Stories, tips, and local perspectives from across the Finger Lakes.
Roy's Marina at Clarks Point in Geneva has been putting people on Seneca Lake for years, and the 2025 Gold for Best Boat Rentals — plus Silver for Best Marina the same year and Silver for Boat Rentals in 2024 — validates what every summer visitor to Geneva eventually discovers: this is the easiest, most […]
Riegel Marine Services on Highway 89 in Seneca Falls has earned back-to-back Silver awards for Best Boat Service/Repair in 2024 and 2025, establishing itself as the region's most consistently recognized boat mechanic. In a boating community as active as the Finger Lakes, where vessels get hammered by a compressed but intense summer season and then […]
Potters Farm to Fork sits on Route 31 in Port Byron, about 20 minutes west of Auburn, and it is quietly the most-awarded restaurant in the entire Finger Lakes Finest rankings. Gold for best all-around restaurant three years running. Gold for breakfast, lunch, brunch, wings, sandwiches, and plates. The trophy case is absurd for a […]
Point of the Bluff Vineyards sits on one of the most dramatic pieces of real estate in the entire Finger Lakes — a promontory on County Route 76 in Hammondsport that juts out over Keuka Lake with panoramic views that would be worth the drive even without the wine or the music. But it is […]
With a range of THC and tobacco products, the Native-owned Pipekeepers specializes in premium flower, concentrates, edibles, and pens alongside cigarettes and accessories.
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Pedulla's Wine & Liquor at 375 Hamilton Street in Geneva has the advantage that no chain liquor store can replicate: it sits at the epicenter of one of the most productive wine regions in the eastern United States, and the staff actually knows the winemakers. This is a family-run shop where the employees can tell […]
Parker's Grille & Tap House has been accumulating FLX Finest hardware for four consecutive years — Gold for Best Sports Bar in 2022, 2023, and 2025, Gold for Best Bloody Mary in 2024, plus Silver nods for Bloody Mary, specialty cocktails, and even margaritas. Operating across multiple locations, Parker's has the rare distinction of being […]
There is a short list of Finger Lakes restaurants where the setting alone justifies the price, and Nolan's is at the top of it. Sitting directly on Canandaigua Lake at 726 South Main Street, about three miles south of downtown, the restaurant has a sprawling deck over the water where boats pull up to the […]
Based at 7659 North Street Road in Auburn, Onondaga Coach Tours has been running group transportation and tour services across the Finger Lakes and Central New York for decades. The 2024 Silver for Best Transportation recognizes a company that specializes in the kind of large-group logistics that smaller limo and car services cannot handle — […]