The Char Report · Wings · Pizza · Strong opinions
Saucy wings, charred crusts, and honest reviews.
A running log of every wing and every slice worth talking about, from Buffalo legends to a Saturday-lunch air fryer batch. Mostly around Boston, occasionally on a road trip.
Fresh out of the fryer
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The Foil-Wrapped Rest Period
June 2019, and this batch got the foil-wrap treatment — letting the wings rest, tented, for a few minutes after coming out of the…
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Southborough, Take Three: We See a Pattern
The third and, as far as this archive shows, final Southborough wing outing — a dark ramekin of dip, a plain white plate, black…
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CJ’s Northside Grill: 50 Cents a Wing, RIP
This one I can actually name, and I wish I couldn’t, because it means telling you it’s gone. The table sign is right there…
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March Wings, No Particular Occasion
Early March 2019, a white-and-blue plate, wings arranged with more care than usual — almost fanned out, like I was trying to make a…
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Southborough, Take Two: Now With a Flatbread Chaser
Back in Southborough less than a year later, and this time I upgraded — there’s a buffalo chicken flatbread and a bowl of popcorn…
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Wings and Bacon at the Home Office, No Regrets
This is one of my favorite entries in the whole archive: a grey plate of wings and a few strips of bacon, eaten at…
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Pre-Holiday Wings, Because Priorities
Three days before Christmas, and instead of cookies or a ham, the kitchen produced a grey plate of wings. I respect this decision entirely…
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The Placemat Era
September 2018, Acton, and a blue plate resting on a placemat with enough pattern to suggest someone in this household was, at some point,…
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Southborough, Take One
The first of what turns out to be a small trilogy of Southborough wing outings, this one from a low-key Memorial Day weekend in…
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The Plain One That Almost Didn’t Survive the Archive
A round, lightly-topped pizza with a browned edge, preserved only as a small, low-resolution thumbnail — April 2018’s entry didn’t make it through the…