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The Charred Grill Pizza, Sudbury Backyard
September 2023, back in Sudbury, and this one has serious grill-marks-and-char energy — a heavily blistered crust on a wood board with grass in the background, looking every bit like it came off a hot grill or outdoor pizza oven rather than a conventional indoor one. By 2023 this household had clearly graduated from wire-rack-on-the-counter…
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Late Summer, One Plate
The first of September, 2023, still warm enough to eat with the windows open, one plain plate, no company mentioned or pictured. A quiet, solo wing dinner to close out the summer. Recipe inspiration: Budget Bytes’ Buffalo Wings.
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Bar-Bill Tavern, East Aurora: A Little Overrated, Still Excellent
No photo for this one either — but the Bar-Bill Tavern in East Aurora, NY is famous enough to deserve a post regardless. Went about three years ago while in Buffalo visiting family. Honest take: it’s probably a little overrated at this point — the reputation has outgrown the actual experience a bit — but…
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York Harbor, Maine: Wings With a Sea Breeze
A red plate, two ramekins of dip standing at attention, celery and carrots, and the unmistakable vibe of a coastal Maine dining room with a water glass sweating in the background. May in York Harbor is about as good as New England gets, and whatever this place was called, it earned its keep. No name…
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Ruby’s Wood Grill, York ME: A Rave Review
Ruby’s Wood Grill, York, Maine, May 2023. This is a rave review and I’m not going to pretend otherwise: these were excellent wings — well-charred, real heat that builds instead of just sitting on top, a properly thick coating that stayed put through the whole basket. Two ramekins of blue cheese because one is never…
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The Same Framingham Spot, Round Three
Back at what the GPS breadcrumbs confirm is the exact same Framingham Center location as the October 2022 takeout run — whether this was still the CJ’s Northside Grill era or whatever briefly followed it before the space turned over, the wing math checks out either way: ramekins of dip, celery and carrots, and the…
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Bedford Takeout and the Mystery of “Love Energy Food”
Grilled or blackened wings with an herb garnish and a hot sauce drizzle, packed in a plain pizza-style takeout box — and stuck to the bag, a sticker reading LOVE ENERGY FOOD in yellow text I could not fully make out. Is that the restaurant’s name? A delivery service’s branding? A koan I’m meant to…
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A Boxborough Standby
A takeout container and a cup of ranch, six days after the grocery-run post above — whether this is a callback to that raw package finally getting cooked, or an entirely separate takeout night, the timeline is a little fuzzy. Either way, Boxborough was clearly getting a lot of wing traffic in late 2022. Recipe…
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Before They Were Wings: The Grocery Run
Every home-cooked batch starts somewhere, and this entry captures that somewhere: a plain package of raw chicken wings, straight off the store shelf, price tag and nutrition panel included. Not glamorous. Not yet sauced. But honest — the unglamorous middle step that every single other post on this blog conveniently skips over. Recipe inspiration for…
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Framingham Center Takeout, Round Two (Same Spot, Probably)
The GPS on this one lands within about nine meters of the February 2023 entry below — same address, near-certainly the same restaurant, whatever it was calling itself by late 2022. Styrofoam container, foil liner, and a sauce cup with a handwritten “B” on the lid, which I’m choosing to believe stands for “Buffalo” and…