Author: Bo

Brooks Landing Diner

The best-laid schemes o’ mice and men gang aft a-gley, or some other idiom indicating futility. Idk. Whatever floats your boat. We tried going to [REDACTED] but called and knocked unsuccessfully! The four droogs made […]

Highland Park Diner

Dave wasn’t here today…  

Char Broil

Char Broil Family Restaurant. Family owned since 1940 (sort of. Read their history on the website and it gets more complicated). Google calls it an “unfussy spot.” Char Broil during morning breakfast rush: a veritable […]

The Frog Pond

Formerly “Charlie’s Frog Pond.” 2018 Bo’s Choice for Best Sweet Menu Item (Famous FP Sautéed Banana Pancakes w/ House-Made Caramel Sauce) But now Charlie is gone. Whence Charlie? No one knows. How could you eat at […]

Cumming Nature Center

Weekend special, comin’ atcha! Do you know how maple sugaring works? ARE YOU SURE??? For two weekends every March, you can head out to the wooded hinterlands of South Bristol, New York, and learn! It’s […]

Parkside Diner

Near the shores of Lake Ontario, in Sea Breeze, U.S.A. The mini-golf course is snowed over, nearby Durand Eastman park is rather desolate, and the salty air has yet to blow warmly off the lake, […]

Bar Bantam

In The Metropolitan Tower (formerly Chase Tower). The Metropolitan. Tower of the future. The pillar of white (formerly of marble) shoots up into the dark sky of the dawn. There are two entrances to the […]

Jim’s on Main

NYupstate online magazine ranked Jim’s as one of the best diners in the state. OK, NYupstate, you think you know everything? You think you’re so smart? You’re on, thou globby bottle of cheap stinking chip […]

Ludwig’s Center Stage Café

OK, so, a philosophical debate: so far we at The Xonuts Blog have tried to be nothing but positive to the numerous restaurants at which we breakfast. This morning though, a few minutes after our […]

The B’ville Diner

We left Rochester a-morning. Our destination: Baldwinsville, near Syracuse. Our more precise destination: the B’Ville Diner. Dave ate here as a teen. Its reputation permeates the environs of Western New York. When diner aficionados walk […]