New Favorite Restaurant! Amazing food, service, and ambiance. We walked in with a reservation on a…read moreSaturday night and were seated immediately. They gave us the perfect table tucked away in the corner which was nice and romantic for our belated valentines dinner. Our server, Douglas, had a perfect bold red wine recommendation, a Super Tuscan. We had the special baked oysters and burrata(stracciatella) as appetizers. Highly highly recommend the burrata which comes with prosciutto and toast. We had the special filet mignon and special ravioli which were cooked and seasoned to perfection. We were too full to order dessert but were graciously surprised with a complimentary tiramisu. By far the best tiramisu I've ever had. I cannot give this place enough praise. We will be returning. Thank you so much Ristorante Joanina.

The food was excellent, from the appetizers to the authentic Italian cuisine and the delicious…read moredesserts. The service was welcoming and efficient. The decor is comforting Italian, which transports diners to an Italian experience. The only downside is that it is very loud. It was very hard to carry on a conversation among three people.

Came here while visiting Long Island! All the food and drinks were delicious! We ordered off the…read moredaily special menu for Saturday and there were amazing options that it was hard to choose just one meal! Our service was fast and we did not feel like we were being rushed! This is a perfect spot for a girls night or date night!

Piccolo Restaurant, Huntington Excellent dirty martini with…read moreblue cheese olives. Pear salad was perfect and delicious. My wife had the potato crusted cod special and I had the veal chop Merrell. Everything was exceptionally prepared and excellent. Service was terrific and outstanding. This is how a restaurant should be run and how great food should taste.

Went to Farm Italy in Huntington Village with a friend for happy hour on a Thursday evening. We…read morearrived around 6:30 pm and were able to get seats at the bar. The bar area is separate from the main dining room and feels like its own space, with a large bar, a few small tables, and seating along the windows. It was fairly lively for a Thursday night. The bartenders were fun and engaging, clearly knew many of the regulars, and did a great job keeping the energy up. While there are no formal happy hour deals, they do serve complimentary chunks of parmesan, which were very good. The cocktail and wine menu is fairly extensive. We only ordered a small starter (fingerling potatoes for $13), but the dinner portions we saw looked generous. I enjoyed a glass of Malbec (~$15) and generous pour. Prices are closer to New York City pricing, though the portion sizes may be enough to share. When you enter the restaurant, you pass a large patio with tables, which would be especially nice during warmer months. Overall, Farm Italy feels like a great spot for catching up with friends over drinks, and I would definitely come back to try more of the food.

I went to The Farm Italy back when they first opened and I was blown away with everything - food,…read moreservice, ambiance, layout etc. I felt like they were trying to go for a Michelin and they could've gotten it if they stayed consistent. I remembered the restaurant so fondly and I've always wanted to go back since I moved out of LI. This weekend when I was visiting with my husband, I wanted to take him there because of how great it was the first time we went. We were able to grab a reservation for four people at 4 PM (which is pretty tough otherwise). Our server was nice and drinks were good but it didn't feel like that elevated experience that I once had here. The most disappointing part was that all of the food lacked so much flavor. We ordered the frito misto, the taglioni? (Pecorino cake style appetizer), salad, pappardelle, NY strip steak, roasted chicken. I felt like everything but the taglioni and salad lacked so much flavor and depth. I recall enjoying their food and having such an extraordinary experience the first time around, and this just felt like really basic food at a premium price point. I'm hoping it's a one off thing based off of circumstances outside their control, but I don't think I'd be going back anytime soon

Truly one of the best restaurants we have ever gone to. Amazing service, and even better food. We…read moretried 6-7 different plates each better than the next. Super cozy and family oriented inside as well. Cannot wait to go back and recommend to others!!

Service was good! Wine was great. The food came pretty quick. I loved those egg rolls. I can't…read moreremeber the name but if I remember correctly it's under spring rolls even tho it's an egg roll lol. Either way I enjoyed them with the sauce. The pizza was good as well just needed a little salt. I would go back! It's a small location. The bar literally can only fit 2 people.

The best Italian restaurant ever... I lived in Bologna. Italy for 7 years…read more.. Nothing comes close to this restaurant anywhere in NY The owners are incredible!

