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Forno Tony

Forno Tony is a Italian bakery and pizzeria. The pizzas are made with a high-hydration dough and served in 2 forms; 1) The oblong free-form pizza alla pala is named after the long paddle used to get it in and out of the oven. That is topped either with olive oil (pizza bianca), a simple tomato sauce (pizza rossa), tomato sauce and cheese (pizza rossa with mozzarella) or filled with mortadella (pizza bianca with mortadella); 2) Pizza in teglia is baked in a rectangular steel pans; they are available topped with zucchini (pizza con zucchine) or potato (pizza con patate), both drizzled with olive oil. Bakery items include maritozzi, cloudlike brioche buns filled with a lightly sweetened whipped cream. Other variations include Nutella, pistachio and marmalade. Opened October 15, 2022. Operating only on Saturdays in the small shopping center at Winton and East, they were soon drawing large crowds that overwhelmed the other businesses there. In mid-November they were asked to relocate and are currently looking for a new location.1. New location opened on December 30, 2023.

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Ming's Noodles

Ming's Noodle on South Clinton 04-2008 Kelly Shi fluffs a pot of rice, 2005, by John Lam From the outside, Ming's looks like just another small Chinese take-out, except at dinnertime, when the kitchen hops, and aromas permeate the neighborhood, whetting a giant appetite. Once inside, Chef Ming and Chicken Wing cook food Cantonese style as tasty as anyone can in Rochester. Granted, though quite yummy and nutritious, it's not authentic Cantonese food, not even necessarily healthful food, just Cantonese-style fast food. Given his supply chain and his customers, like for most restaurants, a seasonal menu with authentic ingredients comes hard. Ming merely tries to make a living, not to educate his clientele. The menu includes plenty of noodles, either in soup or pan-fried, including soba (buckwheat) and two bean-based noodles introduced last year, but also includes Teriyaki and other specialties Ming likes to make, along with standard Cantonese-American dinner entrees. Five tables of two, combinable for larger groups, provide space for eat-in dining, and often fill up at dinnertime. They take no reservations, but rarely does waiting take long, and the take-out counter flows with steady bustle of orders. Ming's was voted "Best Chinese Restaurant" in City Newspaper's Best Of Awards in 2006.1 Note that their website was done by an outside company and then they switched away from using that outside company for deliveries. So if you go to their old website, it redirects you to Yummy Garden. The website listed above http://www.mingsnoodle.com/ is up to date.

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Bayside Pub

Photo Aug 2008 - BradMandell Photo Aug 2008 - BradMandell Bayside Pub is a local cash only waterfront restaurant/bar located right on Irondequoit Bay in Webster, NY. You can dock your boat right out front. Every Wed night is BBQ night but get there early! They offer a full menu of sandwiches and salads and of course BBQ. Live bands on Sat nights. Tom and Anna Maria Ban and brother Robert Buono have owned and operated The Bayside Pub since 1996. ... built in 1950 as a small walk up hot dog stand called Peg's Hots ... late 60's early 70's ... was The Clam Shack. ... late 70's to the early 80's ... {became} Jack Daniels ... late 80's when Jack Daniels was converted into The Bayside Pub.2 Directly across from the Pub is the small Sandbar Park operated by the Town of Webster that offers a great vantage point for enjoying the sunset.

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Red Osier

Red Osier is a brand of roast beef local to the Rochester area. It is can be found served in hot sandwiches on the street or at festivals. It can also be bought cold from the deli at Wegman's. There is a concession stand at Frontier Field. The stand at Blue Cross Arena has closed due to poor attendance at recent sporting events. There is a Red Osier Landmark Restaurant in the town of Stafford, near Batavia. On May 2, 2012, it opened Red Osier Metro Cafe in the lower level of the Monroe County Office Building. There is Red Osier Catering located in Maplewood near Eastman Business Park.

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Nutcracker Family Restaurant

Photo - BradMandell Mar 2009 Photo - BradMandell Mar 2009 Nutcracker Family Restuarant is a family-style restaurant on Empire Boulevard in Webster. Nutcracker has a full menu including some Greek specialties. Nutcracker is a popular local diner where folks come for coffee, dessert, or a full meal. Usually busy on Sunday morning for breakfast and lunch crowd. It is owned by Bill Trakosis. United Church of Christ of Webster's Rockers meet here on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month. Nutcracker is a sponsor of the Rochester Greek Festival. History The restaurant was opened in 1978 by Danny Manaou and was called Danny's Tip-Top Restaurant.

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Danforth Dining Center

The Danforth Dining Center provides convenient dining for freshman living in the Susan B. Anthony Residence Hall at the University of Rochester. It was renovated over summer 2011, debuting in the fall with a new appearance and a few new stations. Meals are provided "all-you-care-to-eat" buffet style. Offerings include pizza, pasta, "home meals," "Asian" stir fry, a new vegan station, and a grill. Niceties include waffle machines (which automatically stamp your food with a likeness of URBee) and a soft-serve machine that only works sometimes.

