Dining Out & About 2009/07 by Westmore News

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

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American American Legion Post 93 78 Pearl St., Port Chester 937-5562

IrIsh Pub & restaurant

Serving Lunch and dinner Full us Salads, Pasta, Burgers, l P Sandwiches, Steaks, Seafood IrIsh Menu AND Our Famous Bar Pizza and Buffalo Wings

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538 Willett Avenue (off Putnam Ave.) Port Chester, N.Y. • 914-937-2106

Come experience Sonora. You will not be disappointed.

Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill & Bar 42 Westchester Ave., Port Chester 253-5358

Belle Fair Country Market 20 BelleFair Boulevard Rye Brook 939-2370

Buffalo Wild Wings Grill & Bar 44 Westchester Ave. Port Chester 690-9453

Cousin Frankie’s USA Grill 110 Adee St., Port Chester 305-4878 Specialties include: Pancakes and French toast, omelets, breakfast wraps and sandwiches, bacon and eggs/sausage/ham, fresh fruit plate, hot and cold cereals, bagels, English muffins, fresh muffins and rolls; soups, chicken fingers, mozzarella sticks, gorgonzola burgers, turkey burgers, hotdogs, fries; roast beef, chicken scarpariello and Philly cheese steak sandwiches; grilled pork chops, pasta of the day, chicken parmigiana with pasta, weekly special lunch platters, lunch wraps, salads, carrot and chocolate cakes. Hours: Mon.-Fri. 6:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Sat. 7:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Late night hours: Fri. & Sat. 10 p.m.-4:30 a.m. Credit cards: MasterCard, Visa, American Express, Discover. Call ahead for pickup or delivery. Municipal and street parking.

J T Straw’s Bar & Grill 134 North Main St., Port Chester 937-9695

Panera Bread 10 Westchester Ave., Port Chester 939-0079

Nuevo Latino Cuisine “Nothing about the food here is ordinary...” Excellent The New York Times

Outside Dining Available Limited seating

Port Chester Coach Diner

Brazilian Café Brazil USA 37-39 North Main St., Port Chester 939-1139

Churrascaria Copacabana 29-31 North Main St., Port Chester 939-6894

International Café & Brazilian Bakery 103 Adee St., Port Chester 939-1002

Central American El Tesoro Restaurant 92 Purdy Ave., Port Chester 935-9440

El Tesoro II 14 South Main St., Port Chester 937-2086

Restaurant Rinconcito Migueleño 118 Westchester Ave., Port Chester 690-0505

Chinese China House 170B North Main St., Port Chester 939-7288 or 939-7290

Great Wall Restaurant 140 Midland Ave., Port Chester 939-0068

Ho Sai Gai 544 Willett Ave., Port Chester 937-8337 or 937-8339

Manchu Garden Chinese & Japanese Cuisine

Number 1 Chinese Restaurant

112 North Main St., Port Chester 933-7427

Raymond’s B&B Breakfast & Burgers 540A Willett Ave., Port Chester 939-4444

Open for Lunch & Dinner www.sonorany.com

Euro Asian 30 Westchester Ave., Port Chester 937-3680

Q Authentic Barbecue Restaurant

Rye Ridge Deli

914-933-0200

Asian

504 Westchester Ave. Port Chester 939-8688

Rye Ridge Shopping Center 126 South Ridge St., Rye Brook 937-2131

179 Rectory Street, Port Chester

The Pub Doral Arrowwood Anderson Hill Rd., Rye Brook 939-6630

317 Boston Post Rd., Port Chester 937-0008

Reservations Suggested: 933-0200 Private Room Available • Cooking Classes

American

Sam’s Bar & Grill

120 Westchester Ave., Port Chester 937-8465

Panda Restaurant 213 Westchester Ave., Port Chester 937-4699

Panda II Chinese Restaurant 32 Grace Church St., Port Chester 939-4310

Ray’s Café 176 South Ridge St., Rye Brook 937-0747

1 Mill St., Port Chester 939-2001

Sichuan Pavilion

The Kneaded Bread

480 Westchester Ave., Port Chester 939-8889

181 North Main St., Port Chester 937-9489

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Outdoor dining venues getting more exotic By Jananne Abel

hile Rye Town is far from a tourist community, eating outdoors on a balmy evening can make you feel like you’re on vacation. Over the years the outdoor venues in town have gotten more plentiful and their design more creative so as to take customers into another world while they’re dining—whether it be on the water, tucked between two buildings or simply on a sidewalk. And this year a few establishments have added music to create a party atmosphere. From April to October—and especially during the summer months—restaurants with outdoor seating are definitely in demand. While the wet weather has put a damper on eating outside during the month of June, pleasant temperatures and low humidity have so far made July a delightful month to take advantage of the many local eateries with decks, patios and sidewalk cafés. 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 12 years ago, leveling off and then steadily climbing since then. The phenomenon has caught on thanks to the Port Chester Board of Trustees which a dozen years ago 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—the number is now up to 122 in Port Chester and Rye Brook—and how many of those—33—have an area set up where you can eat outside. The latter number is two greater than last year. All the restaurants that offered outdoor eating last year are doing so in 2009 except one—Euro Asian in The Waterfront at Port Chester on Westchester Avenue. Three new spots are offering outdoor dining this year, one at a restaurant which opened in a space where there had been an eatery previously, another at an existing restaurant where an outdoor patio was created and the third at an eating establishment that set up a sidewalk café for the first time—one on Boston

Post Road, one on Grace Church Street and one on Westchester Avenue, all in Port Chester. Two other restaurants have enlarged or modified their decks, and another—Tarry Lodge on Mill Street—has a rooftop terrace planned which is currently in the approval stage. 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. 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. Such is the case at the Hilton Rye Town in Rye Brook which still has an outdoor area where you can eat but has done away with table service.

