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Jenny’s Restaurant
87-73 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica
718-558-9888
Cuisine: Chinese and American
Hours: 11 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. Monday to
Thursday; 11 a.m. to midnight Friday and Saturday; 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Sunday
The fortune
inside the cookie said “Relax and enjoy yourself.”
The hundreds
of court employees and visitors streaming in and out the Supreme Court
building on Sutphin Boulevard will have no problem doing so with a new
restaurant just up the street.
Jenny’s
Restaurant, an attractive new Chinese restaurant with a very outgoing
and friendly staff, just opened in the middle of August on Sutphin
Boulevard at 87th Avenue.
It’s very
popular with court regulars, like one attorney who visited recently at
the recommendation of some colleagues. He was sampling items from the
restaurant’s popular buffet table, which features over a dozen of the
most popular Chinese dishes. During lunchtime, four items and a soda
cost only $4.50.
“My friends
told me that the food here is very good,” said the lawyer, who declined
to give his name said.
His friends
were right.
The food at
Jenny’s has a particularly fresh taste to it. Jenny herself even offered
to make a new batch of choices for this late-afternoon guest, who was
left with the remnants of a voracious lunch crowd.
Besides the
cook-and-serve aspect of the service at Jenny’s, the cooks also use
vegetable oil exclusively. The result is a lighter, healthier meal.
The most
popular items at Jenny’s are the chicken dishes, and with good reason.
General
Tso’s chicken, sesame chicken and chicken with broccoli have been
customer favorites from day one. They’re all above-average.
Barbecue
spare ribs are also popular. The chicken and ribs are sold most
commonly as part of the buffet special, as well as an under-$5 lunch
special that includes an entrée, fried rice, an egg roll or soup and a
can of soda.
In the
evenings, the restaurant’s court customers thin out and the local,
heavily Hispanic population comes in for dinner.
The
restaurant’s continental meat dishes are most popular with that crowd;
chicken wings, ribs and pork chops fly off the grill, according to
restaurant staff.
To keep up
with a trend established by fast food chains, the restaurant also has a
popular $1 menu, featuring spring rolls, egg rolls, shrimp rolls, French
fries, plantains, onion rings and fantail shrimp.
In another
western-style twist, Jenny’s also serves a slew of hot and cold
sandwiches. The owner made them for a decade in another restaurant, and
decided to bring his expertise with him.
As a result,
six-inch steak and cheese subs, fish subs and cheeseburgers, all around
$4 or less with fries or onion rings and a drink, are very popular.
The
restaurant also makes sandwiches out of ham, grilled chicken, blackened
chicken and turkey.
The
verdict’s in: Jenny’s Restaurant is a great place to grab lunch on
Sutphin Boulevard.
– Shams
Tarek
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