Roosevelt Avenue Enjoys a Moment in the Sun

Roosevelt Avenue in Queens has always been one of our favorite strips: middle-aged-lesbian dance parties at Bum Bum! Baby-doll night at Flamingo! We like to eat there too, and apparently so does Good magazine which, we hear, will name “la Roosie” one of America’s best food streets. Their picks: El Sitio, Unidentified Flying Chicken, Krystal’s, Zabb Queens, and the Arepa Lady. The feature will be found here in the coming week (others, such as a writer’s attempt to bag a deer in suburban L.A., are up now); in the meantime Metromix and AM New York have joint-published a Joshua M. Bernstein piece in which he hits ten places on Roosevelt and spends just ten bucks — culminating in an ill-fated attempt to eat a fertilized duck embryo raw. If you want to try one of these without gagging, hit up Elvie’s Turo-Turo. Issue 009: All You Can Eat [Good] Dollar Grub: Roosevelt Ave. [Metromix NY] Related: Riding the V Line: Guinea Pig on Roosevelt Avenue

Posted 02/21/08 in Grub Street : NewsFeed

Tags: bum bum, el sitio, elvie's, flamingo, jackson heights, krystal's, newsfeed, queens, the arepa lady, unidentified flying chicken, woodside, zabb queens

Riding the V Line: The King of Cuban Sandwiches

Night on Broadway in Woodside is electric: Trains rumble overhead, a hundred dialects of Spanish are barked in the air, and the promise of everything from dance lessons to roasted guinea pig glares nightward out of neon signs. When we step off the V at 65th Street, though, we somehow never find ourselves tempted by all that novelty. What we want is the undisputed classic, the El Sitio Cubano sandwich, the patriarch of its race. It’s just a few steps from the train to the counter, but even those are too many.

Posted 11/14/07 in Grub Street : The Orange Line

Tags: cuban, el sitio, queens, The Orange Line, woodside