Local guide · French bistro
Kitchen A Bistro
FrenchBYOBChef-ownedSmall room
“A twenty-seat BYOB in a St. James strip that cooks like a Manhattan bistro and charges like a diner. Book ahead — it fills.”
Kitchen A Bistro is chef Eric Lomando’s tiny, cash-only French room in a St. James strip mall — the kind of place that shows up on best-of-Long-Island lists year after year and still feels like a secret. Bring your own wine; there’s no corkage games here.
The menu changes with what’s good — duck, skate, a proper steak frites — and the value is genuinely startling for the quality on the plate. Reserve, because the twenty-odd seats go fast and there is no bar to wait at.
