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Press picks, until locals rank their own Top 5s. Sourced from the local food press. As seen in Buffalo Spree. Updated August 2026.
Wiechec's Lounge · Kaisertown
Buffalo Spree's 2024 and 2025 Fish Fry co-winner and the magazine's go-to answer when tourists ask where to go. a 60-plus-year Kaisertown institution serving huge beer-battered portions every Friday.
Curry's · Kenmore
Buffalo Spree's 2024 and 2025 Fish Fry co-winner. a Kenmore Avenue neighborhood pub that packs in crowds on Friday night.
Gene McCarthy's Old First Ward Brewing Company · Old First Ward
Featured in Buffalo Spree's 2025 Fish Fry List. The Old First Ward tavern/brewery whose Friday beer-battered fry is so popular they added a Wednesday service.
Hoak's Lakeshore Restaurant · Hamburg
Featured in Buffalo Spree's 2025 Fish Fry List. a lakefront third-generation family restaurant on the Hamburg shore that has been serving its famous fish fry seven days a week since 1949.
Wallenwein's Hotel · East Aurora
Buffalo Spree's 2026 Fish Fry (Southtowns) winner, in the village of East Aurora.