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DINING
Home(town) cooking
Rochester's top chefs bring a lifelong passion for cooking to the table. Meet two of them.
Whether it was canning with Grandma or baking pies with Mom, fascination with food started early for chefs Tony Gullace and Jerry Manley. Their eateries are distinctive, yet they share a knack for eclectic and inventive cuisine.
"I've always been around food, whether plucking warm tomatoes off the vine or harvesting fruit trees on my grandparents' farm," says Tony Gullace, principal of Max Rochester, which includes a string of Max restaurants and a market in the area. "I was always exposed to the earth." Read more...
Browse the Explore listings
The Explore Greater Rochester listings include roughly 200 local restaurants in categories ranging from Fine Dining and Italian to Continental and Bagel Shops. Use Search & Explore in the upper right corner of each page to find specific listings. To sample a few categories, click on the images below.
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