Tag: Restaurant
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Wendell’s Pub, Norton: At Least This One’s Confirmed
The placemat under this bowl of wings prints the entire address and phone number, no detective work needed: Wendell’s Pub, 30 West Main Street (Route 123), Norton, MA. An orange bowl, a proper pub setting, and a restaurant that wants you to be able to find it again — a refreshing change of pace from…
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Horseshoe Pub, Hudson: A Sure Thing
Finally, a table tent that just tells you where you are: Horseshoe Pub & Restaurant, 29 South Street, Hudson, MA. No detective work required, no GPS triangulation, just a card standing right there doing its job. A hot sauce bottle on the table suggests the kitchen’s default heat wasn’t cutting it, which I respect as…
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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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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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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…
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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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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…