Itineraries

Buffalo Itineraries and Experiences

Plan your best getaway ever to Buffalo with our curated itineraries. We’ve put together themed ideas for your next Buffalo vacation centered around our world-renowned architecture, thriving waterfront, booming public art scene and resurgent neighborhoods. Start organizing your next trip to Buffalo with these itineraries that are filled with insider tips on where to eat, drink, stay and play along the way.

An aerial shot of downtown Buffalo with Buffalo City Hall in the center

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An artist adds finishing touches to a mural showcasing Buffalo's downtown

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A couple sitting on a bench at the Frank Lloyd Wright Martin House

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Essex St. Pub

Essex St. Pub

Essex St. Pub opened in 1986 in a building dating to 1886. A jukebox and pool table bar, it’s a great spot for late night shenanigans and chowing on barbecue. Don’t miss the “Macky Joe,” a sloppy Joe with mac’n cheese on top.

530 Rhode Island St., Buffalo
essexstreetpub.com
Eddie Brady’s Tavern

Eddie Brady’s Tavern

Eddie Brady’s Tavern is where gruff Irishmen, downtown law and finance types, and college good-times seekers collide. Of any Buffalo tavern, Brady’s feels truest to its pre-Prohibition saloon heritage. Among other nightly specials, Brady’s offers the city’s best turkey and gravy dinner—available on Mondays.

97 Genesee St., Buffalo
eddiebradys.com
Arty’s Grill

Arty’s Grill

Arty’s is like walking into the East Buffalo of 1972. Polka is playing over the speakers and Polish import beers are cheap and free-flowing. Prepare yourself for stories from regulars of the old neighborhood, and their visions for a revived Central Terminal—Buffalo’s vacant, iconic train station, only steps away.

508 Peckham St., Buffalo
facebook.com/ArtysGrill
Gene McCarthy’s

Gene McCarthy’s

My tough Irish grandmother wore out the same McCarthy’s barstools when she was my age, and I imagine this bar feeling much the same as it did then. Even as it’s evolved with the times—McCarthy’s is now a craft brewery with the best beer garden in town—it is still a working man’s tavern in the shadow of the grain elevators. The best Buffalo wings in town? Quite possibly.

73 Hamburg St., Buffalo
genemccarthys.com
Rohall’s Corner

Rohall’s Corner

This Black Rock tavern is a museum-piece of the Streamline Moderne Style of the 1940s. The sweeping curves of the bar, ceiling, and even the lit glass block entryway communicate a city on the move. Few places are friendlier as a neighborhood gathering spot.

540 Amherst St., Buffalo
rohallscorner.com

UNEXPECTED BUFFALO EXPERIENCES

Looking for more ideas for your Buffalo escape? Customize your itinerary with these additional suggestions of historic sites, great gardens and music venues, restaurants and watering holes that only locals know about: