Comfortland
Comfort food counter · 2+ locations · Queens: Astoria; Manhattan: Lower East Side
A family-run comfort-food counter that opened in 2018 in the Astoria storefront its sister restaurant Queens Comfort had vacated. When Queens Comfort closed in 2020, this shop took over its menu, and in 2025 carried it to a second store on the Lower East Side.
The Big Picture
Comfortland runs two counter-service shops, in Astoria and on the Lower East Side, and does not franchise. No outside investor appears in its filings or in press coverage. As a two-storefront business it leaves a thin public record on labor, environment and sourcing, and it names no suppliers. It answers to founder Donnie D'Alessio and his family.
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