Here are various new restaurants, cafes beyond Syracuse University
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UPDATE: This story was updated at 2:29 p.m. on August 26, 2026.
Ask any Syracuse University student what their go-to restaurant is, and they’ll likely respond with one of the options lining Marshall Street. If they’re really pushing boundaries, they might mention Margaritas Mexican Cantina or Pastabilities downtown.
But there are new eateries opening all the time in Syracuse. The Daily Orange broke down recently opened restaurants beyond Marshall Street that students might want to visit.
Dell Street Deli
Price range: $4 to $14
Located in the Westcott neighborhood, Dell Street Deli opened just over two months ago and serves sandwiches with roast beef, corned beef and pastrami. Its owner Lee Bordonaro aimed to bring quality food made with locally sourced ingredients to the neighborhood, he said.
The deli receives meat from Rosenkrans Natural Beef, which is grass-fed, pasture-raised and free of hormones and antibiotics. A local butcher also spices the meat exclusively for the deli.
“Our food supply is so tainted now that we gotta try to at least have some sort of fresh, clean stuff around,” Jason Purdy, Dell Street Deli’s general manager, said.
Because of the higher cost of its ingredients, Purdy said Dell Street Deli also offers cheaper, “basic” alternatives to each of its sandwiches using meat that isn’t specially processed.
“You can definitely taste the difference, just in the quality of the meat,” Purdy said.
Bordonaro buys fresh produce every week at the CNY Regional Market, and uses fresh bread from Syracuse’s Di Lauros Bakery & Pizza, Purdy said. All dressings and sauces, including avocado ranch and spicy mustard, are made in-house, as are its sun teas, fresh lemonades and a fermented pineapple drink called tepache.
The deli currently operates from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday but plans to extend its hours as demand increases, Bordonaro said. While delivery is currently unavailable, the eatery looks to launch on Grubhub and DoorDash around Labor Day to cater to SU and Le Moyne College students during the fall semester.
Market Mocha
Price range: $4 to $7.50
Market Mocha sells coffee made with freshly ground espresso beans and pastries like cookies and tiramisu. The cafe opened a stall at the Central New York Regional Market earlier this month. Courtesy of Logan Lickfield
Market Mocha, a coffee stall inside the E Shed building at the CNY Regional Market, owned and operated by Logan Lickfield, serves espresso drinks made with fresh-ground espresso beans. Their menu includes lattes and cappuccinos, among others, and offers specialty flavors like banana bread and fluffernutter. The cafe, which opened earlier this month, also sells freshly baked cookies, as well as muffins, doughnuts, raspberry crumb cake, tiramisu and cannoli from local vendors.
The stall is open 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday through Sunday.
Lickfield’s family has sold food at the market for about 22 years — first pizza and later doughnuts and coffee at the Regional Donut Authority, a separate stand the family runs.
“I thought it would be kind of cool to do something new, a little bit different, and not offer the same things that (Regional Donut Authority) does,” Lickfield said. “It’s a lot more satisfying to make the drinks.”
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The market began offering permanent stalls to vendors in May, a new initiative Lickfield said he was among the first to take advantage of.
Lickfield said he hopes more SU students and Syracuse residents become aware that CNY Regional Market — located just three-and-a-half miles from SU’s campus — operates year-round rather than only during the warmer months.
Zaman Coffee House
Price range: $4 to $10
Zaman Coffee House, a Middle Eastern coffee shop known for its Arabic and Turkish coffee, launched its second central New York location in Camillus. Its North Syracuse location offers espresso drinks, Spanish and Nutella lattes, boiled Arabic coffee made with evaporated milk and Yemeni tea, along with baklava and other traditional pastries.
The coffee shop is open from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Thursday, but closes later on weekends.
Its original location, at the corner of Brewerton Road and Route 11 in North Syracuse, has drawn regular customers from as far as Camillus, prompting the expansion. The new cafe is located in Township 5 near Marcus Syracuse Cinema and Red Robin, in a space formerly occupied by Colorful Inspirations boutique.
