East Aurora

East Aurora is a village in Erie County, New York, United States, southeast of Buffalo. It lies in the eastern half of the town of Aurora. The village population was 5,998 per the 2020 census. It is part of the Buffalo-Niagara Falls metropolitan area. Wikipedia.
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Vidler's 5 & 10, Inc.
1. Vidler's 5 & 10, Inc.
4.7
(3775)
Variety store
Shopping
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What a neat place to visit. Very large store with all kinds of knickknacks and such. You could browse for about an hour and not see everything. Definitely a cool place to go on a Sunday or Saturday afternoon. Things you never know you needed you can buy there. You always end up buying something. It’s a real fun place for the whole family with kids stuff there as well everything is priced reasonably. It’s nestled in the small town of East Aurora. A lot is walkable from there. Enjoy.
The old school five and dime. You'll find things that you never knew existed and things that you haven't seen in years. Prices are decently reasonable and service is good. True old fashioned building adds charm to this landmark. Well worth the 2-hour drive for me. Like the ads used to say, follow 20A to East Aurora and look for the Vidler on the roof.
always a fun stopover to wander around when passing through, you never have any idea what you're going to find! great for kids and adults alike, and extremely reasonable prices!
I’ve been here numerous times, every time I’m in Buffalo I head to East Aurora for Bar Bill wings and a blast from the past Fidlers. I love this store, I can spend an hour just pursuing the aisles.
A very interesting and amazing place to visit. Especially the drive out during fall. So many different items. Gorgeous snow globes. Candles, candy and toys. The people who work here are so friendly and helpful. You cannot be disappointed visiting Vidlers.
Wonderful store to browse. Lots of vintage things, huge selection of candy, toys, kitchen essentials. Friendly staff.
Great service! The lady at the other end of the store was able to check us out (it is actually a big store!) She was very kind. We explored all the toys they had there and all the smells at the candle/smells room. Lots of toys for kids there.
A HUGE 5 and dime, biggest in the world,I hear. They have everything from pots and pans to models and toys and candles and Buffalo Bills collectibles and candy and stuffed animals and the list goes on and on. There's an elevator that will hold two people in case you don't do stairs so well. Street entrance is to the second floor, entrance in the back is too the first floor. Plan to stay a while if you like to browse. Prices are a bit high for many items, but that's to be expected in a tourist attraction. I enjoyed my visit.
Roycroft Campus
2. Roycroft Campus
4.7
(198)
Historical landmark
Sights & Landmarks
Late-19th-century cradle for the US Arts & Crafts movement, with workshops, a museum & guided tours.
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Cool place . I came here for the art festival and the vendor turnout was awesome. The campus is beautiful.
I had never been here and I live not super far from it. It is really cool and a nice place to walk around and check out with a lot of cool history. It was worth going through and seeing the buildings and reading the history. There is a tour. We just did not make it LOL.
Attended a two day workshop for making a stained glass panel-- loved it! Beautifully maintained historic building & grounds. The gift shop is a destination in itself; garden/sculptures/paper/print art/glass/pottery/jewlery-- a little of everything!
Beautiful place that looks like a castle! It has entertaining events inside the building as well as in the courtyard. The shade from the trees makes it pleasant to be outside even on a hot day.
Its a beautiful place, art building open every day of the week.
Very beautiful didn't go in but loved architectural design enough to stop and take pictures Do note there is a face in the stone in peek of the roof.
It's such a beautiful place. I am participating there for the Fall Art festival. It's so professionally organized. Curated with high values and good tast.
