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October 13, 2025 at 4:05 PM
& a little game of beef on weck fun facts (a mere sliver of the sandwich’s treasure chest of fun facts) www.instagram.com/reel/DPwUaZY...
And a Q&A with the anthropologist who founded the Beef on Weck Appreciation Society, which has 25,000 members and a mission to “endorse the expansion of weck.” buffalonews.com/life-enterta...
He runs a Facebook group of 25,000 beef on weck fans. Here's what he thinks of the sandwich
An anthropologist started the Beef on Weck Appreciation Society as an experiment. Seventeen years later, here's what he's learned about the sandwich.
buffalonews.com
October 13, 2025 at 4:05 PM
And a Q&A with the anthropologist who founded the Beef on Weck Appreciation Society, which has 25,000 members and a mission to “endorse the expansion of weck.” buffalonews.com/life-enterta...
How 25 million pizza logs a year are made in Niagara County: buffalonews.com/life-enterta...
How 25 million pizza logs a year are made in Niagara County
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.
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August 31, 2025 at 4:09 PM
How 25 million pizza logs a year are made in Niagara County: buffalonews.com/life-enterta...
A look at how 5 immigrants have redefined Buffalo’s restaurant scene: buffalonews.com/life-enterta...
A look at how 5 immigrants have redefined Buffalo’s restaurant scene
Several waves of immigrants and refugees have been redefining local food. Foods that were nonexistent in Buffalo are now served in several neighborhoods.
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August 31, 2025 at 4:09 PM
A look at how 5 immigrants have redefined Buffalo’s restaurant scene: buffalonews.com/life-enterta...
After making it everywhere, Wingstop restaurants come to Buffalo. Can they make it here? buffalonews.com/life-enterta...
After making it everywhere, Wingstop restaurants come to Buffalo. Can they make it here?
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.
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August 31, 2025 at 4:09 PM
After making it everywhere, Wingstop restaurants come to Buffalo. Can they make it here? buffalonews.com/life-enterta...
Pop-up Mexican bakery Colibrí Panadería brings conchas to city: buffalonews.com/life-enterta...
This week in Buffalo food: Pop-up Mexican bakery Colibrí Panadería brings conchas to city
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.
buffalonews.com
August 31, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Pop-up Mexican bakery Colibrí Panadería brings conchas to city: buffalonews.com/life-enterta...
Maine lobster rolls come to Lake Ontario at new seasonal restaurant: buffalonews.com/life-enterta...
This week in Buffalo food: Maine lobster rolls come to Lake Ontario at new seasonal restaurant
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
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August 31, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Maine lobster rolls come to Lake Ontario at new seasonal restaurant: buffalonews.com/life-enterta...
'It takes some pioneers': New wave of food and drink openings build on Niagara Street’s momentum buffalonews.com/life-enterta...
'It takes some pioneers': New wave of food and drink openings build on Niagara Street’s momentum
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...
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August 31, 2025 at 4:09 PM
'It takes some pioneers': New wave of food and drink openings build on Niagara Street’s momentum buffalonews.com/life-enterta...
From butter lambs to pizza logs: The appeal – and potential – of Buffalo’s lesser-known regional foods buffalonews.com/life-enterta...
From butter lambs to pizza logs: The appeal – and potential – of Buffalo’s lesser-known regional foods
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?
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August 31, 2025 at 4:09 PM
From butter lambs to pizza logs: The appeal – and potential – of Buffalo’s lesser-known regional foods buffalonews.com/life-enterta...
‘There’s more of a hunker-down mentality’: WNY farms worry about ICE raids buffalonews.com/news/local/a...
‘There’s more of a hunker-down mentality’: WNY farms worry about ICE raids
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...
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August 31, 2025 at 4:09 PM
‘There’s more of a hunker-down mentality’: WNY farms worry about ICE raids buffalonews.com/news/local/a...
'CHICKEN WING!': Behind the scenes of the maybe somewhat rigged Bisons food mascot race: buffalonews.com/life-enterta...
'CHICKEN WING!': Behind the scenes of the maybe somewhat rigged Bisons food mascot race. (Spoiler alert: I won)
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.
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August 31, 2025 at 4:09 PM
'CHICKEN WING!': Behind the scenes of the maybe somewhat rigged Bisons food mascot race: buffalonews.com/life-enterta...
'There’s mad fashion shows here': Buffalo's fashion scene is underground, but bubbling up: buffalonews.com/life-enterta...
'There’s mad fashion shows here': Buffalo's fashion scene is underground, but bubbling up
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
buffalonews.com
August 31, 2025 at 4:09 PM
'There’s mad fashion shows here': Buffalo's fashion scene is underground, but bubbling up: buffalonews.com/life-enterta...
The Anchor Bar's chicken wing origin story is well known. It also can't be true: buffalonews.com/life-enterta...
The Anchor Bar's chicken wing origin story is well known. It also can't be true
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 ...
buffalonews.com
August 31, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The Anchor Bar's chicken wing origin story is well known. It also can't be true: buffalonews.com/life-enterta...