ELLERY – Local eatery Steener’s Pub will be hosting a visit from America’s Best Restaurants in mid-July 2025.

America’s Best Restaurants, a national media and marketing company focusing on bringing attention to local, independently-owned restaurants, will bring its ABR Roadshow to the restaurant on July 18. Popular dishes will be highlighted, along with an extensive on-camera interview with owner Bill Steener about the restaurant’s place in the community. The episode will be aired extensively on social media channels at a later date.

Steener has owned and operated his namesake pub for more than 15 years. He grew up nearby and purchased the restaurant and bar, a former gas station, at a tax auction. He has done extensive renovations to the space, including adding an outdoor patio, enclosed patio and a second floor, as well as hiring cook Nate Hallberg, and utilizing fresh products as much as possible.

Steener is looking forward to showcasing his pub on an episode of the Roadshow to gain more recognition in the community and particularly with tourists.

“A lot of times people say that they’ve never been here,” he says. “I live on a lake in a vacation area. There’s a lot of people that come and go from out of town and stay on the lake. Every year we get more and more vacationers, but it seems harder and harder for them to find us.”

America’s Best Restaurants was last in Bemus Point in June 2023, featuring Lake Life Cafe.

America’s Best Restaurants will be filming on location on Friday, July 18, from 9 a.m. to noon. The restaurant’s finished episode premiere date will be announced on their Facebook page and will be featured on America’s Best Restaurants’ website.

Restaurants featured on the ABR Roadshow are selected based on their customer reviews, menu items, social media presence, and level of involvement with their community. They are found through customer nominations, internal vetting or by a restaurant applying to be featured at www.americasbestrestaurants.com.