Dining
Your guide to eating out in Port Chester, Rye Brook and surrounding areas.
A Supplement
Out & About
You can dine al fresco at 43 village restaurants Acuario Cevicheria y Mas
163 North Main St., Port Chester 937-2338
KFC
262 Boston Post Rd., Port Chester 935-0741
Arrosto
Kiosko
Bagel Emporium
La Creperie Café
bartaco
Lenny’s Bagels
Belle Fair Country Market
Los Gemelos Restaurant & Tortilleria
25 South Regent St., Port Chester 939-2727 211 Irving Ave., Port Chester 937-5252 1 Willett Ave., Port Chester 937-8226 20 Belle Fair Boulevard Rye Brook 939-2370
220 Westchester Ave., Port Chester 933-0155 604 North Main St., Port Chester 934-0026 200 South Ridge St., Rye Brook 939-1379
167 Westchester Ave., Port Chester 934-0372
Brisa Marina Restaurant
MaryAnn’s Mexican Restaurant
Burger King
Michael’s Famous Pan Pizza
Café Brazil USA
Mulligan’s Bar & Grill
40 Grace Church St., Port Chester 934-9090 260 Boston Post Rd., Port Chester 934-7877 37-39 North Main St., Port Chester 939-1139
Café Mirage
23½ North Main St., Port Chester 939-8700 125 Midland Ave., Port Chester 939-2241
Doral Arrowwood 975 Anderson Hill Rd., Rye Brook 939-5500
531 North Main St., Port Chester 937-3497
nessa Ristorante
908-4184
10 Westchester Ave., Port Chester 939-0079
325 North Main St., Port Chester
Chop’t Creative Salad Company 939-0119 116 South Ridge St., Rye Brook Panera Bread Club Sandwich
7 Rye Ridge Plaza Rye Brook 939-3475
Pasquale II Ristorante
Coals
Per Voi II
Cousin Frankie’s USA Grill
Racanelli’s Pizzeria Restaurant
35½ North Main St., Port Chester 305-3220 112 Willett Ave., Port Chester 305-4878
Coyote Flaco
115 Midland Ave., Port Chester 937-6969
Dougie’s Standby
604 North Main St., Port Chester 939-0022
Euro Asian Bistro
30 Westchester Ave., Port Chester 937-3680
2 Putnam Ave., Port Chester 934-7770 23 North Main St., Port Chester 937-3200 Rye Ridge Shopping Center 136 South Ridge St., Rye Brook 937-2511
Rye Ridge Deli
Rye Ridge Shopping Center 126 South Ridge St., Rye Brook 937-2131
Sam’s Bar & Grill
1 Mill St., Port Chester 939-2001
Sonora Nuevo Latino Cuisine Rectory St., Port Chester Frank’s Restaurant and Pizzeria 179 933-0200 23 Putnam Ave., Port Chester 939-8299
Garden Catering
140 Midland Ave., Port Chester 934-7852 or 934-7810
härth
Hilton Westchester 699 Westchester Ave., Rye Brook 939-6300
Inca & Gaucho Restaurant
173 Westchester Ave., Port Chester 939-2100
T & J Pizza & Pasta
227 Westchester Ave., Port Chester 939-4134
Tarry Lodge
18 Mill St., Port Chester 939-3111
Tarry Market Café
179 North Main St., Port Chester 253-5680
The Kneaded Bread
181 North Main St., Port Chester 937-9489
Wah Yuan Chinese Restaurant Post Road Plaza 262 Boston Post Rd., Port Chester 939-7776
Westchester Burger Co.
