Buffalo wings, Korean wings, dive-bar wings: the five boroughs' best plates, ranked across the city's food critics.
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Buffalo wings, Korean wings, dive-bar wings: the five boroughs' best plates, ranked across the city's food critics.
Dan and John's Wings (Murray Hill)
Founded by two Buffalo natives who flew their sauce recipe down with them. The closest thing to an Anchor Bar wing without leaving Manhattan.
Madame Vo (East Village)
Vietnamese fish-sauce-caramel wings that arrive lacquered, funky, and sweet. The East Village's most argued-over non-Buffalo wing.
Bonnie's Grill (Park Slope)
A narrow Fifth Avenue counter that has quietly served the city's most correct Buffalo wings for two decades: crisp, properly sauced, with real blue cheese.
Blackbird's (Astoria)
The Astoria bar whose double-fried wings and homemade sauces win citywide wing rankings year after year. A neighborhood secret that stopped being one.
Old Town Bar (Flatiron)
Wings in a 130-year-old barroom under a pressed-tin ceiling. The recipe is classic Buffalo and the setting is unbeatable.
Pelicana Chicken (Koreatown)
The Korean fried chicken giant's K-town outpost: shatteringly crisp double-fried wings glazed in soy garlic or gochujang heat.
Blondies (Upper West Side)
The UWS sports bar where game day means towering plates of properly crispy Buffalo wings. A reader-vote favorite on this list.
Bar Goto (Lower East Side)
Kenta Goto's elegant cocktail den serves miso-butter wings that belong on tasting menus. The most refined wing in New York.
Brooklyn Ice House (Red Hook)
Smoked-then-fried wings from a Red Hook dive with picnic tables and cheap beer. The smoke makes them unlike anything else on this list.
Namkeen (Williamsburg)
A Williamsburg counter folding Pakistani spice into American fried chicken, best known for spicy maple wings that come shatteringly crisp under a sweet-hot glaze. Bedford Avenue regulars order them by the basket alongside the Nashville-hot chicken sandwich.
Ranked across 4 sources: Yelp · Ranked by Rating · 0.5x Weight (May 2026); The Infatuation NYC 2025 · Best Buffalo Wings (by score); Secret NYC · Best Chicken Wings 2023; Eater NY 2025 · Where to Eat Wings in NYC (unranked). Full scoring is on the Methodology tab above.
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