Henrietta Hots

In my opinion this is the best bang for the buck when it comes to the famous Rochester’s garbage plate. I ordered godfather plate which it comes with four choices of meat two eggs, meat sauce, home fries and macaroni salad. I went all in for cheeseburger for the choice of my four meat options. Cheeseburgers were decent juicy and delicious. Macaroni salad was also ok but lack of proper seasoning to my taste. Home fries and eggs were awesome too. The staff was very responsive and explained my options well. I waited around 5 minutes for the food to get ready while sometimes especially Friday nights it can get really busy and you may have to wait up to 20 minutes. The food portion will be enough for two normal people or one if you want to suicide. Also they are open till 4 a.m. So next time you can’t go to sleep and craving oily delicious food get out of the bed and give it a shot. Note that I like Steve T’s meat sauce more but overall I love this one.

Great little spot! My girlfriend loves garbage plates, they’re nostalgic to her college days with her rugby friends. Served in a styrofoam container the food isn’t messy, and is of high quality. I had the steak mozzarella sub with the added trimmings, steak was cooked perfectly and the roll was soft. Clean restaurant with plenty of seating.

Garbage plates are as Rochester as Abbotts ice cream or Wegmans. Yet I feel they are underappreciated. Ask any rochesterian living elsewhere and they will know what one is. I’ve personally never seen white dogs offered anywhere either.
For this visit, I got a red dog garbage plate. As usual, it was amazing and satisfying.
Garbage plate = hot dogs + ground beef chili + amazing baked mac and cheese
They are all piled on like a heap of garbage. But it’s really a treasure trove for your psyche. If you’re ever feeling angry and about to do something impulsive, let it be a garbage plate.
Enjoy.

Great food but service has gone down drastically. Asked for a little more meat sauce because they barely put any to begin with. Lady wanted to charge me $ 1 for what should’ve been on there from the beginning.

I ordered a grilled cheese plate after a game of laser tag over at lasertron. It was late — after midnight and my friends and I decided to dine in. I wanted baked beans and Mac salad but the girl behind the counter said they were out of beans :(so I got home fries instead.
My order came up quickly and everything that should be hot was (I’ve been to other establishments for a plate and sometimes the good doesn’t seem freshly made– but cooked ahead and in a warmer or something) the grilled cheese sandwich was amazingly good. The home fries were home fries and the Mac salad was ok … But it was missing something.
In any case my experience was a good one. I would definitely go back for sure. I even saved the left overs for lunch the next day! #winning

Had a cheeseburg plate there, wasn’t impressed. Somewhat stingy with the mac salad and home fries, sauce was bland and tasteless, fountain drinks were watered down, employees aren’t exactly customer friendly. Ordered extra sauce, and if what I saw was ‘extra’, I’d hate to see the amount they normally put on. I’ll stick to Nick’s going forward, they put this place to shame.

This was my first time at Henrietta Hots, so I needed time to check out the menu. They have a large menu & you need to chose wisely. The specialty is the Henrietta Hots Plates, which you combine into a small or large everything you want. The place was clean, good food made to order, soda fountain & a big bucket of pickles on the counter!

This place was a staple of my experience while going to school at RIT, and friends and I in need of a late-​night bite would end up here on the regular.
The garbage plates are the main attraction, but the food is generally pretty delicious. Their onion rings are nice and crispy, their sausage sandwiches (done with sausage patties) are tasty (random sidenote — the sandwich bread is delicious), and their red or white hots hit the spot with a customized assortment of toppings.
Even after 8+ years, I stop here when I’m in Henrietta. I’m actually remembering to write this review because I stopped last night before picking up a friend from the ROC airport. :) Pricing is just right, especially for college kids in need of late-​night grub.
TL;DR A local favorite, for sure (…even if the girl at the counter isn’t the most friendly). Definitely recommended if you’re craving a hot, burger, sandwich or side.

While in Rochester on business I asked my customer where to go to eat. They recommended this place and said «They have great garbage plates»
HUH…garbage plate? This is a case of «Don’t knock it until you try it.»
Grilled hot dogs (or cheeseburgers, or Italian sausages) sitting atop a mountain of home fries and macaroni salad, all covered with onions and a proprietary meat sauce.
FANTASTIC…of course this is no place for a dieter to go to eat.

