Pine Tree Inn

Closed
This restaurant is no longer open.
It has ceased to produce old school, below average, Italian food.
Its day is done.
Long live the Pine Tree inn

Came here as a kid with my family and now they are closing. Get here fast if you want some fantastic, classic Italian food in a comfortable, non-​pretentious environment. They’ve been here since 1956 and I’m sure the waitress has been too. What a doll!

Fresh food. I love a family business and this one according to my waitress has been thriving since the 1950’s! I came here once before at a friend’s recommendation about 10 years ago. Tonite as I was passing by I chose to stop in again for dinner. It had been so long I had forgotten how good it was. I had the Cod Fish with broccoli rabe and Angel hair pasta. Nice light fresh tomato sauce on the pasta. Fish tasted rich, while it was lightly breaded. The Broccoli Rabe was also nicely cooked. The garlic bread sticks are popular and I can see why. Like a lil garlic pizza stick. Yum! By the way a glass of wine here only cost $ 6.50! I will be back.

I really wanted to like this place and the staff was very nice but the food was a disappointment – the meatball sub tasted like it had been frozen. The «thin» bar pie was your typical pizza. I’ve driven past the place a million times and figured it had to be pretty good as it seems like it’s been there forever but I just couldn’t.

A solid 3 and a half stars being rounded up statistically to help keep the rating @ that. File under old Long Island. In league with the fondly missed Huntington Station landmark J &J Southside. This place is a fantastic value particularly at lunch and the food is definitively and consistently tasty. Great thin crust pizza somewhat in the mold of Eddies in New Hyde park. Pasta and mains are solid renditions of red sauce perennials with some minor alterations that might just be indicative of hyper regional variations of Italian American cuisine, broccoli in the Penne Alla’ Vodka is one such example, as well as what I like to call a nice touch. Haven’t tried the burger and wings and the like, but have heard good things.
The spot is comprised of both a bar and dining room areas. Sure the day drinking crowd can have the capacity to drain your soul, but look on the bright side, most likely they will make you feel quite young in comparison! Bring a few friends and a fine time can be whiled away in front of a baseball game. Bonus points for Bluepoint on tap.
The less bold can opt or the dining room instead which can fill up with after-​work crowds from the nearby commercial hub (s?) eating a drinking on the cheap, and of course local suburban families some of which have been coming for a few generations at this point.
A huge part of the fun/​sadness of Pine Tree is imagining the place in the form of a montage at the time of its opening presumably some trailblazing expatriate from Brooklyn or another borough opening a roadside outpost of it’s cuisine in the untamed wilds of Western Suffolk surrounded by potato fields or something similar. Now watch the years lapse by and watch it get literally fully enveloped by the sprawl that explodes. I kid you not, the neighboring stores are built in circular fashion around the place in a style that calls to mind scenarios out of Dr. Seuss books. It’s still there though, made as dangerously inconvenient to enter and as easy to miss as possible, no doubt by the angry developers who they never backed down from. Integrity and authenticity help make this place stand out from the bland generic surroundings of the immediate area which is most defined by the mall and the mini malls and chains orbiting it.

This place is a local spot. It’s a half notch above a diner. Very average Italian food. I had clams and linguine, white. The clams had little taste, were tough and chewy, but extra sand was included. The dinner salad, bread and cannoli were all good. My companions had chicken Parmesan and veal Parmesan. There food also was just OK. The service was efficient but not helpful or cheerful. When I asked a recommendation between 2 dishes, I was told «what ever you prefer sir». The house wine was good. They give you a good portion of food, the taste however is just OK. I would rather have better tasting food and lesser quantity. The food is not worth the prices they charge. I would rate an overall 2 ½ if I could.

I cannot review the dining room, but the bar. .. great old time simple bar, mets on one tv, yankees on the other. Cheap drinks, a variety of taps, and: excellent pizza and standard red sauce old time style italian. Prices are reasonable, people are very nice.

Call up the nursing home, the elder have escaped and ended up at the Pine Tree.
That was my first thought as I entered I believe on a Tuesday night around 7pm. I was suggested this place by a colleague of mine to take a 2^nd or 3^rd date to and since I was very new in the area I welcomed a suggestion. Putting the aged aside, and we actually laughed our asses off about it later, we had a decent time. The food is nothing spectacular but is good, ambiance is that of a long time establishment with a heavy emphasis on locals. Not bad, but not for me.
I think we saw a oxygen tank there too…

Strictly average Italian.
Good portions but nothing to cheer about– run of the mill in my opinion.
A group of us went there for dinner and it was just ok– not more nor less — so if you happen to be in this area it might work for you– it is easy to speed by as it is in an odd spot.

Yummy pasta in the restaurant for pretty cheap, and a local bar on the other side of the wall. This place has been around for a long time, and if you try it you’ll see why.