Famous Doughnuts is closing after 87 years. The 99-year-old D&L Bakery and 68-year-old German Wolter’s Bakery also closed this year. What does the community lose when its oldest bakeries close?

Buffalo’s diner scene, despite the fact that diners are often mobbed for breakfast, is shrinking. The reasons are numerous and predictable, mostly boiling down to the diner’s late stage in a trend’s l...

Restaurant Pearl Morissette has two Michelin stars and was recently ranked the best restaurant in Canada. It's also just 45 minutes from Buffalo. Read about our experience.

The path to a Michelin star does not begin in the kitchen. It begins with a tourism board paying for Michelin to visit its region.

Elm Street Bakery broke the unspoken restaurant rule – no politics – this year to organize political, nonpartisan events. “It’s brave to get involved in this conversation."

Michael Mararian, aka Polyester Bakes, is competing on Gordon Ramsay's holiday-themed TV show "Next Level Baker." He’s a natural fit for TV, even if he doesn’t consider himself a baker.

Restaurant Pearl Morissette has two Michelin stars and was recently ranked the best restaurant in Canada. It's also just 45 minutes from Buffalo. Read about our experience.

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An anthropologist started the Beef on Weck Appreciation Society as an experiment. Seventeen years later, here's what he's learned about the sandwich.

Instead of joining the graveyard of extinct regional fare, the beef on weck became relevant again in a changing world. With nostalgia as its gimmick, it reminds Buffalonians of their past and reminds ...

The folk singer said she “can’t wait” to see what a revitalized downtown and new immigrant populations have done for the city.

Go behind the scenes at the pizza logs factory in Sanborn to see how one of the region's most popular culinary exports is made.

Several waves of immigrants and refugees have been redefining local food. Foods that were nonexistent in Buffalo are now served in several neighborhoods.

For 31 years, Wingstop has brought its Texas-born Buffalo-style wings to places in need (of chicken wings). But this year, Wingstop entered the birthplace of the chicken wing.

Emily Gonzalez feels like a hummingbird, transporting a small and edible piece of home to a new place. Her bakery name, Colibrí, is Spanish for hummingbird.

A lobster roll restaurant opened this month in Olcott along Lake Ontario. Owner Michelle Pozantides imports the lobster from Maine, double-toasts the brioche roll and makes her own clarified butter

Unlike downtown Buffalo, which saw its food and drink renaissance of the 2010s freeze during Covid, the midsection of Niagara Street has experienced a new wave of bars and restaurants. The momentum ha...

Buffalo has at least three local foods that aren't nearly as popular throughout most of the country: pizza logs, butter lambs and Tom and Jerry cocktails. But could they be ready for national stardom?

The Trump administration’s intensified immigration raids and arrests have shaken the local agricultural community, which is dependent on migrant labor. “No farm would survive without them," said a Wes...

A Buffalo News reporter donned a Bleu Cheese mascot uniform to go behind the scenes of a Bisons game and learn about the team's most delicious between-inning entertainment.

Buffalo's fashion scene is "underground," but bubbling up. Local designers are turning fashion into a full-time job − or trying to. They are carving out an industry by throwing runway

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. In 1964, Teressa Bellissimo created the chicken wing. But the story that has become part of local folklore and told all around the world can't ...

Buffalonians have acquired a taste for blue cheese that the rest of the country doesn't understand. We explored blue cheese's local history, appeal, variations and why some still choose ranch.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. In 1964, Teressa Bellissimo created the chicken wing. But the story that has become part of local folklore and told all around the world can't ...

The Buffalo News has been covering Buffalo Bills training camp since the team's inception. As a new season kicks off, click on the link below to read a few highlights plucked from 65 years of coverage...

Things you might see at Flow Jam: a man juggling flaming torches on top of a circus ball, a fire breather and people dancing with the gusto of “Seinfeld’s” Elaine.

Buttered popcorn and fountain soda are a mere canvas. From there, POPularity! adds sauces, spices, cookies and chips to its "loaded" popcorns, and syrups and purees to its "dirty" sodas.

Robabeh Ghorbanzadeh and Arman Naeemi, immigrants from Afghanistan, recently opened Saffron Kitchen (1786 Main St.), which serves a tight menu of Afghan and Persian food for lunch and dinner.

A Lao-Thai restaurant and soul food restaurant join the lineup of immigrant-run food kiosks serving up a culinary trip around the world at the West Side Bazaar.

It was the humble hamburger amid the sea of fancy food at the new Fairbanks restaurant inside Lewiston’s Frontier House that brought the most delight. It felt like a wink.

“The effort to bring patrons downtown to reignite that enthusiasm for their hometown is still kind of our core mission,” said Matthew Reis, chair of this year’s Taste of Buffalo.

Unlike downtown Buffalo, which saw its food and drink renaissance of the 2010s freeze during Covid, the midsection of Niagara Street has experienced a new wave of bars and restaurants. The momentum ha...

Andrew Smiedala has brought his sandwiches closer to the Buffalo metro area with a new Tortuga Sandwich Shop location in Kenmore.

Go behind the scenes at the pizza logs factory in Sanborn to see how one of the region's most popular culinary exports is made.

Afghan immigrant Shah Khuramzai opened a new sit-down and takeout restaurant, Shah's Food Afghan Restaurant in Amherst. The menu centers around mild chicken and lamb, cooked with few spices.

"[We] just wanted to have a vegetable-forward, more approachable for a lot of people who aren't familiar with vegan food," said co-owner Caitlin Lanigan about new vegan cafe, Sevens.

Buffalo’s food scene is on full display during the summer. Mark your calendar with the following food-heavy festivals.

With warm temperatures and sunny days comes a fresh crop of patios. Here are seven new al fresco dining options to check out before fall's return.

Chef Dale Holt has stirred all of his passions − cooking, teaching, jazz and building community − together at his new restaurant, Manna @ Main.

For 31 years, Wingstop has brought its Texas-born Buffalo-style wings to places in need (of chicken wings). But this year, Wingstop entered the birthplace of the chicken wing.

Community Beer Works and Thin Man Brewery are opening a new taproom and brewery on Chandler Street later this summer.

"It's just having the access to it," said Khadedra Brown, who recently opened a salad bar in the East Side's Masten Park neighborhood.

A lobster roll restaurant opened this month in Olcott along Lake Ontario. Owner Michelle Pozantides imports the lobster from Maine, double-toasts the brioche roll and makes her own clarified butter

The Trump administration’s intensified immigration raids and arrests have shaken the local agricultural community, which is dependent on migrant labor. “No farm would survive without them," said a Wes...

A culetto is a type of Italian sandwich that Nando Silenzi's family has been making for at least 150 years. Silenzi has built a new fast-casual restaurant around the sandwich.

The Trump administration’s intensified immigration raids and arrests have shaken the local agricultural community, which is dependent on migrant labor. “No farm would survive without them," said a Wes...

The Trump administration’s intensified immigration raids and arrests have shaken the local agricultural community, which is dependent on migrant labor. “No farm would survive without them," said a Wes...

A Buffalo News reporter donned a Bleu Cheese mascot uniform to go behind the scenes of a Bisons game and learn about the team's most delicious between-inning entertainment.

Buffalo News reporter Francesca Bond went bobbing for wings in a kiddie pool of blue cheese dressing on a stage in front of around 100 strangers, photographers, videographers and her fiance during a c...