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  • Alex K.

    Places around the U.S. actively seek to imitate what J-J's Cafe is, a uniquely neighborhood venue where locals mill about over plentiful coffee, filling breakfast specials, and carefree banter from proprietors. Restaurateurs in trendy parts of Brooklyn, Beacon Hill, and Berkeley build places like this. J-J's has sat at the corner of University and Kenmore Avenue for as long as anyone in this neighborhood can remember, serving basic breakfast and lunch fare between the hours of 7.00 AM and 1.30 PM. Nothing that this place does is fancy, exotic, or newfangled; you won't find avocadoes, arugula, or fusion anything on the menu. Your choices are eggs, omelets, pancakes, soup, and sandwiches. Coffee is grim and basic, most certainly not Colombian, Brazilian, or Turkish. Nearly geriatric clientele grouse about aches, pains, bowling scores, and disputes of yesteryear. But boy, something about the place feels so comfortable, so at home. Sitting in thoroughly broken in, nearly broken down chairs separated by mustard yellow tabletops, minutes sleepily roll over into half-hours, into hours. If you're not careful, one order of pancakes might turn into another. Your belly, already loaded from an omelet bulging with vegetables and cheese, might absentmindedly demand a side of toast, home fries. Give J-J's a chance some weekday when you can afford an hour or two. Bring a paper, or better yet, a friend. On my way out today, one gentleman patted his belly, patted a bespectacled comrade on the back, and harrumphed, "Why do I keep coming back here? I keep getting fatter!" Because the food and atmosphere are great, of course! Note: Hours of Operation are 7.00 AM through 1.30 PM daily. Cash only. Pricing: Prices for breakfast specials are generally less than $5.00 before coffee.

    (4)
  • Dmachop C.

    Awesome vegetable sandwich and coffee to top off your breakfast with spicy potato mash. If you're okay with crowded environment.

    (5)
  • Sarah K.

    Cheap good breakfast food at rock bottom price! The owner is very personable and funny. My husband I met two old men on the way in who had us crackin up. Good vibes. Lots of coffee!

    (5)
  • Sunder V.

    Excellent food and great service.. The owners of the place are the ones who make the food. They customize the food based on how you want it to taste.. Just for the people who have a palette to take in spicy food, he just makes it the right way.. A great hang out place for brunches or breakfasts at any time...

    (5)
  • Steve W.

    Eating breakfast at J J's Cafe has been long overdue for me, almost 12 years since my last visit. I used to be a regular and after all those years this place really hasn't changed at all. Same yellow tables and wall clock after all this time...wow! However, inflation finally caught up to the original .99 cent breakfast special. Now it's $2.25, for 2 eggs any way...and sometimes they can be a little runny around the edges, but to me that's just the old school diner way......choice of toast, and the Indian inspired spicy home fry potatoes with green peppers and onions...yum! Still an amazing deal. If you also order a bottomless cup of coffee, you'll have the best cheapest breakfast in town! And probably one of the better spots in Buffalo to cure a hangover after a late night out on the town. Actually the best part of going here is the owner J. He's hilarious! And if his breakfast won't put a smile on your face, he will with his witty/fun/sarcastic personality. Just a sample of what I overheard on my last visit: J: Would you like toast too? Customer: Yeah toast, just don't burn it. J: I don't burn toast, the toaster does that!

    (4)
  • Jon O.

    I have only been alive for 22 years, so within that context, it's still a fact that I have never been at a diner with such incredible service. The owner/cook and waitress who run the place have enough kindness flowing out of them to carry the entire Westboro Baptist church up to heaven alongside them. The food is given to you hot, mainly because the place is as big as my closet. Given the price, kindness, and solid breakfast you won't find a more enjoyable place to spend your morning

    (5)
  • Kumara S.

    Delicious breakfast with a touch of Indian spices. Made me rush there all the 3 days I stayed in Buffalo. :)

    (5)
  • Shaheen A.

    I go there every morning with my boyfriend. Food is well prepared, fast service, & great environment. We call the owners uncle and aunty, they both know us and they know our usual. The best part about it is that it's extremely cheap! For the #1 special and garbage plate (huge dish) & drinks, cost only 13 bucks.

    (5)
  • Tanjima Z.

    Simple food. Simple setting. Friendly owner. The place is only open till 1 PM and mainly a place for breakfast or brunch. The food is cheap and good! A perfect little breakfast diner.

    (4)
  • Kristin D.

