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     Jay Citizen Username: Jaymon Post Number: 97 Registered: 10-2004  |
Is this a favorite diner post, or the new diner in town? Anyone remember Munsons in NYC? It's moving to Liberty, NY. My parents lived up there part time, I'll keep you posted. This new place sounds pretty good, but the wife hates diners, so I may have to go it alone..... | ||
| shh Citizen Username: Shh Post Number: 2511 Registered: 5-2001 |
We went tonight. I like that the place is clean and bright, and has a nice big parking lot. (Though I wanted to walk, my kids were less than thrilled with the idea.) I got the spanakopita. I liked it a lot because the spinach was flavorful and it wasn't greasy at all. The greek salad was ok. I liked that all the components were there (but no anchovies, I guess theyre not so popular!) but IMO the dressing was a tennsy bit oily, but still better than average. It came with a small soup, I got potato leek that was pretty tasty. I saved most of the spinach pie for bkfst or lunch (love it cold) for tomorrow. One daughter got a huge bowl of matzoh ball soup and loved it. The other 2 shared pancakes and eggs, and the eggs were scrambled well, just as I asked, and the pancakes were hot and good (according to Mr. Shh who had to sample them). Everyone except me tried them, and we still have leftovers for tomorrow AM or a midnight snack. Mr. Shh got some kind of Italian Chicken club, that looked very fresh. We also got a plate of pasta salad (gratis) to start that was simple and tasty. One of tonight's specials was baked mac & cheese and crabcakes, I wanted to try that but after lucnh at Johnny Rockets (with a chocolate malted) I decided to wait until next time. Oh, I like that traditional (where I'm from) diner architecture. Reminded me a little of walking into our old haunt, the Unicorn Diner in SI! | ||
| DeborahG Citizen Username: Deborahg Post Number: 1383 Registered: 5-2001  |
Shh, We must have been there at the same time!! I was with my daughter, son, and au pair/surrogate older daughter. Here's Lila with a nice sampling of diner desserts: vile green jello, coconut lemon cake, chocolate cream pie and rice pudding!  | ||
| Meandtheboys Citizen Username: Meandtheboys Post Number: 883 Registered: 12-2004  |
O.K. Hank, for the uninitiated, care to share what "whisky down" and "fries with" mean? Curiousity is killing me. | ||
| wendy Supporter Username: Wendy Post Number: 972 Registered: 5-2001 |
Allow me to help meandtheboys (as a former waitress): "whisky down" means Rye toast, in fact anything down means on toast. So tuna down means tuna on white toast since white bread is usually the default. "86" which I referred to in an earlier post, means the kitchen ran out of it. Not sure about "fries with." I never used that term. I assume it means FF as a side or FF with gravy. | ||
| monster Supporter Username: Monster Post Number: 763 Registered: 7-2002  |
Just got back from the "Park Wood", I'm stuffed, STUFFED I TELL YA' I had Chili to start with, and then for dinner I enjoyed a big bowl of chicken rigatoni with spinach, artichoke and pimentos. I couldn't even finish it. My wife had the Spanakopita, with a small (not so small)greek salad, and my daughter had a big bowl of spaghetti off of the kids menu, my son just helped himself to a little bit of everyones. After dinner we had warm blueberry pie, mmmmmmmm.... Now I just have to try the pancakes, and omelette for the real test. | ||
| shh Citizen Username: Shh Post Number: 2514 Registered: 5-2001 |
Deb G, I don't remember seeing your daughter, and I glanced around. Perhaps we just missed each other. My littlest was wearing a red sweatsuit that says "cheer" across her butt (all 6 inches of it) and she ran up to my husband yelling "Da-Da" as he was paying. | ||
| Jason & John Citizen Username: Johnh91011 Post Number: 176 Registered: 3-2002 |
Ate at the Parkwood yesterday. Jason had stuffed portobella mushrooms and I had the roast turkey with apple raisin stuffing. We both had the mashed potatoes. I finished with rice pudding. Everything was delicious. I am glad that we have another diner option in Maplewood. The Mapleleaf has definitely gone downhill in the past year or so. | ||
| Joan Supporter Username: Joancrystal Post Number: 5584 Registered: 5-2001 |
Hank: Sorry I didn't see you wave in the parking lot on Thursday night. You are one of the posters on MOL I would definitely like to meet. We really enjoyed our dinner at the Park Wood. My husband started with the black bean soup with sliced egg and was in soup heaven. I started with the chicken noodle soup which tasted like it had fresh chicken and fresh vegetables in it but needed a bit of pepper to make it spicy enough for my taste. Then we both had turkey dinners with the best stuffing I have ever tasted. Soda: My husband also grew up in Hewlett (on Meadowview Avenue). He was known in those days by his nick name "Chris". It's also likely that you may have known his sister Sydney who was known in those days by the nick name "Sisi". | ||
| spw784 Supporter Username: Spw784 Post Number: 699 Registered: 5-2001 |
Wonder if the diner will offer delivery? Didn't the Mapleleaf used to deliver? | ||
| Tom Reingold Supporter Username: Noglider Post Number: 6813 Registered: 1-2003  |
My wife and I ate at the Parkwood last night. Now I get it. I said earlier that "good diner food" is an oxymoron. I see that I just had never had good diner food. Now I have, and I'm never going anywhere else again. As the waitress seated us and handed us our menus, she gave us a salad for free that was super. The food was good, the service was good and extremely eager to please. This is not what I know as a diner. OK, the decor and the prices are what I know from diners, but not the food. This is something else. Is this how they used to be? Do you think they can succeed at these low prices? | ||
| AlleyGater Citizen Username: Alleygater Post Number: 297 Registered: 10-2004 |
There is a lot of money that can be made by offering good service and good food. If your margin is lower then you need more clients to make a good profit but it certainly is done all the time in lots of great restaurants. That is why I can't understand why there can't be a delicious but inexpensive pasta joint in this area. Pasta just shouldn't cost $15 - $25 in my opinion. I ask you is there anything cheaper to buy than pasta??? | ||
| Maplewoody Citizen Username: Maplewoody Post Number: 948 Registered: 5-2001  |
After seeing the above pic of Lila, I have only one thing to say... Trim Spa Baby!  | ||
| Pippi Supporter Username: Pippi Post Number: 927 Registered: 8-2003  |
Notehead and I went tonight ... I agree, it is much cleaner and nicer than in its previous incarnation, the Sage. The staff was very attentive and very nice. I got a burger, no bun and was a bit disappointed. Woman at the table nxt to us had the mousakka and it looked yummy, so I will try that next time. Notehead got the diner yardstick: the hot open turkey with all the trimmings. Being the good wife that I am, I stuck my fork in everything and pronounced it all very good... so, for burgers, I'll go to the Gate and for all other diner fare, we'll go back to the Park Wood. no dessert for us chubbsy-ubbsies - but we did help ourselves to a chocolate chip at the register and they were GREAT! | ||
| Soda Supporter Username: Soda Post Number: 3212 Registered: 5-2001  |
Joan: Your sister-in-law (I knew her real name was Sydney, but erroneously thought it to be spelled "CeeCee") had Mrs. Phillips for Homeroom in her Junior year, and was part of the bunch of Juniors (who would go on to run the school in their senior year) mentored, verbally abused, and occasionally dated by my friends and I during our Senior year.  She was terrific. Please say "hi" from an old fan of hers. -s. BTW: Is she still in friends with Maddie? |
