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New York Times Gives Muscoot Tavern A "Good" Rating

SOMERS, N.Y. – Comfort food and a neighborhood feel are at the heart of the Muscoot Tavern in Somers, Emily DeNitto says in a New York Times review that gives the restaurant a “good” rating.

Comfort food and a neighborhood feel are at the heart of the Muscoot Tavern in Somers, Emily DeNitto says in a New York Times review that gives the restaurant a “good” rating.

Comfort food and a neighborhood feel are at the heart of the Muscoot Tavern in Somers, Emily DeNitto says in a New York Times review that gives the restaurant a “good” rating.

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by Meredith Shamburger

“A menu of good-value comfort food adds to the neighborhood-meeting-place feel,” DeNitto wrote. “No one gets dressed up to go the Scoot, and the food is similarly straightforward. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t good — and sometimes very good.”

The newspaper reviewed the restaurant after it had been given a facelift by new owners Ann-Margaret Wagner and Eddie Lubic. DeNitto praised the restaurant's German chocolate cake, ricotta, flavorful chicken wings and thin-crust pizzas, but said the best part of the evening was watching what happened in the restaurant.

“The restaurant has live music on Saturday nights and a local guitarist and singer were playing,” DeNitto wrote. “Children were happily running around, and their parents were greeting each other across tables. As the waiters deftly wove through the crowd, it was easy to imagine the same scene decades ago. Little has changed at places like Muscoot Tavern, and it is its link to the past — before subdivisions and S.U.V.’s, too-fussy food and “mixologists” — that is the restaurant’s greatest appeal.”

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