Tag: Unidentified Venue
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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…
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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…