The finals for Slice, Dice and Spice New York were held on October 25th at the New York Wine and Culinary Center in Canandaigua. The winner is Juniper’s Kate Elliott and her team of amateur participants. The top three chefs, Michael Bommelje of Warfield’s Restaurant in Clifton Springs, Nick Rada of Doc’s Seafood and Steakhouse in Canandaigua, and Kate Elliott were required to create a meal using “Market Basket” ingredients from the regions local farms and wineries. This was a snap for Elliott because that’s what she does on a daily basis in her newly opened Elmwood Avenue restaurant.Kate’s winning…
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Thanks to $70,000 in Buffalo Economic Renaissance (BERC) and $7,025 in CARE assistance for façade upgrades, Francesca’s Italian restaurant has officially opened at 2022 Seneca Street. “Along the way they dealt with a lot of frustration,” Mayor Brown said of the Marchione family, “and they’ve done a tremendous job on their establishment.” The project took a total of 2 1/2 years to complete, with Marchione doing most of the complete inside/outside renovation by himself.Jill Marchione cuts the ribbon. (Left to right: Legislator Tim Kennedy, Assemblyman Mark Schroeder, Mayor Byron Brown, Steve Marchione, Mary Anne Marchione, Jill Marchione, James Rutkowski.)A very…
There sure are a lot of October-related fests this weekend. And many of them feature plenty of beer. You really can’t lose.Thursday, October 22nd-Boys and Girls Club of Buffalo holds Lights on Afterschool!, a rally to call for an expansion of after-school activities so any child in need of one is represented. It will be one of 7,500 events taking place all over the country as part of the Afterschool Alliance’s quest to stop budget cuts and freezes in public schools. 4:30 PM. Boys and Girls Club of Buffalo headquarters, 325 Manhattan Avenue.-Mode Restaurant brings you fresh comedy hosted by…
Chefs are the best. For them, food is art, so they hone their craft by choosing the best ingredients and making dishes perfect. And then we eat it.Who doesn’t love that? As humans, we’re always looking for the “best,” and that’s the mission of Slice Dice+Spice NY: to find the best chef in New York state. They carefully selected nine chefs from Buffalo and the Finger Lakes to compete in a sort of “Iron Chef” style competition which took place on October 19th at the New York Wine and Culinary Center. Using three heats of three chefs each, judges determined…
The October issue of Metropolis magazine focuses a bit of attention on Buffalo and on the Martin House complex in particular. The magazine has some nice things to say about the City of Buffalo, and they also offer a philosophical question to ponder. Karrie Jacobs notes Buffalo’s glorious past and precipitous fall from grace, writing, “…the Buffalo I found when I finally made my first trip there this summer was a pretty and vibrant place.” She made her way around city and complimented the many restored buildings, took note of the “luxuriant back yards” of Garden Walk and praised the “extraordinary Western New…
It’s Halloween season again! You know what that means; it’s time to ingest a somewhat startling amount of horror. And while we all enjoy the classics, the Halloween series, Nightmare on Elm Street, Hellraiser, why not add a thoroughly Buffalo production to your gore collection?House of Horrors The Movie is just what you need. DVDs are available through the House of Horrors website and at the House of Horrors and Haunted Catacombs locations.Filming spanned from April to July 2009 at various locations in Buffalo and the House of Horrors in Cheektowaga, with local actors. Post-production wrapped up in September, just in…
Some of us group high school science class in with the darkest memories of our adolescent years. If you’re a member of that group, tomorrow’s Science and Art Cabaret is for you. That’s right, even if science was your kryptonite, tomorrow’s UB sponsored event will appeal to you! “Science is creative,” said Will Kinney, the UB professor responsible for the cabaret, “a lot of people forget that.”Kinney is a professor of cosmology, a discipline that studies our universe, including the Big Bang theory. Tomorrow’s event, set to take place at Asbury Hall 7 PM to 9 PM, will examine the…
As Buffalo prepares for the National Trust for Preservation conference in 2011 (and this is a big deal by the way), the the E.B. Green Society began thinking that Buffalo deserves to have an organization that promotes serious and rigorous study of our magnificent and nationally under-appreciated architectural heritage. The E. B. Green Society was started two years ago, when a small group of architecture enthusiasts started meeting informally on a monthly basis with little more than a desire to promote and protect the works of Buffalo’s greatest architect, E. B. Green. In that time they developed a real as well as a…
Image via WikipediaIt’s no secret that Buffalo’s waterfront has been a hot-button issue for, well, a long time now. Congressman Brian Higgins has been advocating revitalization in that area during his time in office, and many of us know that for Buffalo to continue the rebuilding process, the waterfront will need to be greatly improved. The B_Team and Buffalo Niagara 360, two local organizations comprised of young professionals with different methods for attaining the same goal of city revitalization, have teamed up to bring Congressman Higgins and their members together to talk about community involvement in waterfront development.This meeting spurred…
Toronto-based datacenter services company CentriLogic Inc. will make Buffalo its second U.S. office, they announced. The company plans on bringing 50-100 highly-skilled jobs to Buffalo over the next three years.CentriLogic opened their first US office in Rochester in 2007, and had been looking to expand. They will locate in the Main Place Tower. “Buffalo was appealing to us for many reasons,” said CentriLogic CEO Robert Offley, “from its highly-skilled workforce and accessibility to power and its proximity to Rochester and Toronto. With Buffalo on our map, it completes our Golden Horseshoe, helping us to deliver better services both within the…