The Buffalo nightlife virtuosos who invented the Pink Flamingo, then made Mother’s the place to go after midnight for a decade have one last spot to offer their hometown: International Place and Bar Flamant Rose. (That’s pink flamingo in French.)

Mark Supples and Amy Taylor have taken over the Theater District space that was Downtown Bazaar and transformed it into the palace of revelry, refueling, and respite downtown Buffalo deserves.

The veteran restaurant operators wanted to see what Zelalem Gemmeda, Akec Aguer, Elizabeth Sher, Lloyd Ligao, and Yeslin Greason could do at 617 Main St. if they had new and fresh resources. They took over the lease and invested more than $500,000 in original art and sculpture, new stoves, high-powered wifi, custom-built seating, real plates, and downtown Buffalo’s only public ping-pong tables. They also lowered the restaurants’ rent.

International House celebrates Buffalo’s immigrant-driven past, present, and future, creating a unique Buffalo establishment. 

It offers the only doro wot, Ethiopian chicken-and-egg stew, thanks to Gemmeda’s Abyssinian Ethiopian Cuisine, the only Ethiopian place in Buffalo.

The only lechon, Filipino roast pork, from Ligao’s Pinoy Boi. 

The only sukuma wiki, collards-and-beef stew, from South Sudanese Nile River Restaurant.

Plus the only public ping-pong tables, playable at $4 for 30 minutes, $7 an hour. 

“Unique” is a much-abused marketing term. But those are the facts. With one battle left in them, Supples and Taylor are again offering Buffalo the nightspot it didn’t know it needed.