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Fuego Coffee Roasters

Indoor sign Original location on Liberty Pole Way. Fuego Coffee Roasters is a Third Wave coffeehouse in the Washington Square Neighborhood downtown. Fuego roasts their own beans and offers direct trade coffees from all over the world. Their coffee may also be purchased at Cafe Sasso, The Red Fern and other area businesses, and seasonally at the Brighton Farmer's Market. Online shopping is available via their website. Fuego also serves as a small art gallery that participates in First Friday, featuring work from local artists on a rotating basis. Fuego Coffee Roasters opened on June 28, 2013. Owners Tony and Renee Colon were longtime employees of Java's Cafe. In 2016 Tony made the prestigious US Coffee Championships qualifying event in Kansas City. On June 24 2016 they moved from their original location on Liberty Pole Way to a larger space on Euclid Street. On November 5, 2018 they moved again to a larger space in Woodbury Place. See Also Connections: Tony And Renee Colon Of Fuego Coffee Roasters - WXXI (2016-04-03) Hometown coffee heroes compete in U.S. barista qualifiers - Boomtown Table (2016-02-01) Rochesterians doing great things behind the scenes - City Newspaper (2015-12-30) LOCAL // FUEGO COFFEE ROASTERS - The Merrythought (2013-09-27) Fuego Coffee Roasters: bringin' the heat to Center City - The Rochesteriat (2013-08-18)

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Pittsford Dairy

The New Building, May 2012 The Pittsford Dairy It wouldn't be a dairy without a cow (by Flickr user bgolub license info) Pittsford Dairy (AKA Pittsford Farms Dairy) is a little locally owned dairy, right near the center of Pittsford, (behind Schoen Place). Freshest and creamiest chocolate milk in town. Produced by regional dairy cows. Also, the source of the best ever mass produced egg nog (which is also sold at Wegmans during the holiday season). They also sell grocery items such as local baked goods (from Flour City Bread), their house churned ice cream and butter, specialty sodas and other produce. Their milk can be bought in other places around town but the best selection is at the Dairy. In the spring of 2010, Pittsford Dairy began construction of a new building on the North side of their current site. The owner reports that the new building will provide a new retail front-end, and is expected to be completed by spring of 2011. Notes and References D&C Article about the history of Powers Farm Market and Pittsford Dairy. A Food Experience article raving about the cream and the dairy in general A November 29, 2008 RNews report indicates they now accept credit cards. Finding Abundance in Everday Life - artcle on BlogSpot The Way We Were on RochesterCityNewspaper.com Videos 2008 YouTube video interview with the owner

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Lento

Lento entrance off the courtyard, 8-2008 Lento interior, 9-2008 Lento is a casual fine dining restaurant in the Neighborhood of the Arts that focuses on farm to table, local, seasonal and sustainable food. The menu changes daily based on what is in season and can be had from area farms. With the vast wealth of farms around Rochester and the Finger Lakes region, Executive Chef and Owner Arthur Rogers has developed relationships with farmers who share his vision. Parking is available after 5pm across the street at the Rochester Works building, additional parking is available in the various Village Gate lots. The restaurant opened June of 2007. They are located in the Village Gate complex.

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J & D's Biker Leather

J & D's Biker Leather, also known as J And D's Biker Leather And Accessories is the starting point for the Sixth Annual Dice Run to benefit the Special Needs Trust Fund of Jared Wright (11 Year old boy with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy - DMD - see references below) Sunday July 18, 2010 Registration 9:30-11:30AM First Bike Out 11:30AM $20 Donation Per Bike $15 Donation Per Passenger $15 Donation for non-riders at the door Ends at Tommy's Mulberry Street LLC, 191 Lee Road, Rochester, NY 14606-5545 - 585-647-9750 - an Italian Restaurant For more info call 585-235-3377 - Pig Roast Fun & Music 4 Pm, Raffles 5 PM. - This info from a flyer printed by Professional Instant Press - was asked to distribute the info. - (JG) see also References Biker Plaza Web Page on this event University of Rochester Medical Center Story more in Google

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Little Cafe

Little Cafe Entrance 2-2008 The Little Cafe is a small cafe tucked into the Little Theatre complex facing Winthrop Street, behind the main theater. In addition to a variety of dessert selections, the cafe features a menu of soups, salads and light entrees, with a number of vegetarian alternatives. Beer from Custom Brewcrafters is available on tap, as well as a small selection of wines and coffee drinks. The cafe features frequent live jazz - almost daily from September through June featuring music by Lumiere, Margaret Explosion, Trio East, Steve Greene & the White Hots, Paul Hoffman and Maria Gillard Band. There's also an art exhibit that changes regularly. The website has details on both music and art in the cafe. You can visit the cafe without buying a ticket at the Little. This cafe does have Wifi

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Calabresella Importers of Italian & Greek food

Calabresella - photo by DarrenKemp Calabresella is a specialty grocery store/deli in Gates. They offer hot and cold sandwiches made to order and many Italian and Greek imported foods. They also offer a large selection of local to Rochester products such as Zweigles, Country Sweet, Dinosaur Bar-B-Que and many more. Their website allows out of towners and former Rochesterians to order local goods and have them shipped. On May 29, 2019, they opened a second location on Park Avenue in the old Great Harvest Bread Company location. On September 19, 2019, they opened a Third location in Fairport.