The Roycroft Campus in East Aurora, New York is the best preserved and most complete complex of buildings remaining in the United States of the "guilds" that evolved as centers of craftsmanship and philosophy during the late 19th century. The Campus is designated a National Historic Landmark. The Roycroft Campus founded by Elbert Hubbard in 1897 was the birth place of the American Arts and Crafts movement that was a direct response to the Industrial Revolution. It was more than just a art movement...it was a way of thinking. Many of it's ideas are still relevant today. The Campus started off as the Roycroft Press which printed many of Elberts literary works. He previously worked at the Larkin Soap Company in Buffalo, NY. His wife Alice Hubbard was a noted women's suffragist. Elbert and Alice would eventually die aboard the RMS Lusitania. Fun Facts: A famous Roycrofter named W. W. Denslow illustrated the children's book The Wonderful World of Oz that would become adapted into the legendary film The Wizard of Oz. If you walk around the Campus and East Aurora you can see where he got his inspiration from. The lion head located on The Chapel is widely believed to be the inspiration for the illustration of the Cowardly Lion for W. W. Denslow's children's book The Wonderful World of Oz. The similarity is still evident in the iconic film adaptation The Wizard of Oz.
Millard Fillmore Museum
3. Millard Fillmore Museum
4.4
(81)
Historical landmark
Sights & Landmarks
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My brother and I visited the Millard Fillmore House & Museum on October 12, 2024. The house and museum are one in the same, hosted in a little house that the 13th president occupied for about four years. Admission is received by calling the Historic Society (check their website), and as far as I could tell, only one tour was offered on Saturdays (at 10 AM). The house is well-stocked with authentic furniture (including both originals and others from the era), and you will hear a lot from the tour guides about Fillmore, his life, and his presidency. Visitors can park on the street (for free) in front of the house. I enjoyed this tour, as did my brother. Our tour guides, Kathy and Luann, were very knowledgeable, and they were also very impressed by us. They made the tour interactive by asking many questions to our group. While this certainly isn't one of the larger presidential sites (of the houses, I think it's the second-smallest that I've been to, only beaten by Eisenhower's boyhood home), it is certainly a very impressive one. The on-site gift shop doesn't have a large selection, but we liked what we got. If you want to see presidential sites, make sure to stop by this one. Also, while you need to book your place on the tour in advance, you buy your tickets ($10) on site. While I said you need to wait up to 10 minutes, that's because my brother and I arrived around 9:51. You can't start the tour until the time that was set.
We had a day trip in Buffalo and decided to visit the Millard Fillmore house. The docents (Kathy and Mimi) did a wonderful job taking about the house and the president. You can tell the home is taken care of and we felt really engaged throughout the tour. If you have time, feel free to take the tour.
A very small home of President Milliard Fillmore. The home is very small and you need an appointment to go inside. We just did a 10 minute walk around his home. Really not worth the trip unless visiting in the area.
The house tour is by appointment only , but you can walk the grounds and see the garden.
The Millard Fillmore house and museum was my destination when visiting the Buffalo area. Situated in East Aurora, NY, on a quiet residential corner, you might think he could be anyone's neighbor. He built this house so that is the first and best thing to remember about it. Millard was only president from 1850-53, and unfortunately one of the lesser known U.S. Presidents. As such, you can't expect something as grand as Hyde Park & FDR's museum. Millard was a humble man and you can see that represented in his museum. You will also learn about the occupants of the home afterwards and how it came to be preserved from the 1800s. If you don't know a lot about President Fillmore, you will by the end of the tour. I am a bit biased because Millard Fillmore is my favorite President, but I truly think that anyone with an appreciation for history would enjoy this tour. Also includes actual Millard Fillmore owned and period artifacts as well as a small museum on the back end of the house. You do need to call in advance to arrange a tour, but that was no trouble at all. The tour guide was excellent and a wealth of information. I wish they would include literature about other Millard Fillmore places of interest for you to go and visit after the home, such as his law office, original location of the home, grave, etc.
Beautiful little place to learn about Millard Fillmore and his life before and after his presidency. And the staff are one of the beast and friendliest people I've seen on the my trip.
Enthusiastic personal attention from the hosts. Many items of great interest that had been in the Fillmore White House 170 years ago, including a piano I was encouraged to play.
