Spending time in the city and want to find the best Pittsburgh chicken wings? Don’t worry, we have you covered.
If there’s one dish that brings pleasure to the masses, it has to be a humble portion of chicken wings. Something so simple, yet with so many varieties that never fails to deliver happiness. The fact that you usually wash them down with some beer is just an added bonus…
Pittsburgh has some great spots for wings, so we wanted the find the best of the best. Those chicken wings that are so good you’d travel all the way across the city for them…
Best Chicken Wings in Pittsburgh
1. Fat Head’s Saloon
Fat Head’s Saloon is a top notch craft brew bar with some amazing pub food, too. Try their smoked wings, which are are dry rubbed, smoked, then char-grilled to perfection. Crispy on the outside and wonderfully juicy and tender on the inside, they go perfectly alongside an ice cold beer.
2. Spak Brothers
The wings here are classic in style and come coated in a delicious and rich buffalo sauce (you can also get hickory BBQ, honey mustard or garlic parmesan!) and served with classic celery and cheesy dip.Feeling more in the plant food mood? They also have seitan wings on the menu, with vegan buffalo and vegan ranch.
3. Bigham Tavern
Head to this local neighbourhood tavern for an extensive drinks list and food that goes above and beyond standard bar bites. There’s a huge 36 different wing sauces to choose to have slathered on the juicy wings. Alongside classics, go wild with sauces such as Thai spicy peanut butter, tequila lime or red hot honey.
4. Saloon of Mt. Lebanon
They have seriously good comfort food on the menu including the wings which are plump on the inside with seriously juicy meat, yet crispy and perfectly crunchy on the outside. Perfect food to wash down with a couple of cold pints of beer. Stop by on Tuesdays, where they serve up 50 cent wings until 11pm.
5. Big Shot Bob’s House of Wings
We can’t even begin to tell you all all about the different wing flavours and sauces there are here – there’s at least 80-100 sauces to choose from. Think: raspberry and honey mustard, butter and parmesan or Jamaican jerk. You’ll want plenty of napkins as they are a messy-but-delicious eat.
6. Wiggy’s
Feast on wings covered in creative and tasty sauces at Wiggy’s, such as coconut lime salt & vinegar, General Tso’s, orange ginger, stingin’ honey garlic, dry BBQ, wing dust, or honey sriracha. With sauces as tasty as theirs you don’t miss out on one bit of flavour.
7. 51 Wings
With a selection of 51 different sauces there is something for everyone at 51 Wings. Huge, plump chicken wings are served up with all sorts of tasty sauces and dips. Their wings are quite simply some of the juiciest and tastiest you will ever get your teeth stuck into.
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