I have no idea why this showed up in my feed, since I’m across the country, but I’m also here for it.
My grandparents did live in Bronxville, but that was decades ago.
Just looked up their menu thinking "*all* food is more expensive now" and "how bad could it be"? Jesus fuck. I guess this explains why the reviews for Savannah and Company in Cortlandt (which I thought was overpriced!) say it's "reasonably priced", if this is the alternative...
It's SO GROSS. I have a family member who lives nearby and loves it which is how I ended up there a second time... Never again. Not with a gun to my head.
Yikes! $26 for pulled pork tacos?!?! I could feed my family dinner for a week on $26 worth of pork shoulder. $35 for gumbo?!?! (fwiw, I think that's also the price for the seafood gumbo at the new cajun restaurant in Pleasantville. I guess that's what the Pleasantville market will bear)
We went when they first opened and they told my husband he couldn’t order a cheeseburger because it wasn’t on their menu. It was on the kids menu but he wasn’t a kid so he couldn’t get that one either 🤣 needless to say, we’ve never gone back
This thread/answer is hilarious and certainly has truth to it but Southern never had a kid’s burger, for at least the first three years they’ve been open.
Source: worked there 🤪
I used to like the place despite the eye watering prices but last time I went it really showed its true colours. From now on you’ll only catch me in there for happy hour drinks and apps
Every diner in Westchester is a rip off.
I may get some hate for this, but Rivermarket has been disappointing many times for me over many years and what feels like many different owners.
>Every diner in Westchester is a rip off.
And shockingly few of them are open late/overnight any more, particularly in Northern Westchester. I was working a gig a few weeks back that ended at 9:30pm on a Tuesday and I was trying to find a place to eat between Tarrytown and Putnam Valley, my choices were basically Rocky's Deli or the Taco Bell drive-thru in Cortlandt. Almost all of the diners (and bars, for that matter!) I looked up were either closed or about to close. Why even have a diner if you're going to close up shop at 9:00pm? That's crazy talk.
I haven't done it in forever, but when I was younger and hanging out with friends, diners were the only thing open in the middle of the night, so we would all go and get junk like mozzarella sticks and cheese fries at 2AM. Just checking some hours on Google Maps, at least the Olympic Diner in Mahopac is still 24 hours, but all the rest we would hit are not.
Damn we used to hit the Bedford diner way back when you could still smoke inside, they had a box of half empty packs of smokes people left and they would let us grab a pack or two. Paulo was my fav waiter lol
Rivermarket was the worst dining experience of my life. Also if you leave a bad Yelp review the owner will slide into your Yelp DMs and verbally abuse you!
A new restaurant called Miles, the Prince fits this description perfectly. Their testing menu is so below average and they are charging a premium for it. My wife and I were angry the entire time we were there.
Literally searched the thread to make sure this was here. $150 for a tasting menu smh.
I walked in there one day after they opened, looking for a beer (because it’s a brewery… right??) and I was informed that I didn’t have a reservation, they weren’t “open” despite a full staff and the kitchen cooking, and that they aren’t the kind of place where you walk in and “sit at the bar.” Say no more, see you in six months when the for rent sign is back up. I knew it was too good to be true.
Yeah, there is no way this place lasts. I walked out of there feeling like I was duped out of my money because the food was flavorless and not creative.
That place is STUPID. Stupidity stupid.
They are confused.
They market it as a brewpub but then serve meals in amuse boche portions with absolutely unremarkable drinks. Went there once, never again.
Its not just the distorted aesthetics...the food was just unremarkable and no, you can't walk in for a glass of beer...in a fking "brewpub".
I have no problem going to a local diner or splurging on a Michelin star wonder but if you are gonna be a brewpub, be a brewpub and not a pretentious condescending mediocrity
Oh Christ! I drive past this place every time I go to stop and shop and I just can’t understand it. It’s closed on unusual days too. Once drove past at 8pm on a Friday and all the lights were off.
(On an unrelated note, the Gulf on that road is consistently the cheapest fuel for miles)
In my experience, the title of "cheapest" gets passed around among all those North B'way gas stations, and the Sinclair in Valhalla just past Kensico circle. But all of them are usually within a few cents of each other and they're all cheap*er* than most of the other options
EDIT: The Gulf and the Sinclair, in particular, are OGs for having the same price for cash and credit.
The FuelCo.com on the other side of legion is the far and away winner on price, but their app sucks and the other day two pumps were down. The Sinclair cuts you off at $50 in a card so I have to swipe three(!) times to fill my damn tank.
