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Ying's
(South Cheektowaga)
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YOLO Restaurant & Lounge
(Clarence/East Amherst-Transit Rd.)
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All phone numbers are in area code 716, unless otherwise indicated.
All locations are in Erie County,
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Ying's.
—WARNING: WEBSITE MAKES LOUD NOISE!
1460 French Rd.
(at Transit Rd., south of Losson Rd.),
South Cheektowaga (Town of Cheektowaga).
656-7566.
Formerly known as "Ying's Wings [&] Things", with several locations, but now (7/12) down to two locations, of which we have (old) reviews of only one.
Reviews from more than 10 years ago:
[GS, 1/04] said: "We (a party of four) had the misfortune of
dining
at Ying's for Chinese New Year (1/22/2004). All four of us are devotees
of oriental/Asian cuisine. This is the worst representation we have
encountered.
We were unaware it was primarily a "buffet", and this is by far the worst of
the many we have sampled. All the food items were lukewarm at best and
generally pretty bland, even the purported "spicy" items were not as stated.
Further insult to injury is that this is by far the most expensive buffet.
It would be far more
enjoyable to partake of a traditional Chinese Restaurant and much
cheaper, too."
[AWJ, 4/04] says, presumably of this branch, but possibly of
another (see their website for a list of all their branches), "It
recently changed its name to Yings Wings Things & Bar. Not being a
local, I was fairly ignorant of some facts, but a friend of mine took me
there and said that the interior has completely changed. It has a
definite ‘bar feel’ to it.
Notably, I have only eaten nachos there, and they were about average."
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YOLO Restaurant & Lounge.
• Facebook page (which has a link to their weekly specials)
5841
Transit Rd.
(in Transit Valley Plaza,
at Laurel Park Ln.,
south of Clarence Center Rd.),
East Amherst
(Town of Clarence)
688-4479.
[GOw, 3/15/14] said: "This is a composite review from 2 recent, Sunday-brunch visits in the past month. We have recently been enjoying after-church brunches. We have also been to this restaurant once for dinner, and we enjoyed it. We did not realize how close we were to a Rapaport sighting. We learned after the fact that our esteemed leader was ‘shockingly’ (snicker) at YOLO on the same day with his family. [:-)] YOLO has an interesting Bloody Mary bar, where you can make your own; we opted to do this both times. Hard to go wrong for $5: Server brings your glass with the vodka poured over ice. The bar has all the regular fixings, along with shrimp and bacon. Yes, I've had fresher of both, but stick them in vodka and tomato juice, and everything livens up. On our first visit, J opted to order the classic breakfast off the brunch menu. Standard fare: eggs over easy, bacon, home fries, and sourdough toast. I went with a steak sandwich off the regular menu, ordered and served medium rare: nice sandwich. All food was very good, nicely presented, and service was very good. On 2nd visit, I built my own omelette, with mushrooms and avocado. The home fries were overcooked, and they charged an extra dollar to have onions cooked in with them. I like the homefries crispy, but this was a bit over the top. We were not given the option of ordering off the regular menu. Service was a little spottier this time. J had the same as previous. We should probably get a little more adventurous in our ordering. We like this place. The prices are fair, service is good. I believe for each meal our total was just under $30 plus tip."
Bill said:
[12/12/13] Not a full dinner report, but a review of a different dish
that I tried here tonight—cioppino: "Clams, mussels, shrimp,
scallops & fish prepared in a red broth over pasta as an entree". It's
available as either a "starter" ($20) or an entree ($26);
the menu is vague as
to whether only the entree version is served over pasta, but I had been
ogling this as an entree ever since I noticed the fine print offering it
that way, and tonight was the night. I was half expecting a large dish of
pasta, with a small amount of seafood and
broth served over it, but I was happily
surprised that it was a real cioppino: a bowl of broth with the seafood
floating in it, together with some pasta (penne, I think), and two large,
thin
slices of garlic toast on the side.
