3 Best Restaurants in Garden City, Long Island

Tables at this northern Indian restaurant are set with candles and draped with tablecloths. The buffet (lunch and dinner) is one draw; popular dishes include tandoori chicken and charcoal-grilled prawns.

Behind the plainly marked door, you will find a restaurant dressed in red and gold. You have more than 26 house specialties to choose from, including such favorites as the spicy and sweet orange beef and the Grand Marnier shrimp. Paintings of birds and a dramatic mirrored ceiling adorn the space.

Ceiling fans whir above white linen–cloaked tables and terra-cotta floors at this Italian restaurant, which specializes in brick-oven pizza and homemade pastas, like shrimp-and-porcini tortellini and farfalle with salmon.