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My case for putting Taqueria Los Mayas at the top of your Mexican dining list starts with the details.  Housemade corn tortillas. Lard in the beans, and real cheese in […]

Chef-owner Bruce Wieszala presents the pig’s head dinner at Beacon Grille. “What’s your favorite restaurant?” When people find out they’ve met someone paid to review Buffalo restaurants for 14 years […]

Read It and Eat Bookshop plans to expand its cookbooks, cooking wares, and cooking classes in the heart of the Village of Williamsville, next to Muscarella’s Pizzeria. “We’re definitely still […]

Family Thai’s Riverside location, on Tonawanda Street two blocks south of Riverside Park, is as humble as a restaurant gets. One room, five tables, one staffer hustling to greet guests, […]

Four nights a week, at 2 a.m. the lights go on in Dopest Dough’s two-story Manufactory in 500 Seneca, next door to the former Dobutsu space. While Buffalo sleeps, Joe […]

Bacon blue burger with hand-cut fries, Shamus Shamus or Seamus is a stout Irish name – James in Gaelic. Shames is the Yiddish word for synagogue caretaker, the one who […]

In 2009, Barack Obama became president, and I became the food writer for the Buffalo News.  Since then, a lot has changed. Including what goes through my head while I […]

Calamari, The White Inn As a species, hotel restaurants are worst case scenarios, places you eat if you’re too exhausted after your journey to venture out again. With a captive […]

Eden, New York,was named for its fertile soil, but it has also produced a bumper crop of farmers who build things. The grape-picking machines that dominate vineyards across the country […]

“I can’t stop thinking about Amira’s Kitchen.” Usually that’s my line. I’ve been a fan of Amira Khalil’s cooking since she opened her first place in 2022. To hear it […]

Buffalo, New York is on the shore of a Great Lake. But you’d never know it from the menus of its restaurants. Local meat, vegetables, and fruit are rightly prized […]

Tactical recipes are the answer to a particular dilemma. This time of year, with Western New York’s finest fruit peaking, you need to know about clafoutis.  Say cla-foutie like the […]

Thank you for your financial support. Without people like you, I could not keep Four Bites running. I don’t take money from restaurants to write about them. That’s what sets […]

The Farm Shop is an oasis of freshness in the Elmwood Village. A teeny, tiny oasis, around the corner on Ashland from its mailing address, so it’s easy to miss. […]

Korean cold noodle Pork meatballs in gravy Shredded pork garlic sauce Duck’s blood, beef and tripe in chile sauce Fish filet sour cabbage Deep-fried eggplant hot garlic sauce Sweet and […]