Paul Vroman is the co-owner and chef of East Main Street’s new Italian restaurant Aunt Rosie’s, located in the recent former home of Max Sushi & Noodles, and right before that Duck Soupe. Truly, there are few people with whom I enjoy dishing about food and the Rochester dining scene more than the informed Vroman, […]
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Cheap Eats 2013
Would you like to get all gussied up and treat yourself to an expensive gastronomic feast, complete with wine pairings and decadent, show-stopping desserts? If so, you can take your top hat and monocle elsewhere. This rundown of Rochester’s cheap eats is for hungry people who don’t carry their money around in sacks with dollar […]
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DINING REVIEW: Bamba Bistro
I write about restaurants and I work in a restaurant, so it should come as no shock that most of my conversations with others (and, if I’m being truthful, with myself) revolve around the local dining scene. Earlier this year, I became kind of obsessed with Bamba Bistro, located in a little brick castle on […]
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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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DINING REVIEW: Pomodoro Grill and Wine Bar
On the surface, Pomodoro Grill and Wine Bar in Pittsford appears to have little in common with its older sister establishment in Rochester. The original Pomodoro, which opened in 1994, occupies the rear of a former sawmill factory on an otherwise restaurant-free stretch of University Avenue. Freight and passenger trains rumble by occasionally on the […]
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Jazz Italian style
The jam session at the Rochester International Jazz Festival was just heating up one night last June when a man with a tenor saxophone stepped on stage to join the Bob Sneider Trio on “Stella by Starlight.” I was skeptical. He looked more like a businessman than a performer. But when he put the […]
