Stories, tips, and local perspectives from across the Finger Lakes.
F-n-A Rhythm and Booze is the most decorated bar and grill in Waterloo, and possibly in the entire Finger Lakes, which is not something you would guess from the outside of this no-pretense hangout on South Virginia Street. The FLX Finest award count tells the story: Gold for Best Bar & Grill in 2023 and […]
Ciccino's occupies a slightly improbable position in the Finger Lakes dining landscape: it is a small-town pizzeria in Waterloo that has won FLX Finest Gold for Best Italian Restaurant, Best Pizza, and Best Chicken Wings across four consecutive years. The "Paninoteca" in the name is a tell — this is a kitchen that takes Italian […]
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 […]
Cam's Pizzeria has been serving slices since 1980 when it opened its first location in Geneva, and in the decades since it has expanded to locations in Penn Yan, Camillus, Oswego, Watertown, and even Port St. Lucie, Florida. That kind of growth usually signals franchise blandness, but Cam's has managed to maintain what made it […]