Love being back home to visit friends. Even better when getting food at the local «hot spots» in town. Went to a place familiar to my generation called Henrietta Hots. A knock off of Nick Tahou’s if you will. I came looking for the UPST8 classic «plate» if you will. Ordered my fav: cheeseburger plate with home fries and mac salad and the awesome bread it comes with. Love the meat hot sauce drizzled all over the mac and fries. The ketchup and mustard poking through the the diced onions. MMMMM. BUT WAIT!!! My joy was short lived when we found out that there was no more bread available and when I opened my styrofoam container there was no ketchup, mustard or diced onions I was craving so much. So I asked the super nice lady at the front counter (NOT! You would have thought her kitten had died she was so pleasant) if the meal came with those toppings. She then torted «did you order everything?» No, was my reply as I used to remember that being part of YOUR job to ask that when you took my order. Don’t ASSume that I have eaten here before. Like I said earlier, super nice. Anyway, after draining my food of «juice» (see pic) I proceeded to enjoy my meal in the amazing new décor (see pic) because they expanded two years ago. Love coming home to that warmth and hospitality! (Wink wink). Maybe she just doesn’t like the Chicago Bears or the Lil Irish of Aquinas (see pic) but she could not stop me from enjoying my memories!

First, the girl working the counter was beyond miserable. I figure if you choose your place odd employment, you shouldn’t be unhappy about it. I used to work in the restaurant business from every facet imaginable, and I never complained bc I chose it. Besides her being very rude, I was in high hopes the plate would be great. My beans were okay, my potatoes were soaked in more grease than the usual plate I get from per say Nick’s or Charlie’s and the plate was overall blah. I wouldn’t recommend this place as there are far better hots in competition.

Henry’s gf is f***ing p*ssed (and she’s cute when she’s mad). Because they went to Nick’s together and Henry ate her Hots. She is so mad that she’s opening her own place, «Henry-​ate-​her Hots.»
Ta-​da!
What to get: garbage plate, or a white hot if you’re not that hungry and don’t want to commit arterial suicide.
OK what I do like about this place: it’s nice and cheap, the service is good, and the meat sauce has a delicious taste, some sort of floral thing going on in there, very different… not like the meat sauce at any other place in town.
What I don’t like: after I got about halfway through the hot and the garbage plate, I realized I was over the floral taste, it was unique, it was different, but it was no longer doing it for me. And it almost started tasting a little weird — like perfumed.
So for that reason it almost scored a 4 rather than a 5. But it’s definitely one of the better places in town to get hots and garbage plates, and wet ones at that, so I highly recommend you Garbage afficionados give it a try and see what you think.
And let’s imagine you’re sharing it with a hottie (male or female, or transgender, doesn’t matter. Anything goes). So you eat half, she/​he/​heshe eats half, and you get to stop just before the floral taste gets old. Everybody wins. Yay.
And how did Henry make up for eating her hots? Well, Henrietta of course. And she loved it.

Much like Nicks. You get a larger selection to build your plate. It is what it is, a garbage plate knock-​off, but it is the best.

Henrietta Hots A great place for the Best Garbage Plate in the Rochester Area!

Literally the most miserable individual taking our order.
She was rude and rushed us along — hardly made eye contact with us and was really short.
If you hate your job that much maybe its time to reevaluate your career choices!

The home of my garbage plates that I’d venture out with friends after a night of drinking at RIT. The plates are just like what we remember 7 years ago.
This location definitely has changed in terms of expanding the restaurant as there used to be some other shop next door. The menu list also has a new long list of food items that wasn’t on the original the last time we were here.
We ordered the real garbage plate which is: homefries and mac salad with a red hot and a cheeseburger with a nice heaping scoop of the hot meat sauce on top. It really hit the spot for us after enduring the most horrible 14 hour day at the airport trying to fly in from Florida.
My husband noticed one change with this garbage plate, the slices of bread that comes with it is «the whitest bread I’ve ever seen». It definitely isn’t like the original french bread… It tasted so bland and felt like a kitchen sponge. No. Definitely not like the bread from 7 years ago. I remember it being almost as a sourdough flavored type of bread. It was unfortunate that they changed this part of the garbage plate as we didn’t eat the bread and butter at all.
But on the bright side, the employees were still very cheerful, despite it being well after midnight!

