This week on the Food About Town podcast I talked to Jason Barrett from Black Button Distilling during their massive renovation of the space next to Rohrbach’s Brewery near the Public Market. We discussed the renovation, the plan for their products at launch (citrus forward gin, wheat vodka and moonshine [white whiskey]) and future plans. We also delved into Jason’s past and how he...
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For Episode 6 of the Food About Town podcast, I talked to Heidi Grenek from Moonlight Creamery in Fairport, NY and got to talk to one of their employees about an event they were preparing for. We discussed the start of their business and how they feel they are part of the community with charity work and not only employing young people but working on developing them as well. A couple events were...
Episode 5 of the Food About Town podcast features my chat with Voula Stratton from Voula’s Greek Sweets on Monroe Ave. This is my favorite podcast so far and I really enjoyed spending some time talking at the restaurant about her history with food, the balance between work and personal life, and about what makes Voula’s Greek despite the lack of meat. We hit a lot of other topics as...
Episode 4 of the Food About Town podcast! Sorry about the delay but I had some scheduling issues and I’ll be trying to post more regularly in the future. I talked with the Marty’s Meats crew out at SEA Restaurant so there will be a little more background noise than normal during the podcast. This was the first episode recorded with my new Blue Yeti microphone and the audio quality is...
For Episode 3 of the Food About Town podcast, I talked with Jose Abarca of Itacate restaurants in Penfield and Gates about his restaurants and his background. Authentic Mexican food was one of the main topics and we delved into a few other topics as well. Not the longest talk but I’m glad I had a chance to learn more about Jose and Itacate. He was great to talk to, passionate about his food...
For the second interview (and now podcast!) on Food About Town, I talked to owner Caleb Piron and chef/manager Christian Stark from Rosie’s Hot Buns about their new restaurant on Monroe Ave. I had been talking to Chris while getting food over the last month or so and it was nice to hear from Caleb and where he came from. We also talked out some of the launch issues and what they’ll be...