Dominick’s Restaurant

This time last week, we didn’t think there was much worth noting in the The Bronx beyond Yankees Stadium and the Target / TJ Maxx complex at 225th Street, so imagine our shock to discover a three block-strip of Italian restaurants and shops just a ten minute walk from the D train: The Bronx’s own Little Italy! 

Our destination was a family-style Italian eatery called Dominick’s.  After a significant wait we (and six friends) were seated; we learned there were no menus, just a waiter telling us from memory some things we might like to eat. We started with a salad, a plate of mussels and a stuffed artichoke.  All were huge and reportedly delicious, however some of us avoided the mussels as we do not enjoy the taste of dirty ocean in our mouths and do not understand why somebody ever would. Our entres were a penne pomodoro, chicken catchatorie, a shrimp pasta and eggplant parmesan–all good, and huge.

There are generally two risks at family-style restaurants.  The first is that your party wont pick things you like.  Barring the mussels and the shrimp pasta, we survived that one in tact. The second risk, however, is that someone might actually come with their family.  This was in fact a problem at Dominick’s, as the early Saturday evening crowd included more children under ten years old than a Park Slope street fair.

When it came time to pay, we received no bill, but rather our waiter simply told us how much we owed. We shot fearful glances at one another but were surprised when the the total came to only $20 per person. 

As we left we wandered into a small bakery and enjoyed cheap treats, then walked down the street under a lighted sign that proclaimed “Happy Passover!”

Our cost: $40

2335 Arthur Ave
Bronx, NY 10458

Take the B/D to 182nd-183rd St