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All right, we asked you where some of the best spots in Freeport are and today we are headed to some of them. We'll be checking out the best places in the community according to you. News 12 Jen Selig is live in Freeport right now at Bagel Doc and Jen. We hear you have a few friends with you. I sure do and I'll introduce you to them in a second. But anything you want here for breakfast, your butter, bagel, bacon, egg and cheese, buttered roll, any type of hero bagel dog has it. And like you said, guys, I did meet a great group of friends here. We got Da Wes. I wrote this down because there's a bunch of you guys, Mike, Pat, Mike. Ok. You guys all met here or majority of you met here? You come here. What at 445 every morning to have breakfast here? What's the best part about this? You're gonna leave after this live shot, but you wanted to stay here. You guys obviously love Freeport. You've been here for 70 years. What's the best part about Freeport? I love growing up in Freeport. Been here since the trains are on the ground. Still here. And so you have seen so much change here, right? I mean, and, and what you guys talk about at the table, stays at the table, right? We, we try to keep it clean, right? But how often do you come here every day? But how long have you guys been doing this for? Well, I'm, I'm new to the group here. These gentlemen have been coming probably since the bagel dock and before time. Um I'm here uh 3.5 years now. I met these guys here coming here every morning for coffee, going to work, but I'm also the, the baby of the group and it's always at this table. Am I welcomed here? All right, let's let's order some breakfast and send it back to you guys in the studio. Thank you, Jen. You, you may be needed at that table every morning. Tell them you have work to do. But yes, always a welcome addition to that group. Thanks so much. Now we are shouting out a whole lot of Freeport businesses because you wrote in about them. We're talking about Atlantic Deli Imperial diner, the no rush cafe, a whole lot of great places in Freeport. So stick around Jem will be back later this morning.

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Asked, you answered. We wanna know where some of the best spots in Freeport are. Our Cecilia Dowd found one. She is enjoying Taco Tuesdays for us. I think I have the best assignment of the day. I mean, I am just drooling at all this food in front of me. Now, here with me is the owner John and he is going to first just tell us what is the best part about having a business here on the Nautical Mile. It's the simple fact that Freeport Nautical Mile is a hidden gem. This place is a little hidden a little bit off the beaten path, but it's in such a great local community. We love the village of Freeport. They do so much as to help and support the local businesses around here and it's great to be here, especially in the summertime. And I mean, people are really lining up, but you already have quite a crowd and it's early. Yes. Yeah, we do have funds. We open at 12 to 11, 7 days a week and we have a great lunch crowd. It boils down around 34 or five o'clock and then come five o'clock we're back booming again, especially on Tuesdays. All right. So what do we have here in front of us? All right. So right here we have our specialty of the week. This is our smoky chipotle quesadilla. Absolutely delicious with homemade shredded mustard cheese, shredded lettuce, homemade fresh PICO de gallo that we make every day and a Mexican rice. Um On this, this is our Mamasita Burrito, the classic burrito that you could get almost anywhere but ours seem to taste so much better. This right here is our quesos. It's um a little bit of a hinge gem yellow corn tortillas that we melt. Munster cheese right into the tortilla, fresh chorizo, fresh PICO de gallo with spicy crema. And then we lead our way to our homemade three sauces that are unbelievably delicious, mild avocado, homemade hot salsa and a crema. You could wash that down with any of these margaritas. We're actually the home of the um of the spiced her Mex Mexican sodas, two shots of tequila in there with our Doritos, our spicy mango margaritas. Um We also right here have uh a side plate with our homemade Mexican rice, black beans, fresh guacamole, PICO and sour cream, nachos. And the creme de creme de dessert is our De Oreo empanadas. What does that mean? Deconstruct? I'm dying to try that. Yes. So the deconstructive part is that instead of putting everything in the empanada, we actually take our homemade empanada chips, uh cut them fry them, cover them with a powdered sugar. And then we make a homemade Oreo mousse. We use that Oreo mousse as a dip as far as making the empanada chips dipp. We also give a nice pack of Oreos in there. It's America's favorite cookie. And also you go shopping every day, every day, every day. I'm proud to say that we have zero to little waste as a restaurant just because we are super efficient on making sure that everything here is fresh. We have to do it. I do every morning shopping. We do have a great chefs that, that make sure everything's nice and fresh and uh we have enough for the day. If we don't have enough for the day, then, you know, we sell out and we can't wait to try this. So guys come on down to Taco Tuesdays. We are on the nautical mile in Freeport, Cecilia Dowd News. 12 Long Island.

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Tonight, we're taking you to Freeport where we've been asking you what your favorite spots are and we've been checking them out live here on News 12, all day long news. Twelve's Carmen Grant is at Imperial Diner on West Merrick Road. And Carmen, this diner has been serving up food in Freeport for more than 50 years. Huh? Uh, that's right. More than 50 years. And this is a very popular spot for local families. But before I introduce you to the owner, check out this wonderful table of signature dishes that this diner is offering to its customers, comfort food to enjoy for all ages. Now, joining me is the owner, Billy. Introduce yourself. Billy. Hi, I'm Billy Wakas, the owner of Imperial Diner in Freeport. Yes. And I understand this is a long standing business. Yes. That's right. We've been here for 52 years serving the community and it's been an honor to see the generations of families coming through these doors. And what can I say? It's just, uh, humbling. Yes, and humbling. Indeed. Because you have a lot of dishes that over, maybe over 100. Tell me about some of these beautiful dishes. On this table. So this is our very, very popular Tres Leches, French toast with Duce de Leche topping. Here, one of my favorite is the Rise and Shine breakfast quesadilla. And we also have a super healthy breakfast bowl here with red quinoa and roasted summer vegetables. And it's also got uh avocado, PICO de gallo, black beans. It's, it's uh beautiful uh in color, so much color to enjoy. And this restaurant is open weekdays until 10 on the weekends until 11. And they are also open on the fourth of July for those people that don't want to cook. That's the latest here in Freeport Carmen Grant. You start.

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We all know the island has some great places to shop and eat and play and we've been asking for your favorite spots and checking them out live here on News 12 all day long. And tonight we're taking you to Freeport News. Twelve's Carmen Grant is at Jeremy's Alehouse on Woodcraft Avenue. Hi, Carmen. What? Hi, Kevin. We are at Jeremy's Alehouse. This is the place to be, is packed for a Monday and joining me is the owner Jeremy Holden. You've been here for such a long time. We've been in this location for 20 years. Great. I love Freeport. It's a, a community that's a tight community. That's its own entity. It's a fishing community, but at the same time, you can get involved with it as much as you want, as little as you want. And it's not a, a bedroom community for the city and you've been here for such a long time. What keeps you here, the people. It's, it's amazing. I mean, every, uh, I don't know anybody that lives in Freeport that doesn't say, oh, I wouldn't want to live anywhere else. Yeah. Nobody wants to live anywhere else. Once, once you know, Freeport. It's amazing. I opened here years ago and decided to move here. I live only down the street now. Tell me a little bit about what we're seeing here. The dishes, uh, this is a sampling of some of our food. This is our, uh calamar appetizer. Uh, the mahi mahi grilled. We have a few other grilled things. This is our uh Cajun shrimp and uh, seafood boil. Thank you so much for joining me here. And this Jeremy's Alehouse is open seven days a week and it's open at midnight back to you, Kevin. Oh Carbon. Please put the microphone down and get some of that seafood boil in the calamar. If it's served in one of those red and white things I always say with butter, that's a winner right there. Go ahead. Put the microphone down. Do it, do it, microphone down. There we go. Good job, Carmen. All right, everybody.

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