I love hot wings. As a matter of fact, I would have to say that this post is the culmination of all my skill with writing, because hot wings are my VERY favorite food. Nothing measures up to the joy of tangy, spicy, buffalo-style wings melting off the bone and into my mouth.
So, without further ado, we introduce the best Phood Phreak post yet: Hot Wings.
#3: Wing Street Wings (Pizza Hut): With a wide variety of sauces and mildly crispy wings, these delicious delicacies are perfect for those just breaking into the world of hot wings. Ranging in heat from "very mild" (a delicious, creamy garlic sauce) to "blazing" (traditional wing sauce with 3x the heat), they perfectly whet your appetite for some of Pizza Hut's delicious pizza.
#2: Buffalo Wild Wings: I love this restaurant. Surprisingly, I find this restaurant more appealing than the one in the #1 slot, but it lacks the "just drumstick" mantra of the winner. Still, the combination of 12 different sauces (2x the amount of Wing Street) and the infamous "Blazing Wings Challenge", this sports bar has become famous for its wings. If you don't mind a little loud conversation and the occasional raucous racket of an avid sports crowd, this restaurant offers some of the world's finest wings and sauces.
#1: Old Chicago Pizzeria: I know what you're thinking (I'm just psychic like that). Another pizza place with good wings? Well, obviously, pizza and wings just mesh. This is no less true at Old Chicago, where the pizza rivals the wings. Still, this restaurant's wings outshine all the others. Perfectly crispy, not greasy, all drumsticks, and with a perfectly spicy classic buffalo sauce, this Pizza and Brew King also has America's best wings. Give them a try, because I told you to.
Bonus Wings: ORIGIN: There are four different legends about how Buffalo wings came to be:
Legend #1, #2, and #3 (The Anchor Bar): This legend involves Teressa Belissimo, co-owner of the Anchor Bar with her husband Frank. Upon the unannounced arrival of their son, Dominic, with several of his friends from college one night, Teressa needed a fast and easy snack to present to her hungry guests. It was then that she came up with the idea of deep frying chicken wings and tossing them in cayenne hot sauce (cayenne is what gives hot wings their sour zing). While the wings were deep frying, Teressa decided to serve left over celery sticks with blue cheese to her son and his friends to tide them over. The other two versions have very little variation: A) Catholics were just being able to eat meat after their fast thing and Frank wanting to do something nice for them, so he ordered Teressa to make something out of the leftover chicken wings and handed them out for free, or B) A communications error involving a delivery of wings instead of backs and necks (used by the Anchor Bar in their spaghetti sauce). Whatever the true story is, I lean towards the Anchor Bar being the true originator of Buffalo wings.
Legend #4 (The Least Likely Legend): The fourth version has nothing to do with the Bellissimos or the Anchor Bar (this is what makes it unlikely, as "mambo sauce" was not invented until 1967, years after wings had become a staple at the Anchor Bar). A New Yorker article stated that a man named John Young also claimed credit for serving chicken wings in a special "mambo sauce". Chicken wings in mambo sauce became the specialty at his Buffalo restaurant in the mid-1960s. Young had registered the name of his restuarant, "John Young's Wings 'n' Things", before leaving Buffalo in 1970.
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