Buffalo New York
Even if you have eaten the great roast beef sandwiches served at Al's #1 Italian Beef in Chicago, Mother's in New Orleans, and Philippe the Original in Los Angeles,...
Buffalo is known to everyone as the home of wings; debates about which tavern serves the best are never-ending; the fact remains that Buffalo’s best wings are authoritative and, we dare say, better than wings anywhere else. A lesser-known favorite local dish is beef on weck; here, too, enough taverns make excellent versions of the hot roast beef sandwich on a caraway seed-and-salt spangled roll that lively discussions ensue about where’s the best. Buffalo’s charcoal-cooked hot dogs are a culture unto themselves. Beyond such savories, the Nickel City happens to be the best place in the country to eat ice cream and chocolate. Family-run sweet shops, large and small, temper cocoa butter, whip up marshmallow sauce from scratch and create unique signature candies. In the capital of what local chocolatier Dean Tassy refers to as The Sponge Belt (Syracuse to Erie), sponge candy is only one chocolate grail among such pieces de resistance as cashew-crowded Charlie Chaplin logs, creamy-crunchy stolen havens, molasses pops, nut barks, and non pareils. Nearly all of the city’s destination candy stores also host ice cream parlors that serve the most aristocratic sundaes, which western New Yorkers know as frappes.
Even if you have eaten the great roast beef sandwiches served at Al's #1 Italian Beef in Chicago, Mother's in New Orleans, and Philippe the Original in Los Angeles,...
New York Road Trip: Watertown to Niagara Falls This tour will take you on a five and a half hour drive along America’s Great Lakes Seaway Trail. Beginning in Watertown,...
Unique Regional Dishes After 40 years and 5 million miles spent on the road looking for America's best regional food, we've assembled a list of the quintessential, must-eat food in...
Twelve champion chocolatiers, from the Oregon coast to downeast Maine.
Of the many eating tours Roadfood.com has sponsored to delicious destinations around the U.S., one of the happiest was a restaurant crawl through Rochester and Buffalo, New York. Here...
There's no point getting into a flame war over which American hot dog is best. It's impossible, because the nation's hot dogs are so diverse. However, we will go...
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From the German word "kummel," meaning caraway seed, and weck, meaning roll, a kummelweck, or simply "weck,"resembles a Kaiser roll. But bakers crown it with a mantle of seeds...
Everybody knows Buffalo for its chicken wings. Many love its beef on weck. To that formidable duo, add candy. No city has more compelling sweet shops. Family-run confectioners, large...