We didn't go into the house because of the ten dollars per person admission cost. The ladies working there were very nice but we just took a peek instead. The garden and garage/shed were pretty and well-kept. Gave us a glimpsr of what a former Prrsident of the United States who lived in Western New York might have lived like. We sat out in the garden for a while and took some pictures.
Riley Street Station
4. Riley Street Station
4.3
(679)
American restaurant
Bar
Warm, laid-back outpost with patio seating serving hearty pub grub, plus beers, wine & cocktails.
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Stopped in for dinner and it was packed. We ended up just eating at the bar, as the wait was an hour. It worked out fine. Riley Street Station was decorated up nicely for the holidays. The Mediterranean wrap was good. Their fresh cut fries were great. The hand cut fingers were delicious. The scampi was reported to be good as well. The prices seemed reasonable. Service was good except for clearing the dirty plates, but overall a nice experience. We will be going back.
We enjoyed the cowboy burgers for lunch and I opted for the sweet potato fries. The food was delicious! I have had sweet potato fries at many places and these were really good! 5/5 on the sauce! Portion size for the burger was perfect too!
Pretty neat place as far as looks. The food was okay. The online menu is not the same as the restaurant menu ( prob just not updated) so make sure if you are going there for something specific they have it first.
Food was excellent. The chicken fingers were huge, just service was a tad slow and I Sat facing the sink/service area.... Appreciate the fact the owner or manager came around asking how our dinner was. P.S. the Cajun BBQ sauce is amazing!
I really enjoyed my chicken water! Just hope to see more water next time though. Gross food, $14 for one piece of mushroom that was also swimming in water. Service wasn’t great either. Atmosphere and decoration is the only thing thats good and you regret everything quickly after. They only have 4-5 things on the main menu and they shouldn’t be this bad. Never going again.
I've been dying to try this place for awhile, so me, my boyfriend, and son went last weekend. The food was delicious, we especially enjoyed the creamy spinach and artichoke appetizer. The service was fabulous, even with the busy atmosphere, which, too or surprise, there was even a band playing! Great music, great food, and great staff, all for a great price! Definitely will be back.
Tldr: No service during the unreasonably long waits for food, with way too much noise and a surly waitress. ** I do not recommend the glass patio if you have any kind of hearing problem or hearing related sensory issues. ** I went for lunch with a small group of around 10 people. The waitress got our drinks to the table and took our food orders fairly quickly. She then disappeared until our food was dropped off **over an hour later**. At that point, she offered drink refills and disappeared again until it was time to pay and leave. She also had an attitude - not a good one. I had the burger with apples on it. The apples were diced into tiny pieces and mixed with the BBQ sauce. I only know they were actually there because I could see the tiny lumps in the sauce. They added nothing to the taste or texture and didn't live up to the hype in the menu. The burger itself was properly cooked the way I asked for and tasted good. We sat in the glass patio. The scenery was a pretty view of the side of a hill. There's nothing to keep the sound from bounching around and echoing, so it was very loud with people talking and the overhead music. It was a small room with few people in it, but it sounded like the middle of a large crowd.
Went on Sunday, only seating at bar tables which was fine. Bartender totally ignored when we went up to order food and drinks. She was too busy with her friends at the other end of the bar to care that we needed anything. She was telling other people she didn't want to work, but nobody would take her shift. Some guy at bar took empty plates away (not sure if he was her bf). Other patrons were ready to leave. Hostess was absent when additional people were coming in.
Hawk Creek Wildlife Center, Inc.
5. Hawk Creek Wildlife Center, Inc.
4.8
(184)
Wildlife refuge
Nature & Parks
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My group and I couldn't have had a better experience here! As a birthday present for someone who is an owl lover, we did their Trainer's Apprentice program which gives you the chance to meet some of their animals. We're all animal lovers, so we loved getting to meet and see all their animals that are really well cared for. We got to hold a macaw, falcon and an owl, we got to feed a porcupine, and see a lynx up close. It was just a great experience and I couldn't recommend it more!
