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Allentown Art Festival Food: What & Where to Eat & Drink

As long-time fans of Buffalo's Allentown Art Festival, we make our annual trip in mid-June for the art, not the food, but there's always an initial question: what will we be eating and drinking there? The official Art Festival website...

Posted on June 14, 2009

Eight Great Local Places Out-of-Town Visitors Should Try

You've probably been on one side of this experience before: a friend from outside Buffalo comes to visit for a few days - maybe longer - and you need to quickly pick some places that show off Western New York...

Posted on May 25, 2009

NYC Chow: Do WNY's Pizza and Hot Dogs Beat NY City's?

As frequent readers know, we occasionally venture outside of Buffalo to see what we're missing and what we're not: prior visits to Seattle and Toronto yielded memorably great, locally unavailable Ethiopian and Asian meals, while a trip to Kauai offered...

Posted on March 15, 2009

Just a Brief Interruption: Anthony Bourdain's in Buffalo

As hinted at in the last season of the Travel Channel's No Reservations and confirmed in a subsequent blog posting by the show's host and star, semi-reluctant celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain is finally visiting Buffalo. Bourdain signaled that he'd be...

Posted on January 12, 2009

Ted's Hot Dogs: They Made Us Snobs, Now We Want More

For decades, Ted's Hot Dogs has been Buffalo's quintessential hot dog parlor: a place to get the area's best-tasting charcoal-grilled dogs all year long. The good news is that Ted's locations are now more numerous than ever, covering all of...

Posted on April 26, 2008

Charlie, an Unassuming Butcher, Defines Buffalo Roast Beef

Having endlessly debated which of a handful of well-known restaurants makes the best Beef on Weck sandwich, we've tried many of Buffalo's famous Wecks, ultimately concluding that they're done well by many but superbly by few. Our favorite, like the...

Posted on February 4, 2008

On Wardynski vs. Sahlen: Why Our Hot Dogs Beat Yours

There are, amazingly, people who hate hot dogs. Over the years, we've learned that the reason for this is almost always traceable to either a memorably bad preparation or the consumption of the wrong brand. In Buffalo, your chances of...

Posted on January 1, 2008