Picnic tables outside Belle Fair Country Market at 20 BelleFair Blvd. provide a pleasant place to eat the delicacies purchased at the deli and café within the Rye Brook residential development off Upper King Street. planters hold pink and white petunias. A grill has been built in outside where manager Miguel Nunez said there are lots of parties. Music is piped out from inside where a guitarist and pianist play Latin music on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights. A patio menu features all types of food prepared on the grill—parrillada especial (grilled meats), with portions for adults or children, grilled seafood, steak, chicken, fish, combina-

Port Chester Dominican immigrant Juan Cepeda opened Brisa Marina Bar & Grill in August 2005 at 40 Grace Church St. where Machu Picchu had been. At the end The attractive plein air eating of last season, he created a Restaurant at 325 North Main unique patio sandwiched between the restaurant and the tions such as chicken and shrimp building behind it, making it or ribs and shrimp or salmon and one of the newest outdoor eating lobster as well as sandwiches and spots in town. The patio here is burgers. Food is served on the patio made of asphalt and the tables are simple round beige plastic ones from noon until 11 p.m. Sunday with matching chairs covered by through Thursday and until green umbrellas. However, the midnight Friday and Saturday. large space, which seats about 50 The area to dine outside at Il people, is decorated with impressive murals of houses, waterfalls, Sogno, brand new this season, trees and flowers painted on the isn’t nearly as exotic. Featuring stone wall behind the restaurant Italian/Mediterranean cuisine, and on the back wall of the eat- Il Sogno opened in November ery itself by Dominican-born 2008 in the space where Pacifico Nino Gil. A real waterfall, which had been at 316 Boston Post Rd. wasn’t running when I visited, Jimmy Resulbegu of Manhattan, flows from the stone wall into who hails from Montenegro (the a trough at the bottom. Built-in former Republican of Yugosla-

via), partnered with Raphael Palomino on this new venture. Palomino is the former owner of Pacifico in Port Chester who also operates two other Pacifico restaurants as well as Sonora in Port Chester (where he is coowner) and Greenwich Tavern in Old Greenwich. With limited outdoor space at this location, Resulbegu has merely moved three tables and chairs from inside to an area adjacent to the building where they are covered with white cloths

Thursday and 5-11 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

The lovely wraparound deck at F.I.S.H., short for Fox Island Seafood House, has been expanded this year to make room for 25 more guests. A tiki bar with a thatched room has also been added. Red and yellow bar stools pull up to a counter where you can eat and/ or drink looking out over the Byram River, there are two tall tables with stools and another two square tables for dining in this area. The rest of the deck seats another 50 people at tables covered with blue and white flowered plastic cloths and set with pretty white plastic chairs. Tables are shaded by a bright orange awning, complete with fans, which covers much of the deck. Tiny white lights all around the structure come on as it gets dark. T he Mediter ranean 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 spot located adjacent to Nessa unique nautical décor and St. opened last summer. large deck for outdoor eatand sheltered by large square ing. Rosenberg and his wife Gina magenta umbrellas. took over ownership in January Here you can enjoy lots of un- 2007. F.I.S.H. also has docks in usual seafood entrées like Orata front so customers can reach it by Aqua Pazza, sardines, cuddle boat during the spring, summer fish and langoustines; dishes and fall. The deck wraps around made with truffles; pastas like the back of the restaurant and bow ties topped with a light pink overlooks the Byram River in sauce, fresh smoked salmon and a tranquil, beautiful spot with asparagus tips and parpardella lovely homes across the way and with mixed mushrooms, port boats pulling in and out. wine and a shaving of Italian The largely seafood menu ricotta; signature dishes such includes appetizers such as ciopas Chicken Martini as well as pino (steamed shrimp, mussels dry-aged sirloin. and calamari in an excellent Il Sogno is open seven days spicy tomato lobster broth); a a week for lunch and dinner. Maryland style crab cake with Lunch runs from 12-3 p.m., dinner whole grain mustard aioli, celery from 5-10 p.m. Sunday through Please turn to page 6R

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Homemade Cuisine of Mexico & Spain Further Than Tradition

Coffee Shops M.A. Franchella’s 10 Bowman Ave., Port Chester 933-0826

—Zagat —Zagat 2005/06

Coyote FlaCo 273 North Avenue New Rochelle

636-7222

Delivery and Take-out Available Open for Lunch & Dinner: Tues. - Sun. from Noon - 10 pm • Dinner Mon. 4 - 9:30 pm

36 Broad St., Port Chester 939-9425

El Rincon Paisa 130 North Main St., Port Chester 939-9364

Los Remolinos Restaurant 123 North Main St., Port Chester 937-7456

Ecuadorian El Criollito Restaurant

Open 7 Days for Lunch and Dinner Lunch Buffet Monday thru Saturday 12-2:30 Sunday Brunch Buffet 12-2:30 We Deliver • Catering Available • All Major Credit Cards Visit Our Sister Restaurant: Meera 227 Summer Street, Stamford, CT • 203-975-0479

302 Midland Ave., Port Chester 937-0022

8 South Main St., Port Chester 937-0840

216 Westchester Ave., Port Chester 934-8137

www.tandooritasteofindia.com • Fax: 914-935-9689

Subway Restaurant

Delicias Colombianas

Dominican

163 North Main Street, Port Chester, NY 914-937-2727 • 914-935-9680

262 Boston Post Rd., Port Chester 934-5045

Texas Chili Restaurant

699 Westchester Ave., Rye Brook 939-6300

“Indian food lovers will find Tandoori delightful, delicious.” Gannett Newspapers

McDonald’s Restaurant

172 North Main St., Port Chester 934-7675

Hollywood Chicken International

“HHH - Tandoori is indeed a delightful taste of India.” Greenwich Time

262 Boston Post Rd., Port Chester 935-0741

Subway Restaurant

The Tulip Tree at the Hilton Rye Town

l ut On 10T% ake-o

Kentucky Fried Chicken

Rye Ridge Shopping Center 118 South Ridge St., Rye Brook 937-1597

Continental

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Hubba 24 North Main St., Port Chester 939-7276

321 Boston Post Rd., Port Chester 937-3355

Asi Es Colombia We use only the finest freshest ingredients

Fast Food

Starbucks Coffee Company

32 Broad St., Port Chester 305-1060

“Authentic and a Bargain”

937-6969

Post Road Plaza 262 Boston Post Rd., Port Chester 939-7776

Aqui Es Santa Fe Café

Daily Fish Specials

115 Midland Avenue Port Chester

Wah Yuan Chinese Restaurant

Colombian

Large Patio for Outside Dining

“Excellent”

Chinese

138 Irving Ave., Port Chester 934-8010

Rinconcito Ecuatoriano Restaurant 150 North Main St., Port Chester 937-7343

Fast Food Burger King 260 Boston Post Rd., Port Chester 934-7877

Dunkin Donuts 330 Boston Post Rd., Port Chester 939-8331

Dunkin Donuts 295 Midland Ave., Port Chester 935-9034

Wendy’s Restaurant 303 Boston Post Rd., Port Chester 939-9417

Greek/American One Station Plaza 111 Westchester Ave., Port Chester 939-3416

Guatemalan Café Guatemala 28 Grace Church St., Port Chester 937-8537

Keylee’s Restaurant 11 Pearl St., Port Chester 481-1650

Indian Tandoori Taste of India 163 North Main St., Port Chester 937-2727 or 935-9680 Specialties include: Papadams (lentil wafers); Chicken Kabob; soups & salads; Dieters Delight; Chicken Vindalu (chicken curry in hot tangy Goan sauce); Lamb Do Pyaza; Beef Vindalu; Shrimp Bhuna ; vegetarian specials-Malai Kofta (cheese/potato balls in almond & cashew nut sauce); Sabji Saag Mali (spinach in spices, herbs/ garlic with potato and cauliflower); Vegetable Vindalu (mixed vegetables in very spicy tangy sauce); rice specials; medley specials; fresh breads; Indian style rice pudding; fried milk balls. Open 7 days lunch & dinner. Lunch Buffet Mon.-Sat. 12-2:30. Sunday Brunch Buffet. Delivery and catering available. All major credit cards. Street & municipal parking.

