Dining near John F. Kennedy Airport (JFK)

[sgschef]

We are taking my daughter to JFK tonite for a flight to Israel--need to be there at 7:30pm-coming from central Jersey. Can you recommend somewhere to get dinner that is very close to the airport? The roads will probably be pretty bad by then. Thanks.

[menton1]

Certainly nothing to speak of in the area proximate to JFK, unless you want to do Forest Hills, about 20 minutes (w/o traffic) up the Van Wyck.

Probably better to just get to the airport (Terminal 4, I assume?) In T4 there is a place called Delancey's that could be called "acceptable" for an airport.

[jbraynolds]

Given the forecast you might want to think about getting yourself back home before it gets really nasty out. If you're going early maybe some of the Brooklyn places? Is Blue Ribbon serving mid to late afternoon? I think so.

[jbraynolds]

Blue Ribbon's not open. Peter Luger is open all day, no closing between lunch and dinner hours...your daughter would sure sleep well on her flight.

[jbraynolds]

Cocotte opens at 5:30. Could probably get a quick diner in and easily be down to JFK by 7:30, I'd bet.

[sammy]

Don Peppe's for terrific family style souther italian. Located no more than 5 minutes from JFK near Aqueduct Race Track. The address is 13558 Lefferts Blvd. Phone number is (718) 845-7587. Just a heads up, I think it is cash only.

[LJC]

I second Don Pepe; a trip to the airport is not complete with out it. Sammy is right, cash only, about $40 pp.

Things to try:

Best linguini in white clam sauce

chinese chicken (not really chinese, I don't know why they call it this. Chicken with tomato sauce.)

baked clams

eggplant rolatini

you will also be pretty close (20 min) to Flushing for chinese, especially if you take the van wyck.

[zeman]

A friend of mine opened a restaurant in Atlantic Beach called "Park Street" that is about 10 min from JFK just over the Atlantic Beach Bridge. They are on a winter scehdule right now due to the nature of the summer resort community but will be open 7 days/week come this April 15th.

[tgfny]

Any interesting place near JFK.

[raji]

Shea Stadium!

[TongoRad]

That's LaGuardia, raji!

tgfny-

I can give you a number of suggestions, but it might help if you could provide a little more detail. Are you by yourself, or is this a business lunch? Do you have your own transportation? That sort of thing...

The most 'interesting' places are probably the Caribbean Roti shops in South Ozone Park and Jamaica, but they're pretty informal.

Post back- we'll help you narrow things down. I work in the area so I have a bunch of favorites.

[raji]

I'd take the 10 mile detour from JFK just to experience the culinary wilds of Flushing.... you'd save your cab fare too - Caribbean Roti sounds damn good too...

[M.X.Hassett]

There is a group of Rotti restaurants called Clarias I know they have locations in Brooklyn and last time I was there they mentioned they might be opening a flushing location.

[tgfny]

Hit Don Peppe, which was perfect. Very interesting crowd to say the least.

[MelissaH]

Is there anything near JFK that's readily accessible if you don't have a car of your own?

In late May, 4 or 5 of us will be flying JetBlue in from Syracuse in preparation for catching an international flight that evening. We don't want to cut it at all close timewise, so we'll probably have at least 6 hours between flights. We're open to suggestions for things to do, both at the airport itself and nearby.

Oh, we'll be hauling our luggage with us, since it will all be carry-on.

MelissaH