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can i just like
lick the sauce on this plate
hey guys i'm alana hi i'm here and today
we are in buffalo new york to find the
best buffalo wings in the city
now if the name doesn't give it away
buffalo is
the birthplace of buffalo wings in fact
they don't call them buffalo wings here
they just call them chicken wings
and today we are going to be starting
our journey
by visiting four places one of which
actually
invented the buffalo wing and three
others that are just
highly revered local favorite spots to
get
chicken wings right and me and heron
love our spice but to make it fair we're
only gonna order medium in all four
spots
then afterwards we're gonna decide which
buffalo wing is
the best of the best all right let's go
let's go
for our first stop we had to visit the
original anchor bar
we want a crispy wing with a juicy
inside
and a sauce that is decadent yet still
tangy yet still has a bite in it
people love to come to the anchor bar to
eat our chicken wings because they
originated here
i'm in sales and whenever i have
customers that come in from out of town
of course because we're from buffalo
they think of chicken wings
and i bring them here a great buffalo
sauce
is ours at the anchor bar it's the
original it's it's the one that was
created in 1964.
theresa bellissimo was the mom cooking
in the kitchen and dominic was the son
bartending at the bar and his friends
came in about like two in the morning
and were hungry
dominic asked theresa if she could make
something and
the wings were sitting next to the croc
the stock um of the soup
she took those fried them up made some
sauce she was italian
so she made some nice sauce and seasoned
them with the sauce and we always say
the rest is history from there
some restaurants tend to just do a hot
sauce and butter mixture
but a true buffalo sauce is a cayenne
blend of seasonings
and the original buffalo sauce is a
medium sauce
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as a buffalo wing lover this is a
pilgrimage we needed to take
yeah dig in yeah visually looks like
the buffalo wings we grew up eating yeah
cheers
oh it has a nice heat i don't get the
heat really
you don't get the heat sure i got the
heat
so what are your thoughts in the wing i
love the wings i think
the sauce is really really good i mean
there's
nothing else that i've tried in the past
that compares to this
it's not as like buttery as i was
expecting it to be it has a bite to it
it has a bite to it
the heat kind of crawls the one thing
that i will say though is i
wish that the skin was a little bit
crispier
than it is right like right here
maybe this is just one wing but
i feel like it's a little soggy what
about you so it was just very juicy to
me on the inside which is super
important to me and i love this spice
this is a medium the only thing i agree
i need my punch
i'm not getting my crunch yo but that
sauce is everything that sauce is so
good
now the next stop that we're going to is
an unofficial official competitor of
this place
our second stop is duff's famous wings
they're famous for their award-winning
sauce that hasn't changed for over 40
years
we've won everything all the awards are
on the wall
all the awards around new zealand we've
been winning local awards for chicken
wings since
ever the rivalry between us and
anchor bar which obviously invented the
wings i think is more of a
city rivalry the city has pitted us
against each other most
people feel like duffs is more of a
local favorite than anchor bar
because anchor bar i think is more of a
tourist
trap we're students from uv and they're
the best reasons
nothing compares it's the oldest family
owned chicken wing restaurant in america
i'll take his word for that for about
64. the wings
went crazy from anchor bar to everywhere
and so we thought we'd put it in just to
have a little snack food
for our drinking crowd so what makes our
chicken wings different
from a lot of other places we order a
certain size of chicken wings
and there's a specific size of a wing
that we want when we bring them into the
restaurant so then when
when we get these wings in they go
through a meticulous sorting
effort from our preppers a lot of wings
don't make the cut
once they're prepped we end up taking
them to the kitchen
frying them for a perfect amount of time
one of my things was don't be cheap on
the sauce so a lot of people would come
in
from eating other places and they would
say this medium is hot
a lot of places add cold sauce to hot
wings and that makes
no sense so our sauce is always being
heated
the cooks are making sauce from scratch
pretty much for every order
they use a base hot sauce and then
adjust with butter
when they come out because the sauce is
hot it creates this like huge
plume of steam
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you would think that we would be kind of
sick and tired of chicken wings because
we went to the first stop and ate so
much
but i'm so excited for this the steam is
just
billowing basically and it looks
stunning
first of all these are the medium and i
already smell the spices yeah
the acidity the thing is you're it's
like
wham bam in your face
that's very good sauce yeah is it that's
such good sauce that's such
good sauce oh wow
okay there's definitely some heat on
this but the flavor is still there it's
not just pure
are you okay no i'm not oh it creeps up
on you the spice does creep on you
but i'm not getting any cream nope not
getting any grape
it's a lot smoother than i'm used to you
know
they ask you how you are you just have
to say that you're fine
it's so good favorite thing about the
swing is how juicy the actual meat is
under the crispy exterior it's still
crispy
every nook and cranny of the wing is
just doused in sauce
and it still retains its crispiness even
though it's kind of been sitting here
for a few minutes
i don't know this sauce might be the
deal maker here i would say i have a
high spice tolerance
this is a good medium so we've had dup
swings we've also had
anchor bar wings which do you think it's
better i think i have
my my personal favorite what i think is
better
but i'm not gonna reveal it to you just
yet okay
all right what about you i don't know i
think i have one too and i have a
feeling what you're gonna say i think
we're gonna agree i think we are i think
we're the first for the first time ever
our third stop is gabriel's gate
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a staple restaurant situated in historic
allentown
the menu has a spread of american flair
but
the wings are the talk of the town
