tranquil setting, reached by entering the front door and walking through the restaurant, you can enjoy Latin food with a French flair. Tapas, literally small appetizers from Spain, have been extrapolated at Sonora to include a wide variety of appetizers. Tapas and ceviches, South American seafood cocktails, are among the specialties at Sonora, where seafood has top billing. There are tapas on the summer menu from Mexico, Peru, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Spain, Cuba, Venezuela and the Dominican Republic. Maine lobster ceviche with watermelon, jalapeno and peppers and lobster and avocado quesadilla with chipotle and crème fraiche aioli from Mexico; tempura rock shrimp with Thai style sauce from Cuba; layers of plantain crusted foie gras and mango caviar with papaya, jicama and cucumber escabeche from Venezuela; and sirloin turnovers with charred roasted pepper, guajillo and golden raisin aji from Colombia are among the interesting tapas. Entrées include seafood paella with lobster, shrimp, clams, mussels, sea scallops and chorizo topped with sofrito from Spain; pan seared epazote Chilean salmon over yucca couscous with gazpacho sauce from Chile; grilled sirloin steak served with lobster Please turn to page 8R

The tiny outdoor eating area in front of Sam’s Bar & Grill at 1 Mill St. is located adjacent to the Byram River. It is lit by a streetlight from the Mill Street Bridge.

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Japanese Edo Japanese Steakhouse 140 Midland Avenue Port Chester 937-3333 Specialties include: Shrimp dumpling, fried marinated chicken, crispy calamari, soft shell crab, shrimp tempura; hibachi chicken, sirloin, salmon, sea scallops, filet mignon, shrimp, lobster; combination chicken/shrimp, shrimp/scallops, steak/chicken, steak/shrimp, chicken/lobster, steak/lobster, lobster/ shrimp/scallops; soup and salad, Ask about our special occasion celebrations. Children’s menu and vegetarian dinner available. Hours: Lunch Mon.Fri. 12:30-2:30 p.m. Dinner Mon.Thurs. 5-10 p.m., Fri. and Sat. 5-11 p.m., Sun. 4-9 p.m. Free on-premises parking. Major credit cards accepted.

Hakata Restaurant 163 North Main Street Port Chester 939-7911

Luncheonettes Bagel Emporium Kohl’s Shopping Center 431 Boston Post Road Port Chester 937-5252

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Mary Ann’s Mexican Restaurant

8 Poningo Street Port Chester 934-2675

24 Grace Church St., Port Chester 933-0363

Kiosko 220 Westchester Avenue Port Chester 933-0155 Specialties include: Sizzling Fajitas, Enchiladas Verdes, Rojas or Mole, Carne Asada, Pargo ala Veracruzana, Mariscos ala Mexicana, Burritos, Fresh Corn Quesadillas, Chimichangas, Bistek Ranchero, New York Steak, Rib Eye, Tostadas, Flautas, Sopes, Tortas (sandwich) Cubana, Milanesa, Tacos al Pastor, Chorizo, Carnitas, Huevos Rancheros, and much more. Serving Margaritas, Pina Coladas, Tequilas, etc. Hours: 7 a.m.-10 p.m. 7 days a week. Major credit cards. Takeout. Parking on the street or in adjacent municipal lot.

275 Boston Post Rd., Port Chester 939-8700 Specialties include: Turkey chilli, chalupas, jalapenos stuffed with shrimp, cactus salad, tofu, brown rice, tofu jack cheese, Acupulco seafood dish, Enchiladas Puerto Vallarta, goat cheese quesadilla, salads and tostadas, Tampico Burrito (breast of chicken), chimichangas, tacos and taquitos, beef tamales, fajitas (tuna and salmon, chicken or steak), Mole Amirillo (grilled pork loin), Steak Picado Fundido, combo dishes with shrimp, beef or chicken, vegetarian plates, all homemade on premises. Nightly and lowfat specials. Happy Hour Sun.Thurs. 4-7 p.m., lunch and weekend brunch 11:30 a.m.-4 p.m., dinner 4-10 p.m. Sun.-Thurs., 4 p.m.-midnight Fri. and Sat. Credit cards: Visa, MC and Amex. Free on-premises parking.

