Lox and cream cheese bagel at BagelGrounds. (Hand model: Jess Kent) Lovers of New York style bagels in Clarence and greater Amherst have long felt under-served. That helped explain why…
Savory danish in tomato and provolone cream, and French onion, at Artigiana Shannon Wilson was a Wegman’s chef for a decade before teaching herself to bake. Now her skills are…
Due to operator error, the Sunday News note on my book Four Bites Where to Eat in Buffalo 2026 failed to include the link to the Four Bites shop. Here…
With a tap of your card, The Love Machine lets you send a little love to local community groups. Grocery checkouts are lined with impulse buys strategically arrayed to snag…
Cookies for a Cause assortment It was just before Christmas that Diane Aaron found herself homeless. She’d just moved from Texas, and at 68 years old was alone on the…
Hānai Hawaiian BBQ pipikula beef short rib plate. (PHOTO: Evan Duckett) Two years ago, Dave Delaney, born and raised in Southern California and Hawaii, decided to move to Buffalo. “Friends…
Pear poached in strawberry-rhubarb-herb syrup, on toasted nuts, with a quenelle of freshly whipped Stolzfus Family Dairy cream. The Village of Warsaw is not, technically speaking, in the middle of…
Tantan ramen at Konbini. The classic Japanese snacks onigiri and taiyaki are available in Buffalo at last, thanks to a father who couldn’t say no to his daughter. Since he'd…
Bar, Mira (Photo: Mira) Mira, the broadly Mediterranean restaurant opening on Elmwood Avenue next week, is Buffalo’s most-anticipated restaurant in years. Exhibit 1: Last week, in the first 45 minutes…
Making bare commercial restaurant space feel homey is an art. Walking into DaNando for the first time, I took in the view: gilded mable-topped tables, mirrors in ornate baroque frames,…