Brooks Landing Diner is another example of an interesting blend of traditional diner favorites with Asian-inspired cuisine – in this case, Korean food. While the diner food is satisfying, it’s what’s not on the menu that makes this restaurant special.
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DINING REVIEW: Yummy Garden Hot Pot
Yummy Garden Hot Pot on West Henrietta Road allows you to customize your own soup, choosing between various broths, sauces, veggies, meats, and noodles. Just make sure not to overfill your pot.
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DINING REVIEW: Thai Time Cuisine
Tai Time Cuisine in Henrietta is just the warm answer you need for the cold Rochester winter. Pumpkin-basil curry, larb kai, Dad and Mom’s BBQ pork and chicken, and explosive som tum are all waiting to warm you (and your belly) up.
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DINING REVIEW: Baked and Carved
There are few things better than a really good sandwich. Haute cuisine and molecular gastronomy are all well and good, and sushi and ceviche surely have their proper place and time. But on a cold day in January, there are few things more satisfying to the soul than a well-composed sandwich and a bowl of […]
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DINING REVIEW: Acanthus Cafe
A few days before Christmas, my newborn dining companion and I were having lunch at Acanthus Café on East Avenue. She was having breast milk. I was enjoying an uber-fresh plate of chicken salad and a bowl of steaming hot mushroom soup while entertaining a hope that there might be massive brownies full of fudge […]
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DINING REVIEW: Grinnell’s
In the world of restaurants, a place is “old” when it manages to last a decade. At 20 years, people start calling it an “institution.” At 30, the word “beloved” is often bandied about. Almost no restaurant survives to the half-century mark, and those few that do have more often than not long since abandoned […]
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DINING REVIEW: Royal India
It is not Christmas at Royal India. Crouched on the edge of the commercial sprawl that is Henrietta, Royal India sits apart from the celebration of America’s No. 1 consumer holiday, an oasis in a desert of faux holiday cheer. Mommy is not kissing Santa Claus here. Nor is anyone bemoaning giving their heart away […]
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DINING REVIEW: Victoire
Rochester has needed a good Belgian beer bar for at least a decade — which, coincidentally, is almost exactly the amount of time that I’ve lived here. Despite the excellent beer bars and microbreweries that have bred like rabbits across the region in recent years, the lack of a true Belgian joint has been a […]
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DINING REVIEW: Good Smoke BBQ
Around this time of year, I tend to pull my dog-eared copy of H.P. Lovecraft’s collected stories off the shelf, looking for something to send a chill up my spine. The plot of every one of the old hack’s stories is the same: some deeply troubled soul trying to warn an unsuspecting world of the […]
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DINING REVIEW: Pleased to meat you
It’s a chilly Wednesday evening in early October. The sheds at the Rochester Public Market are vacant, a brisk wind chasing bits of paper and leaves around the wide-open space. On the edges of the market, warehouses, brooding ramparts of industrial-grey concrete and steel rolling doors, stand shuttered and dead under the glare of security […]
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CHOW HOUND: Fiamma, Finger Lakes Restaurant Week, and more
I watched Fiamma co-owner Giuseppe Paciullo slide his pizza-laden peel into a wood-burning oven aglow with flame, turned around to jot something down, then, less than a minute later, heard shocked noises coming from photographer Matt DeTurck: “It’s done!?” Forty-five seconds. That’s how long co-owner Robby Brockler says it takes for Fiamma’s Neapolitan pizza oven, […]
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DINING REVIEW: Thai Lao
Sweat breaks across my forehead. My eyes tear up. My nose is running. And I swear that my ears are ringing. I’ve only scooped one or two tangles of bright white rice noodles from the bowl of lava-red broth in front of me and I’m already in agony — the good kind of agony. The […]
