Got meat? you gotta stop by 36st N stop in Astoria

N train outdoor style- 36st stop

 Carnivore? Astoria Calls You

          Imagine getting home starving  every day and as soon as the N train doors open, you instantly smell the inebriating well-seasoned meat coming up from the wide array of surrounding spanish restaurants. Because the N train line in Astoria resembles the one open air train in the industrial Chicago area,  I am able to get off and follow the aroma. It leads me to a Brazilian restaurant named after the most famous beach area in Brazil: Copacabana.
        The Copacabana Self Service Restaurant is well established with 8 years of service. It seems to me that its long lifetime is making justice: the restaurant is packed during the weekends.  It is not a surprise that Copacabana has gotten great reviews; it offers free deliver, fresh food,  and a very affordable price.

Mixed clientele

         If you are tired of American (sweet) barbecue  you must try Copacabana. The meat style is  offered in the skewer and it's called Churrasco. It provides a big variety of meats, from chicken heart to delicious sirloin steak. The carnivore crowd won’t be disappointed I promise.

       The Restaurant attracts all  kinds of crowd, from Spanish to Chinese, from American to Europeans. 

       Come and try it!!!

Copacabana Restaurant: 31-36^Th Ave

Astoria, NY 11106

Hours: 10am-10pm

Price: Meat $7.99/lb,  Salad $5.99/lb

The friendly staff- Churrasqueiro

My new home

Astoria's physical boundaries

  

     My boyfriend and I moved to Queens February 1st. He fell in love with the apartment right away. I still didn't bother going there before the moving day. Sad to leave Manhattan, to me any apartment would be the same in the Queens borough. However, I was surprised to find out how nice my apartment was and how diverse the area has become.  

    I grew up in Brazil dreaming of NYC. After saving for two years, I abandoned my college studies confronting my family cons of my departure, and arrived in the land of opportunities in 2001; the year which terrorism darkened NYC lives. Despite horrors of 9/11, I insisted in staying. I loved the big tall tall buildings of Manhattan and the English accent. I had no idea what Queens or Brooklyn existed. I innocently believed that homeliness was exctint in a first world country as US.

    My arrival in Queens with little to no english at all was filled with surprises. Firstly, the rainy April seemed to me like the bitter freezing December. I could not bear the cold. I also discovered that NYC had 5 boroughs. English speaking people were scarce there. Yet, I loved the accents of the ones who spoke english. I did't find big walls of tall buildings, instead I lived at Broadway avenue just above the train line. It took me about two months to have a full night of sleep. Every time the train passed,  every single wall of my five store building apartment shook. At last, homeless were all around speaking spanish mostly. 

   Ten years have passed along with my naiveness. As a mature women, I now  return to Queens where I first arrive with a sense of progress, belonging, and power; yet I still search for myself.

   I love the four full seasons of NY. I love all the English accents I hear around me. I love the greenery Astoria provides and  the upcoming cool inexpensive restaurants. Astoria's miscegenation, proximity to Manhattan, rent affordability, abundance of dinning option all sounds appealing to me. It is the closest to my  vision of ideal place I ever had If only I had a two bedroom penthouse apartment with Manhattan view...
   

   I wanted to start this blog because I saw an area that I loved and familiarize with so much not being served by informative sites. Now that I speak and write some english, I wanted to push myself to explore anything there is to see, taste and do in my area and I want to help others to get information on this great area as well.