Question of the week: Best chicken wings

A reader named John wrote me recently with this probing question:

“I was curious what is considered to be the best wing place in town? It would seem a pity if the only real choice is Buffalo Wild Wings. Are there no great local wing places?”

The bad news for John is that Wichita does not have too many places other than BWW that make wings their main focus. But Wichita does have several restaurants in town that make great wings in addition to their other offerings. I have been particularly impressed by the wings I’ve had at Pacific Coast Pizza and at Wichita Pizza Co.

Who else serves great wings? (Or, as is shown in the picture at right, great drumsticks slathered in wing sauce, which I actually prefer.) Thank you, very kind and diplomatic readers, for pointing out that the morsels pictured here are actually pieces of the wing. Whatever would I do without your kindness and diplomacy?)

Answer in the comments section below.

Great news — unless you’re a chicken

I think it was right around the time that my colleague Suzanne Tobias introduced me to the terribly addictive Buffalo Ranch dip recipe that it hit me.

I. Love. Buffalo. Sauce.

Now, I can’t get enough of it. Every day, I crave things coated in that spicy red goodness. So even though I’m not into football, I’m thinking Super Bowl Sunday is the perfect day to feed my addiction.

The National Chicken Council sent me an e-mail this week saying that 1.25 billion chicken wing portions – more than 100 million pounds of chicken wings — will be eaten this weekend, making it the chicken-wing-iest time of the year.

Several places in town serve unexpectedly fabulous chicken wings, in my opinion, including Pacific Coast Pizza and Wichita Pizza Co.

Who serves your favorite wings?