The broth was pleasantly spicy, and the amount
of seafood was quite generous: a delicious and satisfying meal.
(For the record, there were 5 of us at dinner; other dinner items
included side garden salads, shrimp cocktail (not altogether
satisfactory—the shrimp were warm), spinach-artichoke dip (it
looked good, but had a strong bleu-cheese flavor, which made it a
no-no for
me), chicken pesto sandwiches with sweet-potato fries, a steak
sandwich, a quesadilla, and—for desserts—the macaroon
sampler (6 differently-flavored, soft macaroons, each sitting on a
dollop of whipped cream, with a bowl of vanilla ice cream), a
crème brulée, and a peanut-butter pie à la mode,
with a birthday candle on it for SLD.)
Great service by Kate.
Our dinner averaged just under
$41 per person with tax and drinks, before tip. But that cioppino!
Wonderful comfort food!
[12/3/13] MER and I had dinner here twice in the last two days.
On Monday, we tried two new items: an Italian
wedding soup du jour and a Scarlette Snapper special. MER said that her
soup was wonderful. The snapper was "pan seared and served over a
tropical risotto (pineapple, coconut, mango and papaya) with asparagus
and a red bean sauce)": The fish was fine, though it could have used a
bit more sauce, and the 3 small, thin pieces of asparagus seemed a bit
lonely on the plate. But the risotto! Ah, the risotto! I would have
been satisfied with just that for dinner—it was exquisite. MER
had the apple pork chop, and I had the Caprese Stack (which still has
one too many slices of tomato per stack; because there was extra basil
(yum!), a couple of extra slices of mozzarella as plate decoration would
have evened things out). And their wonderful apple tart á la
mode for dessert!
The next day, with a friend visiting from Rochester, we began with the
Mediterranean Spread Platter, with an extra helping of warm pita.
MER had the Grilled Chicken Pesto
sandwich ("chicken breast with lettuce, tomatoes, Provolone and pesto
sauce on Ciabatta bread"), accompanied by a side of the same Italian wedding
soup that she had enjoyed the day before (an alternative option was
French fries, but that soup was so good…).
Our guest had Vegetable Risotto ("spinach, roasted
red peppers, mushrooms, onion, diced tomato and parmesan cheese in a
creamy risotto") with shrimp (hmmm…I could have gone for an entire meal
of that tropical risotto from the day before!).
And I was going to have the cioppino as a
dinner entree (it's also available as an appetizer), but I decided to go
for one of the specials instead, on the grounds that I could always
have the cioppino, which is on the regular menu; so, I had the Salmon Pasta
("house[-]made pasta, spinach, fennel, green peppers and cherry tomatoes
with a lemon goat cheese dill cream sauce" and chunks of salmon. All of
our meals were excellent. The variety and quality of dishes at YOLO is truly
amazing. Service by Burton (Monday) and Sally (Tuesday) was exemplary.
With drinks and tax, our meals both nights averaged under
$42 per person before tip.
[11/9/13] This past week, MER and I have been having dinner here both
together and separately with friends and out-of-town visitors
almost every other evening.
This is a report on
some of the new (to us) dishes that we've tried.
The last few times MER has been here,
she has requested something not quite on the menu:
a plain, grilled pork chop with
veggies (one night, it was zucchini).
There's a (delicious, according to MER) apple pork chop that is on the menu,
but MER has been on a diet and
requested a plain one, which YOLO's staff has been happy to provide.
All three times she has had it, she has declared it the
best pork chop she has ever had, even surpassing the apple pork chop.
