Tag: Restaurant
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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 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.…
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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 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…
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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 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…