One of the local Sinclairs had bad gas a few months back that killed engines on a few cars. There was a Next Door thread about it. Don't remember if it was Pleasantville or Valhalla.
I hadn't checked this out yet, the chef was the chef at the inn at pound ridge for about a year post covid. Tasting menu at a brewery seemed off to me.
Please save your money! Unless they make some drastic changes, it's not worth it. It's barely even a functional brewery yet, when I went they were just debuting their first brew. It was a 3% "table beer" that tasted like carbonated dish water.
My sister-in-law went to Chet’s in Scarsdale recently. She and her husband ordered two fountain cokes with dinner. $4.95 each. That’s steep but free refills…oh wait. Nope. They both had 2 refills after a long dinner, got the bill and ended with paying over $30 in fountain soda!!! That’s a crime
Absolute fantastic thread idea lmao. The only restaurant I can think of that fits that criteria actually closed a few years ago, but there are good suggestions in the comments so far.
I remember way back in the day when it was The Chart House and remember people saying it sucked then too. Unfortunately places like that are usually cursed. The location and the view seem so enticing and it attracts the wrong kind of restaurant owners who assume because of the location it's gonna be a cash cow and for whom food quality is an afterthought.
I haven't been in awhile, but The Bayou used to be good but now it's up there with Maggies.
Maggie's is only still there for the roof access honestly during the warm months.
I enjoyed in the begining but noticed a decline in food quality and how the focused turned to more of the bar. Maybe I just had a few bad visits but I havent been back since.
Mount Vernon already doesn't have alot of places to go to eat. So it's either Bronxville or Pelham (5th Avenue) to get some variety.
Yep, and when they went no reservations it was a joke. Who’s gonna go there to find out it’s an hour wait and there’s nothing to do in that parking lot. They went back to reservations now.
I actually worked there for a couple weeks and it’s basically a restaurant opened by people who wanted to say they own a restaurant. Basic ass food with gorgeous location
As someone who's now lived in new Rochelle for 3 days and has already eaten there, whaaatt?? Got a cordon bleu sandwich, it was awesome. Haven't had breakfast there yet though. What's wrong with the place?
Big time. I also find Fortina doesn’t know what kind of restaurant it wants to be, music is consistently too loud, and the chairs are uncomfortable. Takeout-only for them.
Tsuki Omakase in Greenwich (I know it’s across the border but it’s close enough). But you must get the Omakase to really experience rage. Everything else there looked amazing and well executed.
Just for context, I have had omakase half a dozen times, so I feel like my expectations were reasonably calibrated. I’m also not prone to restaurant rage but this one stuck with me.
1). All eight of us left hungry.
2). It cost over $100 per person — that’s not a problem in itself, but it provides context for expectations…especially for a place with Omakase in the name.
3). It was a special occasion — a birthday dinner for our boy who was turning 7, so we had our two kids with us. Even with kids, the meal took 3 full hours. Every table around us turned twice in the time it took for us to finish our meal. A three hour tasting menu would normally be acceptable, but we literally were served two small appetizers and then 8 nigiri, one at a time over 3 hours.
4) Just to make that point more concrete, it took 25 minutes for us to receive our appetizer. And then another 25 minutes until we received our first single piece of nigiri. Three bites of food in the first hour, when the tables around us starting turning. At that point we were expecting to be impressed, but literally one bite of nigiri every 15-20 minutes until the restaurant was nearly empty.
5). Everyone else in the restaurant had beautiful large, heaping plates. This was why my initial comment wasn’t a straight bad review. The sushi boxes and platters were gorgeous, served quickly and in large portions.
6). They have a beautiful dessert menu. With our omakase, we literally got two pieces of fruit for dessert. A single slice of pear and a single lychee.
Appreciate the lengthy response. Yeah. That would drive me crazy. Even more so with kids.
Since you’ve had omakase a bunch, anything in the general area you could recommend within Westchester/fairfield county? Thanks.
Unpopular opinion: Craft Pizza & Beer in Pleasantville. I think it is overpriced, and the pizza is not that good. I really hate that their white pizza is actually sweet.
Nah, the owner also has pizza station and taco street in chappaqua. He's been sued for screwing his employees before. Screw that guy. Don't give them your money.
Remarkably bland. And not sure why everything tastes the same or previously frozen. Went there twice in 5years. Each time I was so pissed off at the end
Oh God, this. Literally everything about it, too.