I have tried two of this week's specials:
a porcini-portabella-shiitake–mushroom
Alfredo spaghetti with chicken, and a
pan-seared halibut in a red-beet beurre blanc, served over a slightly
spicy, pumpkin-leek
risotto. The Alfredo sauce on the spaghetti was very light, so that the
mushroom flavor dominated. One of our dinner guests (a distant cousin
visiting from NYC)
thought that it was one of the best dishes he had ever had; I agree that
it was, indeed, very good. The halibut could have used a bit more of
the beurre blanc, but the dish
was excellent. More recently,
I tried something new (for me) from the regular
menu: vegetable risotto with scallops. The risotto was made with
spinach, roasted red peppers, mushrooms, onion, diced tomato, and
parmesan cheese. The mushrooms were not to my liking, but easily
removed, and the dish as a whole was wonderful. For desserts (my cousin
and I are not on
MER's diet :-), my cousin had the pistachio gelato from the regular
menu, which he liked very much. More recently,
instead of the pistachio gelato, they had a
sea-salt caramel gelato (both are from
Sweet Melody's), which was light,
sweet, salty, and delicious.
We have had excellent service by David, Joe, and Shayla (on different
visits). With drinks and tax, our meals have averaged about $41 before
tip. I am raising their ranking to 3 stars: We have eaten here
many times, have always found something new and interesting to try
(along with dishes that have taken on the status of "old" standbys),
have never had a bad meal, and have always had excellent service.
[9/30/13] MER, our son, and I had my birthday dinner here. MER and I
began with cups of the soup du jour: creamy chicken and dumplings,
which was one of the best soups I've ever had. Our son began with a
Caesar salad, which he liked. For his entree, he had the Maple Pecan
Crusted Chicken with maple-syrup sauce, mashed potatoes, and corn; he
said that it was absolutely delicious. MER had the Braised Chicken
Cacciatore from the weekly specials menu: "spicy tomato sauce with sun
dried tomato, red and green pepper, onion, portabella mushroom; served
with a side of house made pasta"; she thought it was the best chicken
cacciatore that she's had—I had a taste, too, and agree that it
was excellent. I also had an entree from the specials menu—Kofta
Dinner, prepared by one of their chefs, who is Lebanese: "a mixture of
ground beef and lamb and traditional middle eastern spices and herbs,
then grilled and served with a lemon mint artichoke bulgar wheat
risotto, garlic sauce, grilled pita, and small salad. It was slightly
spicy, but very, very good. For dessert, our son had the apple tart
with ice cream, and MER and I shared a special raspberry tart with ice
cream, all made in house, and all delicious. (Mine came with a candle
for my birthday, too:-) Service by Sally was excellent. With tax and
drinks, our meals averaged a bit over $35 per person, before tip.
[9/17/13] Another fantastic meal at YOLO: We tried two of their weekly
specials: MER had the Italian Style Meatloaf: "kobe beef, ground veal,
and pork wrapped with sliced prosciutto, capicola, salami, tomato and
basil, stuffed with fresh mozzarella, served over a bed of spinach with
roasted garlic parmesan mashed potatoes and roasted red pepper aioli".
MER said that she wished that this was on their regular menu, because it
would become her new standard meal here;
I had a taste, too, and I agree that it was delicious. I had the Crab
Stuffed Yellow Sole: "sauteed artichoke hearts, sundried tomatoes,
roasted red peppers, pancetta, and arugula; served with jasmine rice
and pesto cream sauce". It was exquisite. Service by Shayla was
perfection. With salads and drinks, but no dessert, and including tax,
our bill averaged just under $43 per person before tip.
I am raising their ranking to 2 stars.
[9/6/13] YOLO again, this time with MER and our son, on a Friday night;
the place was busy, though we were seated right away without a
reservation. All three of us had the Caprese Stack: our son had it
"plain", I had the extra-cost avocado, and MER had both avocado and also
asked for red
onion. They were excellent, but (as we pointed out to our server, who
agreed with us) there are too many tomatoes (each "stack" is like a club
sandwich, with 3 slices of tomato
and but only 2 each of mozzarella and basil).