International Brisa Marina Restaurant 40 Grace Church St., Port Chester 934-9090

Garden Catering

Café Mirage

140 Midland Ave., Port Chester 934-7852 or 934-7810

531 North Main St., Port Chester 937-3497

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International Sonora Nuevo Latino Cuisine 179 Rectory St., 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.

Irish/American Davy Byrnes Irish Pub & Restaurant 538 Willett Ave., Port Chester 937-2106 Full Irish menu includes Gaelic Mixed Grill, Shepherd’s Pie, Corned Beef and Cabbage. Also Irish Beef Stew, Corned Beef Sandwiches, Fish & Chips, Irish Soda Bread, salads, pastas, seafood, steak, Chicken Pot Pie, turkey, burgers, soup, chili, Sherry Trifle, New York Style Cheesecake, Guinness Dark Irish Beer, Hart Irish Beer. Lunch: Sun.-Sat. 11:30-5, Dinner: 5-10 p.m. Credit cards: VISA, MC, AX. Some off-street parking.

Italian Caffe Del Monte 321 North Main St., Port Chester 937-0108

Hostaria Mazzei 25 South Regent St., Port Chester 939-2727

Marianacci’s Restaurant 24 Sherman St., Port Chester 939-3450

Nessa Ristorante 325 North Main St., Port Chester 939-0119

Pasquale II Ristorante 2 Putnam Ave., 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.

T&J Villaggio Trattoria 223-225 Westchester Ave., Port Chester 937-6665

Italian Tarry Lodge 18 Mill St., Port Chester 939-3111

Catering for all occasions

now hosting children’s birthday parties

Serving breakfast and lunch

Call ahead for pick-up or delivery

Italian Mediterranean Il Sogno Ristorante 316 Boston Post Rd., Port Chester 914-937-7200

Italian/Pizzeria Antonio’s Pizza and Restaurant Pathmark Shopping Center 130 Midland Ave., Port Chester 939-5137

Domino’s Pizza 262 Boston Post Rd., Port Chester 967-5070

Frank’s Restaurant and Pizzeria 23 Putnam Ave., Port Chester 939-8299

Frankie & Louie’s Restaurant 414 Willett Ave., 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. 7 days a week. Catering available. Free delivery lunch & dinner. Credit cards: AX, VISA, MC. Ample free parking in lot.

Il Pizzaiolo 46 North Main St., Port Chester 937-5120

Michael’s Famous Pan Pizza

HourS Monday – Friday 6:30 am to 3:30 pm Saturday 7:30 am to 2:30 pm

110 Adee Street, Port Chester, NY Across the street from the Connecticut side of metro north

914-305-4878

www.cousinfrankiesusagrill.com

POLLO A LA BRASA

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

125 Midland Ave., Port Chester 939-2241

Ferraro’s Pizza & Pasta 199 South Regent St., Port Chester 934-2900 Specialties include: Pasta fagioli, chicken noodle soup, mozzarella sticks, fried calamari, eggplant rolatini, chicken fingers; gorgonzola salad, antipasto salad, baby spinach & grilled chicken salad; gourmet pizzas: foccacio, chicken marsala, chicken scarpariello; hot heroes; calzones; penne carbonaro, linguini primavera, baked ziti, cavatelli & broccoli; whole wheat pasta healthy choice: grilled chicken & shrimp, Napoli, Calabria; chicken romano, chicken francese; veal sorentino, veal primavera; eggplant parmigiana; shrimp scampi, calamari fra diavlo; veggie wrap, The Frankie Boy wrap. Hours: Mon.-Sat. 11 a.m.-11 p.m., Sunday 12 p.m.-10 p.m. Most major credit cards. Delivery available. Street and lot parking.

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Late nigHt HourS Friday and Saturday 10:00 pm to 4:30 am

OPEN - 7 Days • 9 a.m. - Midnight

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

939-9437

Lunch Specials Takeout also

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Outdoor dining venues getting more exotic root slaw and baby greens; crispy Point Judith calamari served hot and spicy or plain with smoked paprika aioli; Maine steamers; steamed sweet p.e.i. mussels; raw oysters as well as shrimp and lobster cocktail. Salads include Gina’s woodroasted spring asparagus; Hawaiian tuna guacamole; and watermelon marinated market sashimi as well as sweet and sour beets; iceberg and the house salad of mixed greens and seasonal vegetables. F.I.S.H. paella a la Valencia with shrimp, mussels, clams, chicken, chorizo, sofrito, peas and saffron rice; Joe’s magic steak-house rubbed rare Hawaiian tuna; Guido’s down and dirty spicy zuppa di pesce and Jimmy the Greek style shrimp figure among the entrées on the summer menu. There’s also wood-fired pizza, grilled marinated black angus hangar steak frites, roasted organic chicken breast scapariello and the “two-napkin” black angus burger for those who may not like seafood. Some of the entrées and weekly market specials take advantage of the restaurant’s Italian woodburning oven which is also used for pizza. During the summer, F.I.S.H. is open seven days. Lunch runs from 12 noon to 3 p.m. Monday through Saturday, dinner from 5:30 to 10 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 5:30 to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 5 to 9 p.m. Sunday. Brunch is served Sunday from noon to 3 p.m. Reservations are a must on weekends. Large signs on the back of the large deck at Churrascaria Copacabana, a Brazilian steakhouse at 29-31 North Main St., read “Patio Now Open” and “Outside Dining and Live Music.” This venue just reopened last weekend after being redone to create a whole new look. The footprint hasn’t changed, but new wooden rails were installed all around, a roof was constructed, lattice woodwork put up on the sides, a bar with black marble top added and four large screen TVs hung on the bright orange back wall of the restaurant. Ten square wood tables and matching chairs with cushioned seats are spread out over the painted concrete floor which is decorated with potted green plants.

