The Black Rock Lifestyle

One of the nice things about living in Black Rock, is that you get a lot of house for the money.  The previous pictures of the dining room showed it open with a small table.  Here is how much room there is even with the table expanded for six.  There is another leaf to this table and fully expanded, it still doesn't over-take the room.  It makes quite a nice setting for a big dinner.  Few houses in the city have dining rooms this big and we like to take full advantage of it.

Another great thing about  Black Rock, are the ingredients you can easily obtain for great entertaining.  This gathering took advantage of many local resources.  We are locavores -- not only from a produce perspective, but from a consumer perspective.  We served fresh beer from Flying Bison -- found up on Ontario St.  We served a variety of pizzas on homemade dough -- two of which were made with cappicolla (one sweet and one hot) from Spars European Sausage.  We picked up some cheese from them too along with cheese from Guercios.

Another awesome thing about Buffalo and this section of the city, is that these local high quality ingredients aren't expensive! I can just imagine if we lived, for example, in San Francisco or another high cost city. These ingredients would have cost a pretty penny.  In fact, I bet they'd cost more if we got them from a specialty shop in Amherst or Williamsville.  Having these small businesses locally means we have access to fresh high quality ingredients all within five minutes of the house.

If we hadn't baked a fresh apple pie, we'd have gone across the street from Spars to pick up brownies from Delish.  One of our hardest choices these days is whether we buy our decadent treats from Delish or Carriage Trade!

Black Rock is a *yummy* place to live.