Five Favorite Places To Dine Upstate

Three for the weekend will return next week

The soft-serve cone on the roof of Mama’s Boy Burgers beckons in Tannersville.

I’m going out of town this weekend for a first upstate visit of the season. I know I’m pushing it a bit, but this is the glorious time of flowering fruit trees, the return of migratory birds, and restaurants reopening for more than two days a week. Here’s a collection of five restaurants I love, and which you won’t have trouble getting into now — but which are often mobbed once summer starts.

Mama’s Boy Burgers in Tannersville

Located in the Upper Catskills, Tannersville is a stone’s throw from Hunter Mountain and Kaaterskill Falls, and Mama’s Boy is just what you want a hamburger stand to be: a yard on a hill filled with picnic tables that deliver splendid views, juicy burgers in the modern idiom made with pedigreed beef from an area farm. It also serves hot dogs, soft serve, and…tater tots! 6067 Main Street