The Nickel Plate, a new restaurant, bar and market stocked with locally made goods, is now open at the Niagara Frontier Food Terminal. Tyrel Reynolds and Nick Smith, former Mazurek's Bakery owners, converted a 7,700-square-foot space at the food terminal and opened the Nickel Plate (1500 Clinton St.) earlier in May.
Owners Tyrel Reynolds, left, and Nick Smith have opened the Nickel Plate, a restaurant, bar and market inside the Niagara Frontier Food Terminal. The menu includes a strawberry goat cheese salad and veggie wrap, sharable jumbo chicken wings, totachos (tater tot nachos) and a bacon cheeseburger served on a glazed doughnut bun. There are also sandwiches, wraps, burgers and salads you would expect to find on a lunch menu.
Reynolds described the offerings as "upscale bar food." The bar's 12 rotating beers are all produced in New York State. More than 100 Western New York businesses have signed on to sell their goods within the Nickel Plate.
Fill your refrigerator and pantry with local foods including Babcia's Pierogi, Joey G's Wing Sauce, M&M Pickles, Niagara County-grown produce, Issa's pita chips, Stingers BBQ rubs and seasonings, B.C. Candy freeze-dried candy, KO's Kettle Corn and Park Edge Sweet Shoppe candies.
The Nickel Plate is open from 11 a.m. to 8 p.
m. every day. Diners can eat inside or on the patio.
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