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A tour of restaurant row in Kings Park

Published: February 13, 2011 6:04 PM
By JOAN REMINICK  joan.reminick@newsday.com

Photo credit: Newsday / Ana P. Gutierrez | The Thornton family dines at Dixie's Smokehouse in Kings Park. (Aug. 6, 2009)

It happened, seemingly, overnight: Kings Park -- not so long ago a virtual dining desert -- simply burst into bloom. These days, the once-dreary downtown area has something it never did before: a serious food scene.

"We have such a variety of very good restaurants," said Dee Grasso, executive director of the Kings Park Chamber of Commerce. Grasso added that the high caliber food...