Flyover Plates Podcast

Tonight on FOP!

Marc reviews the best restaurants all around the island of Sicily:

• Il Culinario
• Tritalo Mediterraneo
• Antica Sicilia
• Collegiata Cafe
• Sapori Perduti Modica
• Baio di Ulisse
• Apud Jatum (featured photo!!!)
• Maqueda Street Food - best arancini in Sicily
• How did it compare to Regulary Italy? What items didn't they have?

Mike encounters some Buffalo escapees in Austin, TX:

• Burger with bleu cheese and jam?
• Meanwhile Brew Pub
• "Let's Go Buffalo" Popcorn Chicken Wrap
• Breakfast at Dan's Hamburgers
• In n' Out Burger's Double-Double-Animal Style
• Mustard & Peanut butter burger
• My Favorite Muffin and Bagel Bakery
• Wurstfest

Also:

• How Mike does Pilates
• Marc is FOP's "Crocs on the ground" food critic
• Mrs. Fields vs Great American Cookie Company
• The Battle of the Hilton Diners
• Resurrection of The Como
• Resurrection of BTB
• How our buddy describes Rochester
• FOP The Movie: "Eat, eat, eat, pray"

We Remember:

• Roadblock the wrestler (Correction: might still be alive)
• Lyell and Dewey Tent City
• Upstate Niagara Cooperative Milk Plant
• 3 shot on N Clinton Ave
• Kodak's uncertain future
• Herbal IQ Dispensary East Ave
• Hempsol CBD Dispensary
• Walt's Hobby Shop Syracuse
• Frontier Town, N Hudson, NY
• GM's Advanced Design Team, Pasadena, CA (apparently resurrected)
• 6 Rochester city schools
• Mrs. Fields Eastview (vs. Great American Cookie Company)
• Studio 34 Creative Arts Center

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Tonight on FOP!

We discuss:

• Move over Netflix Queue... Dr. Mike has a Rochester Hot Sauce Queue!
• Toys R Us is coming back... but their demographic is now... Kidults
• Tacos & non-alcoholic Margs... no regrets
• At McD's, Pumpkin Spice is gone, but what flavor is in?
• If you were given food vouchers that expired in 24 hours, what would you eat?
• Which Rochester mall is next to fall? You won't believe the answer.
• Accordion Night at the Red Wings?
• What is the nicest town in the USA?
• Marc proposes Dating App safety features
• Surveillance pricing hits convenience stores
• What Rochester DJ is retiring?
• Featured Plate: The Gate House's Vegan Gate Plate
• Who would be on Mike's Mt. Rushmore of Rochester?

We remember:

• Louis Rossmann escapes Manhattan, and explains why
• Ridge Rattan
• Roy Rogers
• Xerox Tower
• Xerox Webster's parking lot
• U-Haul Henrietta - All their trucks & trailers were taken to Virginia on a one-way trip!
• Breen's Grocery Store in Williamson (it was their only one, too!)
• Xceed FCU Pittsford
• Hulk Hogan & Chuck Mangione

Thanks for telling other inmates & escapees about the show!

Tonight on FOP! This has got to be one of the funniest episodes we've ever done.

We discuss:

• Flamin' Hot Cheetos
• Nonna Bella's in Boston (featured meal!)
• Pies & Pints
• Caucasian Cultural Cuisine
• Pizza Squares
• Driving Alfresco
• Waffle House 24 Hour Challenge
• Most Affordable City in NY
• Highmark Stadium visibility issues
• Most passionate football fans
• Comparing Dinosaur BBQ Locations
• Lake Ontario
• Texas Roadhouse's mice in ice
• 90s Village
• Syr < Roc < Buf < Tor

We Remember

• Roc n Dealz Greece Ridge
• Friendly's in Ohio
• Brillo's Italian American in Albany
• Hugo's Italian Bistro, another victim of the Rochester Triangle
• GAETANO'S (NNNNOOOOOO)
• Ming on Clinton + New Ming on Monroe
• Morningstar Diner
• Orleans Villa Pizza + Nonnie's Country Kitchen
• Goldcrest Electronics + Youdoit Electronics
• Picraft Pizza + Favo (NNNNOOOOOO)

Thanks for telling your fellow inmates and escapees about the show!

