Simmer Down Restaurant & Bakery — Restaurant in New York

I have been enjoying the fruits of the cooks, servers, and front-end staff's labor for years. Over 5 years. Since becoming a teacher, I am required to leave home earlier, compared to my schedule in previous years. For the past 2 years, I look forward to visiting Simmer Down restaurant to purchase my breakfast.

The variety and delicious food selections are abundant. The cook has gifted hands. The servers are pleasant and attentive as I communicate my order. The cashier, usually an assertive, stern Caribbean woman with a serious facial expression and a gentle approach to customers, ensures customers are aware of the cost of orders. She also ensures optimal financial gains for Summer Down, as she could be heard informing her colleagues of the accurate costs of products.

Simmer Down is worth visiting for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. I particularly enjoy that music is played throughout the day, rather than the news. Music adds a warm welcome upon entering the restaurant.

While I've tried every dish excluding the shellfish, I recommend the vegetable chow mein, curry chicken w/potato, macaroni salad, and plantains. The cornmeal porridge and bread and bun are always fresh and well good.

Edit on January 22, 2024: I recommend making all purchases with cash. This establishment apply a surcharge for all debit/credit card transactions. Sometimes up to .89 which is significant compared to...

Don't order through uber eats, they usually cancel your order because they won't have a certain dish and then you have to wait days for the bank to refund your account. They have options, they can update their dishes to reflect what's no longer available on the menu or they can call you and inform you that a certain item is not available and ask if you would like to replace that item with something else, but they choose to cancel your entire order and you'll wait days for Uber to refund you, while in the meantime if you want to order somewhere else, you'll have to use additional funds until your refund reflects on your account. That's bad business...

Well I can’t speak for the service because i never entered the establishment. However I got a large oxtail with white rice and mac n cheese for about $25. Of course I’ve had better tasting oxtail from others, but what made me take the time out to even write this review is the simple fact that it took an extra 15min for me to eat at least 1/2 of this meal. The amount of thyme stems/roots that I found was noticeably annoying. I couldn’t enjoy ONE BITE of food without removing a rather large “stick” or “stem” of whatever herb was used. Another dishonorable mention would be the Mac n cheese…why...