275 South Ridge St., Rye Brook 305-6095
zeppoleme
321 North Main St., Port Chester 481-5900
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BY JANANNE ABEL
customers to take their food and eat outside. Only one place that offered outdoor eating last year is not doing so in 2013. Starbucks in the Rye Ridge Shopping Center did not have tables out front the times I visited. Churrascaria Copacabana, the Brazilian steakhouse at 29-31 North Main St., enclosed their deck last year, so it can no longer be considered an outdoor eating venue. Meanwhile, two new restaurants have opened which are offering dining al fresco, two that opened in May 2012 have set up outdoor eating areas for the first time this season and KFC up on the hill at 262 Boston Post Rd. has put a table outside. Zeppoleme made its debut in June at Cousin Frankie’s USA Grill’s patio in the 321 North Main St. as Coals at 35½ North Main St. is shoppers’ parking lot behind Q and Misti at the sister restaurant to the latest restaurant to set up a 112 Willett Ave. continues the restaurant’s neighboring nessa. The sidewalk café in Port Chester. patriotic theme. Italian coffee shop, open of this new restaurant, meals are served from early morning until late at night 7 This week was somewhat better, on the patio overlooking the hotel’s days a week, specializes in traditional and by the time this section is on the well-landscaped grounds on the weekand modern ricotta zeppole, Panini street, hopefully the temperatures and ends when the weather cooperates. humidity will have dropped and people and Stumptown coffee. It shares a Coals, specializing in grilled gorgeously landscaped courtyard with will again be flocking to the 43 places pizza—and the thinnest I’ve ever nessa where eight round high tables in Port Chester and Rye Brook that tasted—as well as craft beers, is takwith wicker stools have been added on offer a place to enjoy your meal in the ing advantage of the Village of Port a raised deck specifically dedicated to balmy air. Chester’s legislation allowing sidewalk From a few simple tables and chairs the coffee shop. cafés, one of seven restaurants to do so Härth, which opened at the Hilton set up outside a restaurant on the sidethis year. Coals has placed two black Westchester at 699 Westchester Ave. walk to fancy decks with heat lamps metal tables for two and matching in September 2012, offers modern that allow for the extension of the outchairs just outside the door of its 35½ American cuisine focused around its side eating season, there’s something North Main St. location. Coals is open wood-burning oven. Besides flatbread for everyone. From April to October, for dinner every day and for lunch and flatbread pizza, other ingredients restaurants with outdoor seating are Saturday and Sunday. such as mushrooms and carrots are definitely in demand. roasted in the oven. With the opening In the 16 years I’ve been writing Cousin Frankie’s USA Grill, which this feature, the number of sideopened at the end of May 2012 walk cafés, patios and decks has at 112 Willett Ave., has created nearly doubled from 23 to 43 of a patio outside the restaurant on the 125 total eateries that now village property in the shoppers’ exist in the two villages. The parking lot behind Q. Seven phenomenon caught on in 1997 silver mesh tables and matching when the Port Chester Board of chairs are shaded by red, white Trustees encouraged sidewalk and blue umbrellas and the space cafés through special legislais decorated with American flags tion. Since then the number in keeping with the restaurant’s has gradually moved upward, patriotic theme. Open seven ebbing and flowing each year days for all three meals, Cousin as restaurants close and open, Frankie’s serves a mean breaksavvy restaurateurs decide to fast, great burgers, wraps, Pacreate an outdoor venue to drum nini, sandwiches, salads, chicken up more interest and therefore and seafood dinner entrées, pasta increase business, make room dishes, steaks and chops. for overflow crowds or just A complete listing of all The well-landscaped patio shared by nessa heighten visibility. outdoor eating venues in Port and Port Chester’s latest arrival on the Some spaces have table Chester and Rye Brook appears restaurant scene, the Italian coffee shop service while others just allow on this page. zeppoleme at 321 North Main St. n the Northeast, outdoor eating is generally associated with summer, even though when I start gathering information for this section in July, it’s often too hot to even consider eating outside. I’m a hardcore al fresco dining enthusiast, but even I could not have tolerated the nearly 100-degree temperatures and high humidity of the last few weeks at an outdoor venue. That’s why I found most of these areas empty when I snapped my pictures.