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Wings in Buffalo
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Top Tier Editorial has a take on Wings in Buffalo below. The community ranking opens up once a few locals have weighed in.
Top 5 Wings in Buffalo
The canonical Buffalo wings shortlist — cross-referenced from Buffalo Spree's Best of WNY Food & Drink 2023, 2024, and 2025 readers polls.
- #1
Bar-Bill Tavern
East Aurora
“Buffalo Spree's 2025 Wings winner and 2023 Creative Wings winner — the East Aurora chicken-wing powerhouse that hand-paints each order and sets the bar for both wings and beef on 'weck.”
- #2
Duff's Famous Wings
Amherst
“Buffalo Spree's 2024 Traditional Wings (City) winner and 2023 Traditional Wings (Suburbs) winner — the original Amherst location that holds the line on the classic Buffalo wing formula.”
- #3
Anchor Bar
Allentown
“Buffalo Spree's 2023 Traditional Wings (City) co-winner — the Main Street bar that invented the Buffalo wing in 1964 and still trades on its claim to the original.”
- #4
Gabriel's Gate
Allentown
“Buffalo Spree's 2023 Traditional Wings (City) co-winner — a 50-year-old Allentown tavern in an 1864 Tift Row Home where wings come out of a cast-iron skillet.”
- #5
Nine-Eleven Tavern
South Buffalo
“The cash-only South Buffalo tavern Buffalo Spree has cited as a wing-hunter favorite for carefully arranged, cheesed-up sauce — no takeout, no reservations, no A/C.”