Sunday News Blogs
Jon Riggie brings Gongfu to Elmwood Village, Lucky Day has your seafood tower Jon Riggie takes a moment from pouring cups for tea pals to present a disc of dry-fermented tea wrapped in mulberry paper.Jon Riggie’s Elmwood Village tea shop offers Buffalo a new window into the oldest tea culture on the planet.Tea has deep […]
Frisco melt at The Nickel Plate. When it debuted in 1931, the Niagara Frontier Food Terminal was a model hub for feeding the 13th largest city in the United States. The warehouse complex of cream-colored brick at the confluence of railways, highways, and Clinton and Bailey avenues fed the region. Railcars and tractor-trailers emptied the […]
Jon Riggie takes a moment from pouring cups for tea pals to present a disc of dry-fermented tea wrapped in mulberry paper. Jon Riggie’s Elmwood Village tea shop offers Buffalo a new window into the oldest tea culture on the planet. Tea has deep roots in China. From circa 2000 BCE mentions of brewing tea […]
Parker’s steak and ale pie, $8. When Emma Reynolds, of West Sussex, England, moved to East Aurora, one of the first things she did after unpacking was find a sausagemaker. Moving to the United States for her husband’s job wasn’t Reynold’s first plunge into the British diaspora. Grown up on Lincolnshire sausages, of coarsely ground […]
Tortuga Sandwich Shop was born five years ago in Sanborn, to Andrew Smiedala of Tonawanda, and Carla of Coroico, Bolivia. On March 18, they will proudly introduce its sibling to the world, at 3189 Delaware Ave., Kenmore. Open 11 a.m.-7 p.m., Tortuga Kenmore will have a slightly expanded menu, adding a few best-hits specials like […]
Shango Bistro’s new look is thanks to the restaurant’s core staff. Last fall, James Guarino, who owns University Heights New Orleans style restaurant Shango Bistro, realized the 20-year-old room needed a complete refresh to have any chance at surviving the worst economic climate for restaurants since the Great Depression. This week, Shango Bistro, 3260 Main […]
Healthier eats tips for Elmwood Village, where to find shrimp parm Chelsae Steward started when Salt Cuisine did, and became its owner in 2022. Every workday, worn-out breadwinners finish shifts and head home with one more mission: pick up dinner. They dial pizzeria numbers they know by heart, spend wild money for supermarket steam-table meals, […]
Oded Rauvenpoor at Patina 250, Orso Nero lands, Moriarty curry lamb pie Jenn Batt of Quokka Sweets poses with a pastry order. Better ice cream is possible. Just ask Jenn Batt. She should know. The former Grange Community Kitchen pastry chef is an all-around confections expert. By day, Batt’s a product developer for a dessert […]
Apply for Feed the Need grants, Nick’s Place to close, where to order vegan in South Buffalo The Bourdain, fried mortadella, caramelized onions, cheddar, housemade mustard, mayonnaise on housemade baguette, a Terra House special. When Andrea Neidrauer was working on her PhD at Roswell, she was struck by how clear the evidence was that junk […]
Cozy places for winter lunch, Valentine’s Day in Medina, daNando culettos coming Nikki Rosenberg has launched a new menu after taking over Milkie’s. In a bid to become the Elmwood Village’s favorite dive bar, Milkie’s Elmwood Lounge has added a menu of housemade bar food, including substantial vegan options, prepared by the owner herself. Nikki […]
Tipico debuts less expensive menu, where to find ‘husband-and-wife lung slices’ Waxlight Bar a Vin partners Jessica Railey Forster, left, and Tony Rials, Feb. 1, 2024. This week, Waxlight Bar a Vin and Southern Junction advanced Buffalo’s rightful claim to a place on the national restaurant map. The 2025 nominee list for James Beard Awards […]
Toutant and Gigi’s Cucina Povera set to close, hiatus for Yankee BBQ Jesse and Michaela Schmidbauer are the new generation of Amy’s owners. Amy’s Place is getting a heart transplant. The once-essential University Heights cafe was opened in 1981 by Amy Betros. Part diner, part Lebanese bakery, part neighborhood hangout, it was a fixture in […]
Dinosaur BBQ heads to Hamburg, Papa’s Gyro in Depew, more Tom & Jerrys Samuiel Marabella, Kelly Weber, John Weber, and David Arkelian are teaming up to run Nietzsche’s. In 1988, Samuel Marabella’s cool eldest sister Elizabeth snuck the 15-year-old into Nietzsche’s, Buffalo’s live music bar, to hear Jamie Notarthomas, the Syracuse singer-songwriter whose music had […]
RIP Brick Bar, masters of marijuana gather in Niagara, and who’s a sucker for octopus? Qamaria Yemeni Coffee Co. is the latest Yemeni coffee house to open, on Main Street in Williamsville. Humanity’s love of coffee has it roots in Yemen, where the earliest evidence of coffee cultivation dates to the 12th century. Nine centuries […]
New Year’s Eve bounty for Miller’s Thumb superfans, Papa’s Halal Gyro launches Quenelles are poached dumplings of minced fish and egg, with Buffalo’s new French place Quenelle serving halibut versions on lobster cream. On June 24, 2017, Rue Franklin closed. For 2,740 days, Buffalo had no full-fledged French restaurants. Then Quenelle opened, on Christmas Eve, […]