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When I sat on my couch for the 22nd day in a row and compiled a bracket of 32 restaurants around Central New York, I knew we’d get some feedback. Food is a passionate topic! I love to cook, and there’s nothing I’m more prideful of than the food I know I cook well and goddamnit if you’re going to tell me it isn’t special in some way.
We got plenty of constructive criticism, some really solid seeding analysis, got that sweet parental approval we all yearn for, and even inspired a competing bracket! But the vitriol inspired, wow. I’ve been on the butt end of some online beatings, but this was the first time someone called my work trash.
And you know what? Bring it on. We only saw three upsets in the the Round of 32, which is less than most single days of the NCAA Tournament! Sure, your favorite place may be under-seeded, but is there anything more Syracuse than a stuck up dude from a big city giving a CNY establishment a low seed only for them to make a run?
But, for what you all came to see... the Savory 16!
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92%
#1 Dinosaur BBQ
(214 votes) -
7%
#16 Change of Pace
(17 votes)
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39%
#9 The Mission
(82 votes) -
60%
#8 Kitty Hoynes
(126 votes)
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46%
#5 Twin Trees
(96 votes) -
53%
#21 Heid’s
(110 votes)
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30%
#20 Scotch N’ Sirloin
(68 votes) -
69%
#4 Tully’s
(152 votes)
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48%
#3 Blarney Stone
(104 votes) -
51%
#14 Brooklyn Pickle
(109 votes)
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69%
#7 Pastabilities
(156 votes) -
30%
#10 Delmonico’s
(67 votes)
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39%
#18 Joey’s Italian
(82 votes) -
60%
#2 Alto/Otro Cinco
(128 votes)
Polling closes for all matchups on Tuesday Night night at 9 p.m. ET.
So make your voices heard, foodies of CNY. Let me know exactly how wrong I am, how much I #DISRESPEKTED your favorite place. I’ll eat it all up like the catfish burrito from Alto.