Stories, tips, and local perspectives from across the Finger Lakes.
If you've driven Route 21 south from Canandaigua toward Naples or Bristol Mountain, you've passed The Company Store in the hamlet of Cheshire — and if you didn't stop, you missed one of the region's best-kept deli secrets. From the outside, this looks like a standard rural convenience store: gas pumps, lottery tickets, maybe a […]
Lucky 7 Deli sits on a corner at 1 East Main Street in Waterloo, and it operates on a simple thesis: make the sandwich right, make it big, and don't overthink it. The 2025 FLX Finest Gold for Best Deli is the kind of award that just confirms what the lunchtime crowd already knew. This […]
For over three decades, Downtown Deli has been stacking sandwiches at 53 Fall Street in Seneca Falls, and the locals have rewarded that longevity with back-to-back Gold for Best Deli in 2024 and 2025. In a region where restaurants come and go with the seasons, thirty-plus years in the same spot speaks louder than any […]