    $2.89 for breakfast?! Ummm, I wish I came here sooner. With Amy's place around the corner, I'm surprised this place isn't packed full of College students on the regs. My goal is to tell as many people as humanly possible to go here instead. Why? No angry waitresses, and better coffee. $2.89 for eggs, hashbrowns and toast! Add coffee? $5 total for breakfast + tip. Spice on your potatoes? Do it. So good. These people have been open for over 20 years and they're still there because they do breakfast well. It's not fancy, it's simple, quick, cheap and delicious. Hungover from the night before? It doesn't matter, go here. Service is just as good as the food. Plenty of parking in the lot next door. Looking to be adventurous? Try the texas homefries for lunch! Cash only.

    (5)
  • Tiffany P.

    Small place that is very cozy and homelike. The cook is funny and sarcastic. They refill your coffee often and give you a large portion size. Definitely would come again.

    (5)
  • Alex J.

    I went here based on Yelp reviews...huge mistake. It smells like mothballs in there...and the clientele wasn't the best. I think there were actually two homeless guys eating next to us. It would make sense...the food is so inexpensive you can get full for $5. The food isn't that good either. Now...after saying all that...here's why I'm giving this 3 stars. The owners were awesome. Welcoming, incredibly nice and funny. I'm not going back...but they were great people that give good service.

    (3)
  • Fox E.

    There used to be one of these down in Richmond, and another one in Roanoke, one in Fairfax, and one in Virginia Beach. One by one, they closed down, and now, alas, there are no VA JJ's. It's a shame because like many people, I really, really, REALLY loved the VA JJ's. I thought I'd never taste anything as good as those VA JJ's again. Until this place opened up. What to get: Breakfast sandwich extra spicy. What else: Anything extra spicy. JJ was a man who thought he was a loner, but he knew it wouldn't last. Whereas this restaurant has lasted a long time, and may it last forever and always into the future. This is one of those diners that is made, is defined, is illuminated, by its wonderful owners. It's a couple from I'm-not-sure-where-but-it's-somewhere-far-away. Maybe somewhere near where my father is from but I will have to ask sometime. And they are the loveliest and most fun couple... the guy is a riot. Always loud, always friendly, always overbearing in the best possible way, always pushing his secret spicy concoctions on you and into you... so to speak. All they really make is all-american cheap diner food (and it's f***ing cheap, believe me, especially for North Buffalo), but it's unlike any other cheap diner food. Always ask for everything spicy, or extra spicy. The burger. The chopped steak sandwich. The breakfast sandwiches. The omelette. I recommend the Sausage & Egg breakfast sandwich extra spicy. It's big and it's under $5 and it's absolutely DELICIOUS and my dining partner agreed, big time. I don't know what kinds of spices and peppers he uses in there but it rocks my world. It's one of the best breakfast sandwiches I've had anywhere. If only he was open a bit later (closes 1.30pm) I'd be in here for these lovely jubbly luscious babies more often. But if ever a diner in this heavenforsaken city (not really, but we do get a lot of snow) deserved a 5/5 it would be JJs. By the way, doesn't Heavenforsaken sound like a town in New Jersey, moreover, one that is referenced in a Billy Joel song? Who needs a house out in Heavenforsaken Ken Ken Ken Ken Ken? Is that all you get for your money? And it seems such a waste of time if that's what it's all about. If that's moving up then I'm... going to JJ's. I do miss those VA JJ's though. So anyway back to this JJ's. Usually when I feel this way about a place, nobody else does, or nobody knows it exists, so I'm delighted to see so many people have already reviewed it and many of my friends actually agree with me about it. I think its location near Hertel and near UB South and near Kenmore, means it's very accessible to several different food-eating fan bases, so in that regard it lucked out, because I can imagine if this was out in Wheatfield, on Transit or Southwestern, I'd be like, the 3rd person reviewing it instead of the 103rd. Delightful. You definitely need to try this. It's tiny, it's a little shack, it's not the cleanest, it has some hilarious and offensive and crazy old signs all over the place, badly spelled and handwritten, it has naughty pix in the bathroom (seriously, well, kind of), and the couple running it are wonderful, the prices are excellent and the food... the food is utterly delicious. And the irony that I wrote this review while inside a Starbucks makes me giggly. Not girlie giggly, but... OK, maybe a little girlie. Now having said all that, if you order anything without the extra spice, it's a little bland. Still good though. So if you like bland, do it, but for someone that likes exotic tastes and for things to be a little different... well let's just say there's a reason he's pushing all that spice on everyone that walks in, and their mother. And make sure you go to the cinema to see that new movie about this place. The Hunger Games: Mocking JJ's. It's about a group of nasty people led by Donald Sutherland who take the p**s out of this place, but are vanquished at the end by a rather curvy Jennifer Lawrence... curvier than before partly because her diet to prepare for this role was eating at JJ's every night for a year. Except that they close at 1.30pm. But you know what I mean. The owner guy actually told me he's thinking of opening up some new VA JJ's again, starting with Virginia Beach. I told him, if there are any VA JJ's, I am there, I am all over it, I'll be in there at the very moment it opens up, and I will be going down there to sample the delicacies and deliciousness on a regular basis. I mean, that's how delicious the VA JJ's were (and this one is too). He says there's not enough exposure in VA for JJ's, but that his new VA JJ's will change that, and he's hoping that everyone in Virginia will come out and taste the deliciousness of the VA JJ's. I hope he has enough money to get it started and I hope some of you Buffalonians will come down to Virginia Beach and try the VA JJ's with me once they are open.

