chris heff

I don’t disagree with anything you have written. I have not spent much time in Buffalo since I left a long time ago, still have family there, I get back every few years. This is conjecture on my part, based on observations over years. I’m curious as to your opinion. Buffalo had serious economic problems for decades, starting with the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway, my family was involved with shipping on the Great Lakes. The Seaway made Buffalo superfluous. Heavy industry like steel blew themselves up. In the 1970s there was a sign on I-90 East that said, “Last one to leave turn out the lights”. My point is restaurants are a luxury, not a necessity. Economics and disposable income play a role . Buffalo is and has been making a comeback. With that comes entrepreneurs. Even the crazy ones that are restaurateurs. Hard business, bad margins, bad hours, you have to love it. Awards and recognition help put people in the seats and believe me everything helps. Michelin stars used to be hard to get, way easier today for a multitude of reasons. A city like Buffalo gets lost in the shuffle. It was on hard times for a long time. So I’m not putting much weight on Michelin stars, or the lack there of. I’m sure there are young creative chefs there. I admire the ferocity of your defense of that city. Since this is a Bills site, my question is, can you play defensive tackle?

Thought about your experience for a bit, I’ve never been a big steakhouse guy, but I get it. Good steakhouses have dry aging rooms. The environment of a dry aging room is hard, if not impossible to replicate. An example is the famous Brooklyn Steakhouse Peter Luger, good steak. They have a second location in Great Neck on Long Island, it’s not the same. They can do everything exactly the same, but they can’t control the environment that affects the dry aging. That restaurant in Laurel, aside from good preparation, more than likely took great care with the dry aging and what ever environmental factors created a unique flavor.

Larry Forgione, worked with him, friend of mine. Pretty sure I’ve bounced Marc on my knee, not recently however. We had breakfast at a dinner in Hamburg a couple of years ago. The corned beef hash was unbelievable. Place was packed, can’t remember b the name.

Oh boy are you gonna get it!

The River Cafe, Brooklyn USA. It was a long time ago, one great young chef after another. Back when Andrew Friedman, author of, Chefs, Drugs and Rock & Roll, called it the most important restaurant in the world. It was fun and exciting.

Is it just the Channel Islands you hate or is it all British Crown Dependency? By the way most NFL fans in northern and central New Jersey are Giants fans, southern New Jersey are more Eagles fans. The Jets fan base, because of there days at Shea Stadium, are located in New York. More explicitly Queens and Long Island.

Wow

Happy birthday! Now can we get the schedule updated?

More than a little funny.

Well said, however, having run a Michelin-starred restaurant and having worked with James Beard award- winning- chefs, not to mention having known James Beard himself, regional ethnic cuisine should not be discounted. One of the best meals I’ve ever had was at my cousin’s wedding at a Polish Hall in North Tonawanda.

Has anyone really named a kid Adolf since 1939?

Now let’s go beat the Jets!

I’m making an assumption here, but your experience is with a bunch of college students, over a relatively short time. My experience was as a member of a community. By the way, I went to college in Syracuse and I felt the same way, compared to Buffalo, there was nothing to do there. After some time to reflect and having gone back and visited Syracuse, it is a perfectly nice city.

I’ve been to both Giants and Jets games, have had mostly good experiences. The one bad experience was a long time ago at Shea Stadium, some one gave me tickets to final game of the season that didn’t matter. There were a lot of drunks, I think some of that had to do with it being a meaningless game. I took a date, to impress her, the seats were in the press box. In spite of the fighting drunks, it worked out, she married me. The only time I’ve ever been accosted at a game was at Hard Rock Stadium a few years ago. The perpetrator was a drunk female Bills fan that decided I was a Dolphins fan, after a Dolphin TD she decided to beat me with a foam finger (don’t worry I’m fine). She did not stop until one of her drunk friends intervened.

Ed Anzalone was a NYC Firefighter, his Harlem Unit was deployed to the World Trade Center 24 years ago today. That “D-bag”, as you so eloquently put it, ran into hell to rescue others. What he, other Firefighters and Police did that day, far outweighs any trophies or titles.

I lived in NYC for a number of years of years, also spent summers and then lived for a few years in the Hamptons. New Yorkers have a right to love that City, it is a microcosm of who we are. The Borough of Queens is the most diverse place on the planet. When I first moved to NYC a Cab driver asked me how long I’d been in New York, I told him a few months, he said “when you’ve lived here for six months you’re a New Yorker, welcome to The City, good luck.” Today especially, fandom aside, let’s show some love and respect.

🎵 "I wanna know... have they ever been a rival... comin' down Sun-day..." 🎵 Bebebe Benny and the Jets!

Benny And The Jets?

And I don’t think it’s going to be even that close. Jets make it look closer in garbage time.

Yes, that is correct, but which entertainment show?

Yes, porn and guns, “ Who could ask for anything more?”.

Wasn’t Jordan Phillips considered a bust in Miami? He became a decent rotational guy for the Bills and salvaged his career. Maybe this guy can do the same.

What in tarnation is going on today? In the Offensive Player of the Week thread, there is a reference to “Annie Get Your Gun” and now this, 1956 musical, “The King and I”.

Nice try

This place never ceases to amaze me. An obscure reference to a song from the 1946 musical, “Annie Get Your Gun”. Can anyone connect the dots here? Who was Annie and what made her famous?