Sunday News Blogs
Meet cookbook authors at Read It & Eat series, searching for vegan with wine list Homesickness has done more for Buffalo’s eating possibilities than most of us realize. This week’s example: Emily Gonzalez missed home, and Buffalo got conchas. At a panaderia, the sweet buns known as conchas are named after the seashells they resemble. […]
Sofra’s Turkish for mildly adventurous diners, Copping honored for Moriarty image Local frozen pizza startup Vinnie’s Minis has already landed its air-fryer-friendly single-serving pies in local stores, carving out a slice of the $7 billion U.S. frozen pizza market. Now it’s opened a retail bakery and pizza shop at its Niagara Falls headquarters, offering bread, pizza, and […]
Louisiana Cookery launches Barker hours, where to find an old-school salad bar One of the best-hidden weekday breakfast and lunch spots in Buffalo is worth finding, on the third floor of 500 Seneca. At the heart of a six-story rehabbed office building, Steven Hummel and Morgan Molsino are luring people hungry for good food, and some […]
Why Marble + Rye cheeseburger rules, immigrant cooks who shape Buffalo’s menu At long last, a proper Chinese barbecue counter and bakery have opened in Buffalo. Well, in Amherst. Asia Food Market, 2055 Niagara Falls Blvd., has started opening the Wal-Mart-sized commercial space next door. Notably, with freshly roasted meats in the Chinese style. Bubbly, crackly […]
One Thammasithikoun opens One Thai Food, bet on Jay’s Artisan for pizza date Over 23 years, I’ve walked from Washington Street to Main Street through 617 Main St., the space next to the Market Arcade in Buffalo’s Theater District, hundreds of times. Birth announcements followed by funeral proceedings made the dark interior even more foreboding. […]
Art of Beer aids NACC, Super Bazaar yet persists, Moriarty for classy lunch The fertile soil of Robbie Giannada’s mind has brought Flat 12 Mushrooms from a backyard experiment to a company whose gross receipts neared a half million dollars last year. Now Flat 12 is taking its Black Rock fungi factory bigtime, leasing space on Northland […]
Vegan pho at Pham’s Kitchen, Yemeni satisfaction in Lackawanna, and a Spresh discovery Standing tall in downtown Lockport, the 125-year-old former post office, built in the Beaux-Arts style, has customers lining up again. Now it’s for a table at Big Ditch Brewing. After two years of work, last month the Buffalo-based brewing concern opened its 250-seat […]
Jett’s Bagels, Apa’s Kitchen, and halal sweet potato pies broaden holiday offerings Tradition draws masses to the Broadway Market, but this year 999 Broadway has a basketful of fresh discoveries, too. Shoppers inch through crowds, lining up at the market’s most familiar stalls, gathering holiday supplies: Famous Horseradish, Camellia Meats, Babcia’s Pierogi, butter lambs and pussy willows. New […]
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, […]