Best Restaurants for Local Ingredients in East Elmhurst

We had a lovely afternoon. Our server was exceptionally friendly and informative and gave wonderful recommendations. We really enjoyed our time and the food and desserts were delicious.

Louis was our server last night but I believe he’s a manager? He was off the charts perfect! Thanks for accommodating us upstairs in the big booth. Everything was awesome!

The food and service are perfection! If you want a quiet place to go and talk - this is not the plane. Very loud! But worth the loudness for the food!

Jojo’s is JeanGeorge’s home grown restaurant. Jojo’s was the name his mother called Jean George as a child. Jojo’s is thus a treasure in this neighborhood. A lovely townhouse filled with amazing professionals who love & live food, a kitchen that consistently produces beautiful, delicious, fresh and interesting food consistently every night with low key comfortable panache. The salads are amazing. - warm seafood salad has often been a source of comfort and nutrition alongside a proper glass of fine wine to wash away the days worry for this diner. All the seafood is gorgeous - like the lettuce cup tuna tartar. Pastas always deliver - lovely textures & intense flavor combinations to die for. Entrees like the lobster, salmon and sea bass simply sing. Meats, like my Duck tonight, are some of the best cuts of met I’ve ever known. Wines are carefully selected with not a bad bottle in the bunch. Desserts are divine. The bread pudding I had one Christmas evening was a true gift with my Sauterne. However, my favorite is the most decadent rich butterscotch pudding I’ve ever had - another holdover from Jean George’s youth no doubt and a wonder of my world as well as all of those dozens whom I’ve shared it with. Jean George does so many things well. - ABCV, haute cuisine, fine French food as well as amazing steaks and more. It is perhaps his most elegant and pure expression of his love for food at Jojos that brings me back even after moving from the east side to the west. Joyeaux Noel and merci beaucoup Jojo & company.

Marco the Owner at Enoteca runs a beautiful establishment with wonderful food, impeccable service, first class ambience and top notch wines. Thank you for a wonderful Christmas celebration dinner.