NFT: Upstaters: restaurants near Sayre, New York

Right across the border...

....and honestly I have no clue because I return there maybe one or twice a year for a night because the place has gone from being a shit hole to being the shit that's in the shit hole. Most of the bars are dumps and not in the good hole-in-the-wall kind of way. If things haven't changed too much the most popular place in Sayre is called Rock n' Docks but can't say how the food is. There's an old hotel who's food is pretty good from what I understand - I think it's called The Bree Marie or something - right in town.

Waverly NY is about 5 minutes away and there's a couple bars that serve food - I think one is the Railhouse and the other is Lefty's (??). There's also a half decent restaurant at the Shepard Hills CC.

Not anything in Athens that I know of - the downtown was hammered by the floods a few years back and not sure if it's recovered yet.

Elmira and Binghamton, NY are a half hour in either direction on Rt 17 and probably offer much more but I have no idea. We used to go to Bernie Murray's in Elmira quite a bit in HS and college.

Hopefully they'll avoid having their night interrupted by a fight between a couple of unemployed, gas-well transients who are high on bath salts.

On the east side of the tracks. Good pizza, great garlic cheese pizza and the original bar from yesteryear. Good family atmosphere in a old setting.

http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g53628-d458440-Reviews-Mangialardo_s_Restaurant-Sayre_Pennsylvania.html

Original Italian Grill on Lehigh Ave in Sayre. Great food and bar but a bit noisy at times.

http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g53628-d458439-Reviews-Original_Italian_Grill-Sayre_Pennsylvania.html

And for just wings and bar food there's Alligers House of Wings on Spring St. in Sayre. Not a bad or rough place just more of a bar atmosphere. A lot of the gas fracking people go there.

http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g53628-d627712-Reviews-Alliger_s_House_of_Wings_Inc-Sayre_Pennsylvania.html

Hope this helps.

turned up the Rail House in Waverly, just a short drive away, as the #1 restaurant there with a good bar/pub section with a large selection of craft brews and good pub food - pizza, burgers, etc.

Modestly priced and family friendly too. I'm going to recommend that to them.

I think they'll like the craft brew selections at the Railhouse but those 2 Italian options in Sayre looked like the next best bets.

Most of the Valley towns are nothing to write home about ( I live in Waverly). The Rail House in Waverly is OK. I've never been to The Bri Marie in downtown Sayre but here's the scoop on that.

http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g53628-d735714-Reviews-The_BriMarie_Inn-Sayre_Pennsylvania.html

Rock n Docks is a great place if you're the type that likes a very loud bar scene and aren't afraid to get into a fight. Lefty's in Waverly is now just apartments. The guy that owns just couldn't manage it well. They did have pretty good food.

Bernie Murrays these days. If you go to Elmira, go to the Elbow Room for wings.

In Sayre, if you want Italian, try Mangalardo's. It is about as old school as it comes, so your daughter might not like it. Lefty's has a good burger. The Rail House is decent.

Not realluy a place to eat, but Soprano's Market in Waverly has some good take-away food. My grandparents live in Sayre, but we rarely go out there when I'm home.

I guess Lefty's is gone now.

my daughter likes an old fashioned classic lasagne bolognese about as much as anything; since it's milk and meat together, I only make it on the sly, ie pretty rarely.

and if it was acceptable.

Chick fil a?

The restaurant info I relayed my wife (through my daughter) apparently didn't get relayed until too late to be used...

So they ate in the "Black Diamond" restaurant in the lounge of their hotel - the Best Westin Grand Victorian Inn. The hotel it seems was quite nice and a good choice for a large family group (it also has overall positive ratings on TripAdvisor). The restaurant, which I've seem mostly mediocre reviews of, apparently fit the bill if only because they offered their typical Sunday evening special last night - an all you can eat buffet featuring Prime Rib for $12.50 pp.

Knowing what I do of American beef, and particularly Prime Rib, and how it compares to Israeli beef in general, it would be very hard to go wrong with Prime Rib. Especially at a price per person that at today's shekel/dollar exchange rate amounts to 44 shekels per person! One pays that amount in Israel at a chain burger place for a burger and fries.

They were happy enough with the food, for sure if not over-joyed.

I also think they got a small bit of a "kick" out of seeing horesradish and cream sauce as a condiment for beef, or butter and sour cream offered for their baked potatoes, though of course they've seen that before in the US.

"day trip" excursion to Niagra Falls. That's a haul round trip from Sayre.

I forgot about that place since I've only eaten there twice. Hopefully they returned home safe and sound.

but back to Manhattan for Passover eve tomorrow.