Binghamton Restaurant Week: How a Binghamton Staple Got It’s Name

Binghamton Restaurant Week is back! You know it's a good week when it last's 10 days.

Tara and I have a tradition that began 3 years ago, where we go to Binghamton Hots.

She loves it so much she made a t-shirt. She recently asked me how the restaurant got it's name and it got me thinking. Good question.

They got the name from the 'HOT Plate' which is modeled after the famed 'Garbage Plate' of Rochester. These 'Plates' have been a Rochester tradition since 1918.

It's an assortment of cheeseburgers, hot dogs, home fries, macaroni salad, or just about anything else the kitchen can cook up, all topped with HOT's homemade Rochester style hot sauce!

Tara and I are taking our field trip today to Binghamton Hots for our annual Binghamton Restaurant Week tradition. I think it's an excused absence when it's a field trip, right. She told me last night that she can already taste the honey mustard.

Binghamton Hots is at 128 Washington Street, downtown Binghamton. I call Washington Street, "the little side street near the radio station."

Binghamton Restaurant Week runs through April 2nd, with proceeds supporting the Boys & Girls Clubs of Binghamton and Broome County Habitat for Humanity.