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Brandani

Try the calzone pizza- ricotta and ham, no sauce. Mmm-hmm. They do tend to have strange hours and are closed mid afternoon. Check for a coupon on the D&C web site. Romeo, Carol, Frank and Pia welcome you! Their pizza is delicious!! I have had a few different kinds, and there is no stand out, they are all very good. Their crust is delicious, nice and thick, but still doughy and soft. It's perfect! I suggest skipping single slice orders - they are not as good. Their hours are tricky, and I have driven there several times, only to find that they were closed. They are open later on Super Bowl Sunday, of course. — Order yourself a white pizza with sausage and garlic. They use homemade sausage and fresh slices of garlic for a pizza that will knock you out in flavor and potency. — HUGE pizza slices. I had a pepperoni slice and it was delicious and filling. The sweet and sour wings are made with sauce. Mmmmm! —

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King Of Rochester

The King of Rochester Media group was based in Rochester NY, and was devoted to bringing the amazing little city of Rochester closer together. It focused on creating stronger bonds and networking connections through many different organizations and specific individuals. While Technically there was no real "King" the name is in truth a figurative symbolic title to someone who will pull the troops together and unite them in a common goal to see the Amazing city of Rochester Grow. (Though often the "King" title gets Placed on the Person who created the group and is seen all over the city of Rochester). The group been in existence since Jan 2004, and the members have been expanding since then. The site contained forums for those in the city to speak/write to one another, a place for local bands to post about their upincoming shows (as well as forums for each so people can learn more about the bands themselves). A community Calendar that is editable that informs it's members of coming events. It allows you to connect your genres of interests and hobbies to help network and create friendships all around the Rochester (and surrounding Areas). It was approximately 10 people working on this project from Writers, Artists, Programmers, Photographer, Musicians, and just generally cool folks. FREE BumperStickers and Shirts were given out at KoR organized gatherings, parties, and music events. They are given out by "the Kings Jesters" who are a bunch of fun people just helping out for free music, food, drinks. The Staff consisted of: Restaurant/Bar Reviewer: Music Reviewer Local Political NightLife Specialist Photographer Programmer Artist PR Schmoozehound. And many other amazing individuals that take time out of their busy days to help improve the world around them. Since the server is down and the mail is also down, if you wish to contact King of Rochester Group you will need to use their backup email account: <kingofrochester AT excite DOT com> They were accepting resumes of creative individuals willing to help out the cause. They are in dire need of a new Web Developer and IT person to help with the Site as the previous one has left rochester due to loss of work. 1Outdated - not active since 20072Inactive since Aug 2007

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Beale Street Cafe

Beale Street Cafe, 4-2008 They changed their name to The Beale in November 2011. See 2011/Closings. Beale Street Cafe was a restaurant with two locations in the area. The South Avenue restaurant was at the intersection with Gregory Street, (Live Map) a block from Lux. There's a pizza place right across the street if you're drunk and need an inexpensive bit of food. The Penfield restaurant (Webster zip code) was just north on Empire Boulevard from Baytowne Plaza. Good atmosphere, live blues on weekends, and for some reason the serve N'awlins style food but name the restaurant after a Memphis street? On the plus side, they serve crawdads. Beale Street was awarded the Democrat & Chronicle's Rochester's Choice Award for "Cajun" in 2007.1

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LDR Char Pit

LDR Char Pit, Lake Ave, Rochester NY LDR Char Pit was a restaurant on Lake Avenue that opened in 1945 and is named after the initials of the founder's three children. A roadfood.com review by Stephen Rushmore, Jr. features pictures of the famed steak sandwich and describes the sandwich as a grilled single slice of beef (as opposed to the steak sandwich available elsewhere consisting of shaved beef cooked on a griddle.) The sandwich is "a seasoned, lean steak sandwich that is so tender that adding condiments would only downgrade the experience." The reviewer gave LDR Char Pit 10/10 for visiting again, 10/10 for food, 9/10 for atmosphere, and said that it is worth driving up to 60 miles to get there. Photos

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Chester Cab Pizza

Chester Cab Pizza is a local pizzeria located on Park Avenue at Buckingham Street, a few blocks west of Culver Road. They specialize in Chicago deep dish styles but also serve New York style as well. On Valentine's Day they offer a special heart shaped pizza but demand requires you might have to order that well in advance. Outdoor seating is also available. Awards Chester Cab Pizza was voted "Best Pizza" in City Newspaper's 'Best Of' awards in 20021 and 2006.2 1http://www.rochestercitynewspaper.com/archives/2002/11/The-Best-of-Greater-Rochester-2002/2http://www.rochestercitynewspaper.com/archives/2006/11/Readers++choice

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