The tomatoes were, however, thick, juicy, and flavorful. Our son had
the Monte Cristo sandwich: a turkey, ham, and Swiss cheese sandwich
served on sweet French toast (complete with powdered sugar!) with
strawberry preserves as a dipping sauce. They were accompanied by
crispy, seasoned French fries. He found the savory-sweet combination
surprising and delicious. I had the Berry BBQ Salmon: This was one of
the best pieces of salmon I've ever had, fall-apart tender,
with a rich, sweet sauce. I
was afraid that there would be too much of a barbecue flavor, which I
normally don't like, and was hoping that the berries would counteract
that; they did, and it was excellent. It was accompanied by rice pilaf
and string beans. MER's meal was less satisfactory than ours: She
ordered the filet mignon, with demi glace, but without bleu cheese,
accompanied by mashed potatoes and string beans. She ordered it medium,
but it came rare-to-medium-rare and lukewarm. She sent it back for
reheating, but it was not the "melt in your mouth" steak that she had
been hoping for. Two
managers and our server (Liz, who was excellent)
all apologized, and took her unhappiness
seriously. Dessert was successful, though: raspberry and
white-chocolate cheese cake. With drinks and tax, the bill averaged a bit over
$39 per person, before tip.
[8/28/13] MER and I had dinner here on a Wednesday evening; the bar was
hopping, but the rest of it was practically empty. MER began with the
caprese "tower", with added avocado and red onions; she thought that it
was excellent, and especially liked the fact that each "tower"
(consisting of 3 slices of tomato and 2 each of mozzarella and
basil) had two full basil leaves (not the usual chopped leaves found at
other restaurants). For her main course, MER had the apple pork chop
that she had liked on our previous visit; it was still good but a bit
underdone for her taste (not YOLO's fault; the waiter had asked if she
wanted it medium with some pink on the inside, which MER had agreed to,
but, when she saw it, decided it was a bit too pink for her). I had an
evening special: salmon salad, with arugula, mesclun, apples, fennel,
walnuts, red onion, and grilled, fresh Faroe Island salmon filet, with
an apple-cider vinaigrette and shaved manchego cheese; it, too, was
excellent. We shared an apple tart with vanilla ice cream (from their
separate dessert menu, which doesn't appear to be online); it was warm,
soft, and sweet. Service by Derik was excellent. With drinks and tax,
our bill came to just about $43.50 per person, before tip.
[7/8/13] MER, SLD, and I had dinner here on a Monday evening; the place
was practically empty. But the food was exquisite, and I am awarding
them their first star. SLD and I began with side salads with balsamic vinaigrette, which
were good. MER began with an appetizer from their
weekly specials menu: a BBQ Pork
Flatbread, with pork tenderloin, BBQ sauce, manchego cheese, coleslaw,
and caramelized onions; she has not stopped
raving about it. SLD had it as her main course, and was equally happy.
MER's main course was pork again, the Apple Pork Chop from the regular
menu, served with apple chutney over mashed potatoes. She said
that the apple flavoring was both bitter and sweet, just exploding
with flavor
into your mouth, and that the mashed potatoes were delicious. I had a
lobster ravioli from the specials menu: two or three
huge (dinner-plate sized) ravioli filled with cheese and chunks of
lobster, in a delicious wild-mushroom-tarragon-garlic sauce. We shared a
very good carrot cake for dessert. We all agreed that our meal here
this evening far surpassed anything we've had at
La Scala recently.
I note that they list their specials on their
Facebook page.
(One small
complaint: You have to explicitly request bread; when it arrives, you
get very thin slices of a French bread, and the server takes it away
before appetizers arrive. Why not leave it on the table? Why not offer
something more substantial?) With drinks and
tax, before tip, our meals averaged a bit over $42 each.