Restaurante y Tortilleria Gemelos 167 Westchester Avenue Port Chester 934-0372

Northern Italian Alba’s Ristorante 400 North Main Street Port Chester 937-2236 • Fax: 937-2271

Eclisse Northern Italian Cuisine Washington Park Plaza 275 South Ridge Street Rye Brook 937-5770

Pasta Per Voi 23 North Main Street Port Chester 937-3200

Piero’s Italian Restaurant 44 South Regent Street Port Chester 937-2904

Peruvian Acuario Restaurant 137 Irving Avenue Port Chester 939-7090

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Club Sandwich 7 Rye Ridge Plaza Rye Brook 939-3475

Deli Delight 174 North Main Street Port Chester 937-5775

Good Food Cafe 140 Midland Avenue Port Chester 939-4070

J.P.’s Standby Drive-in 604 North Main Street Port Chester 939-9442

Lenny’s Bagels 200 South Ridge Street Rye Brook 939-1379

Lyon Park Deli, Café & Catering 29 Putnam Avenue Port Chester 937-1171

Vinny’s Luncheonette 182 North Main Street Port Chester 939-9591

Mexican Coyote Flaco 115 Midland Avenue Port Chester 937-6969 Homemade Mexican and continental food. Specialties include: Nachos supreme, quesadillas, taco salad, tamales, chiles rellenos; Enchiladas Rojas, chimichangas, California burritos; chicken, beef and shrimp fajitas, green enchiladas, and charcoal chicken. Combo and side orders. Express items: Flautas, tostadas. Open for lunch and dinner from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. Open Monday 5-10 p.m. Catering. Delivery and takeout service. Free parking. All major credit cards accepted.

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The cozy deck at Sonora, the four-year-old restaurant serving Nuevo Latino cuisine at 179 Rectory St., is hidden by trees and bushes.

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Continued from page 6R chino Latino rice and saffron cilantro mojito sauce from Argentina; and crisp red snapper with blue corn served with yucca fries in a classic red mole sauce from Mexico. The same attentive service that is offered inside is provided on the deck. Lunch is served from 12 noon to 3 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, dinner from 5 to 10 p.m. Sunday through Wednesday and 5 to 11 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

A particularly pleasant plein air dining spot is the wraparound deck at F.I.S.H., short for Fox Island Seafood House. The Mediterranean seafood house opened in September 2002 at the foot of Fox Island Road where other seafood restaurants have existed before. William Rosenberg of Port Chester and Denis Ossorio of Greenwich opened this seafood eatery with its unique nautical décor and a deck that seats 34 for outdoor eating. It also has docks in front so customers can reach it by boat during the spring, summer and fall. The deck wraps around the back of the restaurant and overlooks the Byram River in a tranquil, beautiful spot with lovely homes across the way and boats pulling in and out. On the ground level, a casual outdoor bar has been set up for boaters or anyone else who may choose to imbibe there rather than at the lovely glass-enclosed bar

inside the restaurant. Diners eat at white square plastic tables that can be pushed together for larger parties and the same plastic chairs with yellow seats and red metal arms, backs and legs that are used indoors. Tables are shaded by red and multicolored umbrellas in blue, orange, yellow and green stripes. The largely seafood menu includes appetizers such as cioppino (steamed shrimp, mussels and calamari in an excellent spicy tomato lobster broth), skillet roasted shrimp, sautéed Maryland crab cakes, crispy Boston calamari, lobster fra diavolo, spicy tuna tempura roll and ahi tuna sashimi served with wakame salad, oysters and clams on the half shell, monster shrimp cocktail and lobster cocktail. Zataar dusted Alaskan halibut with falafel, hummus, tomato-cucumber salad and tzitziki sauce; paella made with shrimp, mussels, clams, chicken, chorizo, sofrito and saffron rice; slow roasted Tasmanian king salmon with melted leek mashed potatoes, charred lemon asparagus and tomato with mustard vinaigrette; beer battered day-boat cod and chips with celery root slaw and tartar sauce figure among the entrées on the summer menu. There’s also gourmet pizza, Chicken Scarpariello, grilled marinated hangar steak with sautéed spinach, French fries and chipotle ketchup and a peppercorn crusted angus burger for those who may not like seafood. Crab Please turn to page 9R

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It’s the seventh season for outdoor eating at Michael’s Famous Pan Pizza at 125 Midland Ave. The lovely patio behind the restaurant is shaded by overhanging trees.

