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Press picks, until locals rank their own Top 5s. Sourced from the local food press. As seen in Buffalo Spree and Step Out Buffalo. Updated August 2026.
Oliver's Restaurant · Delaware District
Buffalo Spree's 2025 Fine Dining Experience winner. The AAA Four Diamond Delaware Avenue room open since 1936, Spree's top answer for contemporary fine dining with classical bones.
Lombardo · North Buffalo
Buffalo Spree's 2024 Best Dining Experience winner. Tommy Lombardo's long-running Hertel Avenue Italian, the magazine's top dining-experience honor the year before Oliver's took it.
Lucia's On The Lake · Hamburg
Buffalo Spree's 2024 Best Seafood winner. a contemporary seafood-steak-Italian room directly on Lake Erie with a rooftop patio and lake views throughout.
Angeline · Delaware District
Buffalo Spree's 2026 Fine Dining Restaurant co-winner. The Hutch's team reopened the former Tempo space on Delaware Avenue with house-made pasta.
Hutch's · Delaware District
Named on Step Out Buffalo's classics list as having earned its place among Buffalo's greatest restaurants. A Delaware Avenue mainstay with a tucked-away back bar, long treated as the special-occasion standard.