Long Island restaurants: New reviews

In this week’s Newsday, Erica Marcus gives one-and-a-half stars to MoCA Asian Bistro, “the latest salvo in an Asian-fusion invasion that threatens Long Island's few remaining just-Chinese and just-Japanese restaurants.” The new Woodbury branch of MoCAs in Hewlett and Forest Hills takes over the space that used to house Nisen, and the new restaurant is even more lavishly decorated. The  food, however, rarely lives up to the decor.

Joan Reminick awards one star to Bahama Breeze Island Grille in Smith Haven Mall, the first Long Island outpost of the island-themed national chain restaurant. The place is mobbed and noisy, and the food has its ups and downs. Servers are “unfailingly cheerful,” though, and desserts — Rebecca's Key lime pie with meringue topping and the “chocolate island” — are “knockouts.”