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“This is the opportunity that needed to present itself to me.”
“We only had each other, so we had to be each others’ partners, lovers, best friends, harshest critics… We were all that we had.”
Lara & Alana venture down to Allen Street to try all of the desserts at Mundy Cakes. An onslaught of pure jealousy ensues.
“The response I got this Christmas on these cookies was overwhelming and I couldn’t believe it.”
Lara & Alana spend a fun-fueled day inside Buffalo’s own yokocho alley, Misuta Chow’s.
“We wanted to take a chance on an area of town that we know for a fact will be IT in five years, and we wanted to be a part of it.”
Think that dessert is not a real meal? Think again.
“You’ve got to keep your focus on what it is that you want to do.”
Everything about Grindhaus screams local quirky coffee shop you want to while away the hours at, sipping a hot beverage and working on your latest tome.
“It’s really about empowering the people to do for self.”
Qween City recently had a chance to hang with the gang of Gypsy Parlor, in anticipation of this year’s Dining Out for Life to benefit Evergreen Health. Come see us this Tuesday, October 9, from 5 p.m. on. Come hungry! 25 percent of sales will go directly to fighting HIV in WNY.
“I fell in love with it. I wanted to be there all the time.”
The 11th Annual Buffalo’s Best Pierogi Contest was held on Saturday, September 15, at Corpus Christi Church in Historic Polonia on Buffalo’s East Side.
Lara, Alana, and Mama Martini recently spent a most delectable afternoon studying the delights of Raclettes, and eventually emerged to tell the tale.
“I want to make sure when people walk in here, they get the best food and the best service.”
In today’s edition of NOMaste, Lara finds herself in macaron mayhem inside the kitchen of the Blue Eyed Baker.
“I quit my job and told everyone in the corporate world that I was moving back to Buffalo to start my own baking business.”
Photographer Alana Fajemisin shot with artist Kristin Brandt recently, in anticipation of Kristin’s exhibition at GEORGETTE June 1.
Lara & Alana take us on a delight-filled taste tour of Lait Cru Brasserie, in this fourth and final installment of April’s NOMaste, featuring Jill Gedra.
“So I came over, looked at the space, and fell in love.”
“You have to make people feel as though they want to take time out to read it, and subscribe to it, and come away feeling as though it was useful.”
Buffalo Spree’s Elizabeth Licata opened her Allentown home to Qween City for an incredible photo shoot recently. We couldn’t choose just a few so have opted to show the full spread here.
Lara takes us on a whirlwind tour of the temptations found within Rin Thai Bistro.
“What if it’s their favorite dish, but they’d never know because they were too afraid to try it?”
Lara lives the dream on this week’s #NOMaste, partaking in all of the delights of Whimsy Confections.
“We want arts and culture to be the forefront of Buffalo’s face, because they already are.”
“I want to be a part of people’s special memories.”
Lara and Alana visit Aniko in her home for an otherworldly six course meal.
Lara and Alana visit Aniko in her home for an otherworldly six course meal.
“At one point I said, ‘I’m done being a cookie cutter.’ That’s how the garden started.”
Lara straight up devours Mallory’s stock of holiday treats at Incredible Edibles in this fourth and final installment of December’s NOMaste.
“I would have never thought when I started doing it from home, making bougie strawberries, that three years from then, this is where I’d be.”
Lara gets it IN in this fourth and final installment of this month’s NOMaste, featuring Elder Martinez of Mexico City Hamburg.
“I’m not going to work in a restaurant again unless it’s my own.”
Lara gets down on Kaldi, Grover Cleveland, and Lil Russert in the fourth and final installment of this month’s NOMaste, featuring Undergrounds Coffee House & Roastery.
On Tuesday, October 10, 2017, nearly 100 restaurants in the Western New York area took part in the 15th annual Dining Out for Life, a fundraiser to support the services of community health provider Evergreen Health.
“I knew that if I always worked that hard, that I would get it, ya know? No matter what, I would make it happen.”
“If I don’t do this, I know that one day I am going to wake up and regret it.”
Lara gets ferment-freaky, in the fourth and final installment of this month’s NOMaste profile, featuring Tara Sasiadek of Snowy Owl Kombucha.
“I’ve always thought of it as making potions.”
There were several indulgences on the table when Lara visited the Terrace at Delaware Park — check out the fourth and final installment of this month’s NOMaste, featuring Maxine Doyle.
“We want people to be comfortable asking questions and inquiring about things in a way that just sort of demystifies cocktails.”
“It was so easy and simple, but my mom could not stop raving about it. She would always say that everything tastes better when someone else prepares it for you.”
Lara feasts on the Croque Madame and Caprese Sandwich in the fourth and final installment of this month’s NOMaste, featuring Prish Moran of Sweet_ness 7.
Photographer Alana A. Fajemisin captured the beginning stages of the Freedom Wall in July 2017.
“Rather than representing what I’m upset about, I’m representing how I want it to be.”
“If I listened to everyone around me I would never have this — I would have never had this building!”
Lara tackles the Veggie Wet Shoes and Margie Meal in the fourth and final installment of this month’s NOMaste, featuring Amanda Amico of Amy’s Truck & Swan Street Diner.
“I am learning so much about starting a business from the ground up, literally.”
“She inspired me to subscribe to the life of a visual artist because I could practice creating what I wanted to portray with bits and pieces.”
Photographer Alana Fajemisin of AlanAdetolArts, LLC, was on hand at the RejuVinex Day Spa grand opening Sunday, March 26.
“When I asked women to come talk to the girls, the beauty is that so many women say, ‘Of course!’”