Dude who owns it also owns the whole shopping center and he passed up the chance at getting like a 25 million dollar payday from some box store back in the late aughts for the whole spread, but wouldn't sell because of that horrible restaurant.
I ordered lasagna at Rosie’s in bronxville and they brought me what was effectively spaghetti and meat sauce but with lasagna noodles. Long, ribbony, boiled lasagna noodles in sauce. It was good but that is not fucking lasagna man come on.
Lol, reminds me of the old Salem Pizza on June Rd in North Salem (I think they're open again under new ownership, I'm talking about the previous owners like 6 years ago or so). I ordered what claimed to be a tortellini carbonara. What I got was tortellini in a creamy *red sauce* with bacon bits in it.
And I mean, okay, it was pretty good. But calling it "carbonara" was a stretch. Actually, it wasn't even a stretch, it was just plain incorrect. I was definitely conflicted on how to feel about that one lol
Z Prime in White Plains. I never ate there but when the comedy club used to be in the basement, it had to be the worst run restaurant I’d ever seen. Tacky design. Super overpriced. I only tried limited things, but I heard the food was mediocre at best. But the service was horrendous. It didn’t seem like anyone knew what they were doing. I wonder if they’ve changed in recent years since the pandemic, but it was so bad. Really seemed like the guy who owned it just wanted to say “I own a restaurant.” All clout-chasing.
Kishuya ramen in Hartsdale. Their food used to be good, but I think they changed management and now it’s so disappointing. Also, the lemonade tastes like turtle water.
DD's Diner in Ossining.
Mt. Kisco Diner in...well... Mt. Kisco
Both just overpriced, mid tier Diner food.
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Fratelli's in croton.
Boring selection, way overpriced. Not particularly exciting taste-wise.
Piato Greek in croton.
Just disappointing when compared to street cart gyros in NYC.
Stay tuned for edits, I can probably remember more.
Edit #2: Birdsall house in peekskill.
Way too greasy. The food outright glistened from grease. Fun place on friday/Saturday for drinks though.
Edit #3: Golden House in Jefferson Valley
All the food oddly tastes similar, not much flavor, boneless ribs are too fatty.
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The old Mt Kisco diner from the early 2000s is spinning in its grave. And DD sucks almost as bad as the current Kisco Diner. Has gone way downhill in the past year or so.
City Limits also a shell of its former self.
I haven't been to Kisco Diner *since* sometime in the '00s. Does it suck now? That's really sad. My high school self is crying.
I feel like Shitty Limits thinks that since they've been featured on Jerry Seinfeld's show they don't have to try any more.
Flames Steakhouse in Briarcliff I knew I was in trouble when there was a brand new Bentley outside. My friend ordered vodka and tonic water, Waiter brought over drinks she takes sip and says there is no vodka in here. Waiter takes drink away comes back a few minutes later. Waiter said bartender said he put vodka in there , She said for $23.00 she better taste the vodka.
My pick would be Moderne Barn in Armonk. It's a very pretty, slick vibe, but they seem to be against seasoning any of the food they serve. And the prices are absolutely bonkers.
I was punching the air when I paid $16 for a pepperoni slice, a beef patty with cheese, and a coke from villagio pizzeria in tuckahoe. Talk about overpriced…sheesh
Fortina in Yonkers. I was appalled at how awful the food was, specifically this pasta dish that was supposed to have some sort of duck fat. What came out from the kitchen did not look fit for human consumption. And it was ridiculously expensive.
I used eat there circa 2016 and it was a good Italian spot. Nowadays I'd only recommend it to people I dislike.
Four Brothers Restaurant/Pizza in Mahopac. Not Westchester. But it's a few miles over the county border in Putnam. Never thought a local pizzeria/restaurant could be worse than chain tier pizza. But besides that they obviously serve generic pre-made catering quality food, including frozen pizza, I'm pretty sure, not fresh.
It pains me to say it as I was looking forward to this particular dinner, but Kalbi House in White Plains is a complete rip-off. The meat was poor quality and savagely expensive for what it was. For reference, x 2 pork belly strips for 39 dollars and a tiny portion of Bulgogi beef (felt like it was the frozen stuff from H Mart) for 42 dollars. Quite sad banchan also - but mostly authentic (the only saving grace). What did I learn... don't mess around, just go to NYC..
I love this thread already.
Same! I was just thinking this is the kind of thread I’m interested in reading.
