Char, the upscale steakhouse located in the recently remodeled Strathallan Hotel, and as the name implies, is all about wood-fire charred goodies and especially their steaks. For the skim-reading steak fanatics who want to know whether or not the steak was good, I’ll get it out of the way first: Yes, it was. With that […]
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DINING REVIEW: Amore Italian Restaurant and Wine Bar
Dining in a restaurant housed within a grocery store — a store featuring an animatronic crowing rooster — is an odd sensation. In the span of a few minutes, you can move from dodging grocery carts in the parking lot, to walking by cupcakes decorated to resemble Cookie Monster and Elmo, to being asked if […]
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On the streets where you live
Monroe County is about as diverse a community as you can find: a mid-size city, rural areas with orchards and farm markets, suburbs with 20th-century tract houses and shopping malls, and quaint, Victorian villages. The Genesee River and the Erie Canal bisect the county, more or less vertically and diagonally, so geology and history are […]
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East meets Wegs
If Wegmans proceeds with its plans to double the size of its East Avenue store, only one thing seems to be certain: That section of East Avenue near Winton Road — generally considered the gateway to the East Avenue Preservation District — may change. Drastically. If some neighbors’ worst fears materialize, the north side […]
