Amira’s Kitchen 101
2026-04-02 18:00 (America/New_York) | Amira’s Kitchen, 1500 Cleveland Dr, Cheektowaga, NY, 14225, United States
Join me at 6 p.m. Thursday, April 2, for Amira’s Kitchen 101, a night dedicated to Amira Khalil’s Palestinian cuisine.
You’ll get mansaf, lamb braised in yogurt broth with almonds over rice, with jameed broth to spoon over as desired. Plus chopped salad in tahini, and one kibbe, a pointy fritter of allspice-scented ground beef and pinenuts in beef-and-bulgur jackets. Plus Amira’s rice pudding for dessert.
Meanwhile, I’ll tell you what you’re eating, how it’s made, and where to find the ingredients to make it at home.
Tickets are $30, or $37 if you’d also like a copy of my first book, Where to Eat in Buffalo 2026, at half price. Amira’s Kitchen, 1500 Cleveland Drive, Cheektowaga, has a large parking lot.

INTERNATIONAL HOUSE TASTING EVENT
2026-03-05 18:00 | International House Buffalo, 617 Main St, Buffalo, NY, 14203, United States
INTERNATIONAL HOUSE TASTING EVENT March 5, 6 pm

Come on down and meet some of the hardest-working restaurateurs in Buffalo, and taste what they add to our community menu.

International House is a food hall with four restaurants and a full bar, at 617 Main St., in the Theater District, across the tracks from Shea’s Performing Arts Center. Dedicated to the immigrants past and present who built Buffalo, it’s open Tuesday through Saturday. It also hosts the city’s only public ping-pong tables, with the necessary equipment available at the bar.

On Thursday, March 5, I’ll be there. give a mini-seminar on the Burmese and Thai cuisine of Pattaya Street Food and its new offshoot Soe’s Kitchen, Ethiopian cuisine of Abyssinia Ethiopian Cuisine, Filipino cuisine of Pinoy Boi, and Mexican cuisine of La Divina Tacos. Plus answer any questions you might have about where and what to eat, or whatever else you want to know.
For $25, you’ll get to sample each place’s cooking. Plus, if you don’t have your copy of Where to Eat in Buffalo 2026 yet, you can get one for $7, 50% off the cover price. I’ll even sign it for you, if you’re into that sort of thing.
$25 event admission and food
$32 event admission and food and a book

Book Signing at Orchard Park Public Library
2026-02-21 14:00 - 17:00 | Orchard Park Public Library, 4570 S Buffalo St, Orchard Park, NY, 14127, United States
Did you know that you (yes, you) can use your words, photos, and videos to help restaurants you love survive?
2026 has all the ingredients to be the worst year for family-owned restaurants since the Great Depression. Every cost on the spreadsheet is going up, while customers are staying home in droves. On the information front, getting the attention of potential new customers has never been harder.
On Feb. 21, at the Orchard Park Public Library, I’ll show you how to help the places you want to keep. Social media is remarkably effective at getting the word out about great things, and on social media, the coin of the realm is a real person with an authentic opinion. Carefully considered words and images can actually move the needle for small businesses struggling to survive.
I’ll teach you how to do that at my mini-seminar on food writing, photography, and effective social media. I’ve been teaching journalism at the University at Buffalo since 2000.
Afterwards, I’d be happy to sign copies of my first book, What to eat in Buffalo 2026. It’s a pocket paperback with color photos, spotlighting 175 locally-owned restaurants, bakeries, and food stores making a difference, for $13.99. (Also available at fourbites.net/shop).
After 37 years as a professional journalist, including 25 years at The Buffalo News, I run my own ship now, at fourbites.net. It’s an ongoing experiment in whether a food writer can make a living serving an audience instead of a publishing company.

Book Signing at Merit Badge Books, Hamburg
2026-02-05 18:00 - 21:00 | Merit Badge Books, 276 Buffalo St, Hamburg, NY, 14075, United States
Andrew Galarneau is signing books at Merit Badge Books
