(In First Look, we visit a new restaurant or bar in Central New York to give readers an idea of what to expect. If you know of a new place, email me at [email protected] or call/text me at 315-382-1984. If I take your suggestion, I just might buy you a meal.)
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Liverpool, N.Y. — Imagine what the walls inside 920 Old Liverpool Road have gone through over the past 20 years. First, they smelled of Big Macs and fries when the building housed a McDonald’s. Later, Village Burger put its stamp here, earning syracuse.com’s title of Best Burger in Central New York in 2012 before closing during Covid. Hope Café gave it a go there for a few years, and then the space sat vacant long enough for the walk-in freezer to turn into a horror movie prop…