Cafe 59 – Allentown

Cafe 59's own menu boasts about its chicken finger sub, and Buffalo Spree's chicken finger roundup sends readers here "for scratch made fingers in the city," with a photo of the sub to prove the point.

The quirk is how local the build is. Visit Buffalo's listing for the cafe runs through its suppliers: rolls from Costanzo's, Weber's mustard, Sahlen's ham, Mineo & Sapio sausage and produce from Guercio and Sons. Costanzo's is the same Buffalo bakery whose rolls Visit Buffalo's Brian Hayden found under the Jim's Steakout chicken finger sub.

It's on Allen Street near Main, at the downtown end of Allentown. The cafe's site lists kitchen hours of 11 am to 10 pm every day, with closings on Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and New Year's Day. Eat in, order online through the cafe's own ordering page, or get delivery.

Sources: cafe59.com (address, phone, kitchen hours, 2026 holiday closings, chicken finger sub on the menu, online ordering; checked 2026-11-04); Visit Buffalo Niagara, Cafe 59 (62 Allen Street, phone, website, suppliers, Facebook and Instagram; checked 2026-11-04); Buffalo Spree, "WNY Chicken Fingers We Can't Stop Thinking About", 2023-01-13 (scratch-made fingers, chicken finger sub photo; it gives the street number as 622, but the cafe's site and Visit Buffalo both give 62); Brian Hayden, "Did Buffalo Invent the Chicken Finger Sub?", Visit Buffalo Niagara, 2020-06-21, updated 2023-11-03 (Costanzo's roll at Jim's). Map pin from the US Census geocoder.