"bubbles through the ice" (Phish)…read more You may have a hard time finding Cuckoo's Hawaiian Shave Ice. It's not a brick and mortar store, its more like a mini three-wheeled food truck parked in the rear lot of "It's Playtime" - an indoor kids' playground and playscape. We saw zero signs directing us to its location -we just kind of knew about it from a Facebook post. Cuckoo's is owned by It's Playtime and is open more or less the same hours they are (roughly from 9-5). Because the cart sometimes goes off premises to an event, it's worth your while to call before you scoot over. Cups of shaved ice are sold in 2 sizes for $4 or $5. There had a ton of flavors including Blue Vanilla, Grape, Lime, Mango, Cherry,Tigers Blood, Pickled Mango, Lemon, Blue Raspberry, Banana, Sour Apple, Blueberry, Cotton Candy, Pina Colada, Cola, Pink Lemonade, Guava Passion Fruit,Li Hing Mango, Strawberry, Passion Orange Guava, Blue Bubblegum, and Cake Batter. You can trick out your shaved ice with a Snow Cap (for an extra creamy sweet texture), or Fairy Dust (glitter), or candies for half a buck or so more. No review of Cuckoo's would be complete without a glowing report on the young lady running the stand. Isabelle was delightfully charming, informative, helpful, and as sweet as the shaved ice she served up. We ordered a snow-capped small banana and a snow-capped small blue vanilla They totaled $10.21. As our temperatures hit the 70's and 80's, why not check out Cuckoos to cool off?

Where the true art of Japanese cuisine comes to life. This tiny gem of a restaurant creates a…read morebeautiful and balanced experience. Rachel is the owner or manager I am guessing. She is very passionate about the menu and is very attentive to everyone. Thankfully, as our food was served she was there to explain that the best way to experience the chef's creation is to eat it as it presented (without soy sauce) first. She went on to explain that each dish is created with specific textures and flavors in mind to create an intentional balanced bite. She is absolutely correct and I am so glad we listened. In fact, after trying the "second" bite with soy sauce, we recognized that it was much better without it. The soy sauce is homemade and delicious but the sushi is so perfectly executed, it really does not need anything at all to shine. This is not your average sushi joint. The food and service will blow you away. Get the Princess Peach Roll if it's available. The Tiger Roll and the Flame Touch were also fantastic. Hint: the tiger roll comes with lemon slices on top - do not remove the lemon. Trust me.

We've been hearing great things about Gohan Sushi for a while now, and I'm so happy we finally made…read morethe visit! We were lucky to snag a table for two and know to make reservations next time. The menu is primarily sushi, and I gravitated towards some of their unique speciality rolls, like the heaven roll with tempura banana and shrimp (which worked surprisingly well), and the flame touch roll with steak. The chicken katsu was delicious too! My husband loves Dragon Ball, so we loved seeing the references on the menu. Very attentive service from our waitress and the owner. We will be adding this into our rotation of go-to sushi spots!

Great poke bowl, everything tasted fresh, and generous portion, would come back. Better than…read morefranchise poke places

Out of the park! I recently hired Hawaiian Kitchen to cater…read moreour monthly lunch for 40 people at Wallace Eannace. My executives wanted to do a Hawaiian theme. Hawaiian Kitchen, based in Bethpage, absolutely knocked it out of the park! From the start, they were incredibly easy to work with and went above and beyond to make sure we were taken care of. I had originally requested 2-liter bottles of soda, but since they didn't have them in stock, they proactively delivered individual cans instead to ensure our team had plenty of drinks. Now, for the food--it was phenomenal. Our office hasn't stopped raving about it! The Coconut Shrimp and Grilled Shrimp were huge hits, and the Angus Steak was incredibly tender. Even the Chicken Fried Rice was a standout, and all of their signature sauces were delicious. They also did a large house salad for us with the most incredible Ginger dressing. I had numerous people ask me where I found them, and I couldn't wait to order for their next small house parties or to pick up dinner on the way home. It was all so fresh and not greasy. We also ordered spring rolls that were so light and crispy, pineapple fried rice that was really delicious, and marinated chicken and steamed broccoli. If you're looking for reliable catering that people will actually get excited about, I can't recommend Hawaiian Kitchen enough. THANK YOU for making me look like a superstar! We will definitely be ordering again! PS - they are a small, family-owned business, and I love supporting businesses like that that really care. Give them a try!

Had a tough decision at Parkville on lunch, but Hartford Poke Company was the winner during my most…read morerecent visit. I liked that they had curated bowls as I'm not a fan of build-your-owns (this is an option if that's more your style). I got the Park Market Bowl that had both tuna and salmon, on top of rice, seaweed, corn, lettuce, and cucumber. There was a lot of spicy mayo and eel sauce drizzled on top--way too much for my liking to be honest. The staff was very nice and swift when they see a line forming. The Build-Your-Own orders hold up the line. The price was too bad for a poke bowl, under $20. On other Parkville visits, I've gotten boba tea from this stall as they share it with the Okinawa Boba Co. I love the Ube Milk Tea. If I'm in a poke bowl mood at Parkville Market, I'll try another bowl and/or have them go light on the sauce.

