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Spaghetti parm · Buffalo

Spaghetti baked with marinara sauce and a thick blanket of mozzarella and Parmesan, served as the canonical Buffalo Italian-American dish. The version at Chef's Restaurant downtown is the model.

Chef's Restaurant at the corner of Seneca and Chicago downtown opened in 1923 and built Buffalo's signature Italian-American spaghetti parm. Lou Billittier became sole owner in 1954 and the Billittier family carried the room for a century. The dish is now a Buffalo institution and the canonical version a generation of locals associate with downtown.

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