Continued from page 3R are protected by the restaurant’s large magenta awning. Big ceramic pots and planters filled with greenery, bushes and multicolored flowers add ambience. With the two owners and chef hailing from three different regions of Italy, Hostaria Mazzei prepares authentic Italian cuisine from all of them. Fare ranges from risottos to seafood as well as some hearty meat dishes. Gourmet pizzas and the fish of the day are prepared in the restaurant’s wood-burning oven. Dine at Hostaria Mazzei Monday through Friday from noon to 2:30 p.m. for lunch and every day from 5 to 10:30 p.m. for dinner.

The exotic patio behind Brisa Marina Bar & Grill at 40 Grace Church St. opened at the end of last season. Now that it is enclosed and less dependent on the weather, there will be live music here Thursday through Saturday starting at 7 p.m. and lasting until 10 or 11 p.m. Music will vary from jazz to Brazilian and sometimes there will be a deejay. Patio parties with live music will begin at 6 p.m. on Sunday. Besides tropical and South American drinks, customers can order off a special menu which features Brazilian specialties such as mixed barbecue for two or four people, baby lamp chops, beef ribs and fried yucca, pork sausage and fried yucca, fried pork tenderloin, top sirloin platter, skirt steak, Buffalo wings, fried tilapia, fried calamari, breaded deep fried shrimp or garlic and oil shrimp. The price-fixed service of various meats carved from skewers in the rodizio style the restaurant is largely known for is not available outside. Food will be served on the patio from 12 noon to 11 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. Copacabana, which opened in September 2007 where Pantanal Brazilian Restaurant had been, is closed Monday. Just a few doors down, at 23 North Main St., a lovely little deck extends off the back of the building on the Abendroth Avenue side of Rosie’s on the River, the new name for the former Per Voi, for

dining al fresco across from the Port Chester Marina. There two square green resin tables with matching green and wood graincolored chairs have been set up. The tables for two are covered with navy San Pellegrino umbrellas. Tiny white lights strung from the awning, two hanging plants loaded with pink and purple flowers and a garden below filled with coleus, white snapdragons and pink and yellow flowers add ambiance. It’s the perfect atmosphere to enjoy Rosie’s Italian cuisine. While owner Anthony Salvatore has been using the Per Voi menu up till now, a new lower end seasonal menu is coming out soon with pastas, pizza, burgers, appetizers, salads, sandwiches and fresh fruit. “It will be basically Italian but getting away from all high end,” he said. Salvatore said it was time to change the name to give the restaurant, which he has owned for four years, his own identity. The change occurred about a month ago and it was named for his mother. Plus, he said, “I’m the closest to the waterfront of all the other places” and thus the river reference. Rosie’s on the River features live music on Saturday nights. The Revised Jolly Green & the Giants will play 60s and 70s music on July 18.

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

Hours are Tuesday through Thursday from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., Friday from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., Saturday from 4 p.m. to 11 p.m. and Sunday from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. In February 2007, father and son Peter and Marc Tessitore opened Nessa Restaurant at 325 North Main St., across from The Landmark building. At that time Marc said in the future they planned to develop an outdoor eating area next to the building which was realized last June. Decorative iron gates open onto a narrow, cozy patio of multicolored bricks where seven black metal mesh round and square tables with matching chairs are covered by olive green umbrellas. This small space is beautifully landscaped with trees, bushes and marigolds in a few square beds that break it up and yellow lilies and green plants in a bed along a wooden fence installed adjacent to the building next door. Large wooden boxes planted with feathery yellow flowers as well as marigolds and miniature evergreens grace the entrance. Here patrons can enjoy this enotecca’s varied bruschetta, tramezzini (Italian tea sandwiches) and panini as well as creative appetizers and salads, pasta, chicken and seafood dishes, all made with the freshest ingredients. Since last year brunch has been added on Saturdays and Sundays featuring omelets, poached eggs, other breakfast dishes such as battered cinnamon raisin toast with walnut butter and potato pancakes with spiced apples, whipped ricotta and acacia honey as well as panini and salads. A guitarist plays music on Saturday from 1 to 3 p.m. Nessa is open for dinner Sunday through Thursday from 5:30 to 10 p.m., Friday and Saturday from 5:30 to 11 p.m. and for brunch Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. At Hostaria Mazzei, located at 25 South Regent St., you can eat in a similar elegant setting outside as you do inside. Two tables draped with off-white cloths set with china and glassware and wooden chairs with blue and red striped cloth seats have been moved out onto the wide sidewalk in front of the restaurant for those who choose to dine al fresco. They

Panera Bread was the first restaurant in The Waterfront at Port Chester development to place tables outside. At Panera, located at 10 Westchester Ave., corner of Traverse Avenue, seven round black mesh metal tables and matching chairs are grouped on the wide sidewalk outside. There are no colorful umbrellas this year. Table service is not provided inside nor is it offered here. Customers may simply take their drinks and/or food outside to enjoy the air and watch the passersby. Outside speakers allow customers to hear their name called when their order is ready to be picked up inside. Panera, a national chain, is known for its fresh baked bread, bagels and pastries, soups, salads and sandwiches. Grilled breakfast sandwiches and baked egg soufflés are also available. Some summer specials include a lobster sandwich on ciabatta (half pound of Canadian lobster tossed in mayo and served with lettuce); chopped chicken cobb and strawberry poppyseed salads and frozen lemonade. Other beverages to be enjoyed in the summer months include iced tea, iced coffee, iced chai tea latte, refreshing mango and low fat strawberry smoothies and frozen caramel or mocha drinks. If you have a Costco card, you get 10% off your check. Summer hours at Panera are Sunday through Wednesday from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., Thursday from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., Friday and Saturday from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. For the seventh season Ebb Tide Seafood’s large deck overlooking the Byram River at 1 Willett Ave. is open for dining. There’s lots of activity at this location with a marina in front and boats coming and going. The gray deck features 11 long redwood picnic tables shaded by green umbrellas. Window boxes filled with white daisies and decorated with American flags and red, white and blue banners help create an allAmerican summer atmosphere. 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. The location, which has become more popular with each passing summer, can be reached by car or boat. A sign set up at the corner of Abendroth and Willett avenues advertises new shell lobsters for $5.99/lb. Orders are placed at a counter inside the restaurant and then brought to your table. Fried shrimp, fish sticks, fish and chips, calamari, coconut Please turn to page 7R

