Armenian Restaurants in NYC

[anileve]

This is to all of my New Yorkers. Did you notice that there are absolutely no Armenian restaurants in NYC? I have been looking for quite a long time and I found that all of them closed.

You want to hear an ironic thing? Which restaurants do Armenians gather in to engage in a great feast? Give up?

1) Turkish restaurants
2) Russian restaurants

Their own end up empty and then go out of business? And we have a strong community in Sunnyside and many live in Manhattan and NJ. This is just bazaar to me… Do you guys perhaps know of one that is not listed? I cannot even take my non-Armenian friends out to introduce them to our cuisine and an Armenian environment.

This is what I am talking about, there are so many Armenians in the Diaspora that are screaming the loudest about the “Damn Turks” while they are stuffing themselves with Turkish treats. I just find that hysterical.

[TJ]

i agree with you. but personally i have never eaten in a turkish restaurant nor do i intend to. There used to be a Yerevan restaurant in sunnyside but then they changed it back to a store then a restaurant again. Its not much its a small place and i havent been there in a while so i dont know if its still around. we need like a zankou chicken here like they have in california. and by the way i heard a rumor that the guy who owned zankou chiken shot up his family and then himself do any of you califorians know anything about that.

[anileve]

Wow strange things happen to California! Yerevan hah, this is funny listen to this....

I went there not long ago happy that I finally found one Armenian restaurant. The owners are Romanian-Armenians. But to my greatest non-surprise I found no trace of Hay food, instead there was a Romanian restaurant in its glamour, certainly uncharacteristic of the décor in Armenian restaurants. Now the most ironic thing about this is that right across the street parallel to the Romanian restaurant standing was a Turkish Restaurant, which has been there for many years and is still going really strong and pretty much packed every time I pass it by. And guess who was dining there? Yup, you guessed it, Armenians!

I just found it ridiculous, that there finally was a Hay cuisine and there was no business because all of the Armenian customers were going to dine in the Turkish restaurant across the street, so they closed and opened a Romanian cuisine which is doing much better, and their customers are now Romanians….What can we even scream about when it comes to genocide when we can’t even keep a simple business open next to the booming Turkish one!

How come no one thought about opening one? Tigran, let’s start a joint business, except I am afraid that we will be bankrupt. And if you do not visit Turkish restaurant you are most probably paying respects to the Russian cuisine, am I right or am I right?

[hyeclass]

not a good time to open armenian restaurant feds are all into our business u wont know but its another way of medical supply when u open a armenian restaurant, i dont know about new york but thats how it is in LA and plus u get a visit from the mafia if ur not one to collect past payments

[anileve]

not a good time to open armenian restaurant feds are all into our business u wont know but its another way of medical supply when u open a armenian restaurant, i dont know about new york but thats how it is in LA and plus u get a visit from the mafia if ur not one to collect past payments

And how do you know all of this? Huuuuuuuu? Aha?


Sounds like someone is involved in some not very "fluffy" stuff...

[sSsflamesSs]

Anileve, easy there on the smileys. You're getting a little too excited about them .

That being said, I just HAD to comment on this one:

It kicks ass!! I can actually do that with my eyebrow, but only the right one, hehehe.

[anileve]

Anileve, easy there on the smileys. You're getting a little too excited about them .

That being said, I just HAD to comment on this one:

It kicks ass!! I can actually do that with my eyebrow, but only the right one, hehehe.

You are right, I think I need to tone down my usage of smilies. However, I am a little obsessed, they are so ,as you put it, kick ass!

That is why I think that we should mention to AC to add more Emoticons!

[Artsakhtsi]

This is to all of my New Yorkers.

hej, can i be a port of it too?

Did you notice that there are absolutely no Armenian restaurants in NYC? I have been looking for quite a long time and I found that all of them closed.


Actualy, we have the same problem here in Sweden.....
All u can see is a KEBAB PIZZA KEBAB PIZZA everywhere .... and owners are arabs or kurds sometime armenians too.... swedish ppl love it, but again.... the do not have their own dishes.... just a meayballs with smashed potato :? ....


Anileve, what u can do is visit Russia or Baltic countrys... they have planty of good Armenian restaurants, with delishious *tpov dolma*,*ljulja kabab*, * horovats* (yummmiii) , *kjufta* ....etc.

Good luck !

[Artsakhtsi]

owwwwww, i almost forgot *henkali*

[TJ]

... what about visiting Armenia or did that just not occur to you