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Meet Our New EATS Reviewer: Rob Madden

Name: Monday’s .89¢ Wings/Game Night!
Start: 2024-04-29T00:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-04-29T23:59:59-04:00
Location: Hurricane Grill and Wings – Syosset

Going Local Long Island would like to introduce you to the newest addition to our team: Rob Madden.

Rob Madden is about as homegrown to Long Island as it gets as the eldest son of Northport and Commack natives. He grew up outside Huntington Village in a simpler time that beckons to Hamburger Choo Choo, a TGI Friday’s past-menu that still served Mushroom, Chicken and Mushrooms, Sundays after church at The Rustler on Jericho. Not to mention the $2.99 Fireside lunch specials that still came with a hero, soda and side salad. Couple that upbringing with Italian grandmothers on both sides of the family that made the Sunday sauce – and you have borne a love of food that has persisted for nearly half a century.

Keeping things local – this father of six (you read that correctly) still resides just outside Huntington Village, maintains his financial planning practice in the hamlet of Greenlawn, and his unwavering love of food has not diminished.

He has collaborated on over two hundred lobster roll reviews with another foodie in his quest for the best in the world, had a sandwich named after him at the famed Mercato Cucina, and maintained a wine locker at Capital Grille. His ultimate food memory was being over-served by “Nicky the Vest” on a Friday night at Rao’s that ended with him on top of a firetruck in Harlem. His apologies to the men of Ladder 14 for that momentary lack of discretion.

Rob Madden — By day Rob is a financial planner

Rob Madden being Rob Madden — By day Rob is a financial planner

When Rob is not fulfilling a manifesto of gluttony being a way of life – you might find him wearing a novelty suit or cruising on his electric motorcycle (or more likely both simultaneously), attending a sporting event for one of his kids, hosting the 9/11 Heroes Run in Huntington, or attending a concert or comedy show (he’s seen over 600 by now).

Rob Madden in one of his many themed suits — rob2

Rob is known for showing tons of support to local restaurants and eateries across Long Island and thought he would be the perfect fit to become the new Food Reviewer for Going Local LI! Rob will now be sharing his food reviews of Local Eats through his column called “The Glutton’s Guide!” Don’t miss his latest reviews under the Eats section starting this week!

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For more articles about EATs on Long Island, click here!

Melissa Farrell

Melissa Farrell has a mission to support local business by "Going Local." As a local business owner herself, she understands the struggles entrepreneurs face when owning a business and is always trying to find ways to shine a spotlight onto them. Melissa started Going Local Tours & Experiences back in 2020 during the pandemic in hopes to bring people back into local restaurants and shops. She created food tours in Huntington, NY that would stop at 3-4 local businesses and gave the guests the chance to meet the owner and hear the story behind the business. She soon realized how powerful storytelling is when connecting people to local businesses and created options with local store owners as well to bring them onto the tour to share their story. Melissa wanted to expand out of Huntington to be able to support even more local businesses and started creating luxury picnics where she would bring local to you! She would find local businesses in the area of the picnic set up and deliver it to you offering ways to support over 3 local businesses at each picnic. This wasn't enough. She wanted to find a better way to help spread awareness of local businesses and share their stories. Enter Evangeline Knell...a woman with over 30 years of broadcasting experience who somehow convinced Melissa to host a 3 day live stream from the Huntington Fall Festival. She had never been on camera before, but working alongside Evie to create the 3 shows, gave Melissa the confidence to take on the challenge. The 3 shows produced focused on the local vendors, the food trucks and the events that occurred at the festival and had a much larger reach than Melissa could ever of done on her own. They soon realized a business partnership was needed and combined their two businesses, Identity Digital which is a production company and Going Local Tours and Experiences to form Going Local Media. Evie and Melissa even formed their own distribution outlet by creating Going Local TV, a streaming platform like Netflix or YouTube, that is all about local businesses, events and organizations on Long Island. There are over 200 videos including their podcast series "Let's Get Local" "Long Island Business Minds" and "Local Business Spotlight" that help spread awareness of our local businesses and Long Island Professionals. They are always thinking up new ways to support local, including this site, Going Local Today that is a directory of articles on how to Go Local on Long Island. We appreciate you taking the time to read this and for supporting local! Thank you!

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