by Naomi Sakovics | Jun 17, 2021 | City Guide, Food & Drink, Food & Drink Guides
Photo courtesy of Marotto’s Buffalo may not be next to an ocean, but we can still enjoy excellent clam bars. Our area boasts a handful of places to score some delicious clams. Whether you like to slurp them from the half-shell or eat them crispy from the fryer,...
by Naomi Sakovics | Apr 6, 2021 | City Guide, Food & Drink, Food & Drink Guides, Shopping
Photo courtesy of Spar’s European Sausage Quiz: What is “black pudding?” (No, it is not a dessert.) It is actually a type of sausage traditionally eaten in Ireland and the United Kingdom. It turns out that each country has its own take on sausages, with their...
by Naomi Sakovics | Mar 17, 2021 | City Guide, Food & Drink, Food & Drink Guides
Polish Platter at Polish Villa / Step Out Buffalo Ah, pierogi. Fortunately for us, Buffalo boasts a plethora of places serving those pillowy pockets of cheesy, potatoey heavenly goodness. We can thank the large number of Polish immigrants for helping establish Buffalo...
by Naomi Sakovics | Mar 8, 2021 | City Guide, Food & Drink, Food & Drink Guides
Blackthorn / Photo x Step Out Buffalo Originally published February 2019 Talk to anyone in Buffalo, and usually they’ve got some percentage of Irish in them (proud Irish girl here myself!), which means that St. Patrick’s Day in the City of Good Neighbors is basically...
by Naomi Sakovics | Feb 2, 2021 | City Guide, Food & Drink
Photo courtesy of Favorites Pizza & Wings Originally published February 2019 Nothing says “I love you” like pizza. Sure, there’s champagne, steak dinners, and chocolate-covered strawberries, but this is Buffalo, and we <3 our Za like no one’s business....
by Naomi Sakovics | Feb 5, 2020 | City Guide, Food & Drink, Food & Drink Guides, Restaurant Recommendations
Pulling apart buttery dough showered with cinnamon and oozing with icing is all part of the full-on sensory experience that is eating that most iconic of pastries: the cinnamon roll. **Swoon** The cinnamon roll, a longtime staple in American bakeries, marries lots of...
by Naomi Sakovics | Nov 6, 2019 | City Guide, Food & Drink, Food & Drink Guides
Updated October 2020 Sure, we all love Allen Burger Venture and Grover’s. These places are indisputable hamburger giants in the pantheon of great Western New York burger joints. But what about the lesser-known places? Well, we also have plenty of those. Places to snag...
by Naomi Sakovics | Oct 9, 2019 | City Guide, Food & Drink, Food & Drink Guides
Updated December 2019 Pancakes go back in history practically forever, and it’s not hard to see why. A stack of fluffy, syrup-and-butter-drenched pancakes satisfies like little else. It evokes the happiness of a weekend morning, when that bit of extra time allows for...
by Naomi Sakovics | Aug 1, 2019 | City Guide, Food & Drink, Food & Drink Guides
Updated June 2020 Biting into the pillowy soft, warm white bun, filled with savory pork, filled me with an unexpected happiness. It was the first time in my life I had tried steamed buns. It was at Home Taste restaurant, a little hole-in-the-wall spot in Kenmore with...
by Naomi Sakovics | Jul 19, 2019 | City Guide, Food & Drink, Food & Drink Guides
Updated May 2020 In Buffalo, the classic Friday fish fry is practically a way of life. A beer-battered hunk of haddock so enormous it hangs off the plate, along with a pile of fries, slice of rye bread, coleslaw and wedge of lemon is part of what it means to be from...
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