Hawk Creek Wildlife Center is a great family- friendly venue. Follow them on social media to see when their events are scheduled. Come and hear about their efforts to educate and save endangered and declining species.
We booked the Trainer's Apprentice program and it was amazing. Learned a lot about the wild birds and animals in their care, and had some fascinating hands-on interactions with the birds and animals...got to hold an owl, feed a porcupine, have a hawk fly through our arms several times, get up close and personal with a lynx. The educator/trainers are very knowledgable, very patient with our questions, and very kind to the birds and animals. The birds are very interactive, some talk, and all are great ambassadors! Very much worth the money for a once in a lifetime experience! The habitats are very natural, large, and welcomingbfor the birds and animals! Great job to the refuge and its staff!
Beautiful place and beautiful non-releasable animals, all very well cared for. We booked a private tour, and Tanya could not have been more kind and generous with her time and expertise. So glad we went!
Hawk Creek is beautiful and the people behind it are honestly amazing- the work they do is unparalleled and I applaud all of their efforts! We love the big cats here and appreciate the visibility of them in their habitats as well as the assemblies where some are brought out. The porcupines, skunk, possums, and fox are also in similar enclosures and a handful come out for education as well. That said, I do wish the raptors were more visible- it's so hard to truly see them well behind chain link. I love that some are usually used in demos but still would like better viewing when walking around. Additionally, the paths at hawk creek are rough even when simply walking; I've pushed a stroller and wagon here so can say with certainty to be aware, there are so many tripping hazards. I hugely thank them for the events they put on which are so much fun, and I think the addition of a small playground was genius! It had been 2 years since our last visit so this was extra exciting. The gift shop is cozy and has a variety of options which we simply adore- I feel the pricing is fair considering where the money goes. Thank you hawk creek 🦅🦉
Had an awesome time my 3 kids enjoyed it. Animals are well taken care of also. I would’ve given 5 stars BUT! The lady that was speaking during the bird show I was asking her questions and she looked at me and ignored all of my questions. And we went for the spooky Halloween event I wish it was more organized half of us had no idea where all the animals were or anything!( I am not talking about this lady.! She was awesome)
We love hawk creek! Such an awesome place to go if you’re an animal (especially bird) lover. So far we’ve been to spooky safari for Halloween and it was so much fun. We’re planning on going again soon. We had to reschedule same morning and they were so nice and sent us tickets for the next event.
I was working with Davis tree removal and was clearing land for the new space. Very caring individuals and volunteers enjoyed my time working there. I'll be bringing my daughter there
The Healthy Zone Rink
6. The Healthy Zone Rink
4.7
(272)
Ice skating rink
Fun & Games
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Snowsuit rink. Outdoor pavilion rink with warming room and indoor viewing loft. Bleachers outside but often covered with snow. Great light for pictures.
Unfortunately, I couldn't find LiveBarn Cameras at your rink. As a Long Islander traveling 8 hours in each direction to watch an hour game is crazy. Please consider adding LiveBarn to your venue. Thank you!
Covid made this difficult to rate. We went pre covid and loved it, during covid it was rough. Trying to get a reservation is nearly impossible because they are gone within 2 minutes of them being open to reserve online. I was lucky enough to snag one during winter break as there were many more days and times available. We had fun hopefully we'll be lucky again before the season ends.
Beautiful facility in a quaint town. Spacious heated dressing rooms and an awesome ice rink with rink boards from the 2009 Winter classic.
Extremely busy on Friday nights. I know that's a no brainer, I went on a Friday night not thinking about all the teenagers that could be out. The line wrapped around the whole place. Other than that, It's a nice place to skate, very little parking also.
Friendly staff and a good atmosphere. My ONLY criticism is they don't take credit card....but that is a small criticism.
Wonderful place. One of my favorite things to do with friends and family. Not very good at it but super fun. Busy on weekends. Great range of skate sizes. Many places to sit. Fireplace inside. $21 for two adults. Loft sitting area above.
Great place to skate!!! & we went for the EA music fest!! It was a love of fun.
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