Buffalo Rising Online

Jerry Scharf, owner of Scharf’s Schiller Park Restaurant, knows all about the grind of preparing for the Taste of Buffalo. Scharf’s, one of the longest standing participants, has been a vendor at the Taste of Buffalo for 14 years. “This year, we’re taking our vacation week the week before the Taste,” Jerry says- but it won’t be a normal vacation- “it’s a full week of intense preparation.”