Renee’s Kitchenette & Grill
“Ihawan is just above them but quite expensive and the decor isnt quite as cozy.”
“From the bbq on a stick to the garlic fried rice to the lichon, it is all "made with love".”
“Lumpiang Shanghai is insanely unhealthy, but incredibly satisfying as a starter and the consummate snack food.”
Renee’s Kitchenette & Grill
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Has TV: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
Caters: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
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I'm a filipino & I know the real taste of a filipino food. So far I'm impressed. Came here last friday night around 830 with my bf & brother. They close at 9 and let us ordered after a few minutes of deciding what to get. We ordered 3 types of food.
Pinakbet-sauteed vegestable with beans, eggplant, squash with soy sauce & a lil bit of shrimp paste.
Fried pampano- just simply deep fried fish.
Letchon kawali- deep fried pork.
For drinks we got calamansi juice- its lemon with some honey.
I love the food! Everything taste perfect. I wanna go back to try more. Need to go back around lunch since they close pretty early at night.
This is one of our favorite Filipino lunch places in Queens! They have a large menu that serves all sorts of Filipino delicacies and popular dishes. Our favorite is the palabok, spaghetti, sisig, kare-kare, barbecue, fried platters and more.
We admire their drink menu; they have yummy alcoholic and non-alcoholic, tropical drinks (lychee, mango, kalamansi, coconut, etc.).
The environment is very homey, which includes flatscreen televisions; they usually have TFC (The Filipino Channel) or some sports game on. I notice it has mostly Filipinos, but I hope you won't feel out-of-place if you are a non-Filipino.
Overall, the food is good and the price is right. This one of our go-to places when we have a Filipino craving. I heard they have a buffet upstairs, but we have yet to check that out!
My favorite place to get chicken barbecue. The flavors are promising!
Other recommendations:
lumpia sariwa (crepe with vegetables)
fried lumpia…YUM! (And I know because I make my own and I am damn good at it)
A great place to go with family
This place is a bit small and doesn't look like much from the outside, but I will say this is hands down the best Filipino food I've ever had. I ordered the Mixed Grill, and the meat was cooked perfectly with lots of flavor. This is comfort food at its best. Exactly what I needed on a hungry winter night!
Back again because it's that good! Sometimes you just wanna have those family style dinner with friends or even families. The interior Resturant feel very comfy and festive during holiday seasons with decorations!
Let's get back on track with food! Though looking through the menu seems like there isn't much options, you are wrong! There are so many good plates!! You can't go wrong with their spring roll as an appetizer! One person can even eat one plate of spring rolls since hey are so small yet delicious! As for entrees, order their mixed grill which contains pork, chicken, sausage and chicken kabob! They are all made so special with the marinated sauce they use! I love all of it! There's also the big platter of meat that you can share with a group called "street food." We ordered the street food that feeds up to 5-6 people which is insane! It's so yummy! Must try!
As for desserts, I've tried their halo halo, flan, and banana pudding. Their halo halo is interesting and a bit different. It's just the amount of sweetness in it. The flan on the other hand was quite not what I expected. It tasted very cinnamonly, tho it was somewhat rich and smooth but wasn't my cup of tea. The banana pudding was amazing!! Love the mixture and richness of everything! It's so addicting! One taste of it gets you wanting more and more. If you don't want sweets, try their matcha green latte which is delicious as well!! Can't go wrong with Renee!
Renee's is the smaller Filipino restaurant located in between the 2 more popular ones, Ihawan and Krystal's Cafe. Although it is like the smaller brother of the 2, it still has some bite in its menu. There's nothing fancy about Renee's, just good old home cooking.
When I visited, my friend and I ordered a few of the typical dishes. We shared the Lumpiang Shanghai (fried pork & shrimp mini spring rolls) and for my main course I got the Nagbabagang Longaniza (2 sticks of grilled sausage with white rice). The Lumpiang Shanghai was exactly as I imagined, but less greasy. Usually spring rolls have that shiny look and when you bite into it a squirt of grease spills out, but not these spring rolls. The spring rolls were very crunchy, consistent in taste and simple. There was very little grease and even that wasn't even noticeable. The spring rolls came with a sweet sauce on the side.
For the Nagbabagang Longaniza, the sausages were very big. They were cooked perfectly, with a little burn and with the white rice it was very filling. Unfortunately, I wasn't aware I could have ordered the garlic rice, until after the fact, since all the grille dishes come with white or garlic rice. In addition to my meal, I ordered the Mango Smoothie (if you can call it that). I'm not sure if they got my beverage order wrong, but the smoothie tasted nothing like mango. Nevertheless, it came in a mason jar, with chopped ice and still was very refreshing for what it was. It tasted more like a Mango, Banana combination because of its bland flavor.
Overall, I really need to come back to try the breakfast because that's my main order at Filipino restaurants. Unfortunately, Renee's only serves it up until 3pm, which is a bummer.
My 300th review on Yelp! Woo hoo! For most people this may not be a tremendous milestone requiring fanfare and fireworks, but nonetheless I consider this a major accomplishment and I'm glad that Renee's has a part in it.
As you walk underneath the rumblings of the #7 train above, you arrive at Renee's, a small restaurant in the Filipino area of Queens. Renee's houses only a few tables. I came here with my Filipino friends because they knew exactly what to order.
Some of the items that we had included the following:
* Smoothies for starters – Mango and Taro smoothies which were very rich and sweet.
* Crispy Pata – Delicious deep fried pork goodness. It was served in a wicker basket, I don't know how they are able to get the pork skin so crispy without drying out the meat but it was phenomenally good!
* Grilled cuttlefish – The cuttlefish was huge and served on a sizzling platter, it was tender and infused with a light smokey flavor.
* Grilled eggplant – served with skin intact, you need to peel off the skin and dip the eggplant in the special sauce.- It was quite good as well.
* The sampler – which was a nice selection of the different meats and preparations, it came with a skewer of longanisa, pork belly, chicken and longsilog all served on top of a banana leaf.
Overall the food was delicious and reasonable priced, to be honest my friend and his family paid for the meal, but the menu items were not super expensive. Now in terms of service I felt they could use some improvement in this area. The servers never checked back on us and when we needed something they had to be flagged down several times before they acknowledged us. Service people! Come On!
The menu is pretty expansive offering many selections. Parking can be difficult so you may need to park a little further away to find a space. My definite go to place for my culinary Filipino experience.
I use to live near this restaurant a year ago and the food here is great! Their portions tend to be smaller then many of the other filipino restaurants around that area but I think their quality is better. I always order their Kare Kare for a curry kind of dish and tocino! I highly recommend their cantaloupe juice.
Service is always great and every dish is reasonable priced and tasty.