Bruleed grapefruit at Swan Street Diner (Photo: Mickey Harmon) Tucked into the Larkinville neighborhood of former industrial buildings east of downtown, Swan Street Diner offers Buffalo breakfast and lunch seekers…
Whole fried red snapper, Bamboo Ridge Lancaster For a suburb of 45,000 Lancaster already has its share of excellent places to eat. Serious tavern grub at Skoob’s Village Grill, righteous…
Sushi assortment, Kuni’s Feasting on local delicacies is one of the best reasons to invest in travel. Seeing how other places feed themselves three times a day expands your sense…
Pho dac biet at 99 Fast Food I may have eaten at 99 Fast Food more than any other restaurant in Western New York. That’s counting meals at the original…
Veal parmesan, The Dove With so much changing in our information diets, it seems appropriate to start the first Four Bites review of 2026 by briefly pointing the spotlight at…
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…
Root Down Farm Walla Walla onion in Butter Block puff pastry, at DiTondo. Ever since Sebastiano DiTondo’s great-granddaughter returned to Buffalo to transform the family’s tavern into a fine dining…
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…
Roast chicken and char siu pork over rice, Fu’s BBQ House. In September 2017, when Rockey Ren opened Asia Food Market, he said the huge Asian supermarket would eventually offer…
Shah’s Mixed Platter, at Shah’s Food. Sahar Bakery had been dark for so long I feared the days of buying barbari bread on Sheridan Drive were over. But Afghani baker…