[DianeM]

Originally Posted by Patty55

You are absolutely right. I'm from Long Island, ask a Long Islander where they're from and they'll say "THE Island", New York City is "THE City"-LOL. THE City and THE Island have some great restaurants, they also have some terrible ones.

In this case, what makes different WRONG is that the restaurants here talk the talk and don't walk the walk. Everyone wants to capture the NYMA market, few have a clue what NY Italian food even tastes like. I think that if this restaurant was called KCPD the expectations would be different. On the other hand, at least they didn't call it NYFD-everyone knows that the FD are the cooks-LOL.

I really do wish there were more regional restaurants here, I don't even know what regional food from here is. I would like some good southern cooking, the kind of food people eat at home.

I have found that with Italian food Giovanni's and Toscani's "Get It". If you're specific about what you want they do it. Never had pizza from Giovanni's but seafood/linguine was very good. Toscani's almost always have broccoli rabe.

NYPD? It is what it is. The same way I tell McDonalds "no mustard" you have to ask for what you want.

AMEN and this 'Islander ' misses the food from 'The City '. It's the water that makes the dough nasty anywhere but NY.