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Outdoor dining venues getting more exotic shrimp, Buffalo shrimp, steamed lobsters, shrimp, and clams; and sautéed shrimp, scallops, salmon and crab cakes are on the menu as well as daily specials such as Maine steamers with garlic parsley butter ($14.95), grilled wild salmon with Portobello mushrooms ($19.95/$22.95 with chowder and dessert) and fried oysters with fries, cole slaw and tartar sauce ($16.95/$20.95). You can also get lobster tails, sautéed soft shell crab, seafood garlic bread, homemade baked clams; seafood sandwiches such as clam rolls, crab dogs, crab burgers and lobster rolls; raw oysters and clams; shrimp cocktail; chowders and lobster bisque. A few items are available for land lovers. Lunch specials are offered from 12 to 3 p.m. such as a clam roll with fries and chowder for $11.95, shrimp with fries for $12.95 or crab cakes with plum tomato salad, vegetable and rice for $13.95. Besides food, bait and tackle can be purchased and boats can be rented at this location. Lunch is served every day from 11:45 a.m. to 4 p.m. and dinner from 5 to 9 p.m. Just down the street at 37-39 North Main St., the courtyard at what is now Café Brazil USA got a makeover five years ago when a deck was constructed on a portion of the courtyard you walk through to get to the restaurant. Café Brazil was closed for some months and reopened in May 2006 under the ownership of Brazilian-born Mario Paiva, who lived in Port Chester for 12 years and now resides in Greenwich. As in the past, in this highly visible outdoor dining area patrons can eat Brazilian specialties and consume homemade desserts. A combination of nine black wrought iron and black metal tables with green and white plastic chairs, six topped by cheerful green and yellow Bavaria umbrellas and two by a navy blue Corona Extra variety, provide a tranquil place to eat in this garden setting shaded by trees. The owner has created a window display of Brazilian artifacts visible in the courtyard and beautified the space with flowering shrubs. The food and setup are much the same as they were under the previous two owners with typical Brazilian cuisine offered in a selfserve format in two buffets, one for hot food and one for salads. It is priced at $3.99 per pound for the buffet or salad bar, $5.99 per pound for a combination of the two or for the buffet and

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churrasco (rotisserie meats) and $8.99 per pound for churrasco and the salad bar only. Meat selections include barbecued chicken, pork, sausage or steak cooked on the rotisserie. Café Brazil USA also offers cakes, flan and other desserts. Sandwiches and breakfast foods are also available. Café Brazil is open from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday, 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday.

Further down Main Street near the Greenwich border figures one of the most visible outdoor eating areas in Port Chester, the well-landscaped red brick patio in front of Pasquale II Ristorante across from Cumberland Farms at 2 Putnam Ave. Here customers dine at nine grayish tables and matching chairs covered with an eclectic mix of sky blue San Pellegrino, green Perrier, orange Aqua Panna and blue and white Pepsi umbrellas. A buffer of beautiful shrubs, trees and flowers in pots and beds surrounds the patio and helps create a tranquil setting. Tiny white lights on a white picket fence along the perimeter of the patio and music piped outside enhance the pleasant atmosphere. Fine Italian cuisine is featured at Pasquale for lunch and dinner—homemade pastas, chicken, veal and seafood as well as fine wines. The lunch menu also includes a handful of sandwiches. Hours are Tuesday through Thursday from 12 noon to 10 p.m., Friday from 12 noon to 11 p.m., Saturday from 3 to 11 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 9 p.m. Pasquale is closed Monday. 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. Fourteen silver metal tables for two with matching silver metal chairs which can be pushed together to accommodate larger parties are shaded by three large tan umbrellas. This lovely spot next to the Byram River is surrounded by a new fence, royal blue on the outside, white inside, to provide a cozy atmosphere. Overhanging trees and candles on the tables add to the charming environment. Some of the summer specials being offered by proprietor/ chef Dave Haggerty at this international eatery, where the full menu is available until midnight on Friday and Saturday, are pomegranate and mango margaritas, passion fruit martinis, and Nick’s mango rum punch; arugula, grapefruit, gorgonzola

Guests enjoy Nuevo Latino cuisine on the cozy deck at Sonora, which is hidden by trees and bushes at 179 Rectory St. and pignoli nut salad with poppy seed vinaigrette; Thai ginger lemongrass shrimp; Bangkok mussels steamed in coconut milk and Thai spices; pan fried oysters with Creole hollandaise as well as gazpacho, carrot ginger, and tomato with avocado relish soups. Oysters, little neck clams on the half shell and traditional shrimp cocktail are always available from the raw bar. The regular menu includes unusual sandwiches (including the new fried oyster po’ boy) and entrées such as coconut curry shrimp or chicken; crispy red snapper, Jamaican jerk chicken, linguine with prosciutto, mushrooms, spinach and goat cheese and sesame crusted seared yellowfin tuna with wakame salad

and ginger risotto. The fish, skirt steak and jerk chicken tacos are new this year. Café Mirage is open for lunch Monday through Friday. Hours are Monday through Thursday from 11:30 a.m. to 11 p.m., Friday from 11:30 a.m. to 12 midnight and Saturday from 5:30 p.m. to midnight. The restaurant is closed Sunday. For the eighth 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. A few pots of greenery sit on the ledge of the deck—painted a

pretty shade of red—where a total of 14 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, Argentina, Please turn to page 9R

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Villa Rustica Pizzeria & Trattoria 261 South Ridge St., Rye Brook 939-8888 or 939-8885

Japanese Edo Japanese Steak House 140 Midland Ave., Port Chester 937-3333

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Mexican El Zarape Mexican Restaurant 24 Grace Church St., Port Chester 933-0363

Kiosko 220 Westchester Ave., Port Chester 933-0155

Luis’ Place 135 South Main St., Port Chester 939-3132

Mary Ann’s Mexican Restaurant 275 Boston Post Rd., Port Chester 939-8700 Specialties include: Turkey chili, chalupas, jalapenos stuffed with shrimp, tofu, tofu jack cheese, 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.

Rancho Grande 8 Poningo St., Port Chester 934-2675

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Dougie’s Standby 604 North Main St., Port Chester 939-0022

Lenny’s Bagels 200 South Ridge St., Rye Brook 939-1379

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

Vinny’s Luncheonette 182 North Main St., Port Chester 939-9591

Mexican Coyote Flaco 115 Midland Ave., 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 noon to 10 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. Open Monday 4-9:30 p.m. Catering. Delivery and takeout service. Free parking. All major credit cards accepted.

