Buffalo: You'll Eat it Up!

This is a great piece on some of WNY's Greatest Places to Eat!!! As a fan of Sushi who has ate at many places around NYC, NJ and so on. Sea Bar Downtown has the BEST Tasting Rolls and Dinner Entres I have EVER Had. The Beef On Weck Rolls are a "MUST" if you like roast beef.

This would really make a fascinating local and/or regional book. I go to the Barnes&Noble or Borders and I see those wonderful photos of historical Buffalo, or Buffalo Architecture. How fascinating it would be to get a book on the "History of Buffalo Food" that could cover everything from what people used to eat, what food/juice/wine is grown locally, to things that are specific to our area like Easter Lambs Butter, to foods like wings that have gone national and international branding our city. Perhaps ending the book with something thought provoking like the demographics of local food. Do Buffalonians like salty, sweet, bitter, hotnspicy, bland, meatnpotaties or perogisnsour creme or ravioli.

It really gets my mouth watering just thinking about such a book but it would be such a fascinating book to read, especially those who love to know everything Buffalo.

Nelson Starr is a talented musician, but we all know that the only reason that the CVB tapped him for this video was because of his appearance on Anthony Bourdain's "No Reservations" program on the Travel Channel.

While it was nice to see some Buffalo and WNY on a national cable network, that episode of "No Reservations" not only did not depict the City of Buffalo in a positive light, it also did not even begin to explore the quality of dining options available in the area. The only worthy inclusion of this CVB video was Mike Andrzejewski and his Sea Bar restaurant.

Chicken Wings and Beef on Weck are indeed wonderful things, but they are two food items that the region is ALREADY known for world-wide. Am I the only one sick of seeing the Anchor Bar and Schwabl's pop up EVERY TIME someone brings up the topic of Buffalo and food?

With the wealth of good restaurants and even better chefs in the region isn't it time to concentrate on them instead of Drew Cerza, the King of Self-Promotion?

In addition to Mike Andrzejewski, why aren't we talking more about Kate Elliot and Juniper, and Richert brothers and Torches?

Sorry for the rant, but there's MORE to the food scene in Buffalo than friggin' wings and weck. It's time to stop pushing what the world already knows about and show them the variety and quality of restaurant choices in WNY.

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maybe a little more attitude in the title of the piece. how about, 'I'm Buffalo, Eat Me'...
no, maybe not... never mind...

Nice video! The video probably could've been 30 mins long with all the great independent restaurants we have in this city. I'm so happy to dine at unique places that serve amazing food (Left Bank, Tempo, Scarlet, Bacchus), not the chain restaurants that permeate other cities. Buffalo's dining scene, and it's chefs, has to be one of the most underrated culinary cities in America.

Buffalo is not a bad restaurant city, especially for its size, but there is a bit of redundency (sp?) . The quality level is there on the food, but the whole package (service, food, wine & atmosphere) is a little harder to find. I like that for the most even the better places are casual.