Scene this week at Buffalo area restaurants

Strawberry season, and the resulting pastries, salads, compotes and cocktails, are here.

Farmer Bob Weiss, of Weiss Farms, sold his popular pesticide-free “very sweet” berries at the Elmwood Village Farmers Market. He also supplies strawberries to local chefs, like the team at Grange Community Kitchen.

“They’re riding really well now,” Weiss said. “We have reached the peak of the season.”

Savor strawberry specialties before the short season passes. Weiss fruit arrived earlier than usual this year thanks to a warm spring and is already starting to decline.

Barn (22 Main St., Hamburg) features Weiss Farms berries on the menu. They are pureed and served on ricotta toast with basil and toasted pine nuts. They are also available on an olive oil cake.

Cornelia at Buffalo AKG (1285 Elmwood Ave.) offers a seasonal strawberry burrata salad, scallops with a sweet and sour strawberry-rhubarb stomach sauce, and a parfait with strawberry-rhubarb compote.

Daniela (387 Forest Ave.) makes an Italian tiramisu topped with berries, nicknamed berrimisu.

The farm shop (235B Lexington Ave.) offers strawberry and oatmeal cereal from the Savage Wheat Project and strawberry milk from Burley Berries.

Mojo Market (3030 Delaware Ave.) makes strawberry-vanilla glazed muffins.

Prescott Provisions (40 E. Niagara St., Tonawanda) Pastry chef Carly Palmiero offers a strawberry and rhubarb tart.

Remedy House (429 Rhode Island St.) cuts Massachusetts Avenue Project strawberries to top toast lathered with whipped honey mascarpone, basil oil and mint leaf. Also on the menu: an iced mocha or a lemonade with homemade strawberry syrup.

Winfield Pub (1213 Ridge Road, Lackawanna) offers a strawberry and juniper berry margarita.

Beer-style brewing opens its brewery July 6 at 2765 Kenmore Ave., Tonawanda. Twenty beers will be available on an automatic tap wall, allowing customers to fill their own glasses and enjoy multiple drinks. Beer Kind’s signature and seasonal beers will be available on tap, including Smile Be Hoppy, a citrus IPA, and other New York State ciders and wines, as well as non-alcoholic beverages.

Factory espresso opened at the Hart House Hotel (113 W. Center St., Medina). Next to craft cocktail bar Shirt Factory, Factory Espresso uses beans from Lockport’s Steamworks Coffee and Pittsford Farms Dairy milk. Specialty espresso drinks include a purple ube latte (a popular dessert flavor in Filipino cuisine) and a s’mores drink topped with toasted marshmallow.

Pour Taproom open one after–ski location in Ellicottville this fall. The bar will be attached to the Lincoln Boutique Motel. Pour Taproom currently operates at 490 Pearl St., where it also has a self-serve taproom wall, allowing customers to pour their own beer, cider and wine.

Weekly food truck events have started for the season. We have selected six to visit this summer.

Downtown Bazaar The future is uncertain since its lease expires at the end of the year. The Westminster Economic Development Initiative (WEDI) board is exploring “creative solutions” to keep the bazaar open, despite losing money.

As community mourns demolition of Old Pink in Allentown following a fire Monday morning, some paid homage to the steak sandwiches that have become cult over the years. “Our hearts go out to all the good people who have worked there over the years and provided us with incredible steak sandwiches accompanied by the best possible soundtrack,” wrote local blog Buffalo Food Otaku, run by Joseph and Sadako “Sadie” Leta. , on Instagram. Buffalo News reporter Ben Tsujimoto wrote about Old Pink steak sandwiches, which featured peppers and onions cooked in Guinness, in 2020.