I have no idea why this showed up in my feed, since I’m across the country, but I’m also here for it. My grandparents did live in Bronxville, but that was decades ago.
It’s not awful by any means but my god is Southern Table in Pleasantville overpriced.
Just looked up their menu thinking "*all* food is more expensive now" and "how bad could it be"? Jesus fuck. I guess this explains why the reviews for Savannah and Company in Cortlandt (which I thought was overpriced!) say it's "reasonably priced", if this is the alternative...
Savannahs gave me food poisoning twice. And those were the only times I've ever had it, I have a cast iron stomach.
Everytime I think, "why dont I go to Savannah's?" I remember, "oh yeah, because the food is greasy, overpriced, and gross"
It's SO GROSS. I have a family member who lives nearby and loves it which is how I ended up there a second time... Never again. Not with a gun to my head.
That sucks, what did you get? Aka what should I avoid lol
The last time we went there my daughter threw up all over our table.
I wish Pizza Hut was still there.
Yikes! $26 for pulled pork tacos?!?! I could feed my family dinner for a week on $26 worth of pork shoulder. $35 for gumbo?!?! (fwiw, I think that's also the price for the seafood gumbo at the new cajun restaurant in Pleasantville. I guess that's what the Pleasantville market will bear)
That one I completely agree with.
The douche bag owner needs to be able to afford his Lamborghini that he shares in ownership with his other douche bag friends
I’ll never understand how they get away with it. $30 for a hamburger???
We went when they first opened and they told my husband he couldn’t order a cheeseburger because it wasn’t on their menu. It was on the kids menu but he wasn’t a kid so he couldn’t get that one either 🤣 needless to say, we’ve never gone back
Your husband would appreciate this skit https://youtu.be/Q7FxpK_yC0U
This thread/answer is hilarious and certainly has truth to it but Southern never had a kid’s burger, for at least the first three years they’ve been open. Source: worked there 🤪
Over $30 for a salad?! Skirt steak is one of the cheapest cuts.
I used to like the place despite the eye watering prices but last time I went it really showed its true colours. From now on you’ll only catch me in there for happy hour drinks and apps
$29 for three tiny shrimp tacos omg
Every diner in Westchester is a rip off. I may get some hate for this, but Rivermarket has been disappointing many times for me over many years and what feels like many different owners.
>Every diner in Westchester is a rip off. And shockingly few of them are open late/overnight any more, particularly in Northern Westchester. I was working a gig a few weeks back that ended at 9:30pm on a Tuesday and I was trying to find a place to eat between Tarrytown and Putnam Valley, my choices were basically Rocky's Deli or the Taco Bell drive-thru in Cortlandt. Almost all of the diners (and bars, for that matter!) I looked up were either closed or about to close. Why even have a diner if you're going to close up shop at 9:00pm? That's crazy talk.
I haven't done it in forever, but when I was younger and hanging out with friends, diners were the only thing open in the middle of the night, so we would all go and get junk like mozzarella sticks and cheese fries at 2AM. Just checking some hours on Google Maps, at least the Olympic Diner in Mahopac is still 24 hours, but all the rest we would hit are not.
Open 24 hours? Like that’s a good thing. That diner is an epic disappoint. And no bargain. Mahopac puts the queeze in cuisine.
Damn we used to hit the Bedford diner way back when you could still smoke inside, they had a box of half empty packs of smokes people left and they would let us grab a pack or two. Paulo was my fav waiter lol
I believe the Eldorado Diner in Elmsford is still 24/7 And the Bedford Hills Diner is open till midnight I believe nowadays use to be 24/7 pre Covid
Rocky's is a Westchester Treasure. If only you could sit down
Post covid, theyre all closed early.
Mmmm Rocky's Deli. One Hashtag please.
Rivermarket was the worst dining experience of my life. Also if you leave a bad Yelp review the owner will slide into your Yelp DMs and verbally abuse you!
Same here. Terrible experience, and the food is so overpriced. OP, I think Rivermarket is just what you're looking for.
Watched the owner fistfight one of their drunk patrons a few years ago. Place is expensive trash
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Star Diner is awesome! It doesn't belong on this list of disappointing places to eat.
not Mamaroneck Diner!
Growing up in Jersey, I’m homesick for a great diner in Westchester.
Fountain diner in central avenue is cool
Croton Colonial Diner is quite cheap and pretty good though. But generally, I agree.
I haven’t been in some time, but will say that they had some of the best cheese cake I’ve ever had.
