Wingin It

Located in a strip mall in NW Loveland near the DMV, Wing Shack is another local success story. Started in 2004 in Garden City (near Greeley) in an actual shack, it has grown to 6 locations today. Not a ton of ambience here: the requisite sticky floor, and some video games. But, they care about the food. Now I am not a wing nut, but they are in my family, and they say this place is good. They have a ton of homemade sauces to choose from, and even some dry rubs. Only fresh, never-frozen wings served here. Monday's are still 50-cent wing night.

It was not too long ago that most restaurants would toss the wings out with the trash: just mostly bones, anyway, not much meat. That changed when some inventive chefs started deep frying them just right, and adding some hot sauce. Soon they became a nice appetizer. Then only for sporting events (hard to buy wings right before the Super Bowl). Today they are the main course at places like this one. So, I guess I just don't get it. They are still mostly selling you sauced, fried bones. Eating them is messy and takes some work, with little gain. I'd be OK going back to the old days where the wings just ended up in the trash. But, one man's trash is another's treasure, I guess.