Now that spring is here, it may be a good time to send a special friend a Buffalo gift basket. I'm always looking for interesting Buffalo gifts to send to friends, so it was fortunate that I ran into Quaker Bonnet Eatery owner, Liz Kolken, who was busy wrapping a gift basket to send out of town. Liz told me that the combo gift baskets are very popular with Buffalo ex-pats who are constantly searching out Buffalo-related products. "All of the baskets are different," Liz told me. "We have books and CDs, and food. We send stuff all over the world. Anyone who wants something custom packed... give us a budget and tell us what you want. We have Allentown authors, the Junior League Cookbook, the Garden Walk Book and the Buffalo Architecture book. We work with MadeinBuffalo.com... they do a bunch of baskets for us. Because we have a website people email us from everywhere. We have a Buffalonian who is in Antarctica doing Naval research. She orders the Buffalo Chips (coconut macaroons dipped in Chocolate). They're better-than-sex chewy cookies. We're not a traditional basket company so we have good value and no crappy items. We make between 500 and 1000 pounds of Buffalo Chips every week. That's all we do every Monday."
Quaker Bonnet Eatery is located at 175 Allen Street in Buffalo. 716.884-0438