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Last week’s Grilling Vegetables 101 brought a request for my favorite grilled chicken recipe. So here’s my chicken souvlaki, Canal Fest of the Tonawandas style. By sheer tonnage, I’ve cooked […]

Saffron Kitchen has brought Persian cuisine to Main Street, offering kebabs, dumplings, and soulful stews cooked carefully and presented beautifully. Its offerings are soulfully delicious, its Persian classics soaring because […]

You have four chances to get a fantastic meal while supporting local restaurants and learning what makes them shine at Four Bites 101 seminars in July and August. While you […]

Grilling season calls for ways to add vegetables to the table, transformed by fierce heat. You can grill anything, but getting people to eat the results is another matter. Here […]

Peking Quick One was founded by a woman here to support her daughter at the University at Buffalo’s School of Pharmacy. How fitting that its humble Tonawanda dining room has […]

Breakfast might be the most important meal of the day. Make breakfast a contender with one of this baker’s dozen of my favorite breakfast sandwiches found in and around Buffalo, […]

Captains Platter, crumbed, Fieldstone Country Inn The Knicks were finishing off the 76ers, and I was appreciating moves I hadn’t seen in a minute. Boxing out, catching the eyes of […]

Four Bites 101’s summer semester starts July 15, with Northern Chinese 101 at Peking Quick One in Tonawanda.  The $30 ticket is your invitation to learn about Chinese homestyle cooking […]

Today is Father’s Day, so if you haven’t had a chance to show appreciation to the contributor of half your genetic quirks, I bring you good tidings: There is this […]

Chicken and waffles with cornbread and coleslaw, The Fire Spot Is there a crispy chicken snack better than wings? In Buffalo, to even ask risks charges of heresy. But Rodney […]

A decade after BreadHive opened its Connecticut Street store, the worker cooperative bakery has become a bonafide community success story: it’s not just making great bread, it’s turning a profit. […]

Mutton achari gosht, Clay Handi A Kentucky Fried Chicken closed in Kenmore in 2017 leaving seven KFC outlets in Buffalo. What replaced it was something singular: Buffalo’s only Pakistani restaurant, […]

Buffalo eaters have the opportunity to sample another of the world’s greatest snacks with the efforts of Buffalo’s Vada Pav. Ambika Swami started at the Williamsville Farmers Market two years […]

The cheesesteak at Vinnie’s Minis If you measure the advance of a civilization by the new things it makes possible, frozen pizza is a sign that we are making some […]

Kith & Kin Bakeshop & Bistro, Western New York’s only gluten-free full-service all-day restaurant and bakery, expanded its area of service to the University at Buffalo’s Amherst Campus. In the […]