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Outdoor dining spots remain a local draw Continued from page 8R cakes, salmon, sashimi tuna, wild striped bass, Alaskan halibut, frenched chicken breast, or golden tile fish can also be sautéed and served on top of market vegetables and steamed rice or a choice of four salads. Some of the entrées and weekly market specials take advantage of the restaurant’s Italian wood-burning oven which is also used for pizza. During the summer, F.I.S.H. is open seven days for dinner, Wednesday through Friday for lunch and Saturday and Sunday for brunch. Lunch and brunch runs from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., dinner from 5 to 9 p.m. Sunday and Monday, 5:30 to 10 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday and 5:30 to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Reservations are a must on weekends. Another outdoor eating locale that opened two years ago is behind Kiosko Restaurant at 220 Westchester Ave. Two of the round green and light wood tables with matching chairs from inside have been moved outside on a red brick patio around the back of the building which is covered on three sides and open in the back. It is decorated with four large pots of ivy and flowers plus rolling pots and trellises with impatiens and geraniums providing a border from the outside. Mexican-born Nestor Morales of Queens opened Kiosko, which offers authentic Mexican food, last February. Full Mexican and American breakfasts of Huevos Rancheros, Huevos a la Mexicana, Huevos con Chorizo, eggs any style with home fries or on a roll, omelets, pancakes and French toast can be had here as well as all the Mexican favorites including enchiladas, quesadillas, burritos, nachos, fajitas, tacos, sopes, tortas, chimichangas, flautas, molotes, chulupas and tostadas. Seafood and meat entrées, salads and homemade soups are also available. Besides wine, beer and soda, you can get a variety of refreshing fruit shakes made to order with a milk or water base. Kiosko is open 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. seven days a week. On the other side of town, Coyote Flaco at 115 Midland Ave. serves up some of the freshest Mexican food around on the patio

in front of the tiny restaurant. It has been newly renovated this year and is now enclosed on three sides by an attractive wall of beige and gray bricks. As in the past, the patio is covered by a bright green awning. Seating is at an eclectic mix of chairs and rectangular tables with Aztec design plastic tablecloths as well as at green picnic tables with new beige and subtle green umbrellas. Flowers and plants in window boxes ring the patio, covering the top of the wall that surrounds this outdoor eating area, and more flowers are planted in containers outside the wall which brighten up the entrance to the restaurant. Trees have been planted in front of the patio along the street. You can’t top Coyote Flaco’s yummy gazpacho (offered daily in the summer), salmon and shrimp fajitas or just about any of the Mexican specialties offered here. The cold vegetable soup, seafood gumbo, Fajitas Mariachi made with sea bass, salmon and shrimp, Enchiladas Cancun (corn tortillas Please turn to page 10R

n American Grill located in the outskirts of Greenwich serving American Regional Cuisine. The Black Bear Grille offers a creative menu for lunch and dinner with fireside dining. A late night fireside menu is served on the weekends until 1 a.m. Please look to book any future party ranging from Bar and Bat Mitzvahs, Communions, rehearsal dinners and bridal showers to corporate functions at our brand new facility with private rooms. Please give us a call today to book your next reservation for the restaurant or your next private party.

