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Buffalo: The Anchor Bar....best chicken wings on the planet. Also, try to take in a Buffalo Sabres hockey game. Great sports fans/town!
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I agree with polite, but not one Canadian I know will tell you they live in America. They'll tell you they live in Canada, and are Canadians. And in Canada, no one says :"I'm going to America for a visit". They just say: "I'm going to the US or the States...or Florida" Bottom line, "America" to most people (maybe not you) means the "United States of America". Haven't you heard the Simon & Garfunkel tune? The NJ turnpike? Imagine if he had written the Trans-Canadian highway... If we're talking about the continent, then we all use the same: North America. And "North America", to most Canadians and Americans, projects a different meaning than just "America".
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And if you like barbecue, dinosaur barbecue.👍
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Rick Jame's grave is in Buffalo (I haven't seen it, myself, as of yet, maybe next time I'm up there).
If you're into famous old houses and things related to the Arts & Crafts Movement, check out the Darwin Martin House: https://martinhouse.org and Graycliff (just south of Buffalo, right on the lake): https://franklloydwright.org/site/graycliff/. Another very important place is The Roycroft Campus in East Aurora (about twenty minutes from Buffalo): https://www.roycroftcampuscorporation.com Just a bit north of Graycliff/south of Buffalo is a great restaurant called Public House on the Lake: https://publichousebuffalo.com/index.html
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1) No Canadian says they live in America. Ask them what continent they live in, sure, North America. I don't know how this thread dissolved into this, but seriously get real.
2) Anchor Bar, this place is credited with the invention of the buffalo chicken wing. The story goes, the owner's son came in with a bunch of friends at closing time and the mom was out of almost everything in the kitchen but wings and sauce ingredients, she mixed it up and the rest is history. I may have the details incorrect, but it is close. Great pizza in Buffalo also. Pizza and wings is a classic Buffalo meal. 3) Niagara falls is definitely worth it, even cool in the winter with the ice bridge. 4) You are coming to America for the first time while I am traveling to Scotland for the first time in April. Here is to hoping we both have a great time.
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I believe (having family & friends up there) that they would kind of prefer visitors to say "the US" rather than "America" in that context. Of course Canadians, being notoriously polite and self-effacing, would never say anything critical to such visitor's face. That's why a typical brash loud-mouthed Yank like myself decided to mention it to a potential visitor.
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Haven’t been up that way in about 10 years, but found Niagara Falls a great thing to see. Also recall the art museum and a fantastic tour of a Frank Lloyd Wright house/museum being really good. In addition, the last time I was there I had most of a day to myself and found that there was a Jello Museum about an hour away toward Rochester. Had some fun there. No shortage of good food up there if memory serves.
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Thanks very much for all the advice so far! Also keen to hear about Toronto - I’m thinking I’ll spend three nights there and two nights in Buffalo. Will need to pack a lot in to my schedule!
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And yep the pizza is the best! Especially Bocce club or Francos
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Well good, it helps when you marry a woman from Buffalo I guess. I can not tell you how many times we got snowed in there when we would visit at Christmas time. Lots of pizza and wings waiting for the snow to clear and the airport to open. Eventually we stopped going there for X'mas and waited until summer.
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Spend some time at the harbourfront, at that time of year it's nice. If you go to Niagara Falls see it from the Canadian side, and it's unfortunately very $$$ because of tourism, the world goes to see Niagara. Unfortunately, I live in Houston Texas now, otherwise I'd show you some great places. Just for the record, upon reading some of the above posts, Canadians tend to take great pride in NOT being American.
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Oh wow, I used to get wings at the Anchor Bar 45 years ago when I went to UB. It was near the University of Buffalo campus, Goodyear Hall :-).
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