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Dish · Buffalo, Western NY

Buffalo wings

Fried chicken wings tossed in cayenne-butter hot sauce.

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On confirmed menus

Every restaurant whose confirmed menu lists it, with each item’s confirmed date. No prices.

Based on 12 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.

What it is

From the upstate.lol menu taxonomy.

Fried chicken wings tossed in cayenne-butter hot sauce.

On old menus

From historical menus indexed for this guide (NYPL What’s on the Menu? and the CIA menu collection).

In the New York Public Library menu collection overall, it first shows up in the 1960s and appears through the 2000s.

Earliest among the menus indexed, not the dish’s first appearance anywhere.

Related dishes

Same kind of dish in the taxonomy, on confirmed menus.

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