“All the food we ate at Don Peppe, including the shrimp cocktail, rigatoni with sausage, baked clams, and chicken parmigiana lacked flavor and was way too salty.”
H3
7.6/10Italian
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Get the , the , and the fried pepper. Those are the orders people repeat, along with the veal don pepe and . It's cash only and family style, with portions built for four. Outside those dishes people split hard. Plenty say the food is salty and dated, and the plating gets mocked.
NYC classic — Dating to 1968, the Italian-American restaurant began in Brooklyn before moving to Lefferts Boulevard in South Ozone Park, Queens, a half mile from Aqueduct Racetrack. Thoroughbred photographs and jockey silks from that era still line the walls. Its linguini with clam sauce was featured on Food Network's The Best Thing I Ever Ate. Wikipedia
“All the food we ate at Don Peppe, including the shrimp cocktail, rigatoni with sausage, baked clams, and chicken parmigiana lacked flavor and was way too salty.”
H3
“Tbh, I don't think it's very good at all. Some of their food definitely is. It's a trip to go there. Iconic NY. But not that ordering clam pasta there again... it was very watery, and the clams were hammered.”
H3
“Nostalgic or not, that 1972 plating of shrimp cocktail is ridiculous”
H2
“Reminded me of the first time I made a catering platter... My chef said you working at a grocery store..based on me putting lettuce down like that first.”
H2
“This. Get the fried peppers.”
H2
“Hard pass for me! The cocktail sauce in a plastic cup WTF”
H2
“Don Peppe veal parmigiana. Have them throw it in a plastic bag with a couple ladlefuls of gravy scooped on top”
H2
“For real. Order the shrimp Luciana and veal Don Pepe then get back to me”
H2
“Girl what is that plating with the shrimp cocktail. it reminds me of the dinosaur nugget volcano someone made where the nuggets are drinking from a lake of gravy”
H2
“I love this spot. Went a few months ago and it was really good. Baked clams. Linguini with clam sauce. Chicken scarparella. All delicious.”
H2
“Why is it acceptable for a restaurant, especially a very popular and acclaimed one, to only have a select few dishes that are good, and for everything else to be average or terrible?”
H2
“while the Shrimp Cocktail looks like it was plated and garnished by 1973, poorly, I might add, the size of those shrimps make this dish acceptable.”
H2