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Outdoor dining spots remain a local draw stuffed with fresh Maine crabmeat), and Fajitas Festival (beef, chicken and shrimp) are among the summer specials. Coyote Flaco has hard as well as soft tacos, highly rated fajitas and a great taco salad in a crispy nest flour tortilla. A number of Mexican chicken, steak, ground beef, pork, Spanish sausage or vegetable wraps are served for lunch or dinner. Besides Mexican beer, a whole list of margaritas and a variety of tequilas are available. Hours are 5 to 10 p.m. Monday and 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday.

entrées. The house salad with homemade dressing is exceptional. Several hot sandwiches, including burgers, are also available. And of course the restaurant continues to serve the wonderful thin-crusted pan pizza Michael’s has always been known for. The kitchen is open from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Monday through

made foods to take out at this fast food restaurant. Billed as “home of the high school special,” Garden Catering offers 100% white meat chicken nuggets and French fries, fried chicken by the pound or platter, fried shrimp, filet of sole, spare ribs, hot dogs, hamburgers, turkey burgers, quesadillas, homemade chili, hot and cold sandwiches and

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looking the Byram River. Typical American grilled breakfast and lunch specialties are offered from 5 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. every day except Sunday. The Subway and KFC franchises and Wah Yuan Chinese Restaurant up on the hill in the Kinko’s Plaza at 262 Boston Post Rd. have also placed a few tables on the sidewalk out front during the warm weather for customers who choose to eat their orders outside. Customers of Burger King next door at 260 Boston Post Rd. also have the option of eating on the patio out front adjacent to the fast food restaurant’s red play structure at six red picnic tables with benches.

In the same neck of the woods, it’s the seventh season for outdoor eating at Michael’s Famous Pan Pizza. In the summer of 1998, owner Michael Sidewalk cafés Iacobelli transformed an overFour eating establishments grown lot behind his restaurant have applied for permits to put at 125 Midland Ave. into a tables on public sidewalks in lovely outdoor eatery. It feathe Village of Port Chester this tures 15 ornate black wrought season. The village board iron tables and matching chairs passed legislation allowing for on a red brick patio surrounded by a decorative fence fitted with Mulligan’s Bar & Grill at Doral Arrowwood Resort and Conference it in May 1997. According to the village’s painted panels depicting var- Center on Anderson Hill Road is located behind the golf shop overlooking License Bureau, those eateries ied scenes from Tuscany. To the ninth hole of the golf course. that have submitted applicacomplete the effect, designed and created by former Rye Brook Thursday and Saturday, Fridays wraps, salads, soups and desserts as tions, but had not received perartist Lynda Karanikolas and her from 11 a.m. till 12 midnight and well as specials such as roasted mits as of press time, are Sam’s Bar crew at Studio 1 of Port Chester, Sundays from 12 p.m. to 10 p.m. chicken with rice and vegetables, & Grill, T&J Pizza & Pasta, Frankie concrete was painted to look like pork chops and mashed potatoes & Louie’s Restaurant & Pizzeria stucco or old tiles. Also on Midland Avenue, you and soft shell crabs for lunch and and Kneaded Bread. The first three, which have been setting up tables The patio, shaded by overhang- can eat outdoors at Garden Ca- dinner. ing trees and naturally decorated tering, which opened in May 2001 For breakfast you can choose outside for a number of years, went by ivy growing over the walls in the shopping center at #140. In from a variety of egg sandwiches ahead and did so again without enclosing it, features candles on fact, at Garden Catering there’s and platters, omelets, home fries, waiting for the permit. Kneaded the tables and a serving bar. Two only the choice of eating outside bacon, sausage, muffins, bagels Bread, which just submitted its application this week, did not. large pots filled with red and white at one of six green metal tables and doughnuts. Permitted hours of operation flowers at the entrance add color. with glass tops and green chairs Garden Catering is open from 6 The patio is available for private shaded by green umbrellas posi- a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through for sidewalk cafés are from 8 parties of all types and, when it is tioned on the sidewalk in front of Saturday and from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and until 11 p.m. Frinot being used for that, is open to the eatery or taking out because Sunday. day and Saturday from May 1 the public for lunch or dinner. there are no tables indoors. Michael’s offers fine Italian Port Chester natives Frank J.P.’s Standby Drive-in next through Oct. 31. Besides paying $25, restaurant cuisine including appetizers, Carpenteri and Kevin Keegan and to Cumberland Farms at 604 North soups, salads, as well as pasta, Port Chester resident Mario Medina Main St. has a covered outdoor owners must provide proof of lichicken, veal, beef, pork and fish offer chicken, ribs and other freshly eating area with picnic tables over- ability insurance holding the village harmless and a drawing showing the arrangement of tables and barriers they plan to put out. There must be a minimum distance of five feet free of obstructions on the sidewalk for adequate and safe pedestrian movement. The Office of the Village Clerk is authorized to issue an annual permit for the seasonal operation of a sidewalk café after the application has been reviewed and approved by the Building Department and the Department of Public Works. Applications may be picked up at the License Bureau on the second floor of the Rye Town Office Building at 10 Pearl St.