this is chef wayne mosby he's been
working at gabriel's gate for over 20
years
the secret in what we do before we toss
them and the way we cook them and
everything is time everything stays the
same only thing
change is the day and the time
oh yeah we stand behind them put a lot
of pride a lot of love into them
we're going to pull them up out of the
grease we'll add a little margarine to
it
turn around we're going to add a little
bit of frank's household toss them
around in the bowl
and plate them up
add a little bit of extra secret sauce
to it and here you have some of our best
famous chicken wings
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all the other places that we went to
have really really high reviews and this
place also does too it's just hearing it
from local locals this was the locals
favorite
the moment these wings came to our table
it was like
a plume of steam kind of like duffs yeah
but
the the heat the acidity it just
hits your nostrils right away oh my god
it
smells so good and we only ordered the
medium so imagine the spicier ones like
i already smell the spices coming off of
this and they're sauce
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but i do want to point out that some
wings are
not uniform uniform but i kind of like
that it's kind of like charming
a little bit
i got bone that's why i don't like
i like consistency
can i just like lick the sauce off this
plate
oh my god
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i see why this was recommended man like
this sauce
i'm sorry it's unparalleled i'm gonna be
honest i was
a little apprehensive yeah because i
thought that so much sauce
would not allow the wings to be crispy
it's so crispy and the chicken is
juicing like less juicy than other
places yes it's less juicy than other
places but it's still really
but it's still pretty juicy of all the
places we've been to
the medium here is the spiciest so
far i think that these are the most
flavorful mediums that we've had
flavor alone now talking about the
consistency when it comes to
flavor i think this has more of a
vinegar taste but one other place
comes to mind when it comes to like bold
flavors okay i know exactly which place
you're talking about
our final stop is barbell tavern
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it's a popular restaurant equally famous
for its beef bomb weck
as it is for its chicken wings so at the
barbell what's unique is that you can
have both buffalo specialties
at one visit so beef on whack and and
the chicken wing
neither of which we invented here at the
barbell we just like to say we perfected
both
i literally pretty much bought a house
here because of the barbell
basically the pleasure dome of all wings
barbell was founded in
1967 and my wife's uncle joe
was a mechanical engineer at bell
aerospace and he actually had no
restaurant experience but always wanted
to run a bar
bought this bar and basically made it
what it is today
he was very technical when it came to
how he made chicken wings
so instead of pouring the chicken wings
into a into a bowl
is that we apply the sauce with a paint
brush so you get the same
amount of sauce on each side of the
chicken wing so
each time you bite into a barbell
chicken wing the flavor is exactly the
same
our our medium flavor is really unique
and really special but holds true
to the original buffalo formula
incorporating frank's hot sauce the
wings do not sit in sauce they actually
uh are presented five flats five wings
so you get to
you know experience you know the chicken
wing in an extra
you know what we would consider a
reverent way
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okay this is our last stop i'm chickened
out
my insides hate me yeah oh yeah
all right we gotta do this i'm really
curious to see how the hand-painted
aspect of it will like add to the actual
wing or if it doesn't
i don't know right like the plating
itself is gorgeous beautiful
they look like they put a lot of hair
into each and every wing
hello i have to get my vegetable intake
somehow or another sorry folks i need
that fiber
it's like there's sauce on every inch
every crevice
of this one i don't know where the heat
is yeah
i think this wing is probably one of the
crispiest wings we've had
right and i'm hearing the crunch every
time i take a bite which isn't usually
possible with super saucy wings because
you know the sauce kind of like
lessens the crunch that's the thing i
want more sauce on these eggs
they're crispy but the sauce is so good
i want more of it
i think i agree with you on that one i
think if we were to do this trip over
again
we would have just gotten spicier wings
because i feel like we just both like
spicier wings
sorry just the thought of doing this
trip over again is hurting oh yeah
absolutely not we will not do this again
we will do this maybe at another time on
leisure but we will be only going to one
place instead of like ten
five four we went to four
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there is a torrential downpour outside
so we couldn't do our
our conclusion outside we're actually um
stuck in an airport waiting for our
flight
but we have a decision to make yep um
going in
i thought one thing my mind completely
changed however i'm really confident
with my decision
i am all right all right let's do it
one two three
we finally agreed that means something
when i first went in there i'm like how
could anything beat anchor bar
because you know they invented the
buffalo wing for me
duffs just hit all my markers it was
super crispy on the outside
super juicy on the inside and the sauce
everywhere that did it for me i was torn
between
gabriel's gate and duffs yeah because
they're both
very saucy wings but doves
had a little bit more of a point for me
because they actually made their sauces
from scratch and also
the wings at gabriel's gate are not as
uniform
uniform you don't know what you're gonna
get exactly
the painting was cute the selection was
cute at barbells
yeah it tasted familiar it tastes
familiar but i want it to be
wow yeah just did it for me yeah that
was a good way of putting it so
here you have it dust is our winner
we made our choice of duffs let us know
if you think we should have picked
another spot or if it was a place that
we actually just didn't end up visiting
let us know in the comment section below
bye bye
flies now twice our flight got canceled
twice now
we're just we're stuck in buffalo and
we're just we're gonna
we're gonna live here now i guess we
have no other option
i just don't want them to not put me in
this bus