Dive into a hands-on chocolate experience that’s as fun as it is delicious!

“Eros is a vital force in this world - a true antidote to despair. And If you ask me, so is cooking up a fine pasta meal and celebrating that process with people!" - Ashley Smith

Dive into a hands-on chocolate experience that’s as fun as it is delicious!

Saturday, February 1, we invite you to join us as we kick off and honor Black History Month by celebrating the contributions of local Black-owned businesses in Buffalo. These inspiring entrepreneurs strengthen Buffalo’s local food network and champion community-driven sustainability efforts, enriching our local economy, culture, and shared future.

Meet the Makers: Connect with the people behind these local businesses and learn how their passion and hard work contribute to our community's growth and sustainability.

Enjoy 25% off all products and tastings from:

▪️ Sadies Foods: Flavorful relishes crafted locally. (Meet the Maker at Hertel only!)

▪️ Cake Crazy Bakery 716: Delicious baked goods.

▪️ renew bath and body: Sustainable skincare products.

▪️ John Youngs Original: A Buffalo culinary icon with a powerful legacy.

We hope you join us to reflect, celebrate, and uplift the voices and work of Black entrepreneurs whose contributions continue to shape our community. We’re proud to work with them and invite you to join us in celebrating their legacy, resilience, and our collective vision for a stronger, more connected Buffalo.

Dive into a hands-on chocolate experience that’s as fun as it is delicious!

🏈 Calling all snack enthusiasts and football “fans” who just show up for the food—this one’s for you!🏈

📅 Saturday, January 11th | ⏰ 11 AM - 2 PM 📍 Both Lexington Co-op stores

Stop by for FREE bites of game-day-inspired snacks—perfect for planning your spread, impressing your friends, or just treating yourself to a little taste of victory.

💙❤️ Go Bills! (and snacks)!

👶 Tiny Tastebuds, Big Adventure! 🌟 Join us for a demo of Food Nerd's baby food—designed for the tiniest connoisseurs! 🥄 Let your little one explore a world of flavor and nutrition (with none of the mess on your kitchen floor).

And don’t forget, our tree pop-up is happening all weekend!

Learn to make apple and cherry lattice pies from our Baker, Courtney!

Impress your guests this holiday season with a scratch-made lattice pie! Our talented baker, Courtney is back with another class just in time for the holidays! 🍂

Participants will:

🥧Play a pie trivia game

🥧Watch pie dough demonstrations

🥧Make cherry and apple pie filling

🥧Learn how to lattice on a 6" pie which will be taken home (baking instructions will be given)

All recipes will be printed for participants to take home.

Get Excited for Tastegiving!🍽️

What's... tastegiving?

Tastegiving is your opportunity to sample our scratch-made pies, 🥧savory sides, and delicious, locally raised, Wendel's turkeys, and chat with our experts for cooking and baking tips. 🌿And of course we offer vegan and vegetarian options! 🌿You can even let us do the work for you with pre-order options designed to make your holiday stress-free and delicious.

Stop in at the Co-op on Saturday, November 9th from 11-2pm at BOTH store locations! 🛒

We love pumpkins🎃! They are versatile, they come in fun shapes and colors and best of all they are fun to bake with! Join us and learn from our Baker, Courtney to make your own pumpkin cake!

For this class participants will:

🎃 Play a trivia game about pumpkins and pumpkin products
🎃Watch a demonstration on how to make pumpkin cake

🎃Watch a demo on how to make cinnamon buttercream frosting

🎃Watch a video on pumpkin baked goods

🎃Decorate pumpkin cakes

🎃Each participant will take home 2 pumpkin cakes that they decorated. (Cakes will be 5" round nova cartes)

Don't miss out on this fantastic opportunity to expand your baking skills and enjoy some pumpkin treats. Hope to see you there! 🥧

Check out the new mural on our Hertel Avenue store and join us for an afternoon of community, art, music, dance, food, drinks and fun!

Click here to get your tickets now for the upcoming `Preserving the Harvest Class `led by Bethany from Massachusetts Avenue Project!

On the agenda is pickling corn, peppers and cucumbers; canning peaches; and a demo on canning tomatoes, all in our Hertel Store Community Cafe. Learning to preserve fruits and veggies will not only extend the shelf-life of your local summer produce but will also help stretch your grocery budget!

Included in the cost of the ticket:

• Make and take home your own jars of pickled local produce

• Recipes to take home

• Light Co-op fare and refreshments

Bethany is the Kitchen Manager at the Massachusetts Avenue Project, an urban farm and food justice nonprofit on Buffalo's West Side. She considers herself a "sustainatarian" and is passionate about using local and seasonal food as much as possible as well as reducing food waste through the use of creative recipes. She also loves to forage for edible mushrooms and other wild foods.

#pickling #canning #preserving #local #coop #elmwoodvillage #hertelavenue #seasonal #buffalo #shopsmallbuffalo

Try something new and learn from the Co-op’s Bakery Educator, Courtney. Learn to veganize recipes, bake and decorate your own vegan cake to take home, all from our Hertel Store location!

Learn how to make a delicious homemade pie from Boom! Pie owner & Buffalo native, Kelsey Cimiano. Ticket includes a whole pie to take home!

Join us and GObike on Friday, the 14th for a FREE Bike to Work Breakfast. We’ll have breakfast foods and coffee and best of all, community! We will also have GObike’s High Gear coffee to taste that you can purchase at both stores. Proceeds from coffee sales will go to support GObike Buffalo's initiatives.

These efforts Include:

• Recycle-A-Bike: Local students learn basic bike mechanics and build their own bikes

• Sisters Cycling: Working with refugee women to ride confidently and maintain their own bikes

• Youth Bike Giveaway: GObike's annual effort to donate more than 300 bikes to kids in need

• Open Shop: Allowing members to fix their bikes with GObike Buffalo's tools and guidance

• Bike Rodeo: Teaching kids how to ride

• Mobile Repair:  GObike Buffalo teams go into neighborhoods and fix anyone’s bike for free
  

High Gear Coffee is roasted by 716 Ministries and is a blend of Ethiopian and Colombian beans. It has notes of brown sugar, apple and grapefruit.

Learn to bake healthier! Participants will enjoy tastings, presentations, games, and make and take home your own vegan gluten free fudge.

Learn to make a traditional German meal. Leave class well-fed, with a recipe book in hand, as well as a jar of house-made kraut!

Watch a demonstration by our expert baker, top your own brownies and take them home! Family fun and a chocolaty adventure

Join us on April 18 at 6PM to make fresh pasta from scratch with flour and eggs along with the ragù sauce to go with it!

About the Instructor:

Come learn with Luca, born and raised in Brucoli, a charming fisherman's village in Sicily. It was there, watching his mother, that he developed a deep passion for cooking. Now, he enjoys sharing the flavors of authentic Italian cuisine with all who are eager to learn and eat! ;) Check out his Instagram @mangiaconluca!

Welcome to Plant-Based Passover: A Cooking Demonstration and Tasting Event!

Come join us on Sun, Apr 14, 2024 at 1678 Hertel Ave where we'll introduce and demonstrate recipes that feature a plant-based approach to a Passover meal that are easy to prepare, delicious, and appealing to all.

3.14 is Pi Day, and at the Co-op, its Pi(e) day! Save 20% on our scratch-baked and delicious cherry, apple, key lime and banana cream pies! $1 of each pie sold supports Big Big Table.