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A small outdoor eating area has been set up for the eighth year adjacent to the Byram River in front of Sam’s Bar & Grill at 1 Mill St. Two square green tables for two and one round white table with white resin chairs are shaded by sky blue San Pellegrino umbrellas. Window boxes on the outside of the building planted with red and white impatiens add charm to this quaint little spot. When it gets dark, one of the oldfashioned style street lights on the bridge, located just at the edge of the seating area, casts a subtle glow. Here customers can feast on burgers and steaks, grilled chicken sandwiches, chicken wings, chili and daily dinner specials. Dinner hours are 5 to 10 p.m. seven days a week.

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T&J Pizza & Pasta at 227 Westchester Ave. has pretty much the same setup for outdoor eating this season as it did the last three years. Two round inlaid stone

tables for two with black metal ice cream chairs are offset by two evergreens potted in stone planters. T&J’s red and green awning provides protection from the sun. Besides all types of pizza, T&J serves appetizers, pasta, soups, salads, wedges and other Italian meat and seafood dishes, including daily specials. Pasta Craze where you get a choice of several pasta dishes plus a salad for $10.95 ($1 extra for gorgonzola cheese) is popular on Wednesday nights. The restaurant is open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. until 11 p.m. Frankie & Louie’s Restaurant & Pizzeria at 414 Willett Ave., formerly Luigi’s Restaurant & Pizza, has continued the eatery’s 7-year tradition of setting up a space outside. A white picket fence encloses five black mesh metal tables with matching chairs seating a total of 12 in front of this neighborhood Italian pizzeria and restaurant. During the day you can just take your slice of pizza or other lunch fare and sit outside. For dinner, however, table service is provided for anyone wishing to dine outside. Here customers may enjoy all types of pizza, calzones and wedges as well as traditional Italian pasta, veal, chicken and seafood dishes. Throughout the year Wednesday is Family Style Night where each dish feeds 2 to 4 people for $24.95, Thursday is Ravioli Night with cheese, meat and vegetable ravioli for $11.95 and Sunday is Pasta Madness featuring a choice of five pasta dishes for $10.95. All include salad. Don’t forget to give the extraordinary homemade desserts a try. Hours are 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. seven days a week.

Rye Brook The best kept secret in Rye Brook and Port Chester is still Mulligan’s Bar & Grill at Doral Arrowwood Resort and Conference Center on Anderson Hill Road, which we discovered five years ago. Here 15 wooden tables and chairs and a long bar with wooden stools are covered by a green and white awning behind the golf shop overlooking the ninth hole of the golf course. The fare includes things like fresh fruit plate, chicken quesadillas, Buffalo wings, chicken fingers, grilled Cajun shrimp, salads such as Caesar, chef and organic with goat cheese, sandwiches, wraps, burgers, turkey sausage and sirloin steak. Vegetarian Delight—a grilled Portobello mushroom with roasted red peppers, fresh basil and melted mozzarella cheese on 9-grain bread—is also popular. Daily specials feature a different salad, sandwich, entrée and alcoholic beverage every day. On a recent visit the featured drink was a Malibu Sunrise made with coconut rum, grenadine and orange juice. A children’s menu is also available. Live calypso music is featured Thursdays and soft rock Fridays from 5 p.m. till closing. Mulligan’s is open seven days a week from 11:30 a.m. until 8 p.m. through October. The Rye Town Hilton at 699 Westchester Ave. offers casual outdoor dining in a garden setting during limited hours at its Terrace Grill. This large area features lots of beige tables, chairs and umbrellas on a patio surrounded by hedges and flower gardens. Additional seating is provided on a slate veranda a few steps above the patio. Please turn to page 12R

