Upstate New York.
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56 places
Rooms you can walk into, ranked the way I would send you.
Key: what the badges mean
★ Michelin star · Bib Bib Gourmand · Green ★ Michelin Green Star · Michelin in the Michelin guide, no distinction · J Jeff's own note · Jeff ★★★★☆ 2019 his own rating out of five, and the year he gave it · new the venue itself opened recently · just added recently added to Jeff's list, whatever its age · 2◆ independent chef/industry recommendations · ! hygiene caution in force · ? no current public hygiene record, not a caution · keep walking Jeff has been and would walk past it · the line under a name says when to go: Destination (plan around it) / Solid (the dependable send) / Listed (on the radar). Under it, where the entry states one: how the room takes bookings, and the date I last checked the entry.
The whole list.
Every room saved here, by where it is. 56 of them.
The Capital Region18
Troy does the eating for this stretch of the Hudson. Dinosaur Bar-B-Que and Rare Form Brewing sit on the river, Famous Lunch works Congress Street, and the Lucas Confectionery pours two blocks up on Second. Saratoga Springs keeps Esperanto and Putnam Market on Broadway, and Gus's Hotdogs grills on 25th Street in Watervliet.
Troy · 12
Saratoga Springs · 4
Watervliet · 2
The Hudson Valley15
The river road runs from Warwick up to Hudson. Tuthilltown distils rye at Gardiner and Whitecliff grows grapes down the lane, Newburgh Brewing takes the waterfront, Keegan Ales pours in Kingston, and Cafe Mutton cooks on Columbia Street.
Newburgh · 2
Athens · 1
Bethel · 1
Chatham · 1
Elmsford · 1
Fishkill · 1
Ghent · 1
Hudson · 1
Kingston · 1
Pearl River · 1
Poughkeepsie · 1
Warwick · 1
The Finger Lakes11
This is the wine country. Hermann J. Wiemer bottles Riesling at Dundee, Ravines and Heron Hill look down on Keuka from Hammondsport, Anthony Road and Kemmeter work the Penn Yan side, and Bloomer Creek sits over Seneca at Hector.
Auburn · 1
Hector · 1
Union Springs · 1
Buffalo and Western New York7
Buffalo eats beef on weck at Charlie the Butcher's and wings at Gabriel's Gate, La Nova bakes the pizza on West Ferry, and Nine-Eleven Tavern holds Bloomfield Avenue. Bar-Bill Tavern earns the drive out to East Aurora.
East Aurora · 1
Jamestown · 1
Williamsville · 1
Central New York3
Empire Brewing and Middle Ages pour in downtown Syracuse, and Brewery Ommegang brews Belgian styles on the hill above Cooperstown.
Cooperstown · 1
The Adirondacks1
Liquids and Solids cooks at the Handlebar on Sentinel Road in Lake Placid.