For those of us who don't live in DR year round, sometimes we just want to savor the flavors of DR.
This thread is for you to share your favorite Dominican restaurant with us.
Here are a couple to get us started, from today's NY Daily News:
Tony?s place
Though many customers do come to the 20-year-old Bona Pizza just for cheese or pepperoni-topped pies, this particular pizzeria has a unique specialty: camerones, or shrimp cooked Dominican-style. Bona Pizza specializes in camerones, Dominican style shrimp that are butterflied, battered with a crunchy, tangy crust and fried to order
Butterflied, battered with a crunchy, tangy crust, fried to order and served with a lime wedge, they?re the special menu addition of owner Antonio Lopez. He decided to open Bona Pizza ? many call it ?Tony?s place? ? because he wanted to serve what residents of his neighborhood could afford. That?s why he keeps the prices of his pies (a jumbo with cheese is just $12), and his eggplant parm ($5) below the city average.
But Lopez, who?s originally from the Dominican Republic, had a hunch shrimp would also be a hit. They are now just as popular as $2 slices, if not more so. For $6.50, they come with a salad, garlic knots, and either French fries or a baked potato with sour cream and butter; you can also get them baked. For $13.50, try the shrimp with Bona Pizza?s version of surf and turf, which also comes with a steak pounded thin by Lopez? kitchen crew and served with saut?ed onions.
Bona Pizza: 751 Westchester Ave. at E. 156th St.; Bronx; (718) 991-9667
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Margarita's Restaurant
For the past 20 years, the parking lot at the corner of Prospect Ave. and 156th St. has been the home of a yellow and white truck serving some of the city?s best seafood pastelillos (fried and stuffed Puerto Rican-style patties, shaped like half-moons) and alcapurrias (football-shaped stuffed fritters).
But by mid-December regulars will be able to get their snack fix under a real roof, when owner Margarita Brito and her husband Rafael Medina finally open Margarita?s Restaurant a few blocks down the road.
Brito?s grandmother, and then mother, ran the first truck, which was originally known as Mama Isabel?s Place. But after her mother died on the American Airlines Flight 587 crash in November 2001, Brito, who is Dominican-American, took over the reins, recently changing the name to Margarita?s.
The truck?s many fans will be happy to note that the restaurant, says Brito, won?t mess with the truck?s prices (which range from $1.50 to $4) or the menu, which includes pastelillos filled with shrimp, conch, lobster, crab or a combination; as well as meat, chicken and cheese. There will also be rice, beans and soup, all available to stay or to go.
Margarita?s Restaurant: the new spot will be at 915 Avenue St. John near E. 155th St., Bronx; (646) 688-4781
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http://www.nydailynews.com/life-sty...p-prospect-ave-2-train-stop-article-1.2444020
This thread is for you to share your favorite Dominican restaurant with us.
Here are a couple to get us started, from today's NY Daily News:
Tony?s place
Though many customers do come to the 20-year-old Bona Pizza just for cheese or pepperoni-topped pies, this particular pizzeria has a unique specialty: camerones, or shrimp cooked Dominican-style. Bona Pizza specializes in camerones, Dominican style shrimp that are butterflied, battered with a crunchy, tangy crust and fried to order
Butterflied, battered with a crunchy, tangy crust, fried to order and served with a lime wedge, they?re the special menu addition of owner Antonio Lopez. He decided to open Bona Pizza ? many call it ?Tony?s place? ? because he wanted to serve what residents of his neighborhood could afford. That?s why he keeps the prices of his pies (a jumbo with cheese is just $12), and his eggplant parm ($5) below the city average.
But Lopez, who?s originally from the Dominican Republic, had a hunch shrimp would also be a hit. They are now just as popular as $2 slices, if not more so. For $6.50, they come with a salad, garlic knots, and either French fries or a baked potato with sour cream and butter; you can also get them baked. For $13.50, try the shrimp with Bona Pizza?s version of surf and turf, which also comes with a steak pounded thin by Lopez? kitchen crew and served with saut?ed onions.
Bona Pizza: 751 Westchester Ave. at E. 156th St.; Bronx; (718) 991-9667
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Margarita's Restaurant
For the past 20 years, the parking lot at the corner of Prospect Ave. and 156th St. has been the home of a yellow and white truck serving some of the city?s best seafood pastelillos (fried and stuffed Puerto Rican-style patties, shaped like half-moons) and alcapurrias (football-shaped stuffed fritters).
But by mid-December regulars will be able to get their snack fix under a real roof, when owner Margarita Brito and her husband Rafael Medina finally open Margarita?s Restaurant a few blocks down the road.
Brito?s grandmother, and then mother, ran the first truck, which was originally known as Mama Isabel?s Place. But after her mother died on the American Airlines Flight 587 crash in November 2001, Brito, who is Dominican-American, took over the reins, recently changing the name to Margarita?s.
The truck?s many fans will be happy to note that the restaurant, says Brito, won?t mess with the truck?s prices (which range from $1.50 to $4) or the menu, which includes pastelillos filled with shrimp, conch, lobster, crab or a combination; as well as meat, chicken and cheese. There will also be rice, beans and soup, all available to stay or to go.
Margarita?s Restaurant: the new spot will be at 915 Avenue St. John near E. 155th St., Bronx; (646) 688-4781
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http://www.nydailynews.com/life-sty...p-prospect-ave-2-train-stop-article-1.2444020
