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Roast pork belly is one of the least expensive luxuries available to the backyard barbecuer. In fact, you can even make it in a regular oven. I buy my skin-on […]

Buffalo is one of the best eating cities in America. Here’s the proof: flavorsome profiles of 216 locally-owned restaurants, bakeries, and food stores in the Four Bites Where to Eat […]

Southern Junction, one of Buffalo’s best restaurants, has dramatically expanded access to its Texan-Indian barbecue by adding lunch four days a week at its new dedicated takeout counter. Thursday through […]

Waxlight Bar à Vin, the thrice James Beard-nominated restaurant at 27 Chandler Street in Buffalo’s Black Rock neighborhood, will close permanently at the end of 2026, the restaurant’s ownership announced […]

Coffee and pancakes are back at the corner of Grant and Lafayette, where Sweetness_7 fed neighbors for a decade.  Matthew Zayas and Chiara Moslow named Luna’s, 220 Grant St., after […]

Hailing from India, pani puri is one of the world’s greatest vegan snacks.  Vendors poke holes in golfball-sized deep-fried puffs, filling them with a mixture of cooked potato, onion, and […]

The Haudenosaunee historically grew corn, beans, and squash together, treasuring them as sustainers of body and soul, as their synergistic agricultural characters rewarded their faith with bumper crops. The “three […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

Decades of chicken breast obsession has resulted in a widespread deficit of American chicken barbecue knowledge. The challenge of cooking sugar-laquered dark meat chicken on the bone without excess carbon […]