Crete Restaurant

(This venue is closed.) Crete must be ancient history, I imagined, but that's what a southern exposure on wide-open Queens Blvd. will do. Even though the food seemed uninspiring — "Steaks" and "Chops" suggest Cretan owners, perhaps, but not Cretan cuisine — I hoped that a web search might just possibly unearth a menu. On that front I had no luck, but I was surprised to discover that the restaurant had shut its doors relatively recently, in September 2006.

Less surprising: Of the first ten search results for crete restaurant 4311, only Urbanspoon indicated that Crete was no longer a going concern, and then only through a reader comment. The other nine were oblivious to its fate; on several, you could still "be the first to submit a review." Even after its sign has crumbled away completely, it's likely that Crete Restaurant will linger in web limbo.

Surviving signage from Crete Restaurant
43-11 Queens Blvd. (43rd-44th Sts.), rooftop level, Sunnyside, Queens