Brookville Bar and Grill

After traveling for 20 hours, all I wanted was something tasty and a couple of big orange gator-aids to cure my dehydration. I got it here. I had the BLT wrap, and it was enough for two meals. Nice servers. I was happy.

The bartender Jereen was always there when I needed a drink. She was friendly which is always nice when traveling for work.

I also found the diner type restaurant on premises of the Holiday Inn JFK Airport in Jamaica/Queens very good, the food of high quality + careful preparation, with many, many choices. This was great as with an airport hotel, there are no choices of other restaurants in walking distance, for those guests without cars. I was also particularly pleased with the hours of this eatery 6:30 a.m.-11:30 p.m. Breakfast is served daily until 11:30 a.m., a great and welcome improvement over the usual 9:30 or 10:00 a.m., especially for "night people" and vacationers. There are many sandwiches, deli and otherwise, soups, appetizers, salads, fish, grilled meat, chicken, pizza and pasta dishes. Vinny did not disappoint. The only faux-pas I ran into was in ordering Rigatoni Alla Vodka, described as having: Diced Shallots, Prosciutto, + Vodka in a Pink Cream Sauce ($16.95 - not exactly reasonably-priced). Without a word of explanation I was served a plate of rigatoni pasta in a marinara sauce - not one ingredient as described! I turned it away, to be told that there was no Prosciutto in stock. How about all the other ingredients??? This is inexcusable, not to have been advised, in the hopes that I would not know the difference??? I had also ordered NY Cheesecake, served with Fresh Strawberries (per menu) another evening and was advised there were no strawberries. I would thus conclude that whoever is in charge of stocking the kitchen is amiss and perhaps servers should be trained to advise customers if an item ordered is missing its described ingredients, rather than creating ill-will. Service and staff are very friendly, atmosphere homey and relaxed, with plenty of newspapers to keep you company and make you feel welcome to stay a while.You will need to wait and relax as all is prepared to order, not in advance. And what could be wrong with that?