Longtime Hudson Valley Restaurateur Opens Snyder’s Restaurant

BUFFALO, N.Y. — A new upscale fast-casual Italian restaurant is being developed in Snyder by a longtime restaurateur who recently returned to the area.

David Chicane plans to open Artusi this fall at 3975 Main St., where Ziggy’s Taco & Subs closed last summer. It’s his next venture after running Hudson Food Studio for the past 15 years in the Hudson Valley. He sold that business in October.

Originally from Orchard Park, Chicane began his career 30 years ago at Delaware North in Boston, then ran five of his own restaurants in Peterborough, New Hampshire and the Hudson Valley, serving American, Mexican and Southeast Asian cuisine.