[5/31/13] I'm happy to add my positive review to the previous ones for
YOLO. [MER], [SLD], our 8-year-old granddaughter, and I had dinner here
on a Friday evening. It was the second time for our daughter and
granddaughter, the first for [MER] and me. (We had previously tried to
eat here the Sunday before Memorial Day, but they were closed, despite
their website's claim that they are open on Sundays. One of the owners
apologized to us about that, explaining that last year they had had no
customers on the equivalent day and that they should have updated their
website.) Although they have a large weekly-specials menu with some
tempting items, I decided that, for my first visit, I would stick with
the regular menu, so I ordered the Salmon Neptune: "Pan seared fresh
wild Atlantic salmon topped with a crab meat béarnaise sauce, served
with our rice pilaf and roasted asparagus" (though I think I got
broccolini, which was the vegetable of the day, instead of asparagus);
it was fantastic, one of the best salmon dishes I've had
recently—perfectly cooked, not "fishy", with just enough of the
creamy sauce and contrasting taste of the crab. The rice was perfect,
too: not mushy, and with a good flavor. [MER] had the filet mignon:
"8 oz. filet served with bleu cheese demi glace, mashed potatoes and
vegetable", minus the bleu cheese (the veggie was the broccolini). When
she asked to omit the bleu cheese, our excellent waiter (Joe) suggested
that she might prefer the filet from the weekly-specials menu, which
didn't have bleu cheese, but it did have some other sides that she
really didn't want (mushrooms, I think). She was very happy with her
choice, rating it just a notch behind her gold-standard filet at
La Scala. [SLD] had the Friday-only
fish fry (though she opted for the Cajun broiled fish version),
which she enjoyed and
which, to my fish-fry-hating eyes, looked very good. The only downer
(not YOLO's fault!) was our granddaughter's choice of cheese
quesadilla: "Cheddar-Jack cheese with pico de gallo on a grilled flour
tortilla, served with sour cream and salsa": Because she's a picky
eater, she requested no pico de gallo, no sour cream, and no salsa. But
the cheese included red and green peppers, which
were next to impossible to pick out. It did have a very nice-looking
side of salad with shredded cheese (which she also ignored).
They do claim to have a kids' menu,
though it's not printed and didn't have anything she wanted. But,
again, I hasten to point out that this "downer" was due to picky eating
habits, not YOLO! [MER] also chose the Caprese Stack as an appetizer:
"Sliced tomato, mozzarella, and basil drizzled with sweetened balsamic
reduction and olive oil", opting for the extra-charge "California Style
with avocado". They were really stacks: a kind of sandwich with tomato
instead of bread, with 2 slices of mozzarella sandwiching another
slice of tomato as the filling (and basil, of course). She thought it
was excellent (though was disturbed by the mismatch between number of slices
of tomato and of mozzarella per stack).
When Joe realized that only [MER] was having an
appetizer, he suggested that the rest of us might want to try an
appetizer-sized version of one of their other salads to start with: [SLD]
chose a small Garden Salad: "Leafy greens, tomato, cucumber, carrots,
red cabbage, croutons, cheddar jack cheese, served with your choice of
dressing", which she liked, except for a few burned croutons (but at
least that shows that they were house-made!). I chose the YOLO
Strawberry and Pecan Salad: "Fresh spinach, strawberries, candied
pecans, red onion, and crumbled bleu cheese tossed with strawberry
vinaigrette", minus the bleu cheese, which I also liked. For dessert,
[MER] had a carrot cake, our granddaughter had an off-the-dessert-menu
bowl of vanilla ice
cream with strawberries on top (the topping courtesy of Joe, who
overheard us talking about strawberries), and I had an
off-the-dessert-menu apple tart with vanilla ice cream. All of the
desserts were excellent.
Our meals, with drinks, desserts, and tip, but before tax, came to a bit
over $35 each.
Besides the excellent service, both one of the co-owners
(a grandson of Russ
Salvatore) and, later, the manager
came over to make sure that all was going well.
(The co-owner seemed to recognize my name when we introduced ourselves.)
We chatted with two
of my UB colleagues who were also dining there; they told me that they
are regulars and
that they love the restaurant.