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El Plebeyo Restaurant 25 North Main Street Port Chester 690-2797

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F.I.S.H. Mediterranean Seafood 102 Fox Island Road Port Chester 939-4227

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Tropica Seafood Restaurant & Raw Bar

100 North Main Street Port Chester 939-2204 Specialties include: Sliced hotdogs and French fries; potato stuffed with beef, onions, egg and olives; chicken and rice soup (Peruvian style); fish soup; salads; shrimp cooked in onions and tomtoes with rice; Peruvian style shrimp fried rice; fried calamari; rotisserie chicken with salad and French fries; Peruvian style beef/chicken with spaghetti; Peruvian style fried steak with onions and rice; chanfainita (Sat. & Sun.); purple corn soft drink. Open Wed.-Mon. 9 a.m.-10 p.m., closed Tuesday. Catering available. Street parking. VISA, MC accepted.

Misti Restaurant 110 North Main Street Port Chester 939-9437 Specialties include mussels cooked in onions, tomatoes and sweet corn kernels, Peruvian-style seafood sushi; soups: beef, chicken, seafood; variety of salads; fish morsels cooked in onions and tomatoes; shrimp cooked in spicey sauce, steamed seafood in Peruvian spices; rotisserie chicken (pollo a la brasa) with French fries and salad, chicken fried rice, Peruvian-style beef with spaghetti, pepper steak, roast beef, “Hungry Joe” Steak with fried plantains, egg, bacon and rice, beef tripe stew with rice; custard. Open daily 9 a.m.-12 midnight. Lunch specials. Delivery or takeout available. Street parking. VISA, MC accepted, ATM on premises.

Salvadoran El Tesoro Restaurant II 14 South Main Street Port Chester 937-2086

La Pupusa Loca de Port Chester 165 Westchester Avenue Port Chester 935-0767

Rinconcito Salvadoreno Restaurante 20 Broad Street Port Chester 937-9287

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23 ½ North Main Street Port Chester 937-0550 Specialties include: Tropica shrimp, clams casino, mild or spicy crispy fried calamari, Tropical mussels, steamed little necks, mussels marinara, Buffalo wings; variety of soups and salads; Tropica’s chicken breast sandwich, black angus burger, filet of fish sandwich; stuffed clams, lobster ravioi, grilled salmon, broiled scallops, crabby patties, Chilean red snapper, Cajun catfish, sirloin steak, Hawaiian pork, Chilean sea bass, steamed lobster. Open 7 days for lunch and dinner. Monday – Lobster Night. Seasonal outside dining available. Corporate/private parties. On-site clambakes, tropical luaus, takeout. Street parking. All major credit cards.

South American Inca & Gaucho Restaurant Seafood & Steakhouse 173 Westchester Avenue Port Chester 939-2100 Specialties include: Gaucho Parrillada (mixed grill), Matambre (vegetables wrapped with meat and side of potato salad), spinach and meat ravioli, meat canelones, Peruvian style Paella, famous Lomo Saltado (stir-fried beef sautéed with onions and tomatoes), crepes and Chaja (peach-filled cake topped with meringue. Hours: 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily. Delivery and catering available. Most major credit cards.

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The nicely landscaped patio in front of Pasquale II Ristorante at 2 Putnam Ave. is a pleasant setting for relaxed dining al fresco.

Outdoor dining spots remain a local draw

Guests may order lunch on Saturday and Sunday afternoons in this lovely setting. Lunch consists of salads (Nicoise with tuna, house with chicken or shrimp, Caesar and calamari Greek), a fruit platter, vegetable wrap, bruschetta, turkey club and grilled chicken sandwiches, hot dogs, burgers, desserts and beverages. The Terrace Grill is open for lunch from 12 noon to 3 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays only.