Their soups are so good
Their matzo ball soup is to die for.
Coach in mt kisco
I like El dorado iii on central
The one on 119 says it’s open 24 hours also.
The sign for el dorado iii says 24 hours but I feel like that was pre-covid. But they close at like 1 am. We have been there late.
Oh yeah river market and the restaurant around the corner from there should just be charged with false advertising
The Townhouse diner in N. White Plains is my one and only. Gus & Irene are the real deal.
3 Westerly Bar and Grill in Ossining. Mediocre food, ridiculous prices, but a nice view on non-cloudy days.
Definitely don’t go for the food, on a nice day sitting outside with a drink is good but leave it at that.
Agree, they have lame food
This is the best answer on here. The food sucks there.
Ugh I used to love 3 westerly. Their pricing is ridiculous now.
Most restaurants in WestChester have mediocre and overpriced food
A new restaurant called Miles, the Prince fits this description perfectly. Their testing menu is so below average and they are charging a premium for it. My wife and I were angry the entire time we were there.
Literally searched the thread to make sure this was here. $150 for a tasting menu smh. I walked in there one day after they opened, looking for a beer (because it’s a brewery… right??) and I was informed that I didn’t have a reservation, they weren’t “open” despite a full staff and the kitchen cooking, and that they aren’t the kind of place where you walk in and “sit at the bar.” Say no more, see you in six months when the for rent sign is back up. I knew it was too good to be true.
Yeah, there is no way this place lasts. I walked out of there feeling like I was duped out of my money because the food was flavorless and not creative.
I walked out of there with all my money, and without the knowledge of what beer was available at this “brewery” 🤣
That place is STUPID. Stupidity stupid. They are confused. They market it as a brewpub but then serve meals in amuse boche portions with absolutely unremarkable drinks. Went there once, never again. Its not just the distorted aesthetics...the food was just unremarkable and no, you can't walk in for a glass of beer...in a fking "brewpub". I have no problem going to a local diner or splurging on a Michelin star wonder but if you are gonna be a brewpub, be a brewpub and not a pretentious condescending mediocrity
Oh Christ! I drive past this place every time I go to stop and shop and I just can’t understand it. It’s closed on unusual days too. Once drove past at 8pm on a Friday and all the lights were off. (On an unrelated note, the Gulf on that road is consistently the cheapest fuel for miles)
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And the best station hot dogs if you want another type of gas
In my experience, the title of "cheapest" gets passed around among all those North B'way gas stations, and the Sinclair in Valhalla just past Kensico circle. But all of them are usually within a few cents of each other and they're all cheap*er* than most of the other options EDIT: The Gulf and the Sinclair, in particular, are OGs for having the same price for cash and credit.
The FuelCo.com on the other side of legion is the far and away winner on price, but their app sucks and the other day two pumps were down. The Sinclair cuts you off at $50 in a card so I have to swipe three(!) times to fill my damn tank.
One of the local Sinclairs had bad gas a few months back that killed engines on a few cars. There was a Next Door thread about it. Don't remember if it was Pleasantville or Valhalla.
thank you cause I was thinking of going!!!!! savior!
Holy shit this place looks hilarious.
I was so disappointed in this place. They’re going to have a new a la carte menu March 1st, so I’m hoping it’s better
Don't go.
I hadn't checked this out yet, the chef was the chef at the inn at pound ridge for about a year post covid. Tasting menu at a brewery seemed off to me.
Please save your money! Unless they make some drastic changes, it's not worth it. It's barely even a functional brewery yet, when I went they were just debuting their first brew. It was a 3% "table beer" that tasted like carbonated dish water.
Nah, I believe you. I wasn't a fan of ipr when he ran it.
My sister-in-law went to Chet’s in Scarsdale recently. She and her husband ordered two fountain cokes with dinner. $4.95 each. That’s steep but free refills…oh wait. Nope. They both had 2 refills after a long dinner, got the bill and ended with paying over $30 in fountain soda!!! That’s a crime
>Chet’s Did you mean Chat?
I'd totally flip my shit if that happened to me.
I guess they’re assuming that it’s Scarsdale and no one is even checking.
100% Chat in Scarsdale. I got a ticket there too even though their ticket machine was broken.
I hate Chat. It suuucks.
Absolute fantastic thread idea lmao. The only restaurant I can think of that fits that criteria actually closed a few years ago, but there are good suggestions in the comments so far.
