Heading to Oneonta - Help Please

[jfood]

Heading to Oneonta, NY in a couple of weeks to narrow and choose college for little jfood.

Any restos people in the area could recommend please.

TIA

[trakman]

Brooks is a classic place in Oneonta, and caters chicken BBQ's throughout the area for multiple fund raisers. They do it well, but my only complaint is that I find their generic sauce for beef and pork very sweet, almost to the point of being cloying

[jaylhorner]

Not to mention very salty chicken .. doesn't seem to bother others as much as me.

[HypeKiller]

Is Sabitini's still around? Im sure the neptune diner still is. brooks of course I was at college there nearly a decade ago, surely among the wildest times of my life. I was too broke as well as too inebriated to get too into any real dining scene
but what a place. I remember another diner, besides neptune on main street that was owned by thais, they offered thai dishes in addition to the standard diner fare, although I never got around to trying it. Reds filling station was known for the best wings and they had them on special some night. The Silver bullit used to sell pizza from window boooths in the bar

[jfood]

All

You have no idea how much I thank you guys for this. Given little jfood needs to choose a college and the other is in a great food town, NOLA, I wanted to make sure this dinner does not create a bias in her or M&M Jfood..

[2busymom]

I have a feeling that the food is not going to be a deciding factor, but the difference between Oneonta, NY and NOLA may have some bearing instead. Pretty much two different worlds!

[amanda3571]

haha VERY different worlds!

[2busymom]

Have been to both Brooks and Farmhouse and agree with recommendations for both. Brooks casual but great BBQ, Farmhouse a little nicer atmosphere and good food.

[amanda3571]

Jfood - I went to college in Oneonta. While there are no real stellar restaurants in the area...here are some things to try.

Stella Luna http://www.stellalunas.com/
The Farmhouse http://www.farmhouserestaurant.com/
Brooks BBQ http://brooksbbq.com/

For light lunch eats in town....try Autumn Cafe or Elana's.

In regards to dinner, if you're looking for something a little more upscale than these, than your best bet is to head next door to Cooperstown and dine at the Otesaga which is a beautiful hotel right on Cooperstown Lake - http://www.otesaga.com/

[amanda3571]

This may help too.

http://www.oneonta.ny.us/tourism/eate...

[scunge]

The Purple Eggplant on Chestnut st good Italian bread (the best I found in the area)and sandwiches.It's a bakery and grocery ,tables coffee etc.

[shellyesq]

I'll third the Stella Luna recommendation. Sabatini's is also decent, but I found Stella Luna to be in a different league.

[Addisonchef]

A quick google search for Oneonta restaurants came up with a bunch of restaurants, mostly Italian. My family is from this region in NY and Italian is the thing to eat, and most is really good. Although I've driven through Oneonta on the highway a million times, I've only eaten there once. I'm fairly certain this was the restaurant, and it was very good:
http://stellalunas.com/

I was very surprised by Oneonta, I thought it was a lovely town. Best of luck!

[mom2]

If you like bbq, you have to go to Brooks!
http://www.brooksbbq.com/index.php

It has been a long time since I've been up there, so I really can't recommend anything else...

[AmyH]

I was just about to suggest Brooks but you beat me to it! That's the only place in Oneonta that I can think of, too.

[TonyO]

Brooks or pack a picnic from home !

[macca]

Saw this post- I will be in Cooperstown for a baseball tournament this summer. Brooks sounds like a great place to bring the kids.

[LJNew]

I heartily agree with this and the other posts recommending Brooks BBQ but have to say that the thing to order is the BBQ chicken. It is the BEST.