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914-939-2100 Voted as one of the top ethnic restaurants in Westchester County. --Westchester Spotlight, Aug. 2001

During the warm weather customers of The Club Sandwich, which opened in April 2000 at 7 Rye Ridge Plaza, around the back of the Rye Ridge Shopping Center, have the option of eating outside at one of four square metal black tables with matching chairs. Two of them are shaded by the sandwich shop’s awning. Sean Quinn of Rye assumed ownership of the local eatery in February. The Club Sandwich offers a tremendous variety of sandwiches of all types, from simple roast beef on rye to smoked salmon with egg salad horseradish sauce, capers, onions, lettuce, tomato and bacon on a tortilla. The curried chicken salad and brie with scallions, avocado, sprouts and mayo on a croissant is excellent. The gourmet sandwich shop serves Boar’s Head deli meats on its sandwiches and offers nine different choices of bread on which they can be made. Besides all the usual and not so usual cold cuts, cheeses and salads, 34 finishing touches may be added to create your own sandwich or you can choose from a menu of 50 concoctions which

Continued from page 10R have already been dreamed up. Four round silver tables with matchTheir spicy Texas chili with or ing silver chairs afford space for without onions and cheese is 12 to munch on Lenny’s homealso a good bet. At least two made bagels, bagel sandwiches different soups are also offered with all types of salad and meat each day. Quinn added six dif- fillings, soups, salads and gourferent salads—tossed, chicken, met desserts. There are daily lunch Cobb, chicken Caesar, Buffalo specials. During the summer cold and goat cheese—to the offer- gazpacho and cucumber dill soups ings when he took over. are usually on the menu. As a cool Breakfast sandwiches, muffins, seasonal drink, Lenny’s is offercroissants, pastries, crumb cake, ing Fruit Tea Smoothie Blasts in bagels, coffees and teas make up three flavors. the breakfast menu. Hours are Monday through Hours are Monday through Fri- Saturday from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. and day from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday Sunday from 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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Another eating establishment in the Rye Ridge Shopping Center, Rye Ridge Delicatessen & Restaurant at 126 South Ridge St., has three round silver tables with four silver mesh chairs each out front where customers may consume their takeout orders if they so choose. Rye Ridge Deli specializes in snappy kosher hot dogs, pickles, potato knishes, huge deli sandwiches and salads. The restaurant also serves breakfast. Hours are Monday through Wednesday from 7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m., Thursday and Friday from 7:30 a.m. until 10 p.m., Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. and Sunday from 8:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. The deli will be closing in the fall for a few months to expand into the store next door and renovate. Up the hill in the shopping center at 200 South Ridge St., Lenny’s Bagels also provides outdoor seating for its patrons.

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A mural of Venice is the focal point at the lovely dining spot in a courtyard outside That Little Italian Restaurant in the Byram section of Greenwich.

That Little Italian Restaurant, located just across the river in Byram, Conn., has a beautiful outdoor eating area on a red brick patio in a quiet courtyard behind the restaurant, located at 228-230 Mill St. The patio is situated just outside the windows of the upper portion of this fine Italian eatery and a mural of Venice, similar to others inside, decorates the wall that provides a backdrop to this outdoor venue. There’s room for eight tables for two in any configuration— square marble-look tables with white plastic chairs covered by sky blue San Pellegrino umbrellas. Besides potted plants, sunflowers and a tall purple variety are planted in beds on two sides of the patio. Window boxes full of pansies and marigolds hang from the green railing that surrounds this lovely haven. Four pretty lamplights hang from the side of the building to provide light once darkness sets in. In the open air customers may enjoy the restaurant’s excellent array of appetizers, salads, pastas, chicken, veal and seafood dishes plus daily specials. Lobster ravioli, Veal Marsala and ricotta gnocchi come highly recommended. For lunch there are also specialty pizzas, calzones and sandwiches, the latter served on the excellent homemade bread That Little Italian Restaurant has been known for since it opened in 1980. As a special, the restaurant is currently offering two large cheese pizzas for $16.95. Hours are Tuesday through Friday from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. for lunch, Sunday and Tuesday through Thursday from 5 to 9:30 p.m. and Friday and Saturday from 5 to 10:30 p.m. for dinner. The restaurant is closed Monday.