No, we aren't reviewing drive thrus per se, but this is a drive-thru episode in that we made it relatively soon after the last one!

We Discuss

• Dr. Mike's Workout Routine
• Those stupid Jeep ducks
• Top foods of all 50 states
• NY Renaissance Faire
• The new Odyssey movie
• The Life Cycle of a Song on Rochester Radio Stations
• What time do Roch restaurants close?
• Ranch bottles vs Roch hot sauce - which would you bring on a plane?

We Eat

• PLATE OF THE MONTH: Spencerport Hots Shaved Ribeye Plate. So preposterously good, it attempts to unseat the champion and sparks a debate.
• Best of the West vs. Best of the East
• Fiamma Centro Pizzeria
• Italian Divorce Soup
• Bill Gray's Secret Menu Item
• Plum Garden Pittsford

We Remember

• Rocwiki, the website that memorialized Roch restaurants. Oh the irony.
• The Ethiopian place and Coffee Connections in Marketplace Mall food court... as well as everything else in the place.
• Petite Poutinerie - went under before we could review it
• The Delphi Building
• Macy's Greeceridge
• Antonetta's
• Bushnell's Basin Milk House
• Veltri's Pizza
• Rick's Prime Rib
• Bernardo's Pizza
• Product 19 Cereal
• North Coast 105.9 Smooth Jazz
• The Spaghetti Warehouse, a Syracuse institution
• Jim's Diner Greece Ridge - rather than put it in any one of the abandoned anchor stores, the mall decided to bulldoze one of its few functioning businesses to install a Boscov's.

Thanks for telling other inmates and escapees about the show!

Happy 250th, Foppers!

Tonight, we discuss:

• Midwest cookouts and their ubiquitous crockpots
• Dr and Dr Mrs Mike's creative American Flag cake
• The Happy Carnivore
• Homemade Chicken French
• Featured Plate: The Cincinnati Reds hosted a Doctor Buffet
• What was the center of your Plate Universe?
• # of people escaping downstate vs Western NY
• Krispy Kreme offers Girl Scout Cookie flavors
• Epic Meal Time
• The Rise & Fall of Dairy Queen
• Mike's HS Nickname
• Hyde's Historic Registry
• Cincinnati Burger Week
• Those Pointless Rochester Horses
• Chik-Fil-A Free Day
• Marc's New Book - coming soon!
• Microcenter in Dayton
• Pod Computers Brighton
• Geese can't figure out how to migrate out of Rochester

We Memorialize

• Doc's Canandaigua
• Mel's Diner & Namaste Grocery
• Wm Scheer Jewelers
• Kaufmann's Irond. Mall
• Tops on Goodman - what did it become?
• International Tops/Martin's in Perinton Square
• Kmart on East Ridge
• IHOP Henrietta - what did it become?
• Rachel's in Pittsford and Henrietta -their glorious pureed garlic dip - "furn food" was too scary for Roch
• Grisanti's/Bazil's/The Crab Shack/RocFish
• Uno's Webster - the final pillar falls - "Only the bland survive"
• Smilin' Jack Palvino
• Tandoori Flame Webster
• Pier 1 in Victor - what did it become?
• JT's Pizzeria in East Rochester
• Scott's Collision
• Scott's Photo - a resurrected resurrection

Thanks as always for telling other inmates and escapees about the show!

Tonight on FOP! Foodyseus takes us on a food odyssey through the midwest, where most restaurants are actually still in business.