El Tio Restaurant 143 Westchester Ave., Port Chester 939-1494

Northern Italian Alba’s Ristorante 400 North Main St., Port Chester 937-2236

Giorgio’s Restaurant 69 Merritt St., Port Chester 937-4906/1096

Piero’s Italian Restaurant 44 South Regent St., Port Chester 937-2904

Rosie’s on the River 23 North Main St., Port Chester 937-3200

Peruvian Acuario Cevicheria y Mas 163 North Main St., Port Chester 937-2338

Chavin Restaurant 16 North Main St., Port Chester 937-7917

El Chalan Restaurant 45 Midland Ave., Port Chester 934-2244

El Parral Restaurant 2 South Main St., Port Chester 939-0409

El Plebeyo Restaurant 25 North Main St., Port Chester 690-2797

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Outdoor dining venues getting more exotic Cuba, Spain, Chile, Colombia and Ecuador. Lobster and avocado quesadilla with chipotle and crème fraiche aioli from Mexico; a tasting of braised short rib empanadas with ginger and cilantro aioli from Cuba, sirloin steak empanada with guajillo and golden raisin aji from Colombia and shrimp empanadas with horseradish mojito from Chile; golden beets, raisins, goat cheese and arugula salad with lime coconut vinaigrette from Argentina; and cool and tasty gazpacho style ceviche served with shrimp, chopped red onion, peppers, cilantro and cucumber with lemon and lime juices from Chile are among the interesting tapas. Main courses include seafood paella with lobster, shrimp, clams, mussels, sea scallops and chorizo topped with sofrito from Spain; sautéed shrimp and sea scallops in a chipotle, honey, Chardonnay sauce with Monterey Jack and black bean ravioli from Mexico; seared free range chicken stuffed with Colombian chorizo, goat cheese and sweet plantains served over sautéed spinach in a sherry reduction from Colombia; and sautéed pork tenderloin served with crabmeat, black bean and sweet plantain moro rice and lime mojito sauce garnished with cherry tomatoes and cilantro escabeche from Cuba. Sonora is currently offering price-fixed lunches for $14.95 or $19.95. A variety of cocktails, margaritas, mojitos, tequilas and international beers are on the menu to go with your meal. 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 Thursday and 5 to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Another outdoor eating locale opened six years ago behind Kiosko Restaurant at 220 Westchester Ave. Seven butcher block booths have been placed outside on a red brick patio around the back of the building off the parking lot. Covered on three sides and open in the back, it is decorated with large ceramic pots with pretty pink flowers and green planters with trellises filled with a variety of red and yellow flowers. Colorful Mexican ponchos brighten the stucco walls and Latin music plays in the background. Mexican-born Nestor Morales of Queens and Raphael Quintero of Bridgeport, Conn. opened Kiosko, which offers authentic Mexican food, in February 2004. Raphael’s brother Tony has since joined the partnership. Full Mexican and American breakfasts of Huevos Rancheros, Huevos a la Mexicana, Huevos con Chorizo, eggs with home fries, beans, ham or on a roll and omelets 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’s Cemitas Poblanas, authentic Mexican sandwiches made with a variety of meats, on-

Continued from page 7R from a variety of egg sandwiches and platters, omelets, home fries, bacon, sausage, muffins, bagels and doughnuts. Garden Catering is open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday and from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday.

The spacious deck behind the Brazilian steakhouse Churrascaria Copacabana at 29-31 North Main St. just reopened after a roof was added and other upgrades were made. ions, avocado, asiago cheese and chipotle sauce, have been written up in The New York Times. Their flan is the best around. Kiosko is open from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday, 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Frank’s Restaurant & Pizzeria at 23 Putnam Ave. provided outdoor seating for a number of years, dropped it four years ago following the eatery’s renovation, but then brought it back. Two square black mesh metal tables with matching chairs seating a total of four people sit on the sidewalk under Frank’s magenta awning along with an attractive bench and a gorgeous urn of pink flowers. However, no table service is provided to customers who choose to eat there. Frank’s offers all types of pizza, pasta, hot and cold wedges, sandwiches, wraps, roll ups, burgers, an array of specialty salads, antipasti and other Italian specialties. Besides pasta (baked, specialty ravioli, lasagna, and a number of different combinations), there are chicken, veal, seafood and eggplant dishes plus steaks and chops. Hours are Monday through Thursday from 10:30 a.m. to 10 p.m., Friday and Saturday from 10:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. The restaurant is closed Sunday. 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 was newly renovated four years ago and is now enclosed on three sides by an attractive wall of beige and gray bricks inset with lantern fixtures that light up the eating area at night. The patio is covered by a bright green awning. Seating is at an eclectic mix of chairs and rectangular tables with red, gold and green plastic tablecloths as well as at green picnic tables with beige 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. Coyote Flaco serves yummy, spicy gazpacho which is thinner than most (offered daily in the summer), and you can’t top the

salmon and shrimp fajitas or just about any of the Mexican specialties offered here. Coyote Flaco has hard as well as soft tacos, highly rated fajitas and a great taco salad in a crispy nest flour tortilla. Rotisserie chicken plain or prepared in a variety of ways has been added more recently. Besides Mexican beer, a whole list of flavored margaritas and a variety of tequilas are available as well as other specialty drinks. Hours are 4 to 10 p.m. Monday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday and Sunday and 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday. In the same neck of the woods, it’s the 11th season for outdoor

soups, salads, as well as pasta, chicken, veal, beef, pork and fish 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. Lunch is served every day from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., dinner every day from 4:30 to 10 p.m. Also on Midland Avenue, you can eat outdoors at Garden Catering, which opened in May 2001 in the shopping center at #140. In fact, at Garden Catering there’s only the choice of eating outside at one of six green round tables

A year ago Douglas, Steven and Barbara Zaccagnini of Greenwich bought the former J.P.’s Standby Drive-in next to Cumberland Farms at 604 North Main St. and renamed it Dougie’s Standby. Brothers Douglas, 27, and Steven, almost 23, are running it. Doug said he worked at J.P.’s since he was 13 when he started out washing dishes and worked there on and off for 13 years. So when he and his mother had the opportunity to buy it, they did. Dougie’s has a covered outdoor eating area with three picnic tables overlooking the Byram River. Dougie’s continues to offer typical American grilled breakfast and lunch specialties and is known for its hot dogs, burgers, steak sandwiches and homemade chili. A veggie burger and additional sandwiches are also on the menu. J.P.’s reopened two years ago this month after having been closed for renovations following the death of owner John Pellino at the end of April. His son, Joseph Pellino, and Joseph Alexander spruced up the place and expanded the menu but only stayed in business for a year. Summer hours at Dougie’s are 5 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, 5 a.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday through Friday, 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. The KFC franchise and Wah Yuan Chinese Restaurant up on the hill in the shopping 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.

