Butter Block ★ 4.7
Butter Block on Rhode Island Street in the Five Points neighborhood moved from market pop-up to brick-and-mortar in 2019, with French laminated pastries.
Worth the queue: Almond croissant
Five Points Bakery and Toast Cafe is a bakery in Buffalo.
Five Points Bakery on Brayton Street mills its own wheat from Western New York farms and bakes whole-grain sourdoughs at a West Side toast-cafe counter.
Address: 44 Brayton St, Buffalo, NY 14213
Butter Block on Rhode Island Street in the Five Points neighborhood moved from market pop-up to brick-and-mortar in 2019, with French laminated pastries.
Worth the queue: Almond croissant
Paula's Donuts at the Williamsville Main Street shop fries oversized sour-cream and yeast donuts daily, a Western New York obsession with morning lines.
Worth the queue: Sour-cream glazed donut
Paula's Donuts on Sheridan Drive in Tonawanda is the original location of the Buffalo-area oversized donut chain, with Texas-sized sour-cream glazed.
Worth the queue: Sour-cream glazed
Parkside Candy on Main Street at Winspear is a 1927 candy temple, with a walnut soda fountain, oval Adam-period interior and Buffalo's signature sponge candy.
Worth the queue: Sponge candy
Watson's Chocolates on Elmwood Avenue is the Buffalo city shop of the Western New York sponge-candy maker hand-crafting confections since 1946.
Worth the queue: Sponge candy
Fowler's Chocolates on Niagara Falls Boulevard is the original maker of Buffalo sponge candy, in business since 1910 and a city signature confection.
Worth the queue: Original sponge candy