Garbage Plates: Rochester's Best-Kept Secret || Food/Groups

People are shocked to hear that Rochester, a one-time boomtown on the southern shore of Lake Ontario, is actually the third-biggest city in the Empire State. It might not have New York City’s international cachet, or Buffalo’s diehard sports traditions, but Rochester has something arguably even better: the garbage plate. It’s a glorious, 3000-calorie gutbuster of greasy lunch counter staples, from macaroni salad to cheeseburgers, and it brings this Rust Belt city together across lines of class, race, and generation. Watch Food/Groups Season 1 —    • Food Porn, Drone Montage, GoPro Fail || Fo...   Guests Chris Clemens: exploringupstate.com Linh Phillips: sirrochasays.com Pete Wayner: boomtowntable.com Locations Nick Tahou Hots: http://www.garbageplate.com/ Stingray Fusion Food Truck: http://www.stingraysushifusion.com/ Rochester Red Wings - http://www.milb.com/index.jsp?sid=t534 Special thanks Eric Vilas-Boas:   / e_vb_   Leah Stacy:   / leahstacy   Music Credits "Attracted 2" by Myriam Ba/Aleksandra Plavsic 0:00 "Catch Us" by David Nathan 1:11 "Gold Light Gold Love" by Altidore/Chance 3:33 "Breeze" by Nicolas Boscovic 5:47 Subscribe to Thrillist    / @thrillist   Check out our website for more food, drink, travel and entertainment. https://www.thrillist.com Like us on Facebook   / thrillist   Follow us on Instagram   / thrillist   Sign up to our newsletter https://signup.thrillist.com/