YOLO has a gluten-free menu, BYOB on Tuesdays, a private-event room,
live jazz on summer Thursday nights, and a DJ on Fridays and Saturdays
at 10:00 P.M., and they are open for lunch
and brunch.
I think we've found a new favorite; we'll certainly be back.
[3/16/14] I know that I have written perhaps one too many reviews of
YOLO (from the perspective of some correspondents), but, in view of
a recent semi-negative review,
I feel the need to add another positive one.
MER and I had dinner on 3/14/14;
our entire meal, except for desserts, came from the
weekly special-features menu. We began with the Romaine Boat salad:
long romaine leaves filled with avocado, sliced cherry tomatoes,
mozzarella, bacon slices, and red onion, all shaped to look sort of like
a boat, with a very light, cilantro-lime vinaigrette. It was a
wonderful way to begin the meal, light and refreshing. My entree was a
pan-seared steelhead trout in a lemon-zest/rosemary/white-wine sauce,
accompanied by a handful of small asparagus spears and pristinely white
jasmine rice; it was excellent. (A former colleague of mine who was
also dining there that evening told me that, where he grew up in western
Canada, what we call steelhead trout was there called steelhead salmon
and that the difference between trout and salmon is more one of size
than of species. Certainly, the dish I had looked more like
salmon than like trout. Wikipedia seems to bear this out.) The
pièce de résistance, however, was MER's Apple BBQ
Glazed St. Louis Ribs, accompanied by corn bread and coleslaw; she
opted for asparagus instead of the advertised Mac+Cheese. This was,
according to her, the best meal that she has had all year, and the best
ribs that she has ever had; the meat simply fell off the bones, leaving
them perfectly clean. She asked the chef, Scott Bernard, to come
out so that she could thank him. (And I added my thanks for the
delicious trout, as well.) MER took a peanut-butter pie home for
dessert; I ate a strawberry-and-Greek-yogurt "gelato" there. With
drinks and tax, our meals averaged under $49 per person. Service by
Sally was excellent. We returned for brunch on Sunday, 3/16/14,
with our extended family. Although the chef was not on duty, the
sous-chef made the ribs for 4 members of our party; they were as good
the second time as they were the first. They really should put these on
the regular menu! Service at brunch by Sasha was also excellent.
[WHN] said:
[5/9/13] "I met friends for lunch at YOLO on Thursday, 5/9; it was my first time there. Two of us had a lunch special—a crab-cake sandwich with lettuce, tomato, and a slightly spicy, Cajun mayo, on a ciabatta roll, with seasoned fries. The other friend had a turkey, ham, and Swiss-cheese Monte Christo sandwich, also with seasoned fries. The food and service were very good."
[HPK, 11/29/12] said: "I have been to Yolo about five times now. Very good food and very eclectic, I can bring my family there and, as the night goes on, have some drinks. The tuna is great! Quoting from the online menu, it is ‘Seared Ahi Tuna, Cajun style with roasted red pepper and spinach [or] sesame seared Asian style with soy citrus sauce. Both styles served with rice and vegetable of the day’, both very well done. The vegetable risotto is one of my wife's favorites. As a starter, the Mediterranean Spread Platter that has ‘Roasted red pepper olive tapenade, bruschetta spread, and shiitake mushroom hummus served with warm pita, cucumber, and grape tomatoes’ is great! I have also sent friends of mine there; they know how to treat their guests, classy and well done! If you want an easy place to relax, have a good meal, you have a good place."
Young Chow.
UB Commons
(520 Lee Entrance),
UB North Campus
(Town of Amherst).
689-6303 or 689-6305.
[RHo, 4/8/13] says: "I had lunch at Young Chow today, and it was better than I expected. I used your site to consider campus options, and, seeing how long it had been since this place was reviewed, I decided to go for it. The food is pretty typical Americanized, greasy, Chinese fast food, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. I had the lunch combo, with veggie lo mein, mixed vegetables, and mapo tofu. While greasy, it was on the less greasy end of the spectrum for similar food. The noodles still had some bite to them, and the mix of vegetables was nice. The soft tofu went well with everything else, and, all in all, it was a nice, inexpensive, and very filling meal. I would eat there again."