Since coming to Rochester, I’ve been on a little quest to find the best garbage plate around. In a recent Talk post, I asked people where the best places to find a plate are and someone suggested Henrietta Hots. Given that I work about a mile and a half from here, I decided to give it a shot during my lunch break. It was the kind of experience you walk away from and pretty much forget it immediately, aside from that lingering memory that you probably shouldn’t go back unless you really have to.
I’ll admit, I was pretty excited to check out Henrietta Hots. It prides itself on the plates offered, and a suggestion from a Unilocal Elite member gave me a sense of faith that I was going to enjoy this experience. Unfortunately, I was let down right from the start. I walked in and placed my order with a young lady who was monotone and apparently hates smiling on Fridays. Upon further inspection, it may have had something to do with the three guys in the kitchen area who spent their time staring at her backside, but that may have been because her pants looked they were painted on. Sorry, random tangent…
I ordered the cheeseburger plate with home fries and mac salad, topped with everything (I’m pretty sure «everything» refers to onions, mustard, and meat sauce). When I received it in a Styrofoam take-​out box, my hopes were up for the authenticity factor. If it came on fine china, I would be skeptical. Apparently a fitting container does not make for fantastic plate. My first bite left me with the taste of blah. I knew there was meat, a starch, and the insta-​bad breath let me know there were onions, but I was entirely unimpressed. The bottom of my foam box had a liquid that left the home fries soggy, and the meat sauce lacked any apparent kick of spices.
I really was hopeful for this experience to be great. No one wants to eat a lackluster meal, but that’s how I found my plate at Henrietta Hots. The one thing that salvages this place from only getting a 1-​star review is the price for a plate. It’s pretty cheap all around, and I can totally see some drunken college student stumbling in and slurring some nonsense about a «cheese italian hotdog with home salad and mac fries». At that point, this place might even be worth 5-​stars, but for my lunch experience, it left me wanting.

Was greeted with a glare from the cashier. Asked the cashier if they have half plates and she just replied with «yea» which isn’t very helpful since I couldn’t find where it was posted on the menu. Found two pieces of hair in my garbage plate from the girl who prepared my food. Went up to the counter to complain after the second hair. Was stared at by the cook in the back who wasn’t doing anything besides standing instead of being approached and asked how I can be helped. After minutes of waiting, I left because clearly I was being ignored. NOT worth my hard earned money.

Love their plates! Their garbage plates have no visible grease on the bottom when you’re done eating — which is so much better than places like Nick Tahou’s. They also have great chicken fingers and italian sausage. The philly cheesesteak was only okay, I wouldn’t order it again… but I am a cheesesteak snob :)
Staff is friendly and always available. They also bought the entire building and expanded the inside of the restaurant, so it is very clean, updated, and beautiful! There are a lot more tables.

Henrietta Hots Advice.
1. Get drunk. Very, very drunk.
2. Order a plate. Perhaps a cheeseburger/​white hot plate, with mac salad and freedom fries (or whatever horrible, cardiac arrest-​inducing combination you prefer).
3. Be careful not to call them French fries, or you risk the wrath of the impressively patriotic man behind the counter. He’s the one wearing a cutoff U.S. Army t-​shirt, with the huge lip of dip in and the cross tattooed on his right arm. Don’t point out that his own menu clearly states France as the origin of these particular fries. He doesn’t like that.
4. Give him your name.
5. Take it in stride that he gives you the last name of a famous American historical figure (Jesse James, Andrew Jackson, etc.).
6. Step aside, and get a drink from the vending machine.
7. Wonder why they even bother listing wraps, sandwiches and salads, when everyone’s here for a plate.
8. Play it cool when he calls out Brad Pitt’s name. Of course Brad needs a garbage plate after an evening of boozing.
9. Wonder why Brad looks so different in person.
10. Ask your girlfriend if you can play Tekken.
11. Try not to throw a temper tantrum when she inevitably says no.
12. Try not to judge the idiots and their idiotic conversation at the next table. Chances are they are not at their best currently. Neither are you.
13. Receive your garbage plate. Eat about half of it, entirely too quickly.
14. Try not to vomit.
15. Resume eating.
16. Wonder what it will look like when it comes back up.
17. Finish the plate, or throw it out.*
18. Turn to people and ask if they’d like to vomit together outside.
19. Let them decide if you’re kidding.
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*DO NOT TAKE IT HOME. Tomorrow morning, in the light of day, you do not want to see it. You’ll be disgusted with yourself for ordering such a thing. Because you don’t eat a garbage plate at Henrietta Hots because it is good. You don’t eat it because they are better cooks than you. You eat a plate here because you don’t have the balls to put together something this gross at home. This monstrosity has no place in your home. It is only for when you are very drunk, and it is only to be consumed here.