This was a place in the Parkville market. They had number of Hawaiian dishes to choose from…read moreincluding customizable bowls. The food was made to order it seemed as well. I had the pork tamago onigiri sandwich ($6.95). It was a fried slice of spam and a sweet egg tamago inside seasoned rice and nori seaweed with a Japanese spicy mayo present. This was very solid. The crispy spam went well with the egg and crunchy rice. The addition of Japanese mayo was key to the entire sandwich. It was needed so it was not dry. Will I go back? Yes.

I came here again (surprise surprise) and switched it up a little…read more My friend and I got: - scallop Musubi - spam and kimchi Musubi: one of my new favorites - cabbage - crab fried rice: this was yummy and good amount of crab! Service was great as usual! Shoutout to Josh for being s attentive and always filling up our waters, we never had to ask. It was always great seeing Tasha and Pye!

Top level dishes cooked with tremendous thought and care…read more Ordered from the restaurant week prix fixe menu. Got the grilled octopus, lamb chops, mochi fluke, mentaiko spaghetti, azuki bean brownie and chocolate haupia sundae. The execution on these dishes were amazing. Tremendous job on the cook for all components. The vegetable pairings and choice of garnishes were excellent. Portions are a bit smaller for the price point, but still left full Service was also really quick. Staff were all really friendly and attentive to our needs. I had a reservation ahead of time as well. Space inside is on the smaller side, but cozy enough to have some room. Handful of tables available and some seats at the bar. Restroom available as well. I would love to try other items on the menu for next time. Every dish that came out wow'ed me. Very impressed!

iGrill is currently my favorite place to eat in Rockland county. I travel a lot for work and have…read moreeaten at many different places in the area but find myself always wanting to come back here for more. Not many restaurants cook with love, but iGrille certainly does and it is consistent. I love the food and the people. 10/10 If you're wondering what my go-to is, it's the Salmon Poke Bowl with Jasmine Rice

One of my colleagues orders here every week, so I had to give it a try. I ordered two Aloha bowls…read moreonline and picked them up easily. There's plenty of parking, and while the outside of this small strip mall looks sketchy and run down, the inside of iGrill is quite clean and updated. It'll cause you to pause when walking in. The food was tasty, but the value for what you get here didn't impress me. There are simply better places around where you can get rice bowls with chicken, or salads with chicken, and each of those comes with all sorts of fixins and veggies. Plus, more protein in the bowl too. Again, everything tasted fresh and good, but there's just better value elsewhere for me. I was pleased to see no credit card fee!

Don't deliver DoorDash here if you get massive orders for fruit they'll end up saying they didn't…read moresee it get delivered while the whole time your on their cameras asking where they want it but she's to busy in her phone to really know what goes on at the store Absolutely disgusting to use DoorDash to get products you can't order properly and then report the entire order missing

After having been open for a few years, portions have continued to get considerably smaller, more…read moreexpensive, and less fresh. Kinda disappointing but you can tell they've cheaped out over the years.

Came back here with my family yesterday afternoon. The server was incredibly kind and patient with…read moreall of us and the hawaiian was so good!

My absolute favorite go-to poke place! Personally, I love to get kani salad on my poke, and most…read moreplaces have an up charge for this, or it counts as one of your two proteins, but at pokemoto it's free! They're always so generous with portion sizes, so reasonably priced, and stuff like kani doesn't cost extra :) Other items, such as tamago, do cost extra but I think everything is very reasonably priced. The place itself is always pleasant with kind service and easy seating. Their drink options are always nice, I like to get the lychee Calpico. When I'm in the mood for poke, I tend to drive a town over just to get it from this Pokemoto! Friendly service, good prices, and excellent poke!

Wish I had read the other Yelp review before trying to hunt down this place. Apparently it's a…read morePOPUP IN PROTEIN HOUSE. RIGHT NEXT TO STARBUCKS. There is no signage of any sort--even inside. No info indicating on their website either. Not sure why they wouldn't advertise it. This place really needs some sort of signage. I almost gave up looking for this place until I saw a fellow yelper's review--which was very helpful. Google reviews sorted by most relevant--the first three reviews from this date has no mentions of it being inside the Protein House. SMH. Aside from the poor lack of direction, best way to get some fried chicken is to order online or delivery according to other review platforms. The online ordering was easy peasy though. Order was on time of scheduled pickup time We ordered a 5 pack of chicken, Mac salad, and cabbage slaw. The chicken pieces were huge. Super crunchy and moist on the inside. Nice and hot when we got it. I really enjoyed the chicken. Wife thought it was a tad too sweet. Mac salad she enjoyed but I thought it was alright. The cabbage slaw was pretty good combining with the chicken to balance out the sweetness. Overall the chicken was the main star and I give it a thumbs up. Just super frustrating to drive out of my way to hunt down this place when it's hidden in the Protein House. Reason for a mediocre 3 star review is the lack of direction to finding this chicken. I would have gave it a 5 since I enjoyed the chicken. Maybe it was posted on other social media platforms--but not everyone is active there. Cheers and good luck chasing this chicken down.