We discuss:

• Goats. Not the Greatest of all Time, but real live goats. Walking around our malls. Because there are no more businesses or human kids left here.
• What NY Knicks fans burned to celebrate a win
• The TWO reasons Mike is bursting at the seams
• English soccer fan comes to Texas to try brisket
• Scottish tourists drink Boston dry
• A Swede discovers ranch dressing
• Food is the common ground to peace
• A new champion claims #1 in fast food customer satisfaction
• Article: Top food chains
• #GhostTownLife

We review:

• Battle of the Sub Shops
• KFC Buffet
• Pizza Hut Buffet
• Panera
• Cracker Barrel
• Golden Corral
• Past Times Arcade in Girard, OH
• Various books we were assigned to read in school
• "Old Reliable"

Then we dip our toes into the 8-page backlog of In Memoriams:

• TGI Friday's and Ruby Tuesday's in Henrietta
• Extreme Gifts Dispensary - how NY crushes even its darling industry
• Amiel Sr., founder of Amiel's Sub Shop
• Jai Ho Indian Cuisine
• Leonardo's Pizza
• Sears Marketplace Mall - what did it become?
• Regal Cinemas Culver-Ridge - what two things did it become?
• Chase Bank, and Vape and Smoke, on Chili@Howard Rd
• Pizza Stop in Pittsford
• Pittsford Eyewear - what did it become
• Brighton Vision 12 Corners & Lens Crafters Marketplace Mall
• Cam's Pizzeria East Ave
• Rebel Pi make-your-own pizza
• TWO funeral homes on the same street
• New Aladdin's in Victor - just opened, but for how long?
• The Resurrection of Martusciello's
• Hart's Local Grocer - gone, again
• Bravo and Gioia Macaroni

Like all those businesses, this episode too was cut short! A tornado appeared in non-Rochester, so we had to call it quits. Thanks for listening and telling other inmates about the show!

TONIGHT ON FOP! It's probably the best one we've ever done.

Mike's Mini Me joins us as our special guest to explain his:

• Top 3 Chicken Strips
• Top Rochy Spots
• Top homemade foods
• Smuggled cans of Sprite
• I Can't Believe It's Not Banana Pudding
• Deep Dish Debate

We discuss:

• Heated seats and long sleeves in May
• D&C's Top Burgers in Rochester
• CITY MAGAZINE'S TOP SPOTS IN ROCH, including Chen Garden
• Rochester version of Sim City
• Steak at Italian Restaurants? Why?
• NY State handing out fliers to call out hate - but who's the real perpetrator?

We review:

• Buffalo Wings & Rings
• Steak & Shake
• Lugia's
• TrueFood
• Another Doctor Buffet
• El Sazon on Lyell Ave
• Insane Breakfast Burgers at IRISH MAFIA and DONNELLY'S
• Democrat & Chronicle vs Times-Union
• Gino's Harlem
• Sbarro's and Sicilian Delight
• Papa Joe's
• Agatina's
• PITTSBURGH PIZZA BATTLE: Penn Ave Pizza & Steaks vs. Fazio's

We Remember

• Tap & Mallet
• Most bowling alleys in Roch, such as Ridgeway Lanes and Olympic Bowl Scottsville Rd.
• Rochester Rhinos
• Wambach's
• IHOP Henrietta (and what now defiles its building)
• Executive South public golf course, Henrietta
• Latta - Lea Pitch n' Putt
• Pittsford Optical and Bien Eyewear, and what they became
• Hugo's Italian Bistro
• Ginger Cove in Chili
• Rocwiki.org

Thanks for telling other inmates & escapees about the show!

Tonight on CEP!

We reminisce

• It's prom night - which formerly-classy Roch establishment do you pick for dinner? Benucci's? Crescent Beach? Well, those two are now defunct.
• What is White Lady Castle and has it been bulldozed yet?
• High School graduation cookies and cakes
• Getting our drivers licenses at Emerson & Glyde or Sykes & Maple
• A hypothetical WalterFest - a music festival only Rochester could pull off
• Will the Lilac Fest be frostbitten or scorching this year?
• Automatic traffic cams return to Roch - do you have any recourse to dispute your tickets?

