{"id":354,"date":"2026-02-16T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T16:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/justwingit\/pasquales-east-aurora-the-original-still-the-best\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T17:13:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T17:13:54","slug":"pasquales-east-aurora-the-original-still-the-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/justwingit\/pasquales-east-aurora-the-original-still-the-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Pasquale&#8217;s, East Aurora: The Original, Still the Best"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>No photo for this one \u2014 but it earns a post anyway. Pasquale&#8217;s in East Aurora, NY is where these wings started, before this whole archive existed: grew up on them, and they&#8217;re still probably the best wings ever had, full stop. Went back about six months ago and they held up exactly as remembered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Background<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Pasquale&#8217;s started in 1975 as a small family-owned pizzeria \u2014 just pizza, wings, and subs. It&#8217;s grown into a full Italian restaurant with three Western New York locations (Derby, East Aurora, West Seneca), but wings have stayed a signature item the whole way through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Where This Was<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pasquales.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pasquale&#8217;s Italian Restaurant<\/a>, 242 Main St, East Aurora, NY \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/search\/?api=1&#038;query=Pasquale%27s+Italian+Restaurant+242+Main+St+East+Aurora+NY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google reviews and Street View<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"220\" style=\"border:1px solid #f0d9b8;border-radius:10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.openstreetmap.org\/export\/embed.html?bbox=-78.6314816%2C42.7653160%2C-78.6194816%2C42.7713160&#038;layer=mapnik&#038;marker=42.7683160%2C-78.6254816\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Map\"><\/iframe>\n<p style=\"font-size:0.8rem;margin-top:0.3em;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.openstreetmap.org\/?mlat=42.7683160&#038;mlon=-78.6254816#map=17\/42.7683160\/-78.6254816\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">View on OpenStreetMap<\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No photo for this one \u2014 but it earns a post anyway. Pasquale&#8217;s in East Aurora, NY is where these wings started, before this whole archive existed: grew up on them, and they&#8217;re still probably the best wings ever had, full stop. Went back about six months ago and they held up exactly as remembered. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wingblog_latitude":42.768316,"wingblog_longitude":-78.6254816,"wingblog_city":"East Aurora","wingblog_state":"New York","wingblog_photo_date":"","wingblog_venue_type":"restaurant","wingblog_venue_name":"Pasquale's Italian Restaurant","wingblog_venue_url":"https:\/\/www.pasquales.com\/","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[40,109,108],"wing_location":[],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wings","tag-buffalo-area","tag-childhood-favorite","tag-east-aurora-ny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/justwingit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/justwingit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/justwingit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/justwingit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/justwingit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361,"href":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/justwingit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions\/361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/justwingit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/justwingit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/justwingit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"wing_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/justwingit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wing_location?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}