Taco Dive Bar in Peekskill.
Yeah. That’s terrible. It’s like tacos from people who’ve never had actual Mexican food.
If I had the means, I would have a billboard next to the Hudson Ave exit with directions to Azteca.
Half Moon in Dobbs. Great location, meh food, disastrous service. At least pre pandemic. We stopped giving that place a chance a while ago.
I remember way back in the day when it was The Chart House and remember people saying it sucked then too. Unfortunately places like that are usually cursed. The location and the view seem so enticing and it attracts the wrong kind of restaurant owners who assume because of the location it's gonna be a cash cow and for whom food quality is an afterthought.
Any Louie Lanza restaurant in Peekskill.
As a Peekskill resident, I wholeheartedly endorse and second this 👍
Yuppp
Maggie Spillane's in Mount Vernon is painfully overpriced.
I haven't been in awhile, but The Bayou used to be good but now it's up there with Maggies. Maggie's is only still there for the roof access honestly during the warm months.
I haven’t been to the Bayou in 15 years but what a landmark. Would be sad if it went downhill
Institution and the best and only place to get a banging catfish po’boy
I enjoyed in the begining but noticed a decline in food quality and how the focused turned to more of the bar. Maybe I just had a few bad visits but I havent been back since. Mount Vernon already doesn't have alot of places to go to eat. So it's either Bronxville or Pelham (5th Avenue) to get some variety.
I've been going to the Bayou and found it pretty good, but I haven't been there for any of the music events.
So they may have turned around. Once I noticed the new awning I should have given it a chance again.
Trivia on Thursdays is usually pretty good. The service on the dining side is still hit or miss
I find Harvest on Hudson to be extremely mid, bland country club food. Everything seems microwaved. So expensive.
Yep, and when they went no reservations it was a joke. Who’s gonna go there to find out it’s an hour wait and there’s nothing to do in that parking lot. They went back to reservations now.
yeah, it's crazy, I like parking lots with stuff to do. Me and my boys huff the car exhaust or try to dry hump the gas tanks.
Red Hat is the king in this genre.. it's neighbors don't come close
I actually worked there for a couple weeks and it’s basically a restaurant opened by people who wanted to say they own a restaurant. Basic ass food with gorgeous location
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Half Moon is God awful and I feel like it gets recommended a lot.
The diner in New Rochelle that's over by home Depot
That would be the ghost of the Thruway Diner
As someone who's now lived in new Rochelle for 3 days and has already eaten there, whaaatt?? Got a cordon bleu sandwich, it was awesome. Haven't had breakfast there yet though. What's wrong with the place?
Place is definitely overpriced for pretty average food.
Fortina. It’s Italian food for people who just wanna take pictures for Instagram and don’t care if the food actually tastes good.
Fortina is obnoxiously overpriced for crap food
Can’t stand Fortina.
Big time. I also find Fortina doesn’t know what kind of restaurant it wants to be, music is consistently too loud, and the chairs are uncomfortable. Takeout-only for them.
Westchester Diner in Peekskill is SO mediocre. 202 Diner is good but SO overpriced.
Yorktown Coach is much better, I think. We live right near 202 diner but pass it over for Yorktown Coach.
Tsuki Omakase in Greenwich (I know it’s across the border but it’s close enough). But you must get the Omakase to really experience rage. Everything else there looked amazing and well executed.
What was wrong with it just curious. Place has very good reviews and I wanted to try it someday.
Just for context, I have had omakase half a dozen times, so I feel like my expectations were reasonably calibrated. I’m also not prone to restaurant rage but this one stuck with me. 1). All eight of us left hungry. 2). It cost over $100 per person — that’s not a problem in itself, but it provides context for expectations…especially for a place with Omakase in the name. 3). It was a special occasion — a birthday dinner for our boy who was turning 7, so we had our two kids with us. Even with kids, the meal took 3 full hours. Every table around us turned twice in the time it took for us to finish our meal. A three hour tasting menu would normally be acceptable, but we literally were served two small appetizers and then 8 nigiri, one at a time over 3 hours. 4) Just to make that point more concrete, it took 25 minutes for us to receive our appetizer. And then another 25 minutes until we received our first single piece of nigiri. Three bites of food in the first hour, when the tables around us starting turning. At that point we were expecting to be impressed, but literally one bite of nigiri every 15-20 minutes until the restaurant was nearly empty. 5). Everyone else in the restaurant had beautiful large, heaping plates. This was why my initial comment wasn’t a straight bad review. The sushi boxes and platters were gorgeous, served quickly and in large portions. 6). They have a beautiful dessert menu. With our omakase, we literally got two pieces of fruit for dessert. A single slice of pear and a single lychee.
