I had lunch at City Hall yesterday. Yes, City Hall offers food believe it or not. Not many people know there's a cafe inside City Hall. It's not easy to find if you're walking around it. In fact, the entrance to the cafe is behind City Hall. Not only is there nothing to give the slightest hint there’s food at City Hall from the building’s exterior, there is nothing that says cafe until you get in there. Once entering from the back on Elmwood, the cafe is down some steps into what is almost a basement area. Inside the cafe, there are plenty of tables, a hot plate service, tons of drinks, salad bar, soups, cakes, and wow now this looks like a fine lunch place.
There’s nothing quite like this open to the public for lunch. A lot of officers and businessmen in suits visit, but it is open to anyone. There's an open salad bar and a select few of soups where you can serve yourself. Premade sandwiches and wraps along with some potato salads and such are in a refrigerator. Best of all, there's a hot place like a real cafeteria style that offers hot meals as well as pizza, macaroni and cheese, and fried fish. People often ask where the best fish fry is. After trying a dozen or so places, City Hall's fish fry is right up there. The fish fry is so enormous that they have to break it in half for you to fit on your plate. However, you can't call ahead and pre-order and being on the bottom of city hall might turn some people off.
Even though their food is made for the mass numbers cafe-style, the fish fry along with their food should not be overlooked anymore. This place offers many options for food to go back and try out more and it’s big enough for many groups of people to go. Don’t be strayed away because it is a cafe and it is City Hall. It’s almost a hidden gem for lunch. There isn’t even a mention of its existence online... until now.
Final Rating: 4.0 out of 5
Buffalo City Hall
65 Niagara Square (enter from behind on Elmwood)
Buffalo, NY 14202-3392
(716) 851-5847
6 comments:
This website is a sham...the reviews are long and wordy, and the reviewer doesn't know latitude versus longitude...oh wait, this isn't Buffalo Chow??
City Hall at 4.5 stars? You have got to be kidding me!
When you think of the alternatives in the immediate area, I would agree that City Hall has pretty good food. Maybe 3 out of 5; not 4.5 though.
Nothing good ever comes out of City Hall ! Tom says,"City Hall sucks" Very average
Tom's comments is where its at! Go Tom!
ring ring I like anything so City Hall should be 5 out of 5!
Not impressed with the new Café in City Hall at all. With all the remodeling they have done and additional staff, you spend more time in line than when they were under prior management with a smaller staff. The food is not worth the wait. I got a cheeseburger that was reheated on the grill and tasted more like a slab of processed meatloaf that was too salty for my taste. From the fryer also means baked and then cooked on the grill. The seafood salad had three chunks of imitation crabmeat. I was very turned off by a cook handling a dirty dish cloth and then handling the food repeatedly. The staff is not very friendly and the owner needs people skill training. I tried several times thinking things would be better, but I do not plan on returning.
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