Reviews from more than 10 years ago:
[MEL, 5/99] said: "Not the worst Chinese place I have ever
been to, but certainly worse than most. I had some vaguely evil-tasting
lo mein and,
after eating half of it, I wasn't hungry any more, so I threw out the rest
(by
contrast, normally I would bring the uneaten part home). Next time I am
marooned at
N. Campus at night, I will go to
Burger King."
[TP, 2/04] said: "I've had good and bad Chinese food. This was
not the good kind. My 11-year-old son and I were at UB for an event and
decided to grab dinner on the
North Campus. After much debate, we settled on Chinese, since we both like
it,
and it isn't pizza for the fifth time that week. Big mistake. I should
have
gone for a taco at Taco Bull in the Student Union. The sesame noodles
were
covered in a big glob of what I suppose was sesame sauce, cold,
congealed,
and tasteless. The egg rolls were so greasy that they slipped from our
hands
when we picked them up. I don't even remember what else we had--we
tried to
put it out of our minds immediately afterwards. I remember what it was
like
to be a student and captive on the North Campus. For once, I was not
envious
that the Commons was built after I graduated."
Youngstown Village Diner.
425 Main St.
(at Lockport Rd.),
Village of Youngstown (Town of Porter, Niagara County).
745-9858.
[7/11] Given 3½ (out of 4) pennies by Kaitlin Lindahl, Buffalo News "Cheap Eats" restaurant reviewer.
[PT, 6/10] says: "Two friends and I went to the Lewiston Tour of Kitchens on Saturday (June 12th). Each house on the tour featured a dish from one of the local restaurants. The food was generally good, but my favorites were delicious pork sliders with homemade relish from Carmelo's, excellent corn chowder from the Youngstown Village Diner, and wonderful Brunswick stew, made with chicken, pork, beef, and vegetables, from the Brickyard Pub. I've seen Brunswick stew on restaurant menus in the south, but never had it before. If I see it again, I would order it. Other dishes included Jamaican jerk pork sandwiches from the Niagara Falls Wegmans, rice balls from Casa Antica, and wine and desserts at Water Street Landing, There were several other dishes from restaurants that I can't remember or didn't try. It was a fun day."
[AFN] said:
[6/09] "My sister, our daughters, and I went to the Lewiston Region Tour of Kitchens on Saturday, 6/13. Seven restaurants from Lewiston, Niagara Falls, and Youngstown offered samples of their cuisine at the various houses on the tour. My personal favorite from The Youngstown Village Diner were chicken and corn chowder and Cobb-style salad with lettuce, tomatoes, onion, cheese, ham, orange wedges, and hard boiled egg with Italian dressing. Overall, the tour was like a multi-course tasting menu experience. Excellent! We have never been to The Youngstown Village Diner, which is said to overlook the Niagara River. I told my husband we'll have to try it this summer."
Yukiguni 2 Japanese Restaurant.
660 Garrison Rd.
(east of Helena St./Thompson Rd.),
The Garrison (Town of Fort Erie, Niagara Region), ON, CANADA.
1-905-994-8506.
[JWa, 5/06] said: "If you like sushi, you should come to Fort Erie and try Yukiguni 2. It's on Garrison Rd., across from a bingo hall. It's the only sushi I"ve tried, but I really enjoy it."
Yummy Thai.
92 Webster St.
(at Goundry St.),
City of North Tonawanda (Niagara County).
694-1763.
[RMT, 4/11] said: "Yummy Thai in Tonawanda is excellent! I've had the Pad Thai, Green Curry Chicken, and Basil Fired Rice—all were great. A couple friends tried the Yummy Cashew Nuts and Panang Curry and also said they were excellent."
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