The San Francisco Chronicle tasks its Taster’s Choice panel with ranking the turkey bacon brands. Short version? If your fork can’t touch pork, Oscar Meyer’s Louis Rich brand wins by, like, a lot. And if you shop at Kroger, definitely skip the house label. (via) (photo)
“It takes a special kind of nutjob to attempt every recipe in The French Laundry Cookbook,” Carol Blymire writes on French Laundry at Home, where she did exactly that. Start with her recap and retrospective, then work your way back through all the brilliant success and maddening kitchen sadism. (via) (pic)
Zilly Rosen, a cake artist from OBK’s home base of Buffalo, NY, leaves us nearly without words with her 1,250-cupcake Obama portrait. Read how she did it at Cupcakes Take the Cake.
The Rue Franklin’s foie gras torchon is an appetizer that takes teamwork, and two days, to bring to the plate.
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Three hundred and sixty-three days a year, Buffalo’s street food options - edibles bought in public to eat while walking, talking, or, for the seriously coordinated, cycling - can be kindly described as limited.
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Mike Andrzejewski is a Polish-American sushi chef. You got a problem with that?
When you tell people there’s free sushi, look out. My darling wife Kathy and I arrived at 475 Ellicott St., just north of the Washington Market, to find the street blocked off and a crowd of people milling about, with their eyes on [...]
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Buffalo’s best Puerto Rican roast pork is back with Vargas restaurant’s reappearance on Niagara Street.
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The neighborhood has changed but Scharf’s Schiller Park in Buffalo N.Y. still serves up the same reliable German fare like wiener schnitzel, spaetzle and roast duck.
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After returning repeatedly to Sample restaurant, our intrepid correspondent has gotten a taste for the Allen Street restaurant’s drinks, and oh yes the food.
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Charbroiled yet flavorful, the beef satay set the tone for a satisfying spring lunch at Buffalo’s Saigon Cafe.
I love Saigon in the springtime.
My apologies to Cole Porter and the French (well, maybe just Porter). But as far as I am concerned, the only place to be seen or eat this spring is Saigon Café, 1098 [...]
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Speaking of Ulrich’s, local rocker Nelson Starr’s video attempt to lure Anthony Bourdain is one of four finalists. In an attempt to bait Bourdain into bringing his “No Reservations” show for the Travel Channel to the Queen City, Starr, under the direction of local filmmaker John Paget, spotlighted Ulrich’s (fish [...]
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Ulrichs on Ellicott Street, the oldest bar in Buffalo still serves up a terrific fish fry and a selection of German beer.
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After traveling across Western New York and eating 22 different burgers suggested by readers, I came to a few conclusions.
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