Dining in Buffalo, New York

There's great Italian, Korean, Thai, Mandarin, Greek, Polish, French,cheap, expensive...and of course wings and weck all over the place.
 Where & when will you be here - I'll e  you my favs - with directions and approx. prices PJ Misso, Gracie, the demure Lady Neo; Ripper, the Old English Neapolitan :>) ; Cass, the howler, and too many cats to mention.... SUPPORT  PUREBREED RESCUE!
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NNTP-Posting-User: rmccaw
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Someone wrote:

> Any suggestions for weekend dining (breakfast, lunch, dinner) in Buffalo??
> Thanks.
>

  Do you have anything specific in mind? If you have any special cuisines
  or price ranges or other interests, let me know and I'll do what I can.

  My favorite restaurants in Buffalo are:

      * Kuni's (Elmwood Ave. near Cleveland). This is a tiny Japanese
      restaurant and sushi bar, and it's really crowded on weekends
      (call ahead for reservations), but it has great sushi. Outdoor
      seating is available in good weather. I haven't tried the non-
      sushi menu, but there is an array of teriyakis, salads, etc.

      *Just Pasta (Bryant, betw. Elmwood and Ashland). This is a very
      good and very popular fusion cuisine restaurant. I've had many
      good pasta dishes as well as many other tasty items, such as
      lime-coconut shrimp. I've only had one dessert there, but people
      tend to praise their desserts a great deal.

      *Saigon Bangkok (Niagara Fall Boulevard, between Kenmore and
      Sheridan Aves.) I've enjoyed everything I've eaten here.
      The spring rolls are deliciously crunchy and subtle, the summer
      rolls are chewy and minty. The coconut chicken soup is tangy
      and spicy. Thai and Vietnamese dishes are served here, and
      the staff will spice your food to your specifications.

      *Jasmine I (Maple and Niagara Falls Blvd.) and Jasmine II
      (Union Road in Cheektowaga, I think) These are Thai restaur-
      ants, and I'm not sure if they are owned by the same people;
      their menus differ a good deal. I was most recently in Jasmine
      II, and I had an outstanding chicken coconut soup. The basil
      pork and the peanut chicken were very tasty, though not spicy
      enough.

      *Taste of India (Northtown Plaza, nr. Maple and Sheridan)
      Very tasty pan-Indian food here. The chicken rogan josh is
      great, the samosas are plump and delicately spiced. Like
      the other Indian restaurants I've been to in Bflo, TOI is
      not strong in regional specialties like masala dosa, etc.,
      and you don't get the array of side dishes and chutneys so
      popular in restaurants in larger cities.

      There are a lot of places in Buffalo for different kinds of
      meals. The Italian-American thing is BIG in Buffalo, so if
      you like pasta, pizza, and wings, you're in for a treat.

      For some other ideas on food in Buffalo, Prof. Rapaport at
      SUNY Buffalo has a web page with a very extensive review of
      Buffalo restaurants. I don't remember the exact URL for his
      review, but a lycos/yahoo search with keywords BUFFALO and
      RAPAPORT should yield it. Otherwise, enter www.buffalo.edu
      and do a search from there.

      Good luck!

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NNTP-Posting-User: rmccaw
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 An addendum to my first reply....

      I found the URL for Bill Rapaport's restaurant guide of
 Buffalo:

      http://www.cs.buffalo.edu/pub/WWW/restaurant.guide

 What I like most about this guide is that it incorporates comments
 from other reviews (newspapers, magazines, etc.). As you will see,
 Rapaport hasn't been to most of the restaurants listed, so don't
 see the absence of news as bad news. And his ratings-- like anyone's--
 can be contested, so if you see places you like on the list, ask
 around about them. You may even try asking about particular places
 on this forum, just to get some feedback.

 I don't know when you plan on coming to Buffalo, but within the next
 two months, the city's principal alternative periodical will publish
 results from the readers' surveys of restaurants. There may already
 be some information about this on www.artvoice.com.

 Again, good luck!

Someone wrote:

> Any suggestions for weekend dining (breakfast, lunch, dinner) in Buffalo??
> Thanks.
>
>
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 \  /  R. John McCaw  *  Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
  \/   State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York 14260

We ate at a great restaurant in Buffalo called Billy Ogden's. Looks like an old diner from the outside, kind of in an unusal neighborhood, but terrific food. From what I understand, the Bills go there a lot after football games. I'm not familiar with Buffalo enough to give you directions, ask a local!