Reviews

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

“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 […]

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 […]

As fate would have it, two of the better Buffalo tavern wing spots are named Adolf’s and Nine-Eleven. Out-of-towners sometimes pull a face. A Nazi is bad enough, but a […]

If you’ve followed my reviews over the last 13 years, you may have gotten the impression that Woo Chon Korea House is my favorite Korean restaurant in Western New York. […]

Saffron Kitchen has brought Persian cuisine to Main Street, offering kebabs, dumplings, and soulful stews cooked carefully and presented beautifully. Its offerings are soulfully delicious, its Persian classics soaring because […]

Peking Quick One was founded by a woman here to support her daughter at the University at Buffalo’s School of Pharmacy. How fitting that its humble Tonawanda dining room has […]

Captains Platter, crumbed, Fieldstone Country Inn The Knicks were finishing off the 76ers, and I was appreciating moves I hadn’t seen in a minute. Boxing out, catching the eyes of […]

Chicken and waffles with cornbread and coleslaw, The Fire Spot Is there a crispy chicken snack better than wings? In Buffalo, to even ask risks charges of heresy. But Rodney […]

Mutton achari gosht, Clay Handi A Kentucky Fried Chicken closed in Kenmore in 2017 leaving seven KFC outlets in Buffalo. What replaced it was something singular: Buffalo’s only Pakistani restaurant, […]

The cheesesteak at Vinnie’s Minis If you measure the advance of a civilization by the new things it makes possible, frozen pizza is a sign that we are making some […]