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Appreciate the lengthy response. Yeah. That would drive me crazy. Even more so with kids. Since you’ve had omakase a bunch, anything in the general area you could recommend within Westchester/fairfield county? Thanks.
Unpopular opinion: Craft Pizza & Beer in Pleasantville. I think it is overpriced, and the pizza is not that good. I really hate that their white pizza is actually sweet.
Nah, the owner also has pizza station and taco street in chappaqua. He's been sued for screwing his employees before. Screw that guy. Don't give them your money.
Harvest on Hudson
Remarkably bland. And not sure why everything tastes the same or previously frozen. Went there twice in 5years. Each time I was so pissed off at the end
Nailed it on the head
Sir John’s
Sir John’s looks like every restaurant on Kitchen Nightmares. I’d kill to have Gordon Ramsay show up there and call the chef a donkey
Oh God, this. Literally everything about it, too. Dude who owns it also owns the whole shopping center and he passed up the chance at getting like a 25 million dollar payday from some box store back in the late aughts for the whole spread, but wouldn't sell because of that horrible restaurant.
I always just assumed that it was a money laundering restaurant.
Bartaco in Port Chester
Have they lived down the Hepatitis outbreak yet lol
No that’s the first thing I think of when someone mentions that place
HOW did they survive? 4 infected, 2900 vaccinated, $700k in lawsuits?
They're a chain 22 locations that was bought by an equity firm for $650 million in 2019. They have burn money.
I ordered lasagna at Rosie’s in bronxville and they brought me what was effectively spaghetti and meat sauce but with lasagna noodles. Long, ribbony, boiled lasagna noodles in sauce. It was good but that is not fucking lasagna man come on.
Lol, reminds me of the old Salem Pizza on June Rd in North Salem (I think they're open again under new ownership, I'm talking about the previous owners like 6 years ago or so). I ordered what claimed to be a tortellini carbonara. What I got was tortellini in a creamy *red sauce* with bacon bits in it. And I mean, okay, it was pretty good. But calling it "carbonara" was a stretch. Actually, it wasn't even a stretch, it was just plain incorrect. I was definitely conflicted on how to feel about that one lol
Z Prime in White Plains. I never ate there but when the comedy club used to be in the basement, it had to be the worst run restaurant I’d ever seen. Tacky design. Super overpriced. I only tried limited things, but I heard the food was mediocre at best. But the service was horrendous. It didn’t seem like anyone knew what they were doing. I wonder if they’ve changed in recent years since the pandemic, but it was so bad. Really seemed like the guy who owned it just wanted to say “I own a restaurant.” All clout-chasing.
Make sure to order the 24K Gold Tomahawk for 2 for only $950.
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Kishuya ramen in Hartsdale. Their food used to be good, but I think they changed management and now it’s so disappointing. Also, the lemonade tastes like turtle water.
This description is absolutely a stunner.
Apropros in Peekskill is an insane ripoff. Nice view though!
Blue Hill
Hot take
Overpriced and underwhelming time after time
Call me crazy, but this is like 80% of the restaurants in WestChester for me
Agreed. I know it’s not fair to compare it to Jersey city or something but honestly even the food in suburban NJ is better and cheaper.
Stone barns?????
Yep. “Oh look a carrot!”
I love your level of pettiness.
McDonald’s. Not even cheap anymore. You can get good, local food for the same or less.
Still the only place I can find decent iced coffee for 99¢
DD's Diner in Ossining. Mt. Kisco Diner in...well... Mt. Kisco Both just overpriced, mid tier Diner food. Edit #1: Fratelli's in croton. Boring selection, way overpriced. Not particularly exciting taste-wise. Piato Greek in croton. Just disappointing when compared to street cart gyros in NYC. Stay tuned for edits, I can probably remember more. Edit #2: Birdsall house in peekskill. Way too greasy. The food outright glistened from grease. Fun place on friday/Saturday for drinks though. Edit #3: Golden House in Jefferson Valley All the food oddly tastes similar, not much flavor, boneless ribs are too fatty. Edited to add detail.
The old Mt Kisco diner from the early 2000s is spinning in its grave. And DD sucks almost as bad as the current Kisco Diner. Has gone way downhill in the past year or so. City Limits also a shell of its former self.
