Stories, tips, and local perspectives from across the Finger Lakes.
On Main Street in Willard, a tiny hamlet on the western shore of Seneca Lake, Rylee's Place has quietly become one of the most decorated cheap eats in the entire Finger Lakes. This family-owned diner punches absurdly above its weight class: Gold for Best Cheap Eats in both 2024 and 2025, Gold for Best Appetizers […]
At 11 South Main Street in the small village of Manchester, Jack's Kitchen is the kind of place you either know about or you don't — and the people who know about it tend to guard it jealously. Gold for Best Salad in 2022 and Silver for Best Cheap Eats in 2024 represent a combination […]
At 25 Main Street in Penn Yan's historic district, Cam's Pizzeria is the kind of neighborhood pizza shop that small-town New York does better than anywhere else on earth. The operation is straightforward — New York-style pies, calzones, strombolis, wings, subs, and salads — but the execution has earned Cam's a staggering collection of FLX […]