Tag: Restaurant

  • Framingham Center Takeout, Round Two (Same Spot, Probably)

    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…

  • Lancaster, NY: Wings With a Basil Garnish, Very Fancy

    Lancaster, NY: Wings With a Basil Garnish, Very Fancy

    A white plate, a black ramekin of white dip, and — I want to stress this — an actual basil garnish. Someone in the Lancaster, NY wing scene is trying, and I respect it, even if I can’t tell you who. This is easily top three for “restaurant clearly cared” in a photo where the…

  • West Albany Patio Wings, Basket Included

    West Albany Patio Wings, Basket Included

    A wooden bowl lined with pink parchment paper, a pink-tinted dipping sauce that means business, an outdoor patio, and an Allagash beer (a Maine brewery, several states from where I was actually sitting, but that’s craft beer distribution for you). This is one of the more visually distinctive presentations in the whole archive and I…

  • Amherst, NY: A Buffalo Suburb Warm-Up Lap

    Amherst, NY: A Buffalo Suburb Warm-Up Lap

    Before the main event in Buffalo proper (see: the Gabriel’s Gate post, the one with the historical placard and my dignity intact), there was this: a quiet dine-in plate with a side salad in Amherst, one of Buffalo’s suburbs, apparently a training session for the real thing. No restaurant name visible, but salad-as-side suggests someone…

  • North Andover: Wings Next to Oysters, As God Intended

    North Andover: Wings Next to Oysters, As God Intended

    A December visit to what was clearly a step up in venue: wings with ranch and hot sauce on the side, and — visible in the background — a plate of oysters on ice. Whoever I was dining with had better taste than me, or at least a bigger budget. No restaurant name in frame,…

  • Fourth of July Wings in Fall River

    Fourth of July Wings in Fall River

    Independence Day, 2021, and instead of a barbecue I apparently found a plate of wings with a little salad garnish for balance — the culinary equivalent of wearing sunscreen so you can stay out longer. No restaurant name in the shot, but it was a good enough plate to justify skipping the grill entirely. If…

  • Seaport Takeout, No Name Attached

    Seaport Takeout, No Name Attached

    Late November, a black clamshell container, wings and fries, presumably eaten while looking at some very expensive waterfront real estate I could not afford to live near. No logo on the container, no receipt in frame — the Seaport keeps its secrets as tightly as its parking prices. If you’re in the area anyway: the…

  • Southborough, Take Three: We See a Pattern

    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 placemats. By now I think we can agree Southborough and I had a whole thing going in 2018–2019 and I never once learned the restaurant’s name. Some relationships are like that.…

  • CJ’s Northside Grill: 50 Cents a Wing, RIP

    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 in the photo: 50¢ Wings Every Wednesday, 4–8, dine-in or take out, flavors ranging from Buffalo and Teriyaki to, memorably, “Roman” — six flavors for the price of admitting you have…

  • Southborough, Take Two: Now With a Flatbread Chaser

    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 in the wider shot, which strongly suggests I’d found a real bar-menu situation rather than a one-off wing plate. Still can’t tell you the name of the place. I was too…