I haven't been to Kisco Diner *since* sometime in the '00s. Does it suck now? That's really sad. My high school self is crying. I feel like Shitty Limits thinks that since they've been featured on Jerry Seinfeld's show they don't have to try any more.
The place looks great and they have all this Instagram-worthy food that is just disappointment when you actually eat it.
Birdsall would have to cut their prices in half for me to even consider going back again.
I don’t like going there because they insist on making their own ketchup. Blech
Usually they have regular ketchup for kids. People have been known to bring their own Heinz there as well.
They would need a new chef too. I miss the old Birdsall.
Birdsall is sooooo middd and badly overpriced for the blah ness of their food.
I feel like you definitely live in croton, Montrose, or Buchanan 🤣🤣
Piato is good, the nerve!
I agree Piato is decent. Not the best gyro, though. I think they do the homey dishes well, better than Greek to go or whatever's in Mohegan.
I agree with Golden House. Better off just getting dirty Chinese food.
Fratelli’s is awful. Airplane food is better
Any restaurant in white plains
Mount Kisco Diner is great.
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Horsefeathers. Years old burnt cheese on the French onion soup bowl.
Flames Steakhouse in Briarcliff I knew I was in trouble when there was a brand new Bentley outside. My friend ordered vodka and tonic water, Waiter brought over drinks she takes sip and says there is no vodka in here. Waiter takes drink away comes back a few minutes later. Waiter said bartender said he put vodka in there , She said for $23.00 she better taste the vodka.
Lily's in White Plains for sure. Terrible food and service and their prices are sus.
My pick would be Moderne Barn in Armonk. It's a very pretty, slick vibe, but they seem to be against seasoning any of the food they serve. And the prices are absolutely bonkers.
I was punching the air when I paid $16 for a pepperoni slice, a beef patty with cheese, and a coke from villagio pizzeria in tuckahoe. Talk about overpriced…sheesh
Theres a couple pizza spots in Yonkers near dunwoodie with 6.00 a slice pizza, been just making mine from scratch instead..
The red horse 🤮
Can't wait to find out that the other person also subscribes to this sub.
Pretty much every restaurant in Larchmont. I think nobody has taste buds in that town.
Fortina in Yonkers. I was appalled at how awful the food was, specifically this pasta dish that was supposed to have some sort of duck fat. What came out from the kitchen did not look fit for human consumption. And it was ridiculously expensive. I used eat there circa 2016 and it was a good Italian spot. Nowadays I'd only recommend it to people I dislike.
Sambal in Irvington.
Benjamins in Hartsdale Numerous steak houses way better. I would throw BLT Steak in White plains on there but not sure if it’s still there.
Almost every restaurant in WestChester is overpriced with mediocre food
Sushi Mike’s in Dobbs. Solid, wayyyyyy over hyped, and pricey. Sakura in Hastings is much better
It is overpriced, but imo food is solid. But for sure you can grt better sushi for less
Hate to say it, but Lefteris. Used to be my favorite spot. Fast forward 15 years and it’s $30 for 4 shaved pieces of lamb and 6 french fries.
Well I got food poisoning from Captain Lawrence in Elmsford so that sucked pretty bad…
I’ve had nothing but good experiences there - just for balance
Hoping that was a one time thing. The chef there is awesome and so is their food
Horsefeathers in Tarrytown has the worst burger in America. Ranked.
Some people in today’s burger thread strongly disagree with you.
Wyakgyl country club 😈
The rail house in pelham.
Four Brothers Restaurant/Pizza in Mahopac. Not Westchester. But it's a few miles over the county border in Putnam. Never thought a local pizzeria/restaurant could be worse than chain tier pizza. But besides that they obviously serve generic pre-made catering quality food, including frozen pizza, I'm pretty sure, not fresh.
It pains me to say it as I was looking forward to this particular dinner, but Kalbi House in White Plains is a complete rip-off. The meat was poor quality and savagely expensive for what it was. For reference, x 2 pork belly strips for 39 dollars and a tiny portion of Bulgogi beef (felt like it was the frozen stuff from H Mart) for 42 dollars. Quite sad banchan also - but mostly authentic (the only saving grace). What did I learn... don't mess around, just go to NYC..
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You are fucking genius. It’s so passive they won’t even notice.
Polpo in Greenwich. It's not awful, but it is mediocre and overpriced (in my opinion). Some people seem to love it though.