An attractive brick wall topped with boxes filled with plants and flowers surrounds the patio in front of Coyote Flaco Mexican restaurant at 115 Midland Ave. eating at Michael’s Famous Pan Pizza. In the summer of 1998, owner Michael Iacobelli transformed an overgrown lot behind his restaurant at 125 Midland Ave. into a lovely outdoor eatery. It features 15 ornate black wrought iron tables and matching chairs on a red brick patio surrounded by a decorative fence fitted with painted panels depicting varied scenes from Tuscany. To complete the effect, concrete was painted to look like stucco or old tiles. The patio, shaded by overhanging trees and naturally decorated by grape vines growing over the walls enclosing it, features lanterns on the tables, pots of white begonias and a pretty bar with a granite top and wrought iron stools to match the chairs. The patio is available for private parties of all types and, when it is not being used for that, is open to the public for lunch or dinner. Michael’s offers fine Italian cuisine including appetizers,

with matching chairs shaded by green umbrellas positioned on the sidewalk in front of the eatery or taking out because there are no tables indoors. A tub of flowers and a bed of yellow and lilac flowers and greens planted next to the building spruce up this outdoor venue. Port Chester natives Frank Carpenteri and Kevin Keegan and Port Chester resident Mario Medina offer chicken, ribs and other freshly made foods to take out at this fast food restaurant. Garden Catering offers 100% white meat chicken nuggets and French fries, cones, onion rings, battered mushrooms, or zucchini; fried chicken by the pound or platter, fried shrimp, filet of sole, spare ribs, chili dogs, hamburgers, turkey burgers, quesadillas, homemade chili, hot and cold sandwiches and wraps, salads, soups and desserts for lunch and dinner. For breakfast you can choose

Sidewalk cafés Four eating establishments have received permits to put tables on public sidewalks in the Village of Port Chester this season: Sam’s Bar & Grill, T&J Pizza & Pasta, Frankie & Louie’s Restaurant & Pizzeria and, new this year, Los Gemelos Restaurant & Tortilleria. The village board passed legislation allowing for this use of public sidewalks in May 1997. Permitted hours of operation for sidewalk cafés are from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and until 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday from May 1 through Oct. 31. Besides paying $25, restaurant owners must provide proof of liability 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. Please turn to page 10R

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Outdoor dining venues getting more exotic 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 Village Clerk’s Office inside the front door to your left at 222 Grace Church St. A small outdoor eating area has been set up for the 12th year adjacent to the Byram River in front of Sam’s Bar & Grill at 1 Mill St. This year there are two round plastic tables and one square green table with white plastic chairs topped by a light blue San Pellegrino umbrella. Green window boxes on the out-

has continued the Italian eatery’s 11-year tradition of setting up a space outside. A light wood lattice fence encloses eight black mesh metal tables with matching chairs seating a total of 16 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 including daily blackboard specials. Throughout the year Wednesday is Family Style Night where each dish feeds 2 to 4 people for $28.95, Thursday

wall beautify the area. The market is open to the public, not just residents of the 10-year-old BelleFair residential development, located off Upper King Street. The market features homemade soups, a salad bar where you pick your lettuce and ingredients, homemade dressings, and freshly made salads. They make sandwiches of all types on rye, 7 grain or sourdough bread as well as panini, wraps and baguettes. In addition, a grill menu is now available which includes hamburgers, hot dogs and French fries among other items. For the summer, freshly brewed iced tea and lemonade as well as a mixture of the two and two flavors of iced coffee

a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday, 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Rye Ridge Deli, also in the Rye Ridge Shopping Center at 126 South Ridge St., was back bigger and better two summers ago following its expansion and also placed more tables out front for plein air eating than before. This year there are six silver mesh round metal tables with four matching chairs around each provided for customers who choose to take their food outside. The menu continues to feature huge sandwiches of every variety, over-stuffed combination and specialty sandwiches, soups like home style chicken noodle matzoh ball and cold borscht as

Mulligan’s Bar & Grill at Doral Arrowwood Resort and Conference Center on Anderson Hill Road features a long bar and 15 wooden tables and chairs. Covered by a green and white awning, this seasonal eating spot open to the plein air is located behind the golf shop overlooking the ninth hole of the golf course. side of the building planted with a nice mix of flowers and greens and pots of red geraniums on either side of the front door add charm to this quaint little spot. When it gets dark, one of the old-fashioned style street lights on the bridge, located just at the edge of the seating area, casts a subtle glow. At Sam’s customers can feast on burgers and steaks, grilled chicken sandwiches, chicken wings, chili, salads and daily dinner specials. Dinner hours are 5 to 10 p.m. seven days a week although the kitchen sometimes closes earlier. T&J Pizza & Pasta at 227 Westchester Ave. has pretty much the same setup for outdoor eating this season as it did the last seven years. Two round inlaid stone tables for two with black metal ice cream chairs are offset by two evergreens potted in stone planters surrounded by flowers. T&J’s red and green awning provides protection from the sun. Here you can bring your takeout food and eat outside. This year Italian ice is being sold outside for $1.50 from a little cart shaded by a blue umbrella. 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 $12.95 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.

is Ravioli Night with different varieties of ravioli for $12.95 and Sunday is Pasta Madness featuring a choice of five pasta dishes for $12.95. All include salad. Don’t forget to give the extraordinary homemade desserts a try. Hours are 11 a.m. till closing, some nights till 11, seven days a week. Los Gemelos Restaurant & Tortilleria at 167 Westchester Ave. has set up two square silver metal tables with multi-colored chairs on the sidewalk out front for the first time this year. Here you can take the food you order at this authentic Mexican eatery and eat it al fresco. The menu includes burritos, sopes, tostadas, tortas, tacos, taquitos, flautas, quesadillas, combination platters, fajitas, enchiladas, soups as well as seafood and steak entrées. Hours are 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday.

Rye Brook Joshua, Joel, Judy and Alan Elstein of Armonk opened Belle Fair Country Market at 20 BelleFair Blvd. last May following a few months of renovations. This family-run deli, market and café serves breakfast, lunch and dinner both inside and at three hexagonal picnic tables with attached benches topped by brown umbrellas with beige trim on the patio right outside the market across from the Belle Fair Meeting House. Three additional square wooden picnic tables with attached benches and green umbrellas sit on the sidewalk around the corner. Greenery and a stone

