{"id":16083,"date":"2013-05-14T15:00:12","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T19:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=16083"},"modified":"2013-05-14T06:52:35","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T10:52:35","slug":"savor-a-touch-of-class-in-downtown-niagara-falls-n-y","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/14\/savor-a-touch-of-class-in-downtown-niagara-falls-n-y\/","title":{"rendered":"Savor: A touch of class in downtown Niagara Falls, N.Y."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffalonews.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20130418\/GUSTO\/130419177\">Buffalo News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ten years ago, when my job included reporting developments \u2013 or lack thereof \u2013 in downtown Niagara Falls, I was often asked where to find the best meal within a walk of the famed cataracts. My answers made hungry people sad.<\/p>\n<p>Three weeks ago, I found myself eating at a fine dining, white-tablecloth place two blocks from the park. A restaurant with a chef\u2019s table and a tasting menu and a polite young sommelier with a French accent.<\/p>\n<p>This is Niagara Falls, N.Y., now.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d read the stories about the Niagara Falls Culinary Institute opening in the former Rainbow Mall, home to state-of-the-art classrooms for the culinary students of Niagara County Community College plus restaurants, a pastry shop and a wine boutique. (See accompanying Cheap Eats review on Page 17.) But it didn\u2019t really hit me until we sat down at Savor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Buffalo News: Ten years ago, when my job included reporting developments \u2013 or lack thereof \u2013 in downtown Niagara Falls, I was often asked where to find the best meal within a walk of the famed cataracts. My answers made hungry people sad. Three weeks ago, I found myself eating at a fine&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,54,2],"tags":[319,8847,8846,3234,8139,41,8156,64,8845],"class_list":["post-16083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-dining","category-niagara-falls-new-york","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-buffalo-news","tag-culinary-institute","tag-culinary-students","tag-fine-dining","tag-niagara-county-community-college","tag-niagara-falls","tag-rainbow-mall","tag-restaurants","tag-wine-boutique"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}