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Editor’s note: This story is the first in a series of Four Bites travel stories exploring Mexico. Coming next week: exploring Aztec aquaculture on the brilliantly decorated poleboats of Xochimilco, serenaded by mariachi, and the brilliant tacos you can eat afterwards at Trinidad Ritual de Sabores, inside the bustling Coyoácan Market. OAXACA, Mexico – People […]

Thinking of how you can make your Thanksgiving table special? The bakers and cooks and ice cream makers of Buffalo have been thinking of you, too. Here’s some of the best ways I know to make this Thanksgiving memorable for all the right reasons. Order now, because this isn’t factory food, and the good stuff […]

Located in South Buffalo, Sevens is the vegan cafe that hits harder, with "sausage" rolls, cardamom foam matcha, and lemon poppyseed buns. Guest review by Kevin Thurston.

Buffalo Restaurant week suggestions, Big Big Table fundraiser Oct. 17 If apple cider season is your favorite time of year, you need to know about Cherry Bank Farm Cider Mill. Since 1948, three generations of the Kelsch family have made cider pressed from neighboring orchards’ bounty in Sanborn. Dale Kelsch is running the show these […]

Reiner and Galarneau in conversation at The Rails apartment complex Restaurant crews that survived the Covid pandemic are coping with a new horror that is making them reconsider their life choices: customers who apparently lost all memory of how you should behave in a restaurant. There have always been hard-to-please people. Since the world reopened, […]

Art’s Cafe in Springville hosts me to hold forth on Four Bites, cheese-pulls, and more When I returned to Buffalo in 1997 to accept a reporting job at The Buffalo News, I thought I had a job for life. Everyone in the newsroom did. Fortunately, in 2000 the English Department at the University at Buffalo, […]

In more friendly space, restaurateurs and Le Bar Flamant Rose seek happy ending International House is the only casual dining experience in downtown Buffalo offering five cuisines and bubble tea, a full bar, comfy seating, and ping-pong tables. Opened in April in the heart of the Theater District, 617 Main St., its collective menu is […]