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| "Blue" Restaurant - North Shore - Staten Island |
Just had lunch the other day at
“Blue” on the North Shore opposite the Snug Harbor Museum campus.
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| Snug Harbor |
The old R.H.Tugs Restaurant
jumped the shark in the nineties but ownership hung on to celebrate a twenty
fifth year anniversary I guess for the sake of nostalgia and shabby chic?
This new restaurant with a basic
Mediterranean cuisine actually surprised me along with a major interior architectural
redo of the old basic structure. The Bar area is now doubled in size and more of a
lounge complete with a few lounge chairs.
The restaurant is refreshingly bright with almost floor to ceiling picture windows facing the river and giving you a breathtaking, up front in your face, view of that major
hidden forgotten asset in Staten Island, and that is of its long forgotten
water front.
The interior of the restaurant area is refreshingly simple. The walls are painted a Mediterranean color with Gothic Revival woodwork accents to match, compliment the hidden architectural gem of Snug Harbor across the street. This interior
background tells you that so much thought and preparation went into this place. That forethought and care is also found in its fantastically fresh, tasty and excellent food.
What I sampled was from the
Lunch Menu BTW. The pasta entre with clams and shrimp was the best I have eaten in a restaurant anywhere. Seafood, fresh,
fresh, fresh (you can taste the sea). I also
had a taste of my companions’ dishes. The Angus burger, exceptionally excellent. And a lunch time special
pastrami sandwich which was a quality, light tasting, not standard heavy, meat
sliced and served with a real sense of style and excellence across the board of a creative eclectic menu.
They have an impressive wine
list. Lunch for three with two appetizers, crab fritters - yum, three entrees, two cocktails, and
one desert, a key lime pie to die for, and coffees all around for desert was
for present day standards reasonable and under one bill. You pay for quality and believe me quality is far and some distance between in that forgotten (gem) of a borough. That quality is found here in Snug Harbor at "Blue".
Blue
1115
Richmond Terrace
Staten
Island NY 10310
718-273-7777
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