Dishes /
Dish
Onion rings
Where it shows up on confirmed Upstate menus.
On confirmed menus
Every restaurant whose confirmed menu lists it, with each item’s confirmed date. No prices.
- 9 places in 8 towns: Troy, Valatie, Indian Lake, Cortland, Norwich, Oneonta, East Aurora, Warsaw
- Regions: Capital Region (2), North Country/Adirondacks (2), Southern Tier (2), Western NY (2), Central NY (1)
- Menu sections it’s listed under: Appetizers (2), Add On's; Sides (1), Other Good Stuff (1), Side Items (1), Side Orders (1)
Based on 9 confirmed menus out of 20 restaurants whose menus we’ve confirmed, among the 379 places listed on this site. Other places may well serve it; their menus aren’t confirmed yet, so they aren’t listed here.
Fresh: confirmed on the official menu within 30 days (7 days for specials). Aging: up to twice that. Stale: older. Status updates in your browser from the confirmed date.
- Onion Rings Fresh
- ONION RINGS Fresh
- Onion Rings Fresh
- Basket of Onion Rings Fresh
- Onion Rings Fresh
- Side Onion Rings Fresh
- Onion Rings Fresh
- Onion Rings Fresh
- Onion Rings Fresh
What it is
From the upstate.lol menu taxonomy.
- Cuisine: American
- Kind of dish: side
- Also listed as: basket of onion rings, battered onion rings, chopped steak, corn beef on rye, crispy onion rings, deep fried onion rings, french fried onion rings, french fried onions
On old menus
From historical menus indexed for this guide (NYPL What’s on the Menu? and the CIA menu collection).
Earliest dated Upstate menus in the indexed library collections that list it:
- 1953 · “French Fried Onion Rings, Cole Slaw and” at Paramount Pete's Restaurant, Saratoga Springs · library record ↗
- 1956 · Persian Terrace, Syracuse · library record ↗
- 1956 · “Buttered Carrots, Brussel Sprouts, French Fried Onions” at Persian Terrace, Syracuse · library record ↗
Earliest among the menus indexed, not the dish’s first appearance anywhere.
Related dishes
Same kind of dish in the taxonomy, on confirmed menus.