For years I’ve wanted to go to Rise ‘N Shine at 500 Westcott St, but I couldn’t get anyone to go with me… not that I needed it. About 3 years ago I went with a friend of mine named Mark around 11:30, but it was packed and the line was long… and we decided […]

When I first heard that there was going to be a marketplace in downtown Syracuse that would be filled with different types of restaurants, I thought it was going to be the coolest thing in the world. There were 3 things I’d read about that immediately caught my attention, those being a soul food place, […]

Some time ago I spent 18 months in Memphis. Although eating a lot of foods that weren’t indigenous to New York didn’t treat my system all that well, one that did was shrimp and grits. I mean, take two things I love, add andouille sausage to it; what can go wrong? It turns out a […]

Let me preface this by saying that I’ve never really been a chicken wings fan. I don’t like hot wings because I don’t like spicy food. Most of the time there doesn’t seem to be enough meat on the wings to justify the effort it takes to eat them properly. And of course the cost […]

A friend of mine said he was taking me somewhere I’d never been before, and he wasn’t lying. We ended up at a place called Dee’s Diner in Mattydale at 1900-1914 Brewerton Rd, in a small plaza that’s just across the street from Strike ‘n Spare bowling alley if you need a landmark. At first […]