Queen’s in Brooklyn
In Brooklyn, Queen Italian Restaurant is the best authentic Italian cuisine the American public deserves to know about. This 45-year old establishment is located at 84 Court Street, and is noted as one of Zagat’s 1000 best Italian restaurants across the nation. Queen is the ‘Real Taste of Italy’, beginning with the warm and welcoming staff, to the genuinely freshest products and produce, their excellent cooking with Italian ingredients and a real Italian atmosphere.
Queen’s smooth, barely salty mozzarella is made in-house every day, it has a silky smoothness and is very impressive; sometimes the mozzarella is with roasted garlic asparagus or with tasty peppers, olives and soppressata. Their meaty mountain of thyme-seasoned osso buco only needs a fork, and the filet mignon gets its herbal kick from its rosemary-infused sauce, the provolone ravioli with leeks served with a delicious brown sauce is phenomenal, and the veal and eggplant dish is classic. A nice end to a delicious authentic Italian meal, is to order the crunchy Tuscan almond cookies and dipped into Vin Santo or indulge in a cool dish of house-made gelato; hopefully the plum is in season.
All the luxury hotels Brooklyn offers are not far from Queens, and if money is an issue, Queens serves a pre-fix meal for only $26 before 6:30pm. Even though for most New Yorkers, eating a meal before 6:30pm is unheard of, most of Queens main coursed begin at $25, so the ‘pre-fix’ is a great deal, and if you’re a visitor, you’re probably used to having dinner before 6pm.
The bread basket, which is served at every table is legendary; sesame seed bread, long thin breadsticks, anise breadsticks, sundried tomato bread and even some crackers; all the breads represents many regions of Italy. Their Chianti by the glass is light and delightful. Queens decor may seem odd to some, as it walks the line between ‘old school’ and gaudy nouveu, but it’s still considered upscale and yet has managed to stay true to its roots as a simple Italian restaurant.
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April Due on July 2nd, 2010
Finding authentic Italian food is really hard. There are a lot of places that make claims of real Italian food, but fail to deliver. I will have to look into this next time I’m in New York.