With all restaurants in the state forbidden from offering dine-in services during the COVID-19 pandemic, many are going strong by offering takeout — often with curbside service — and delivery — either by restaurants themselves or via third-party delivery services such as GrubHub and DoorDash.

Members of the Southern Rensselaer County Rotary Club can join with other members of our community to supplement their own home cooking by purchasing from local establishments struggling to stay in business. Buying from them may help save jobs. And, don’t forget the chain eateries. While they may be owned by faceless corporations, their employees are our neighbors, and most of them are franchises owned by local investors.

While any list of restaurants still in operation can change from day to day — as can their hours and their menus depending on receipt of supplies and consumer demand — here are Rensselaer County restaurants currently offering takeout and/or delivery.

If you know of any others, please email the name(s) and we’ll add them to the list.

ALL LOCATIONS
Panera Bread
Mr. Subb
Subway
McDonald’s
Burger King
Popeyes
Five Guys
Applebee’s
Taco Bell
Wendy’s

AVERILL PARK
Paula’s Country Kitchen
The Towne Tavern
Lakeview Inn

BRUNSWICK
Duncan’s Dairy Barn
Brunswick BBQ and Brew

EAST GREENBUSH
Chez Mike
Eliza Pizzeria
Ipek’s La Bella Pizzeria
Hot Harry’s

NASSAU
Zia’s Pizza and Family Restaurant

NORTH GREENBUSH
Junior’s Bar & Grill

RENSSELAER
Offshore Pier
Baking You Crazy
Bruegger’s Bagels
Casey’s
PJ’s Cafe

SCHAGHTICOKE
Sammy Cohen’s

SCHODACK
My Place & Co.

STEPHENTOWN
Norte Azul Cantina

TROY
Ale House
Alexis Diner
Bacchus Wood-fired Pizza
Bard & Baker Board Game Cafe
Berben & Wolff’s Vegan Deli
Bespoki Bowl
Carmen’s Cafe
Collar City Cold-Pressed Juices
The Daily Grind
DeFazio’s Pizzeria and Market
DiFamiglia
Dinosaur Bar-B-Que
Duncan’s Dairy Bar
Franklin Alley
I Love Pizza of Troy
Jimmy’s Pizza
Kennedy Fried Chicken and Pizza
Little Pecks
Liza’s
Manory’s
Mex Cocina
Moscatiello’s Italian Restaurant
Nighthawks
Notty Pine Tavern
Park Pub Restaurant
Pistana Brothers Pizza
Quang’s Vietnamese Bistro
Rare Form Brewing Co.
Red Front Restaurant
Slidin’ Dirty
Sonic Drive-In
Spill’n the Beans
Sunhee’s Kitchen
Superior Merchandise Company
Ted’s Fish Fry (all locations)
Testo’s (both locations)
The Daily Grind
The Daisy
The Ruck
Tipsy Moose Tap & Tavern
Troy Kitchen
The Whistling Kettle
Wolff’s Biergarten
M&K Island Hut
Verdile’s

VALATIE
La Bella

WYNANTSKILL
Jumping Jack’s
Paolo Lombardi’s Ristorante

WEST SAND LAKE
AJ’s Pizzeria
Crossroads American Grill

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A reminder: No dinner meeting this Thursday. However, the club’s Board of Directors will meet at 6 p.m. Thursday at Quigley’s. We’ll be ordering off the menu.

We will resume our weekly dinner meetings on Thursday, February 27.

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Tonight’s dinner meeting has been cancelled due to inclement weather, according to President Phil Kellerman after consultation with a number of officers.

Many local roads already are icy, the National Weather Service says temperatures will not rise during the day and evening, and it predicts  a 70-80% chance of more precipitation between 5 and 8 p.m., our prime Rotary meeting “commuting” time. So, in an abundance of caution, we’ll skip this week’s session.

Meanwhile, if you haven’t made your reservations for our “SRC 60th Anniversary Dinner” on March 5 at the earlybird pricing mentioned in emails sent earlier to everyone, please email BillDowd4Troy@gmail.com ASAP so you don’t get left behind.

Meanwhile, safe travels to all. See you next week at Quigley’s.

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Attention all SRC members with time on their hands.

A lot of work was done at the “Painting Party” today as part of the renovation project the club is doing in our meeting room at Quigley’s. However, we need a bit more work to wrap it up on Sunday.

If you can help, please let Murray or Roberto know right away. We had about a dozen people show up for today’s session, and we thank them profusely.

(Check back on the website later this evening for photos of today’s work.)

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Good morning, but not a good evening.

The weatherbeings who predict such things every four minutes on TV and insist on assigning names to everything from a drizzle to a typhoon say we will be perturbed by Winter Storm Avery later today.

The latest (noontime) forecast says steady snow by 4 o’clock or so, and then through the night, leaving anywhere from 3 to 6 inches of snow in our immediate area, with the usual slippery roads.

Exercising an abundance of caution, we have cancelled tonight’s dinner meeting at Quigley’s.

That means we won’t meet again until Thursday, November 29 (Thanksgiving is next Thursday) when District Governor Tammy Heckenberg pays us an official visit. We’d like a major turnout for that event, so please plan to participate with us.

