{"id":840192,"date":"2020-08-05T06:00:36","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T13:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/vegas-with-an-edge\/?p=2918"},"modified":"2020-08-05T06:00:36","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T13:00:36","slug":"since-you-asked-wings-over-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blog\/since-you-asked-wings-over-vegas\/","title":{"rendered":"Since You Asked \u2014 Wings Over Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I\u2019m a wings aficionado. It\u2019s my favorite food by far. I once flew from New York City to Buffalo and back in one day, just to go to the Anchor Bar and have wings for lunch. Then I&nbsp;married a girl from Buffalo! Even before I did, I spent plenty of time there, so if you\u2019re from Buffalo, I submit the following to establish my street cred:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>My favorite wings are Big Tree Inn, Buffalo Brew Pub, and Amherst Pizza and Ale House.&nbsp;<\/li><li>I prefer Anchor Bar to Duff\u2019s.<\/li><li>Bleu cheese. Period. Don\u2019t even mention ranch.<\/li><li>Wings shouldn\u2019t be breaded or baked. Those might be wings, and they might be chicken, but they&#8217;re not <em>wings<\/em>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/vegas-with-an-edge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMAG0431-1024x577.jpg?resize=633%2C356&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2920\" width=\"633\" height=\"356\"\/><figcaption>In Buffalo, NY, they have their priorities straight.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Las Vegas has lots of great food, but sometimes you\u2019re just looking for good wings. They\u2019re there, but you have to know where to find them. Here are my reviews and recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Best\nWings on the Strip<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ve got two finalists in this category. The wings at Blondie\u2019s in the Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood are probably the best when they\u2019re really good, but they\u2019re inconsistent. I\u2019d say 80% of the time I\u2019ve gone there, they were worthy of the title, but sometimes they\u2019re on the small side and mediocre for some reason. TAP at MGM Grand also has solid wings \u2014 big and meaty, though not as saucy as those at Blondie\u2019s. Both sports bars are good places to watch games. In normal times, Blondie\u2019s takes reservations for big events and NFL Sundays. TAP doesn\u2019t, so you have to get there early and wait on line if you want to get a good chance at a seat.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"735\" width=\"980\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/vegas-with-an-edge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/DSCN1740-1024x768.jpg?resize=980%2C735&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2921\"\/><figcaption>the wing graveyard from my lunch trip from NYC to Anchor Bar in Buffalo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Best\nWings Downtown<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Triple 7 at Main Street Station. If you\u2019re a big wings fan like me, these aren\u2019t the best you\u2019ve ever had, but if you\u2019re downtown and have a hankering, they\u2019re perfectly fine. Not huge, but fried nicely and they have some interesting flavors. Triple 7 is also a microbrewery, if you like onsite-brewed beer with your wings. It\u2019s also a decent place to watch sports, with two drawbacks: 1) They don\u2019t open until 11 a.m. on Sundays (or at least, they didn\u2019t as of fairly recently), so you\u2019ll have to find somewhere else to catch the first hour of the early NFL games, and 2) They don\u2019t have the satellite package, so you can only see whatever games are locally televised on the Vegas station and\/or the nationally televised network games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Best\nWings Anywhere in Vegas<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Hands\ndown, Naked City Pizza, which is inside Moon Doggie\u2019s Bar on Arville west of\nthe Strip. (Skip the Paradise Road location.) This one requires some effort; it\u2019s\nnot really walkable from anywhere, nor does it have a bus stop nearby, so\nyou\u2019ll need to rent a car or rely on Uber or Lyft. But if you\u2019re looking for\ngood and authentic, this is it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The owners are from Buffalo and the place was featured on \u201cDiners, Drive-Ins, and Dives,\u201d so you know that they know what they\u2019re doing. In addition to wings, you can find other Western New York favorites like pizza, chicken-finger subs, and beef on weck. (Pro tip: You might think that boneless wings are the same thing as chicken fingers. They\u2019re not. If you don\u2019t want the bones, order fingers from an authentic place like Naked City). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moon\nDoggie\u2019s is definitely a dive bar, but they\u2019ve got sports on TV and bartop video\npoker, with a handful of tables if you\u2019d rather spread out a bit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Best\nWings in a Pinch<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Pre-pandemic, the Buffalo Wild Wings adjacent to Planet Hollywood on Harmon was open 24 hours. They&#8217;re not bad for a chain and have tons of different flavors. And Vegas is probably the only place in the world where you can get wings and beer at 6 a.m.!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here I am at the old ESPN Zone at New York New York, happy as a &#8230; well, wing-lover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"649\" width=\"980\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/vegas-with-an-edge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/DAK114-1024x678.jpg?resize=980%2C649&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2919\"\/><figcaption> Here I am at the old ESPN Zone at New York New York, happy as a &#8230; well, wing-lover. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m a wings aficionado. It\u2019s my favorite food by far. I once flew from New York City to Buffalo and back in one day, just to go to the Anchor Bar and have wings for lunch. Then I&nbsp;married a girl from Buffalo! Even before I did, I spent plenty of time there, so if you\u2019re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":2412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1083,1084],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840192"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}