are available. There are also homemade cupcakes, candy bars and other baked goods as well as vanilla Colombo frozen yogurt into which various fruit flavors can be swirled. For breakfast you can get challah French toast, pancakes, 8-grain oatmeal, breakfast burritos, omelets, egg sandwiches, homemade muffins and Barrie House coffee in eight flavors. Belle Fair Country Market, which also does catering, is open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday, Saturday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Breakfast is served until 11 a.m. each day, Sunday brunch until noon. As part of the total renovation of the former Pizza & Brew in the Rye Ridge Shopping Center at 136 South Ridge St. two years ago, patio doors were installed at the front of the restaurant that can open during good weather and allow for eating outdoors. This year numerous square white and black marble tables for two with black wicker chairs are set up on the sidewalk enclosed by black borders that read Racanelli’s Pizzeria Restaurant, the Italian eatery’s current name. The name change corresponded with the restaurant’s upgrade. Racanelli’s serves up soft and chewy New York pizza, combination pies, Napoletana individual thin crust brick oven pizzas, all kinds of pastas, other Italian favorites made with chicken, veal, shrimp, eggplant and sausage, chef specials as well as appetizers, sandwiches, flame broiled burgers, hand crafted salads, pizza rolls and calzones. Racanelli’s is open from 11

well as French onion and chili, salad platters and entrée salads, hot open sandwiches, half pound burgers, fried specialties, dairy delicacies, vegetarian delights and beef, fish and poultry dinners. You can also get anything you can think of for breakfast, including challah bread French toast, Belgian waffles, blintzes and matzoh brie as well as bacon and eggs, omelets, oatmeal and breakfast burritos. Hours are 7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday through Wednesday, 7:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Thursday through Saturday. The best kept secret in Rye Brook and Port Chester remains Mulligan’s Bar & Grill at Doral Arrowwood Resort and Conference Center on Anderson Hill Road, which I discovered nine 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 gazpacho, fresh fruit plate, chicken quesadillas, Buffalo wings, chicken fingers, grilled Cajun shrimp, salads such as Caesar, chef, and seared sesame crusted tuna on a bed of Asian cabbage; sandwiches, wraps, a Maine lobster roll, beef and turkey burgers. There are also daily specials and a children’s menu. Mulligan’s has a new drink menu featuring refreshing alcoholic beverages like a Raspberry Mojave made with Kettle 1 vodka, mint and lemonade, a Mango Bellini made with mango purée and champagne and A Day at the Beach concocted with Malibu rum, Baccardi, cream of coconut

Continued from page 9R and fresh banana. Mulligan’s is open seven days a week from 11:30 a.m. until 8:30 p.m. through Columbus Day. While the Hilton Rye Town at 699 Westchester Ave. no longer offers table service for casual outdoor dining in a garden setting, you can still order room service for consuming outside. The large outdoor area that used to be the Terrace Grill features six round glass-top tables with beige fabric chairs covered by brown umbrellas on a patio surrounded by hedges and flower gardens. Additional seating is provided on a slate veranda a few steps above the patio. 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 green awning. At least that was the setup last year and I assume it’s the same in 2009. However, the sandwich shop is closed for vacation this week (through July 18), so I can’t be sure. Sean Quinn of Rye assumed ownership of the local eatery in February 2005. 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 have already been dreamed up. Their spicy Texas chili with or without onions and cheese is also a good bet. At least two different soups are also offered each day. Quinn added six different salads-tossed, chicken, Cobb, chicken Caesar, Buffalo and goat cheese— to the offerings when he took over. Breakfast sandwiches, muffins, croissants, pastries, crumb cake, bagels, coffees and teas make up the breakfast menu. Hours are Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Up the hill in the shopping center at 200 South Ridge St., Lenny’s Bagels also provides outdoor seating for its patrons. Four round silver metal tables with matching silver chairs afford space for 10 to munch on Lenny’s homemade bagels, bagel sandwiches with all types of salad and meat fillings, soups, salads and gourmet desserts. There are daily lunch specials. During the summer cold gazpacho and cucumber dill soups are usually on the menu. As cool seasonal beverages, Lenny’s offers iced tea and iced coffee. Summer hours are Monday through Saturday from 5:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 5:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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El Volcan Restaurant Peruano 30 Broad St., Port Chester 939-0076

Misti Café Takeout 100 North Main St., 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 St., 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 St., Port Chester 937-2086

La Pupusa Loca de Port Chester 165 Westchester Ave., Port Chester 935-0767

Rinconcito Salvadoreno Restaurante 20 Broad St., Port Chester 937-9287

Seafood Ebb Tide Seafood 1 Willett Ave., Port Chester 939-4810

El Palacio de los Mariscos 134 North Main St., Port Chester 939-2222

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173 Westchester Ave., 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.

Spanish

Steakhouses Frank’s Steaks 275 South Ridge St., Rye Brook 305-4445

Willett House Restaurant 20 Willett Ave., Port Chester 939-7500

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Patrias Restaurant 35½ North Main St., Port Chester 937-0177

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Port Chester Seafood 295 Midland Avenue Port Chester 937-2232 Specialties include: New England/ Manhattan clam chowder, homemade fish chowder; seafood/tuna salad; hot lunches – Fish ‘n chips, fried calamari, fried sea scallops, fried shrimp, fried clam strips, fried whiting; fish sandwich; stuffed sole, broiled swordfish, blackened tuna, poached salmon with dill sauce, Shrimp Scampi; daily specials. Lunch served Tues.-Fri. 11 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Credit cards: VISA and MasterCard. Free delivery, senior discount, parking on premises.

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We Deliver Ferraro’s Pizza & Pasta “That’s Italian” 199 South Regent Street Port Chester, New York

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102 Fox Island Road Port Chester 939-4227 Specialties include Crispy Boston Calamari, Lobster and Crab Crespelle; sweet and sour beet salad, Caesar salad; Classic Margherita Pizza, F.I.S.H. pizza; raw bar: monster shrimp cocktail, East Coast oysters; scallop and potato gnocchi, linguini with white clam sauce; zataar crusted Alaskan halibut, pan roasted king salmon, ponzu marinated Hawaiian tuna mignon, organic chicken scarpiello, 8 oz. premium Hereford “French onion” burger. Full bar. Hours: Lunch: Tues. – Sat 12:00-3 p.m. Brunch: Sun. 12-3 p.m. Dinner: Tues.-Thurs. 5:3010 p.m., Fri. & Sat. 5:30-11 p.m., Sun. 5:00-9 p.m. Catering available. Major credit cards accepted. On premises parking.

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Inca & Gaucho Restaurant

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Fox Island Seafood House (F.I.S.H.)

Nico’s Chicken 137 Irving Ave., Port Chester 939-7090

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414 Willett Avenue Port Chester, NY 914-939-0202

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A Great Variety of Seafood & Vegetarian Specialties Full Bar in a Festive Atmosphere Catering Available On or Off Premises Happy Hour Sunday - Thursday 4-7 Margaritas & Beers at the bar only Lunch & Weekend Brunch 11:30-4 Dinner: Sun. - Thurs. 4-10 Fri. - Sat. 4-Midnight

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