THIS IS A POPUP KITCHEN IN THE PROTEIN HOUSE. NOT A RESTAURANT. would have been nice if the woman I…read morespoke to when I called to order had said that! Spent 15 min walking around looking for the place! Grr! She said you have to place your order online only. By creating an online account. Pay over the internet. Cannot order over the phone. Cannot walk in to order. Should have been my first indication but ive only heard of these places. Never been in one yet. But when I called - WHY DIDNT THEY TELL ME THIS!?!!! (YW Yelp!) That said. Takes 30 min for an "asap" order to be ready. Food was probably read on-time- but ya know - I COULDN'T FIND THE PLACE. So by the time it makes the trek home it was warm but at least not cold. Chicken was pretty good. Boneless, basically crispy. Would have been nice if the seasonings / sauce / toppings on the chicken were actually put evenly on all pieces. Top two had most. Ube was interesting with the coconut. I'm told the Mac salad was decent as well. Would prefer a hot side - so I guess I just need rice next time as the only warm side option. All and all an ok fried chicken with nice flavor, juicy chicken and not much fat on the thigh which is good. But hot meals need more hot side options too. Just REALLY wish this freaking place had SOME kind of sign on it ... or that the people working there would automatically tell confused people calling where to FIND them. (Bc id already ordered and paid for the food need to know where to find them!) Not going to be worth the 30 min trip over (happened to have been in the area) for fried chicken but not bad if ure in the area. Maybe it would be better as a sandwich.

I met up with friend's at Lee's Wine Island here, and we both drove a little out over 40 minutes to…read moreget there. I'm taking a few days off to get some stuff done around the house. I ended up finishing a little early, and I've always wanted to try Lee's since I've known about it for some years. Since it's not really close to me, I had not really had the opportunity to try it, so I figured it was worth making a specific trip out for it. When we got there, we noticed the building had very locked windows, which we thought was peculiar, but when you walk inside, you can see why. The atmosphere here is definitely a touch of paradise. The inside is decorated, and it really does feel like a little bit of a tropical getaway. The staff here were friendly and were able to make some recommendations. The drinks were pretty good, and I really liked the food I got. I'd ordered the Four Seasons, which had a little bit of everything. We also split a pu pu platter since a lot of people had talked about it and I felt like we couldn't really get the true experience without having it. All in all, while I don't think I will be a regular here due to the distance, I look forward to coming back again if I am ever local at all and I would definitely stop by if you like tiki drinks and good food.

If you want to be treated with respect, and dare I say kindness- look elsewhere…read more I absolutely hate writing one star reviews. I understand the impact that a single one star review can have on a small business. But this restaurant behaved in a way that seemed like they literally do not care one bit. And judging by the other recent one star reviews, I see I'm not alone. Which is a shame really, because this restaurant could be something great. I had been planning to visit for my birthday. I had heard of Lee's for years, and have always wanted to go. I was finally ready to make the trek from Queens to NJ, with 9 friends in tow. So I excitedly called to make a reservation. The conversation started out completely normal. He put me on hold (no biggie) to get the reservation book, asked me how many people, and the date. He then went into a list of "rules" they have for reservations. With each point, he was seething with annoyance. Like they're doing their customers a huge favor. But I didn't mind, I just wanted to make the reservation. $75 deposit. Fine. If we cancel for any reason they keep the deposit. Fine. It can be used as a credit if we come another day. Ok. He said a few other rules, and one stuck out to me that I didn't understand. He said "there's no reserved seating". As the point of my phone call was to make a - reservation - I asked to clarify, literally in the nicest tone. He immediately got annoyed at me, and said that they have upstairs and downstairs seating, and they can't guarantee either or. It was at this point I said to him, "I feel like you're upset with me and I'm not sure why." I then explained that I've never been there, but I'm a huge fan and have always wanted to visit, and that this would be for my birthday. I tried to give him a chance to reset and steer the conversation back to- at the very least a calm tone. Spoiler alert- didn't work. He then asks me what time I want. I say 6 PM. You would have thought I just asked him to give me the moon. He got very upset and went on a rant about how "people come, and then the music (he was referring to the karaoke) starts and then they leave." I told him we actually wanted the music, that I knew it started at 7:30 PM and was requesting 6 PM so that we had some time to talk before the karaoke began. He very angrily told me no, that I had to pick one or the other. That if I wanted music, it had to be a reservation after 7 PM- that I had to pick one or the other. And then went on another rant about "changing over the tables" and "they don't want people there til closing" and "how do I expect them to make money." Well for starters, you can provide basic customer service. It was at this point I thanked him for his time and said I didn't want to go there anymore. It's clear they have had various issues with prior customers. But I did not deserve to be treated like that. After hanging up, I was devasted. My birthday plans had crumbled in the span of a 7 minute phone call. Luckily I found another establishment more than happy to take my reservation- and my hard earned money.