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This is the one week of the month you’ll have your choice of participating in one or two SRC meetings on the same day — Thursday.

• SRC member Ron Annis will offer a presentation on athletic training and his business, Top Form, at the 7-8 a.m. breakfast meeting at the Greenbush YMCA. Please be sure to let Terry Brewer (tlbrewer12piseco@gmail.com) know no later than noon Wednesday if you plan to attend. A continental breakfast will be available.

• At the 6:15 p.m. dinner meeting at Quigley’s, several of your fellow Rotarians will discuss their experiences at the recent Rotary Leadership Institute, where the SRC contingent has enrollees at all four levels of training. The menu will feature ziti and meatballs, antipasto salad, chef’s choice of sides, bread, dessert, and beverages. Please be sure to let Debbie Brown (mdbrown@nycap.rr.com) know no later than this evening (Tuesday) if you plan to participate.

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Held at Quigley’s Restaurant
573 Columbia Turnpike
East Greenbush, NY 12061

Members Attending (14, quorum reached): Andy Leyhane, Terry Brewer, Pat Bailey, Murray Forth, Jim Leyhane, Roberto Martinez, Ron Annis, Debbie Brown, Dick Drumm, Charlie Foote, Ray Hannan, Kevin Leyhane, Carol Orvis, Debbie Rodriguez.

Guests: Richard Zazycki.

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PROGRAM — Richard Zazycki (above), executive director of Circles of Mercy, provided an updated overview of the 21-year-old family services agency that SRC has been assisting in various initiatives over recent years — such as Easter baskets for kids, Adopt-a-Family at Christmas, Back-to-School Supplies, etc. Richard noted that 87 cents of every dollar donated to Circles goes to program participants, and in the past year 7,900 service transactions involved 1,600 clients. (Click here to access his PowerPoint presentation.)

SRC will adopt two needy families for Christmas as part of Circles’ ongoing efforts to help families in need, and Columbia High School will adopt a third. Bill and April Dowd again will coordinate our club’s effort at supporting that project. We will collect and donate items from a “wish list” created by Circles volunteers after meeting with the families. Richard said the list and names of individuals in the families will be provided before Thanksgiving.

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NOTES — Jim Leyhane moved, and Andy Leyhane seconded, a motion to elect Phil Kellerman president for the 2019-20 Rotary Year. Phil had been nominated by the Board of Directors for the vacant office. The motion was passed without dissent. … The final tally for our October ShelterBox fund drive is $6,340. Fourteen SRC members and one former member contributed varying amounts of money, and thanks go to all of them in carrying us beyond our $6,000 goal. The checks will be delivered by club ShelterBox liaison Bill Dowd to District 7190 ShelterBox coordinator Jack Faddegon on Friday. … In addition to the local survey being conducted by Terry Brewer, SRC has been invited to participate in a Rotary International survey addressing individual Rotarians’ volunteer activities. It’s an online survey with a November 20 deadline. Several members already have completed and submitted the form, which was emailed to all SRC members this week. … Our latest semiannual SRC Recycling Day cleared a profit of $970, according to coordinator Murray Forth, for youth scholarships despite truly inclement weather last Saturday that no doubt scared off a lot of potential recyclers compared to prior events. We will hold another such event in the spring of 2019. …

The Blue Star Mothers organization that we have assisted for several years is attempting to collect enough donated items to fill 1,000 “Freedom Boxes” for the Christmas holidays to send to military personnel around the world. SRC members are asked to bring items from a list to be posted on our website to the November 29 and/or December 6 meetings. … Two meetings are scheduled for next week. The monthly breakfast meeting will begin at 7 a.m. at the Greenbush YMCA (RSVP to Terry Brewer by Tuesday evening), and the weekly dinner meeting will begin at 6:15 p.m. at Quigley’s (RSVP to Debbie Brown by Tuesday evening). We’ll hold a discussion of “Impressions of RLI” from various members who attended different levels of this year’s Institute session. Reminders: No meeting on November 22, Thanksgiving Day. We’ll resume meeting on November 29, when District Governor Tammy Heckenberg pays an official visit. Please mark your calendars to be sure to attend that dinner.

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The latest fund drive by the Southern Rensselaer County Rotary Club to help the ShelterBox disaster relief agency had a $6,000 goal. Thanks to the generosity of 14 SRC members and one former member, we not only met that goal, we exceeded it.

On Friday evening, Bill Dowd, our club’s ShelterBox liaison, delivered checks totaling $6,340 to Assistant District Governor Jack Faddegon, the ShelterBox coordinator for District 7190.

Since 2010, our club  has donated about $23,000 to ShelterBox.

“Your club always warms my heart,” Jack said. “You’ve given so much to ShelterBox over the years, and it certainly is much needed considering all the simultaneous disasters going on everywhere. ShelterBox has 22 fast-response teams around the world, and all of them are deployed right now.”

The club offers its thanks to all who contributed in both large and small amounts. Every dollar goes toward the outfitting of regionally-customized ShelterBoxes to be distributed in regions hit by earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, hurricanes, and other natural disasters as well as widespread needs stemming from terrorism and warfare.

Want to know more about ShelterBox’s humanitarian work? Click here.

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