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Bill Rapaport's Buffalo Restaurant Guide

Introduction

The Buffalo area has a large number of very good restaurants. This guide lists:

• my favorites
• restaurants recommended by readers like you
• restaurants having special cuisines
• restaurants that are otherwise noteworthy
  (e.g., a perfect or near-perfect rating by The Buffalo News).

History.

• This list began as a 4-page handout for the Association for Computational Linguistics conference held at UB in 1988.
  • (See PDF acknowledgments from that conference.)

• I updated it on a regular basis (more or less annually) thereafter.
• It first appeared on the World Wide Web probably around 1993, as a Postscript document, and now has an international following there.
• 1996 was the year that the HTML Web version became the definitive one, with numerous, hopefully useful, links.
• And it is now updated more or less daily.
• I am grateful to Davin Milun and Steve Gallo for assistance and advice on the Web version.

Structure of the Guide.

1. An alphabetical listing of all the restaurants, with details & reviews.
   • The selection of restaurants listed here and the comments are those of readers [indicated by initials in brackets] or my own (in blue)
   • You should not construe absence from this list as a negative evaluation.

2. A list by name only, organized into categories by cuisine.
3. A list by name only, organized into categories by location.
   • These categories are not intended to be exclusive or exhaustive.
   • Corrections to my attempts at categorization are welcomed.

Reservations and Hours.

• Reservations are always recommended!
  • The restaurant business is volatile; your favorite restaurant might have closed since your last visit!

• Call ahead for precise hours of operation.
• Also, some restaurants close for part of the summer or part of the winter.

Gourmet/Ethnic Food Stores.

[WHN] recommends:

[4/11] "My son discovered An Chau after eating at the nearby 99 Fastfood. The store has a large selection of fresh herbs, spices, etc., from Thailand, Vietnam, and other southeast Asian nations, as well as some African, Caribbean, and other ingredients. I couldn't find a website, but did find a link to an article about the store.

[4/10] "Wegmans (at least the one at 5275 Sheridan Dr., Williamsville; 631-4300) now sells American-raised Berkshire (a.k.a. Kurobuta) pork and wagyu (a.k.a. Kobe) beef. Not cheap: $18.95/lb. for center-cut pork chops; about $50/lb., depending on the cut, for wagyu beef. According to a sign on the meat counter, Japanese Kobe beef is around $300/lb."

[4/10] Carl & Al Zarcone's Italian Meat Market, 278 Grant St., Buffalo; 886-5565: "My brother-in-law bought some pre-made brasciole from Zarcone's for a family dinner. It was very good."

[2/10] Ni Hoowa Supermarket, 3175 Sheridan Dr., Amherst, 834-4315, for Chinese and Southeast Asian goods, and Spices of India, 438 Evans St. (in Evanstown Plaza), Williamsville, 633-4800, for Indian foods, commenting, "Don't be misled by the name. They sell a wide range of South Asian foods, such as pre-made Indian desserts, some fresh produce, frozen fish, and halal meat. Very friendly and helpful staff, who seem to be part of the owner's family."

[BL, 5/08] recommends "BuffaloFoods.com" ("We ship Buffalo's favorite food items to anywhere in the USA").
I have also recently [4/10] learned of a similar service, "Made in Buffalo".

[MRT, 2/04] recommends Globe Market.

[CSC, 9/01] says: "I've been in the food service business for a while and discovered that ‘Chinatowns’ or their regional equivalents are not only a great source for hard to find produce and condiment, but the cheapest spices (I can get the same quantity/quality anise star at Lee's Oriental Gift and Food (3325 Bailey Ave., Buffalo; 836-7100) for $1 as I would get from McCormick for $15). Also great is Williams-Sonoma (Walden Galleria, Cheektowaga; 651-0057), if only for the Bourbon vanilla paste, and D'Artagnan (through mailorder). Still, my favorite is Guercio and Sons (250 Grant St., Buffalo; 882-7935)." [WHN, 2/10] supplies a link to the following articles discussing Guercio's: "WNY Italian, As Cooked At Santasiero's, Built At Guercio's" and "WNY Italian, Built At Guercio's, Or Cooked At Santasiero's". (Come to think of it, these may be nearly identical :-)

Feedback.

William J. Rapaport
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
State University of New York at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY 14260, USA

phone: 716-645-4736
fax: 716-636-4656
email: rapaport@buffalo.edu

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