Looking for a New Year’s Eve nosh without the black-tie? Get your last supper of the year at one of these spots.
Rocco
Rochester Cocktail Revival moves forward despite unrest and coronavirus
Rochester Cocktail Revival and its director Chuck Cerankosky forge ahead with a “low-proof version” of the annual event.
The essentials
Ten restaurants that define Rochester’s dining scene Rochester’s culinary community has developed into a dynamic scene over the last 10 years. It may be impossible to fully define, but City Newspaper’s dining staff has set out to describe the area’s food landscape through its first list of 10 essential Rochester restaurants. This isn’t a traditional […]
DINING REVIEW: Osteria Rocco
In a few months, winter will be a fading memory. The cold, biting winds will be replaced with gentle spring breezes; snow will have melted and made way for verdant grass; shoes will be stained with mud, not sidewalk salt. Until the thaw, I won’t mind warming my bones and spirit at Osteria Rocco, the […]
ROUND UP: The ground round
As much as we may not want to admit it, Rochester is pretty well known for its meats. We have the Garbage Plate (can’t escape that one), white hots, BBQ joints, and pretty decent chicken wings. But the city is not typically known for its meatballs — but maybe it should be. From traditional Italian-style […]
DISH ’12: Unique local dishes
Sometimes, when I’m enjoying an especially tasty restaurant meal, or munching on some homemade candy, or even just scraping the vegetal goodness from a simple steamed artichoke, my thoughts will wander from what’s happening in my mouth and I’ll find myself once again floored by the minor miracle that is cooking. Who first looked at […]
ANNUAL MANUAL ’10: Eating Around the World
[ DINING ] BY SUSIE HUME With budgets tighter than ever, it’s unlikely that most of us will be filling our passports with too many new international stamps this year. And yet, if you’ve long been wanting to travel the globe to experience new cultures and — more importantly to this writer — new cuisines, […]






