Staff Picks
Our best bets for local dining

Fly Creek Cider Mill,
diners, Chinese food

Larissa Ryan
Business Manager
The Fly Creek Cider Mill
You love flowers blooming and you’ve had a blooming onion, now get ready for a blooming apple.
This delicious treat is one of the many snacks to be had at the Fly Creek Cider Mill and it is a great way to curb your hunger with a healthy treat. It’s an apple cut into slices in a bowl with warm caramel, nuts and a cherry. A tasty treat for before or after you walk around the mill, pick out something from the shop (it’s huge!) visit and feed the geese, or try out the many games available for the children.

The Fly Creek Cider Mill,
288 Goose St., Fly Creek
607-547-9692

Tara Barnwell
Publisher
Cooperstown Diner
If you blink while driving down Main Street Cooperstown, you may miss The Cooperstown Diner! The diner is a quaint, tiny, fantastic gem!

You must start with the mac ’n cheese triangles. These perfectly fried little triangles of cheese are delicious. They also have the biggest burgers I have ever been served!

Get the platter with curly fries and you won’t eat for days after. The tuna melts are grilled to perfection and go well with huge fried onion rings.

Did I mention they serve breakfast all day long?

I can’t find anything not to love about the diner, make it part of your Cooperstown experience.

Cooperstown Diner
136½ Main St.
Cooperstown
607-282-4367

Greg Klein
Editor
Foo Chow Restaurant
On the hunt for new-to-us restaurants, we took a recommendation to try the Chinese place in Richfield Springs.

I had the Wor Shu Duck, which is sometimes known as Cantonese Pressed Duck. It was tasty, but I also liked everything else we ordered that night, including chicken and spare rib dishes.

The restaurant is set up for take-out and they seem to have COVID-proofed it as well. It is also in a beautiful old building on Main Street in a section of Richfield Springs that looks like it is ripped from a Hallmark Channel movie.

Foo Chow Restaurant
137 W. Main St
Richfield Springs
315-858-9988

Kevin Limiti
Reporter
Latte Lounge

Since moving to Oneonta, the Latte Lounge has been my staple for coffee and reading, especially since the Green Toad Bookstore is next door.

I tried the crispy chicken sandwich for the first time recently and must say the food is also good. I have also heard about the bagel chips that come with sandwiches and I cannot wait to try them.

This is the type of place where everybody from town seems to hang out and I highly recommend coming by if you haven’t already.

Latte Lounge
196 Main St., Oneonta
607-432-6244