Zaxby's

On The Road

Zaxby's is my go to place when I'm road-trippin'. I'm sure everyone has had 'em so needless to say they are solid every time. The sauce is sweet and hot, the chicken cooked just less than "crispy". Yum.

Dugan's

Dugan's on Ponce
Dugan's is a sports bar on Ponce. I have been wanting to hit up these wings for a minute and finally did last week. I went over for a pitcher of beer, braves game on the big screen and some of their famous wings. They claim they have "Atlanta's Original Hot Wings".

This place has a huge bar and TV's everywhere. The menu has some kick ass specials. Man I love me some specials.

The wings are good. Nice size, cooked right and good flavor. They are hot and sauced up just right. Your basic hot wing done right is what they do at Dugan's. Check em out...

R. Thomas Delux Grill

Uber Heady
R. Thomas is on Peachtree between Buckhead and Midtown. Big neon sign, you can't miss it. Kinda a quirky place...from the parrots and cockatoos chillin' in cages outside to the hippie/bohemian vibe going on inside.

Open round the clock and I don't think I've ever been so confused by a menu. Not the food on the menu, but the actual menu. Check it out at rthomasdeluxgrill.net, it's in some funky kinda order that threw me for a loop.

The menu kinda reflects the hippie vibe of the restaurant. Lots of organic this and that, solid veggie menu, etc. My wings were from free range chickens. That's cool and all, but I need some meat on my bones! These wings are tiny matched up against other wings around town. Check these out...the drum and the flat combined are the size of the wings at Fox Bros.

I must say though, the wings are pretty tasty. They are slow-roasted, char-grilled and tossed in some sweet kinda hot sauce. Not that hot at all but very good. That's homemade blue cheese you see there too. Put the wing in the blue cheese and eat em' both up.

Char-grilled wings are good, and I really don't see them much. Try it out.

With all this said...I officially give the title of headiest wings to R. Thomas.

The Albert

More Smoked Wings
What? I need to eat some pizza!

This wasn't my first time flirting with these sexy wings from The Albert. Seems like every time I go there I end up getting hammered drunk afterwords and not wanting to write in the morning.

I really dig these wings at The Albert. I keep coming back all the time. I had smoked wings from Fox Bros Wednesday night and still couldn't resist ordering more from this little bar in Inman Park. The bar is called The Albert and that's pretty much what they're all about. There is Albert related decor everywhere, nothing but Albert stuff. For example, there was a photo of baseball great Al Kaline in our booth. Al Pacino, Al Gore, Fat Albert all take their place on the walls.

With the snow falling on a rare frosty night in Atlanta I sat and ate deliciously smoked wings. I've had The Alberts wings on several occasions and they are incredibly consistent, great every time. They are dry, with a side of BBQ and ranch or blue cheese. I don't even touch the BBQ sauce and I go straight for the blue cheese. It's like an angel had a baby in my mouth!

These wings can hold up against any wings in town. They know how to smoke 'em, that's for sure.

N. Highland Pub

Wings with Jimmy
This is a great place. Good peeps and 100 steps from my front door.

As far as the wings go. They're pretty damn good. Sauced up nice, cooked crispy, but you don't have to ask for it. Serving 'em up at 35cents a piece(4-7pm Mon-Thur and all day Fri-Sun) they cook a lot of wings. This place knows what they're doing.

Hot wings are spicy, your gonna sweat. It seems the pub has really fresh celery all the time too. While you get down on your 35cent wings* you can toss dollars bills into the internet jukebox and eat to your own soundtrack.

*35cent wings are gone. Weak sauce!

The Great Atlanta Wing Face-Off

Fox Bros. VS. DBA
I put all my love and devotion for my beloved Fox Bros. BBQ (www.foxbrosbbq.com) aside Saturday. I had to. It was a wing face off, a challenge of sorts. I could not favor sides...I just couldn't.

Let me set the scene...This week is a holiday week and people are coming in town from all over. It is super cool, good times, friends getting together, eating good food, drinking good whatever and a list of other various things we may or may not have done.

Alex got in from Charleston (I'll be headed there for some pizzawings Fri. & Sat.) Friday night. Saturday morning Alex and Nick joined me for some baconeggs and that is where the idea for the wing off was sparked.

Nick started talkin' all this and that about DBA, a fairly new and seemingly upcoming BBQ joint on N. Highland (www.dbabarbecue.com) and how their smoked wings are real tasty. As you can imagine I was very interested in what Nick had to say, as I thought I had already had the best smoked wings in town.

So the idea was born. We take two smoked wings, put them head to head. We take them from the takeout to my coffee table. Pop those styrofoam boxes open and get down to business.

Two calls were placed. One to Fox Bros. and another to DBA.

2 dudes, 24 wings, and a mission.

Alex and I barely made it home without tearing open the takeout. The smells of smokey meat filled my car to the point of mouth watering insanity.

Finally we arrived at my place. Wings were opened and we began to feast.

It was a frenzy, I was hitting up DBA then a Fox Bros., then a DBA then another Fox. Bros. Dipping in sauces. Wow.

The DBA wings are sensationally smoked, dry, with a side of BBQ (A tangy sweet vinegar sauce). The Fox Bros. wings are also smoked nice, they come sauced up (Fox Bros. BBQ wing sauce, OMG!).

Naturally the sauced up wings from Fox Bros. were very savory. Sweet deliciously sauced up smoked wings that you could never be disappointed with. They got somethin' good goin' on over there...fo sho. If you haven't had em', go get em'.

DBA, crunchy smokey flavor that touches the tongue in that special place and makes you say to yourself..how bout a lil a that?

In the end our napkins were dirty, our bellys were full and Alex had this funny grin on his face.

Props to DBA, very tasty, but after many long minutes of deliberation and reflecting both me and Alex came to the conclusion that Fox Bros. was and is the reigning champion of smoked wings in the ATL.

Jack's Pizza & Wings

Nick Dixon and I sat at the bar eating slices. Lookin' at the action figures posted up behind the bar (they had Ric Flair) awaiting our slice Nick gave me a wealth of information about this spot tucked away in the Old 4th Ward.

We both ordered a slice of pepperoni and mushroom. They didn't skimp on the pepperoni either. It was your typical slice, not bad not amazing. I liked it.

Here's a few things I picked up talking to Nick and hanging out. Wings are baked on the stone, not fried. I had them take out a few weeks ago, they were good but not sauced up enough. I like to get saucy.

They have High Life dollar pints on draft disguised as "Old 4th Ward". 3 dollar well shots. Jello wrestling in the summer. It's Nicks "go to place".

Oh yeah, closed on Tuesday. What?