Restaurant Week 2010 is here! Dine out with friends and family in support of your local independent restaurant community, and experience incredible savings with tasty dining deals!

A quick conversation with restaurant owner James Guarino.

Food lovers rejoice, because while we are justifiably proud of our chicken wings, there is so much more to the Buffalo culinary scene than hot sauce and blue cheese dressing. Start with enormous ethnic diversity, add in a profusion of local farms and orchards and a microclimate in nearby Niagara County that is ideal for fruit and grape growing and what do you get? You get great restaurants, delicious local specialties, wine trails, farmers markets, gourmet food shops, cooking classes, and more.

This is an overview of Nickel City Chef's first season! Nickel City Chef is a series of live cooking competitions that take place in Buffalo, NY, featuring fresh, locally grown ingredients and our region's top chefs.