Comfortland
Comfort food counter · 2+ locations · Queens: Astoria; Manhattan: Lower East Side
A family-run comfort-food counter that opened in the Astoria storefront its predecessor Queens Comfort had just left. When Queens Comfort closed in 2020, this shop absorbed its menu, and in 2025 it carried that menu 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, with no outside investor in any filing and no franchising. As a two-storefront business it has little public labor, environmental, or sourcing record to weigh, and it names no suppliers. It answers to Donnie D'Alessio and the two small New York corporations he registered, not to a fund or a franchisor.
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