{"id":141913,"date":"2026-02-22T17:59:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T17:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/141913\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T17:59:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T17:59:27","slug":"tinys-famous-eats-opens-in-riverhead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/141913\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiny’s Famous Eats opens in Riverhead"},"content":{"rendered":"

A name in lights: that dream brought about Riverhead\u2019s new soul food spot, Tiny\u2019s Famous Eats, named after owner Marcus Edwards’ mother, Tania “Tiny” Edwards. The takeout-forward space opened last month on Riverleigh Avenue at the former Orale Grill<\/a>. <\/p>\n

In 2020, Marcus’ mother started Tiny\u2019s out of her Mastic home after dreaming of seeing her name atop a business, but she had to close five months later due to health issues. Marcus saw an opportunity to revive Tiny\u2019s when a friend in real estate told him of the available space on Riverleigh Avenue, and in about four months, the 1,000-square-foot space with seating for 10 was ready for business.<\/p>\n

The menu, which uses his mother\u2019s recipes, includes dishes such as the big soul plate ($25.99) with\u00a0two meats, two sides and cornbread. The\u00a0regular soul plate ($15.99) comes with one meat, two sides with cornbread. Guests can choose from fried chicken wings, fried barbecued chicken wings, chicken tenders, deep-fried fish bites or fried jumbo shrimp. Side options include mac-and-cheese, candied yams, green beans, potato salad, macaroni salad, sweet cabbage, mashed potatoes, french fries and collard greens. There are also vegetarian options ($15.99 for a large) where guests choose three veggie sides served with cornbread.<\/p>\n

The menu is small to ensure quality, Marcus said. “The food that we have on the menu is food that we grew up on, that we eat a lot,” he said. “We just wanted the main staples of soul food and wanted to make the food really good.”\u00a0He hopes to add a more extensive catering menu in the future.<\/p>\n

Tiny\u2019s Famous Eats, 226 Riverleigh Ave., Riverhead, 631-284-3213, tinysfamouseats.com<\/a>. Open 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily.<\/p>\n

\"Melissa<\/p>\n

Melissa Azofeifa is a restaurants reporter with Newsday’s FeedMe team. Having grown up on Long Island, she loves talking about food and its impact on culture. A graduate of Stony Brook University, she joined Newsday in the fall of 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A name in lights: that dream brought about Riverhead\u2019s new soul food spot, Tiny\u2019s Famous Eats, named after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8695,10203,9,11,10,49,51,50,821],"class_list":{"0":"post-141913","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-feedme","9":"tag-fmopen","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-news","13":"tag-new-york-state","14":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","15":"tag-new-york-state-news","16":"tag-restaurants"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}