This week in Buffalo food: Blueberry Treehouse Farm reopens, Cinnabon arrives, Pints in the Park returns
See what's happening in food news around Western New York. The Treehouse Café at Blueberry Treehouse Farm in West Falls, Buffalo, is reopening for its third season on June 7. The 3,000-square-foot human-made café, which serves finger foods such as charcuterie, pizza and paninis, is located on the coast of a Great Lake. Cinnabon Bakery has opened at the Walden Galleria in Cheektowaga, offering its famous cinnamon rolls and desserts. Johnny D's, the new restaurant and piano bar in the former E.B. Green's space in the downtown Buffalo Hyatt Regency, officially opens on June 8. The Pho Spot Niagara Falls is closing its doors after five years of business. Food truck Tuesday will continue in Larkin Square (745 Seneca St.) every week from 5 to 8pm.
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Seemingly floating amid a woods of maple and cherry trees, the Treehouse Café at Blueberry Treehouse Farm (1897 Davis Road, West Falls) is a contender for most picturesque al fresco dining spot in the broader Buffalo area, which is impressive given the region's location on the coast of a Great Lake.
The 3,000-square-foot human-made café – a whimsical series of suspended decks, reclaimed tin canopies shaped like mushrooms and carved wooden spiral staircases – reopens for its third season on June 7. The café serves easy finger foods, such as charcuterie, pizza and paninis, and coffee, tea, craft beer and wine. It's usually bustling with people drinking beer around fire pits and climbing to the highest point on the mezzanine for a bird's-eye view. Musicians often play outside the blueberry patch.
It will be open from 4 to 10 p.m. Fridays, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturdays and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sundays through July 5, when extended hours begin. U-pick blueberry picking will also begin for the season July 5.
Cinnabon Bakery has opened inside the Walden Galleria in Cheektowaga, on the upper floor near Macy's. The national bakery chain will serve its famous cinnamon rolls and related desserts, such as Center of the Roll, a self-explanatory dessert consisting only of a cinnamon roll's moist center, and Cookie BonBites, a chocolate chip cookie that hides a cinnamon roll center.
Johnny D's, the new restaurant and piano bar in the former E.B. Green's space in the downtown Buffalo Hyatt Regency, officially opens June 8 after it held a soft opening to train staff.
Chef Kenneth Legnon, former executive chef at the Marriott LECOM Harborcenter, will lead the kitchen, serving a menu that includes sushi (his specialty), 28-day dry-aged steaks and a beef Wellington corn dog. Howard Goldman, a protégé of the late entertainer Jackie Jocko, will play nightly piano music on Jocko's piano. Guests can also dine outdoors on a new patio.
The Pho Spot Niagara Falls (6600 Niagara Falls Blvd., Niagara Falls) is closing its doors June 30 after five years of business. Father and son Khanh and Thomas Vo followed their dream to start the Vietnamese restaurant in 2019 after Khanh quit his job in machining/programming.
"We want to extend our deepest gratitude to each and every one of you for your support and loyalty over the years and especially through Covid. It has been an honor to serve this community and to be a part of your lives. From the smiles and stories to the memories created within these walls, you have made our journey truly special and something we will never forget," wrote the Pho Spot on Facebook .
The Dalmatia Hotel (1187 Tonawanda St.), a Riverside restaurant known for its long list of unusual wing flavors, closed on May 24.
Theia Moyer and her husband, Christopher, opened Dalmatia Hotel in 2016. Since Christopher's death in August 2022, it's been difficult to run the business in his absence, Moyer said. A "perfect storm" of rising food prices, insurance costs, a desire to keep prices down and a need to spend more time with her young children led Moyer to close Dalmatia Hotel.
5 Loaves Farm is hosting a potluck-style community cookout from 5:30 to 8 p.m. June 7 at its farmhouse at 70 W. Delavan Ave. 5 Loaves Farm is providing halal chicken and some other dishes while guests are invited to bring their own dishes to pass, along with their friends and family.
Food Truck Tuesday will again be in Larkin Square (745 Seneca St.) from 5 to 8 p.m. every Tuesday through Aug. 27. Twenty food trucks will rotate weekly from a list of nearly 40 that serve scratch-made ice cream, international pastries, Maine lobster rolls and more. Read about the six new food trucks that have joined the lineup.
Pints in the Park , a pop-up series hosted by 42 North Brewing and Resurgence Brewing at various Erie County parks, kicks off for the season from 4 to 9 p.m. June 7 and from noon to 9 p.m. June 8 on top of the sled hill at Chestnut Ridge Park (6121 Chestnut Ridge Road, Orchard Park). The series continues through the summer at different parks, including Ellicott Creek (June 14-15), Como Park (June 21-22) and Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens (June 27 and July 21). Food vendors Chiavetta's and Wingnutz will rotate at the weekly events. Most weekends feature live music.
Cup of Communitea (5416 Main St., Williamsville) has launched its summer drink menu, which includes a few noteworthy tea-based drinks. Owner Justine Duquette makes her own soda by blending housemade tea syrups with carbonated water to create flavors like cream soda, bubblegum, Earl Palmer (Earl Gray and lemon) and ginger jasmine. She also adds an optional dollop of cream to her custom sodas to make her own takes on root beer floats and piña coladas.
Graylynn Gin Bar (537 Main St.) has made a new house cordial by infusing London dry gin with edible pansy flowers, rose hips, cornflower petals, lemon and orange peel, honey and Peychaud's bitters. Graylynn pulled back the curtain by posting a photo of the transparent infuser filled with the photogenic ingredients on Instagram .
Forty Thieves (727 Elmwood Ave.) launched a new menu that includes a few new burgers such as a blue cheese-stuffed black-n-bleu burger, a Nashville hot chicken and coleslaw sandwich, Southwest chicken salad served in a crispy taco shell and fried pickles.
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