Estelle's in Farmingdale: Closed
Baby back ribs are cooked low and slow in 100 percent hickory smoke, and served with mac and cheese, mashed sweet potatoes, and corn bread at Estelle�s Contemporary Smokehouse and Bar in Farmingdale. (May 28, 2011) Credit: Heather Walsh
Although the sign still says to watch for its grand reopening, the phone number at Estelle’s Contemporary Smokehouse & Bar is no longer in service.
The restaurant, which specialized in slow-smoked barbecue, received a two-and-a-half-star rating in Newsday for chef Evan Randell's ambitious cooking: deeply smoky beef and pork ribs.
The site’s last occupant was the short-lived Fatty Beltbuckles. Before that, the building housed Viva Juan and, going back even more, Melanie’s a Bistro. Plus a few in-between tenants that didn’t stay long enough to leave an impression. Could it be that address is jinxed?
Above, ribs at the former Estelle's in Farmingdale