We eat

• Pictured Dish of the Month: The plump, tender Chicken French from Flaherty's Honeoye Falls
• Debate: What do you do with the lemon on the dish?
• Tomato fraud?
• Firehouse Subs' ingenious "Mike Day"
• Pino's Deli in Greece, NY
• How many free birthday cookies did Mike get from DiBella's?
• Chicken & Wok - a Chinese, Mexican, and fried chicken fusion restaurant, and other fun combo spots
• Royal Cafe in Fairport - homemade gelato & soups

Marc's Ketchup Segment

• Local felon concocts a spiteful casserole for Fairport Police
• Mozzeroni's in Victor has become the fourth incarnation of Bay & Goodman Pizza
• The "Pot Mobile" proves that in NY, even foodtrucks become dispensaries
• It's Car Show Season! It's the only safe, free outdoor activity we have during our three weeks of summer.
• What local establishments passed or failed their health dept. tests?
• Car crash lawsuits are getting so bad, they're even spooking Governor Hochul

As always, thanks for telling inmates and escapees about the show!

We ring in Season Four of FOP with a 2-hour special!

• Marc meets a local celebrity
• Mike gives his State of the Plate address
• It's Easter, which means another homemade plate. This one looked incredible.
• Mike also shattered his previous record for how quickly he ate the whole thing.
• What NYers moving to FL should know
• Should we set up toll booths to beg from those who are about to escape?
• When you go to a new place, what do you order?
• When you go to a familiar place, do you have a go-to dish?
• Kodak shocks the world with sales growth
• "Rochester's biggest asset is its people"
• Confessions from the McQ Chapel
• People who've made us homemade garbage plates
• Does money grow on... casinos?
• A special guest joins us for the second half!

We review

• Flaherty's Honeoye Falls
• Connie's Diner
• Canal Days Festival in Fairport
• Rochester Shepherd's Pie
• Qdoba Baltimore
• Homemade fried rice
• Rivers Casino Schenectady
• Irish Mafia Bloomfield - pretzels and breakfast burger w tots
• Wimpy's Burger Basket
• Garbage Plate Salad?
• Karl's Top 5 American and Top 5 Italian restaurants in Roch
• Karl's homemade timpano
• Tony D's

We remember

• Marc's turkey/egg/avocado croissant, RIP
• That one Waffle House that's now takeout only
• Crescent Beach in Greece

Thanks for telling your friends about the show!

Tonight on FOP!

We discuss

• Why Antarctica is better than Rochester
• Mike's Mt Rushmore of Food: What are your Top 4 big fast food favorites? What are your Top 4 obscure chains?
• Brinner: Why is it so venerated, and why do we frown on its opposite: Leftovers for Breakfast?
• Why did Wegmans slip in customer satisfaction? Where do we shop?
• White pizza - do non-Rochestarians know what it is?
• Pancake syrup
• Coaches who yelled at us, and why we're better off because of it

We review

• Plate of the month: Naantastic's fried grouper - over rice, quinoa, cucumber, corn, craisins, chickpeas, drizzled with sweet tamarind chutney sauce. Insane.
• Rubino's Chicken French w potatoes
• Cafe Vesuvio's in New Smyrna Beach, FL
• Faircraft Brauhaus, Fairport, NY
• Sip N Jerk Jamaican Foodtruck, and Joe n Sal's Pizza, in Brooklyn, NY
• The Spicey Pickle, and Favorite's Pizza, Lewiston, NY
• Steak n Shake
• Gino's Pizza and Dolly's Diner, WV
• 7-11 in Seabreeze, NY
• Grand Super Buffet and China Buffet, Henrietta, NY

Thanks for telling other escapees about the show, because I'm pretty sure there are no more inmates left.