@jaredpaventi.com
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Good food, strong drinks, video & arcade games and nostalgia: restaurant critic @jaredpaventi.com found it all at Three Lives in Syracuse's Armory Square.
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Critic @jaredpaventi.com found a lot to like about The Exchange, the nearly three-year-old gastropub situated in an historic bank building on North Main Street in Homer, about a half-hour south of Downtown Syracuse and a 15-minute drive from Tully.
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Meatballs were one of a couple surprises when reviewer @jaredpaventi.com visited the 27-year-old Thompson Road Tavern on a recent Saturday evening.
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Some Central New York restaurants impressed food critics Charlie Miller, @jaredpaventi.com, @jacobpucci.bsky.social and @wandercuse.bsky.social with ambition, others with consistency.
A few managed to do both, night after night.
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More than 20 years after opening, the Limp Lizard in Syracuse remains a reliable haunt for smoked meats, cold beer, excellent service and solid value. @jaredpaventi.com reviews:
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Reviewer @jaredpaventi.com shed tears when he visited LakeHouse Pub in Skaneateles. Was it the excellent quality of the meal or the copious amount of horseradish he added to his beef on weck sandwich?
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Yeah he did!
The upscale Southern cuisine at Ruby Begonia's in Chittenango largely delivered, reviewer @jaredpaventi.com said.
I know I've got my eyes on that cornbread.
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While there were some inconsistencies, cheese-centric bistro The Wedge in Eastwood has many bright spots, finds reviewer @jaredpaventi.com.
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If you're a fellow French fry fan (I am), @jaredpaventi.com has been kind enough to point us in the direction of Amber Inn in Marietta. He said the dive bar met all his criteria for excellent fries and has plenty else to enjoy.
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In many ways, Gangnam Style Korean Kitchen reminds reviewer @jaredpaventi.com of another popular local restaurant: A family-owned and -run restaurant with limited seating and little to look at, but a menu of traditional, homestyle and unpretentious dishes.
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@edsbs.bsky.social @celebrityhottub.bsky.social Salute to you both on this day.
It's not quite the much-missed Clark's Ale House, which several of its menu items invoke, but Crooked Cattle is certainly worth a visit, says reviewer @jaredpaventi.com.
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One would hope that a restaurant named Mr. Pho would make a decent bowl of its namesake noodle soup.
One would be wrong, says reviewer @jaredpaventi.com, because it turns out Mr. Pho makes an exceptional bowl of pho bo, the traditional Vietnamese beef broth and rice noodle soup.
Aurora Brewing Co., a well-regarded maker of hazy IPAs, tasty sours and true-to-style lagers, has brought their beers and a full-time kitchen to Tipp Hill.
Reviewer @jaredpaventi.com visited recently to sample some starters, deep dish pies, skillets and more.
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Buyer’s remorse at a restaurant is real and was the topic of conversation after reviewer @jaredpaventi.com's most recent visit to Daniella’s Steakhouse in Geddes.
It’s not that anything was wrong with his meal; quite the opposite, actually.
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The Syracuse.com surge is all because of @jaredpaventi.com, I assume
When @jaredpaventi.com doesn't miss, he does not miss. This is truly excellent, on Hulk Hogan and what he means to men of our age.
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"At the Golden Spike, chicken breast tenders are hand-cut, hand-breaded and deep-fried until golden and just cooked through. ... I’d put them alongside the Western Ranch Motor Inn as purveyors of the area’s best chicken tenders," said reviewer @jaredpaventi.com about this pub in East Syracuse.
Reviewer @jaredpaventi.com visited Su Su Dim Sum on East Brighton Ave. 🥟
Dim sum is the Chinese equivalent of small plates. Popular in the cuisine and culture of China’s Guangdong province, a dim sum menu is made up of small fried, steamed or baked items served in shared portions.
“Wok and roll nachos.”
The menu at Meier's Creek Brewing Co. in Cazenovia whispered these words to @jaredpaventi.com, demanding his attention and a place on his dinner order.
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Meier's Creek Brewing Company's Cazenovia location has been a fun spot to visit since it opened five years ago. We return this week for syracuse.com and @thisiscny.com to a new menu, including an Asian-inspired riff on nachos.
My journey with genetic testing continues this week at Dirt Nap. If you've ever lost a loved one to cancer, particularly a parent or grandparent, we look at how your risk increases and why genetic testing could be helpful.
You can get Chinese dumplings and noodle soups anywhere in #CNY, but how many places make their own dumpling dough and hand-pull their noodles?
Su Su Dim Sum does. It was our latest Dining Out review for @syracuse.com and @thisiscny.com. Go read it and drool a little bit. I won't tell anyone.
We all die eventually, but few of us get a chance to dig into how while we're still kicking. Today begins a three-part series at Dirt Nap where I take you through my genetic testing journey to determine if I inherited genes for the cancers that have affected at least two generations of my family.
Hey! Thanks. Wait until next week when I tell the story about how I might die.
My in-laws bought this book for my daughter's birthday bc they thought it was abt a girl + her dog. It's really abt a child trying to control her world as her parents divorce. They didn't realize this until my mother-in-law started reading it to her. (We're still married.)
My 7-year-old was really annoyed at my voices for the goblins in her fairy book last night. It's amazing tones you can get out of your head when you pinch a nostril.
