Author: brandon
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Buffalo Wild Wings, Burlington: The Chain Does Its Job
Both flavor tags are visible on this one — “WILD” and “HOT” — and this time there’s an actual Buffalo Wild Wings a short drive away, at 15 South Avenue in Burlington, right in the Burlington Mall retail corridor. Sometimes the mystery is unsolvable and sometimes it’s a chain restaurant fifteen minutes from a mall.…
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The Most Recent Entry, Sudbury, April 2025
The newest pizza in this whole 15-year archive — April 2025, Sudbury, Massachusetts, photographed close-up on a wire rack in a style that would look right at home next to any of this blog’s more recent wing posts. Full circle: the same photography habits that built the wing archive apparently started with pizza, over a…
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Buffalo Wild Wings, Delivered All the Way to Lexington
The little red circular tag on this wrap reads “WILD” — that’s a Buffalo Wild Wings house sauce name, not a description of my behavior that evening. There’s no BWW location actually in Lexington, so this was almost certainly delivery from the Burlington or Woburn outpost, which is either impressive commitment or a sign I…
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The Burst-Mode Incident
Three nearly identical photos, taken seconds apart, at the same desk, of the same plate of wings. I can only assume the phone’s burst mode got triggered by accident, or I was testing a new angle and forgot to stop. Either way, posterity now has this batch documented from three barely-different perspectives, which feels like…
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New Year, Same Wings
Twelve days into 2025, and whatever resolutions may have been floated at midnight clearly didn’t touch the wing habit. A plate, a fork (a fork! rare for this archive), some carrots for the health-conscious veneer of it all. Recipe inspiration: Budget Bytes’ Buffalo Wings.
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Three Angles of the Same Plate, Because I Was Proud of It
November 2024, and this batch got the full photoshoot treatment — three separate angles of the same plate of deep-orange, well-charred wings, because apparently I nailed the color on this one and wanted proof from multiple angles. No notes. This is what confidence looks like. Recipe inspiration for chasing that same color: RecipeTin Eats’ Truly…
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An October Batch, Nothing Fancy
Two photos, one plate, late October 2024 — a straightforward batch with no particular story attached, which after this many entries has become its own kind of tradition. Sometimes the wings don’t need an occasion. They are the occasion. Recipe inspiration: Inspired Taste’s Crispy Baked Hot Wings.
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Albany, NY: Wings in the Dark (Literally, Bad Lighting)
A dark bar, a white plate, wings with ranch, carrots and celery doing their part. The lighting situation in this photo suggests either a very moody restaurant or a photographer (me) who had already had a beer. No signage visible either way, so we’ll never know which. If you’re in the area anyway: check the…
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Sudbury Pub Wings, Served on the Obituaries
A red plastic basket lined with what is, on close inspection, a page from the Boston Globe — specifically, the obituary section, dated around March 2024. I want to be extremely clear that I do not think this was intentional editorial commentary from the kitchen, just a local pub reusing yesterday’s paper as basket liner,…
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The Post-CJ’s Era: A New Framingham Spot
This one’s GPS-flagged about 1.8 miles south of the “same spot” cluster above — a genuinely different restaurant, and given the timing, quite possibly where I went looking once the old regular haunt shut its doors for good. Two flavors split down the middle of the plate, cucumber spears standing in for celery, an imported…