    (5)
  • Alex L.

    Alright, I'm sold. JJ's is a divey diner, it's a bit frigid, but Alex K is on point that restauranteurs in NYC try to craft places like this. With JJ's, there's no craft, just authenticity, charm and good value. The owner very obviously cares about the place and the friendliness here reflects that. The menu is simple. Omelets, eggs and bacon. I ordered 3 eggs over easy with home fries, toast and coffee and when I checked out...my total bill was $5.10. I gave them a $20 and they gave me $15 back and told me not to worry about the 10 cents! You can't get a meal with coffee for $5 almost anywhere these days, so I was super happy to end up in this Greek diner. The eggs were perfectly over easy and I enjoyed putting them on a piece of rye toast and eating them. The home fries were A-OK. If anything, I think that's the one thing that could use some improvement. My friend ordered a veggie omelet. I took a photo of it because it was smothered with cheese. I didn't try it, but just make sure you like cheese before ordering an omelet. Another friend recommended I try their breakfast sandwich extra spicy and I definitely will check that out next time I find myself at JJ's. There is so much more to try at JJ's -- I want to come back soon and give their breakfast sandwich a try!

    (4)
  • Alfredo Y.

    Small place. Really homely. Not exactly super clean and proper, but it has a nice, relaxed feel to it. Seats about 20-25 people from both the counter and table seats. Great service. Very friendly people. The cook is hilarious and witty. Cheap breakfast, lunch, brunch food. Endless coffee for $2. Definitely coming back in the future.

    (5)
  • Kelly B.

    JJ's is the perfect little hole in the wall, everyone knows your name, breakfast spot. Don't expect a big menu or fancy decor. Just a small little diner, with a small little menu, small little prices and with a small little owner ;) but very BIG in flavor! Especially if you ask for "the spice" My favorite is the polish sausage breakfast. We LOVE rolling out of bed on the weekends and heading over to JJ's.

    (5)

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Italian Cuisine

The immense popularity of Italian cuisine globally isn't unknown. You can find an Italian Pizzeria around every corner of almost every city in the United States. Not to forget that in every house, people enjoy mac and cheese as comfort food. But it would be wrong to believe that Italian food starts with pizza and ends with good pasta as this Mediterranean country has much more to offer other than these two dishes. In Italian Cuisine, there is a high use of fresh tomatoes, all kinds of herbs, great quality of cheese, all types of meat, seafood and fresh handmade pasta. Many find it hard to believe that Italians have been making noodles long back.

Italian and Greek cuisines are always mistaken to be same, but they are poles apart. The primary difference between the two cuisines is the use of cheese in most of the Italian dishes. Italians love to cultivate their own cheese and process them as per their food requirement. It is believed that some cheese is so expensive that cheese producers secure them in lockers.

If you are bored eating the same old pasta or pizza, you can try some of the authentic Italian dishes like Risotto, Polenta, Ribollita, Lasagna, Fiorentina Steak, Bottarga, Ossobuco, Carbonara, Focaccia, Arancini and Supplì. Another item which Italians love to relish every morning is a good cup of Italian Coffee. Once you taste a freshly brewed cup of Italian Coffee, you might not visit Starbucks ever again. Authentic Italian food is made with heart and soul, so go find a restaurant where you can relish Italian cuisine in your city.

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