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Anchor Bar
The Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York is widely credited as the birthplace of the Buffalo wing, with the most commonly told origin story crediting co-owner Teressa Bellissimo with first deep-frying and tossing chicken wings in a cayenne-butter sauce in 1964 as a late-night snack for her son and his friends. The bar's original wing preparation — deep-fried unbreaded wings tossed in a simple butter-and-hot-sauce mixture, served with celery sticks and blue cheese dressing — established the template that nearly every subsequent Buffalo wing served anywhere in the world has followed in some form. Buffalo's city government has formally recognized the Anchor Bar's role in wing history, and the bar has leaned into its origin-story status by preserving much of its original decor and continuing to serve its wings using close to the same original recipe and format for over half a century. The Anchor Bar's direct claim to inventing the Buffalo wing and its role in establishing the format followed by the entire modern chicken-wing industry has made it one of the most historically significant single food origin points in American cuisine.
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Duff's Famous Wings
Duff's Famous Wings opened in Buffalo in 1946, predating the Anchor Bar's famous 1964 wing invention, and while it didn't originate the Buffalo wing itself, it began serving them soon after and built a devoted local following that many Buffalo natives argue rivals or exceeds the Anchor Bar's own reputation. The restaurant's wings, known locally for being sauced heavier and spicier than many competitors' versions, developed a specific local reputation distinct from the more tourist-oriented Anchor Bar experience, with many Buffalo locals citing Duff's as their genuine hometown favorite rather than the more internationally famous original. Duff's has expanded modestly beyond its original Buffalo-area locations while maintaining a reputation for consistency, and it's frequently included alongside the Anchor Bar in local and national "best wings in Buffalo" debates and food media coverage of the city's wing culture. Duff's combination of its longstanding Buffalo-area presence and its genuine local reputation as a hometown wing favorite has made it one of the most respected wing destinations in the city that invented the format.
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