FINE FOOD • FUN FOOD Falling In Love With Fiesta, Again And Again And Again I have fallen in love three times at Fiesta. The first was the salsa. Each meal is preceded by a bowl of chips and in-house salsa, fresh each day, resulting in salsas with different personalities from night to night. Sometimes spicy, sometimes mild. Don’t let the lightness of this salsa fool you, it is super yummy on chips or dishes. The second was the tacos;…
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FINE FOOD • FUN FOOD Keep It Simple: There’s Nothing Like A Diner – Or Simple Tuna Melt Editor’s Note: These mini restaurant reviews are prepared by the Summer Dreams staff. Nothing beats a good tuna melt. And I mean a GOOD tuna melt! Plaza Diner in Oneonta has just that. The tuna doesn’t have so many fillers that you can’t taste it. It’s got just the right amount of mayo mixed in. Then it’s topped with melty cheese and…
FINE FOOD, FUN FOOD Tomato Cream Sauce? Yum! Mel’s Reuben? Double Yum! Recently, my family went to Bella Michael’s for dinner without me, but my husband promised he would bring me something from there. That something turned out to be Bella Michael’s very appropriately named “Chicken Fantasia,” grilled chicken breast topped with a tomato cream sauce, roasted red peppers and sun-dried tomatoes, all topped with Swiss cheese. It came with sides of spaghetti, salad and dinner roll. I love pretty…
FINE FOOD, FUN FOOD Indian Food Back In Oneonta; Plus, Bomber’s Burrito Bar Indian food has finally returned to Oneonta for the first time in nearly 20 years and I cannot be more excited. The thing I love about Indian food is that when you smell it, it’s like a warm hug. When I walk past Noor Indian Restaurant in Oneonta, you can smell the curry in the air wafting out from the kitchen, beckoning you to come in. Recently…
FINE FOOD, FUN FOOD Plenty Of Food – Who’s That At The Next Table? At Morey’s Family Restaurant, your booth neighbor might be a man dressed in a brocade jacket, pajamas and bedroom slippers, smoking a pipe and sitting in a high-back chair next to a roaring fire, a dog sitting at his feet. A girl with long blond curls in a long frilly nightgown stands next to him. The room he is in looks like a parlor room in…
FINE FOOD • FUN FOOD By The Lake, By The Beautiful Lake The Blue Mingo never disappoints. This was my first time there this season; now that the rain has stopped, I hope to get there a few more times before Columbus Day. Just walking in is a delight. Smart thinking on their part – you walk through a tasteful gift shop where it seems you just need one of everything! Then starts a delightful lunch sitting outside on the…
FINE FOOD • FUN FOOD Try Treats From Clam Strips To Steaks With Blue Cheese Editor’s Note: SUMMER DREAMS writers are reporting weekly on some of their favorite dishes in local restaurants. Remember clam strips from Howard Johnson’s heyday? You don’t find them many places these days, particularly of a quality that bring back long-ago memories, but you’d run across such an offering at The Farmhouse Restaurant in Emmons, just off Interstate 88’s Exit 14. They’re clam strips are sweet,…