When Joe Frocchi and Eric Aubriot set out to open their new restaurant, The Vesper (1 Capron Street), they wanted to find a way to create elevated food, but still keep it fun. Aubriot, a James Beard Rising Star Award nominee, moved to Rochester after running his own restaurant, also named Aubriot, in Chicago. Frocchi […]
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Plum House Café continues the build-your-own trend
Mark Teng’s Rochester empire continues to expand with the opening of Plum House Café (274 North Goodman Street) in Village Gate. Teng already owns the original Plum House on Monroe Avenue, plus Furoshiki on Park Avenue, Plum House Express in Eastview Mall, and Revolution Karaoke on Jefferson Road. The new café is Teng’s take on […]
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Mad Hatter moves to new location and expands bakery
Mad Hatter Restaurant and Bakery, formerly known as Mad Hatter Tea Room and Café, has moved from its Webster location to the former French Quarter Café space at 176 South Goodman Street. The name and location are just a few of the changes that owner Kristina Dinino-Jeffords has made. The new location has enabled an […]
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Thai Mii Up may have just been fate
Linda Seng believes in fate. A week after her beloved grandfather passed away, he came to her in a dream and gave her some numbers. In Seng’s culture, numbers are important, and her family was shocked that she did not immediately go out and play those numbers in the lottery. Lo and behold, her father […]
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Stoneyard’s new location finds a good fit in Webster
By all accounts, the property at 1517 Empire Boulevard seemed to be prime real estate. Located at the top of the hill on Empire Boulevard and tucked between highly trafficked areas like Baytowne Plaza and the restaurants Bazil and MacGregor’s, it would seem an ideal location to open a restaurant. Over the years, however, at […]
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Nosh puts its emphasis on having the right team
When we walk away from a restaurant experience, more often than not, it’s what we didn’t like that is more memorable than what we did. John Nacca and Pete Lezeska are friends and business partners who found themselves having a meal together and discussing what they didn’t like about recent restaurant experiences — everything from […]
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Three Heads puts down roots in Neighborhood of the Arts
Three Heads Brewing was born out of a love of good people and good beer. Six years later, Three Heads opened its new brewery and tasting room in the Neighborhood of the Arts (186 Atlantic Avenue) based on that same philosophy. The “Grand Opening Weekend Spectacular” in June surpassed the expectations of everyone. “It was […]
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Stout continues the neighborhood bar tradition
The neighborhood watering hole has been immortalized in books, television, and film over and over again, from “Cheers” to “Trees Lounge.” The pub serves as a sort of community center: a place for neighbors to meet and talk about everything from local politics to how Aunt Helen got through her bypass surgery. The building at […]
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Crepe N’Go goes beyond Chinese stir-fry
Over the last few years, travel shows like “Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations” and “Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern” have tried to educate the public that sometimes some of the tastiest food you’ll ever have is from a street cart in Singapore, or is served at a small café in Malaysia. It’s with that spirit of […]
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Revamped sports bar opens in Corn Hill
If you walk into The Exchange at Corn Hill (251 Exchange Boulevard) thinking it will just be a take on Nathaniel’s Pub, the former occupant, only with new ownership, you would be mistaken. The space has undergone extensive renovations; managing partner Jeff Limuti is confident “you wouldn’t even recognize it.” Limuti — who also owns […]
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CoreLife Eatery makes clean eating simple
If you’re trying to follow a special diet, whether it’s Paleo, Weight Watchers, macrobiotic, microbiotic, symbiotic (okay, the last two aren’t real diet plans) going out to eat is a challenge. When ordering you might as well just say, “Can you strip this entrée of anything that gives it flavor?” The partners at CoreLife Eatery […]
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Brown Hound opens Memorial Art Gallery location
Trish Aser was doing the farm-to-table concept before we even started calling it “farm-to-table.” She opened the Brown Hound Bistro in 2005 in a small, century-old Bristol house, and began sourcing all of her ingredients locally, taking advantage of the many farms and businesses in the area. The restaurant was a success and the whole […]
