Every city has it's own special restaurants that it seems only the locals hang out at. Most of these places have been around a long time and are well established in the community. Since my Mom grew up in Rochester, and food is VERY important to her, there are a couple of places we need to visit every time we're in Rochester.
Number one on the list is a Zweigle hot dog with hot sauce. These are not h
ot dogs we can buy at our local grocery store in Denver. The company is based in Rochester and has been around for more than 120 years. So when we visit Rochester we have to stop at either Schaller's or Don's Originals (known as Don and Bob's in the late 50s when my teen-aged father worked there). On this visit we went to Schallers twice (once on Ridge Road and once down by the lake). We also grabbed a Zweigle hot dog a the Rochester airport before we left. We were told that there was new management at Don's and the food wasn't so great so we skipped it.
Another stop we make is at place called Cheeburger Cheeburger. It's a chain restaurant with a 50s dinner theme (a lot of different flavored sodas and malts). I don't usually like onion rings but these are AWESO
ME. But I think the reason my Mom likes it so much is because it's located where Lake Ontario and the Genesee River meet and there are tables outside right on the river. We have a Cheesburger Cheesburg south of Denver but the food doesn't taste as good when you're eating outside facing a highway and a parking lot.
Then there's the pizza a Wegmans which is an east coast grocery store that is kind of a combination of a regular grocery store and an upscale organic grocery
store. It is also headquartered in Rochester and has a large ready-to-eat section that includes pizza. We've been told that Cher once ate at the Wegmans in Pittsford. We stopped there to get dinner not once, but twice.
And last but not least is Abbott's which sells the creamiest custard imaginable. I hit an Abbott's three times while I was there.
Ah, the important things in life...food.
Number one on the list is a Zweigle hot dog with hot sauce. These are not h
ot dogs we can buy at our local grocery store in Denver. The company is based in Rochester and has been around for more than 120 years. So when we visit Rochester we have to stop at either Schaller's or Don's Originals (known as Don and Bob's in the late 50s when my teen-aged father worked there). On this visit we went to Schallers twice (once on Ridge Road and once down by the lake). We also grabbed a Zweigle hot dog a the Rochester airport before we left. We were told that there was new management at Don's and the food wasn't so great so we skipped it.Another stop we make is at place called Cheeburger Cheeburger. It's a chain restaurant with a 50s dinner theme (a lot of different flavored sodas and malts). I don't usually like onion rings but these are AWESO
ME. But I think the reason my Mom likes it so much is because it's located where Lake Ontario and the Genesee River meet and there are tables outside right on the river. We have a Cheesburger Cheesburg south of Denver but the food doesn't taste as good when you're eating outside facing a highway and a parking lot.Then there's the pizza a Wegmans which is an east coast grocery store that is kind of a combination of a regular grocery store and an upscale organic grocery
store. It is also headquartered in Rochester and has a large ready-to-eat section that includes pizza. We've been told that Cher once ate at the Wegmans in Pittsford. We stopped there to get dinner not once, but twice.And last but not least is Abbott's which sells the creamiest custard imaginable. I hit an Abbott's three times while I was there.
Ah, the important things in life...food.
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