Went to dinner expecting great things but what we got was just mediocre…read more The menu looked amazing and it was hard to decide, we got 2 appetizers and a salad to share. We got the butternut squash which sounded very fancy on the menu but was just butternut squash with a piece of fried prosciutto stuck in each portion on top of cacio e pepe sauce which by the way was broken. We also got what we thought was going to be artichokes on a bed of arugula but was mostly arugula with a few small pieces of artichoke and some pistachios. It was bland, definitely needed some vinegar or lemon or something. Not worth the price, I could have thrown that together myself at home. We also had the spinach/pear salad. Again, I could have made that at home. I got the lemon shrimp linguine. I liked the pasta, I liked the sauce, I did not like the shrimp that came with it. They were tiny and maybe boiled, just not great. We also had the ravioli. One big extremely dense ravioli, raviolo or whatever a singular one is technically called. It was ok but so dense and rich. We also had the bolognese. Not the best. For the prices we paid we expected greatness. We each had dessert. So for the 3 of us the bill came to almost $300 with tip. I personally felt like the service did not warrant the tip but we left it anyway. We weren't checked on, we had to wait a long time to get the bill and we paid by phone app. The service wasn't great. I think the best part of the entire night was the little bucket of candy that we got with the check. The gummy butterfly was delicious! No, we won't be back.

Base my reviews off what you pay:…read more *Place was busy, few tables open. It is small inside we had a reservation and no wait. Price - $70-$90 (appetizer, entree, drink, tip) Food - 3/5 - solid food, nothing spectacular. Service - 4/5 - friendly, very attentive. Ambiance - 3/5 - clean and nice inside. Overall - 3/5 - solid Italian spot but nothing that really blows you out of the water. Food was good, kind if a mixed bag. Meats were very tender (lamb, veal) but certain appetizers and sides were lacking (clams casino, calamari). Fairly priced though for what you get. Service was really good, waitress was very warm and friendly. Staff was very attentive and on top of things, definitely the highlight. Inside was small, not tight, and it was clean. Overall the place does not really wow you but if you want a solid Italian spot, it is worth a stop. Best Dish - Lamb Chops Appetizer Would Return - potentially

So many great Italian options in Huntington but Angelo's is amongst the best. Small, family-feel…read morerestaurant with not more than a handful of tables - but in a good way. From start to finish, all the food was great. Fresh, inventive dishes that struck the right balance of classic Italian with just a touch of contemporary creativity. Everything we ordered was really good, as was the service throughout the meal. Have also brought it in once or twice and have enjoyed the takeout as well. Definitely go check it out if you haven't - you won't be dissapointed

So from the looks of this place on Yelp and the pictures it was supposed to be special with all the…read morevariety of different ingredients put inside their lasagnas . But after getting two of ours nothing special about them at all. The shrimp and scallop I got would it kill the chef to actually season the highlights of the dish and pan sear the scallop and shrimp first ? They just put them In their they steamed up and barely cooked up in the sauce of the lasagna . And same short rib was just a plain cooked nothing special . The service was great by what seemed like were the two owners and a nice older server lady. But I drone from Rockaway beach queens thinking it was a must try something special for a cheat meal for week and it was not at all. Don't waste your time plenty of better out there . Plus we should have figured by the whole place being empty and next door being packed with no seats available without reservations. The second fra diavalo wasn't bad and the sauce was good in ask the. Spelling definitely not correct on this one sorry. You can always tell.

This place is GREAT! Went here on a random Tuesday, the place was right in Huntington village, the…read moreowner/host wa super accommodating, let us customize our orders a bunch no issues, we got the eggplant lasagna and shrimp and scallop linguini and bruschetta. The food came out super quick even though the lasagna is made to order. We edited to have fra Diablo sauce, no problem and super good. Bruschetta was lovely, fresh, light, crispy, would 10/10 get again. Highly recommended!

Welcoming with a warm atmosphere. Attentive professional and friendly service. The grouper…read morebouillabaisse was delicious but most of all the absolute best tiramisu's I've ever had! Two other families were celebrating birthdays. A great celebration restaurant

My family and I had an amazingly delicious Easter dinner at Il posto Di Joey! The lamb was cooked…read moreto perfection as were the sides; delicious mashed potatoes and veggies. We started with baked clams and fried calamari, always so good at Il Posto! The zabione dessert was ordered early because it was made fresh with berries. After a delightful dinner zabione was served topping off an excellent dinner. The ambiance and service is top notch! I love this iconic restaurant in Huntington! Joey always makes sure his guests are satisfied and happy and we were!

