7 Best City Island Restaurants in New York

About Artie’s:

Artie’s Steak and Seafood, located at 394 City Island Avenue, offers an array of Mediterranean seafood as well as American-style food. Established more than 25 years ago by Spiros Chagares.

The restaurant is known for its locally-sourced ingredients cooked using innovative cooking techniques. The decor of the restaurant is white tablecloths and wooden chairs with white brick walls, an elegantly decorated ceiling, and artwork of vegetables and fruits.

Artie’s serves a huge menu of seafood that is a mix of innovative and cross-cultural cuisines like Shellfish jambalaya, Caribbean jerk mahi-mahi, and Miso-crusted Chilean sea bass served with cellophane noodles.

Alongside a variety of fried fish, Artie’s is serving more traditional food items like broiled lobster tail, a fillet of sole filled with crab meat, and poached salmon. The non-seafood menu includes baby back ribs that are Italian pork chops, Southern-style baby back ribs, and New York sirloin with crunchy onions.

About Sammy’s:

After being seated at the traditional Italian seafood restaurant, guests will be served a buffet of Italian bread, antipasti, and cornbread. The buffet is only the beginning. On Mondays and Sundays, a lunch special menu is priced at $17.95-$29.95 and comes with tomato juice or a slice of melon, a choice of clam chowder types or potatoes, salad tostones, fries, or linguine served on the side, tea or coffee and Ice cream. Invite a guest.

After lunch and on Sundays there are plenty of shared plates that are available. Even the ones that are not listed as shareable can still be more than one human can consume in 24 hours. Massive portions of food are just grease enough to soak up with a side of garlic bread. Plan for leftovers.

About City Island Lobster House:

Lobster is also featured in their paella, which is a Spanish-inspired rice dish that includes mussels, shrimp, and clams along with pork sausage. The somewhat expensive restaurant offers an array of freshly caught seafood, that range from mahi-mahi Chilean sea bass, to Halibut.

Scallops, calamari, and oysters are all popular frittatas, while crab cakes Ipswich oysters, and clams are the main features of this place. The restaurant also serves an array of Mediterranean dishes such as Jojo’s Pasta Special with lobster and other seafood and seafood, such as sole Francese and shrimp, as well as lobster alfredo.

About Johnny’s:

You can line up for the most affordable seafood available in the city. A platter of lobster-flavored bites costs $16 and comes on top of shoestring-covered, fries that are fast food in style. A $12 plate of freshly shucked clams is offered at any time of the day since practically any hour is happy hour at the restaurant.

The restaurant offers cafeteria eating where customers take orders from counters such as their sections of fried, clam section, steamed, bar and dessert sections. Fried dishes are loaded with seafood such as scallops, clam strips, and soft shell crabs. There are a few Italian-inspired dishes like linguine topped with mozzarella sticks, clam sauce, and meatballs available.

About Ray’s Cafe:

Hispanics make up about 20% of City Island’s population, and the island is home to a few restaurants serving popular cuisine.
The restaurant is quite modest, with just a few tables, a hot food counter, and walls painted orange and yellow.

Mofongo, shrimp with garlic sauce, asopao soup, and fried flounder with rice are a few well-known Puerto Rican cuisine. With sweet or fried plantains, meat courses include breaded chicken and steak, pepper steak, and chicharron de pollo. The daily lunch offerings at Ray’s Cafe on City Island, NY include lentil soup, baked chicken, codfish, and stewed goat.

About Vistamar:

With a panoramic view of the harbor and other areas of town, Vistamar takes pride in its decor, which includes large dining rooms with white tables and chairs with bright red floral arrangements that stand out against the white walls, and huge windows give more natural light and views of the boats that are parked at the marina.

Tables are big enough to share their Picadera Mixtas with marinated pork boneless sausage, chicken empanadas, and frittered cheese. Soups include sancocho. It’s an oxtail-based clear broth, and other vegetables, avocado which is an authentic Puerto Rican spicy shrimp soup that is served with rice. Fresh mozzarella and octopus salad as well as tomato salad are well-loved appetizers.

About The Original Crab Shanty:

The City Island’s most popular restaurants have been featured as a restaurant in The New Yorker and on the Food Network. The restaurant was established in 1977, located at 361 City Island Avenue, which was the site of a silent film theater during the first half of 1900.

Lobsters are available from 1-1/8 lbs up to five pounds and the lobster tail can be served alongside huge lobster or crab claws in the form of “Cool combos.”

The most popular dishes are their pasta like linguine with red or white seafood sauce or penne with vodka and prosciutto, made alongside garlic bread.

About Ohana:

The restaurant was established a year and a half back, Ohana is a reference to the “Japanese family” and has hibachi tables throughout its spacious dining area with white and red walls and classic Japanese artwork. To cater to the locals, Ohana offers several options of fusion between Japanese and Puerto Rican.

The menu includes American-Japanese classics such as deep-fried chicken, shrimp tempura, shrimp gyoza, and hibachi scallops with green plantains and tostones. Hibachi dishes include seafood, steak, chicken, shrimp and scallops, lobster, and filet mignon which are all served with fried rice, shrimp appetizers, and vegetables.

Whereas, other hibachi choices include salmon, calamari as well as red snapper. Alongside the selection of sushi, sashimi, and other types, including famous options like the Ohana Dragon roll made with tuna and eel, Ohana offers a Jap “A” Rican Dinner that includes eight distinct components: salad, miso soup, shrimp appetizer, and white rice, chicken, Puerto Rican beans, plantains along with dessert.

About Archie’s Tap & Table:

American comfort food is served in a contemporary environment at the well-liked and highly-rated brewpub Archie’s Tap & Table. The restaurant’s limited yet creative cuisine is created by chef Alex Pertsovsky, who has experience working in renowned Chicago and New York restaurants. The decor of the restaurant is straightforward and contemporary, with wooden tables and metal chairs, small, colourful artworks exhibited on the wood walls, and a white-tiled bar.

The traditional fried chicken and waffles, the Cajun pork chop with mushroom and baby kale, and the cheddar pork sausage with pickled onion are among the main courses. Their king crab mac and cheese is made with cheddar, gruyere, parmesan, goat cheese, and oven-roasted halibut with mustard seed, sunchoke, asparagus, and fennel; both prominently incorporate seafood.

About The Black Whale:

Chicken empanadas with black bean potstickers, ginger-soy dipping sauce, and chorizo dip are two must-have appetisers. Starters for seafood include Maryland crab cakes with a basil remoulade and New Zealand mussels in a white wine sauce.

The Black Whale serves a variety of wraps and sandwiches, including a Fajita wrap and a pressed Cuban sandwich with garlic aioli and pernil. Pasta dishes range from “The Starving Artist,” orecchiette with white beans, spinach, and mozzarella, to Mediterranean orzo with sun-dried tomatoes and artichoke hearts. Popular meals at The Black Whale include meatloaf and barbecue St. Louis ribs, and among the freshly caught seafood are tequila lime shrimp and grilled salmon with pesto and Israeli couscous.