What's the Longest Anyone Has Ever Had to Wait to be Seated at a Restaurant in Queens?

[Glendale is hungry]

Some time back when I ate at M. Wells (then on Hunter's Point Avenue), my friends and I waited about 20 minutes to be seated. It was a Saturday fairly close to lunch time. That's the longest waiting time I can recall for getting a seat at any place in Queens.

If you reply, please tell what restaurant you were at, the day and time and how long you waited to be seated.

Thanks!

Ciao,

Glendale is hungry...

[katzimmer]

Taverna Kyclades was a 90-minute wait on a Saturday night, and the people in the line in front of me advised that it would probably be longer...so we went to Opa! Opa! instead. I...sort of wish I'd waited for Kyclades.

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Taverna Kyclades
3307 Ditmars Blvd, Queens, NY 11105

Opa Souvlaki
28-44 31st St, Queens, NY 11102

[Pookipichu]

You didn't miss anything, after giving it 3 chances to win me over, I will never go back to Kyclades. The food and service at Stamatis and Agnanti are both better.

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Agnanti
19-06 Ditmars Blvd, Queens, NY 11105

Stamatis
29-09 23rd Ave, Queens, NY 11105

Taverna Kyclades
3307 Ditmars Blvd, Queens, NY 11105

[Mr Porkchop]

My longest wait had to be M. Wells, or Taverna Kyclades. Only other place I can ever recall waiting any significant time is Agnanti.

As for the surviving members of that group, neither wait was that bad. For Kyclades, as I recall they seemed willing to call you when your table came up, and the Friday night we went, it ended up being a shorter wait than what was quoted (those some old Greek guys did try and jack our table). We just spent 45 minutes in a nearby bar.

For Agnanti, the Friday night wait wasn't bad (maybe a half hour?), they were gracious, or maybe I'll forgive anyone that gives me a free glass of wine while I wait.

[EricMM]

Thanks for all these warnings. I don't care how good the food is at a restaurant. Life is too short for me to wait longer than the time I would actually spend eating and relaxing. There are so many good restaurants out there that I am far more interested in the places that don't make me wait an unreasonable amount of time.

[Glendale is hungry]

Hi EricMM,

I was actually surprised at some of the responses here.

I guess I've been comparatively lucky with regard to wait times since I'm almost always an early bird. Perhaps the way to reduce wait times is to pretend you live in Salt Lake City and plan accordingly.

Ciao,

Glendale is hungry...

[tex.s.toast]

Sripraphai on a weekend, when the garden is closed, can exceed an hour easily.

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SriPraPhai
64-13 39th Ave, Queens, NY 11377

[Daniel76]

yeh, those Greek Place on a Friday, Saturday night in Astoria.. There can be 2 hour waits.. Also, Trattoria L'Incontro has nice waits..

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Trattoria L'Incontro
21-76 31st St, Queens, NY 11105

[Daniel76]

Also, Imperial Palace, in Flushing.. We have waited an hour on a saturday night. and then there are the dim sum places.. The Korean spots in Murray Hill.. I have waited at mapo and the place where all the kids go to eat that live octopus.. There are a few korean spots which are hard to get into on a saturday.

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Imperial Palace
136-13 37th Ave, Queens, NY 11354

Mapo BBQ
149-24 41st Ave, Queens, NY 11355

Sik Gaek
161-29 Crocheron Ave, Queens, NY 11358

[Pookipichu]

Don't remember the date but lines at M. Wells were as long as 2 hours. Recently Salt and Fat was 1.5 hour wait for two on a Saturday evening, 7:30ish.

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M. Wells Diner
21-17 49th Ave, Queens, NY 11101

Salt & Fat
41-16 Queens Blvd, Queens, NY 11104