From 4 stars to 5. Best pizza around. Go get yourself some - too good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!read more

Day 2: Escape from NYC to the North Shore of Long Island…read more Eatery 2 of 2 This was an interesting morning and day and I got to see places and things I've not seen before. We moved eastward along the L.I.E. and made a quick stop at the Starbucks in Little Neck Plaza. This is the last community in Queens along I-495 and in no way feels like the stereotypes people incorrectly have about New York City. Upon getting on the road again, even though we moved up to Northern Boulevard, we would soon be in Long Island. Note that Brooklyn and Queens are actually at the westernmost part of Long Island, but they are boroughs of New York City proper. Long Island only means that you have crossed into Nassau County... and could continue further east into Suffolk County. (Okay, now that I've explained that, I'm done being pedantic.) In no time, everything seemed to change. We saw mansions in Great Neck and small centers with upscale and boutique shops along the route, which was a continuation of Northern Boulevard named 25-A. We were approaching lunchtime and headed to Oyster Bay. We walked into a restaurant there on Long Island Sound. It was a mix of a Margaritaville crowd (what, in the Northeast?) and a boating enthusiast crowd, with a number of Karens and men suitably coupled with them. Said another way, the douchebag factor appeared higher than average. I asked that we move on. We then ended up in Cold Spring Harbor, which is completely different, and where small boutiques and nicer independent restaurants line a small strip. None of the posted menus appealed to me and I figured it was better to go right into the town of Huntington. By looking at the phone, it was down to a New American bistro and an Italian restaurant. A short wait at the New American restaurant sent us to Porto Fino. Note that it is not Portofino, which is the expensive Ligurian town and yacht harbor for the jet set. In fact, when I inquired about the regional leanings of the restaurant and its ownership, it was indicated that it might be Neapolitan. With that, and the fact that it was nicer, but not fine dining, I knew that "abbondanza" was coming down the pike. I was right. We looked at the menu and saw that they offered different pastas with different sauce preparations. If you wanted, you could switch the types of pasta, just like you can at places that reasonably accommodate their customers. The pastas selected were rigatoni and fusilli. The chosen sauces were of the tomato-cream variety and their ingredients were tangy and delicious. You've seen those vessel bowls where there's a small cupped area in the middle and a small amount of pasta is placed in it, am I right? At Porto Fino, it's a large vessel bowl with a large cupped area, making for a very filling plate of pasta. This also heightened how good the meal was. Prior to the meal, they brought out an appetizer that, while maybe billed as a focaccia, seemed more like pizza squares. They were more like a white pizza, topped with various vegetables, and they were also good. The summer weather was surprisingly mild. We ordered soft drinks to wash down the meal and cool us off, in addition to the glasses of ice water that were brought out. The interior was spacious and furnished in a way befitting the restaurant's ethnicity and genre. We were watching the server interact with a party that arrived prior to us and was eating, and the enthusiastic way he was attending to them was also extended to us. Lastly, the prices were fair for the quality and quantity received and for being in a nicer community on Long Island. This wasn't planned, so it was a fortuitous event. We just kept moving on from Oyster Bay and Cold Spring Harbor and ended up here. I also learned a lot about Long Island. I always thought that it would be a gridded and boilerplate extension of Queens, spilling over into the adjacent county, much like SoCal's San Fernando Valley over the mountain pass is built out like many parts of Los Angeles's basin. With large forested lots and winding two-lane roads, the northern part of it, at the very least, is not at all like that. I would gladly return here. I'm giving Porto Fino of Huntington, New York a strong 4 stars. We had a very satisfying lunch to fill and fuel us for the similarly interesting trip back to New York City that afternoon.

Tried this place for the first time because I love a restaurant that has live music. The place is…read morewell decorated in a quaint space. We ate downstairs as upstairs they had a pop up event going on. The wine and food were delicious. We had the chicken cordon bleu which was perfectly cooked. The chicken was cooked to perfection tender inside and crunchy on the outside. We also had the cacio Pepe which adds truffle, amazing. The meatballs were one of my favorites around. And trust me I know my meatballs my husband literally orders meatballs wherever we go. Would def go back

I had my wife's 31st birthday dinner here this past weekend, and I could not recommend it enough…read more The vibes were amazing. Our waitress, Riley was absolutely amazing. She was so on point and fun. The event coordinator, Sarah was incredible. She made custom menus for me and asked to use decor she had to make the space look even nicer. Both of them made the dinner feel so special. We got compliments all night on the planning and how fun it was. The food was good, the jacked up burgers were a favorite. The drinks were good. Absolutely amazing! seriously have your next event here.