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Coca-Cola Field

Buffalo, NY

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Saturday, August 30th • 12 - 9pmSunday, August 31st • 12 - 7pm

Labor Day Weekend

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Drew Cerza“Wing King”

Festival Founder

Welcome to Buffalo, NY

The National Buffalo Wing Festival celebrates “Buffalo Wings,” which have become a national food icon. Invented in 1964 at the world famous Anchor Bar by Frank and Teressa Bellissimo, Buffalo, NY is the official “Home of the Chicken Wing.” The popularity of the chicken wing has made it America’s #1 appetizer. Last year alone, over 13.5 billion wings were consumed by Americans, 1.23 billion on Super Bowl Weekend alone.

In 2002, actor Bill Murray playing Frank Detorre starred in one of his notori-ously eclectic movies entitled, “Osmosis Jones.” Murray played the part of an average Joe addicted to fried food and other artery-clogging fare, who was heading to Buffalo New York for… of all things… a chicken wing festival. Well, as we all know, at that time there WAS NO CHICKEN WING FESTIVAL in Buffalo, NY…at least not yet.

Buffalo News columnist Donn Esmonde heard about the Murray movie, and wondered, “Why isn’t there an annual National Wing Fest in Buffalo?” Esmonde wrote a column suggesting that there should be such a festival, as a way of staking a claim to what is rightfully a Buffalo creation. I read that article and called Donn the very next day, agreeing with the columnist’s the-ory. Esmonde then wrote about my Wing Fest plan in a subsequent column, asking the community for its support. That was 12 years ago. Since then we have had 795,000 attendees, served almost 4.1 million wings weighing more than 237 tons, have had 215 participating restaurants, $275 ,000 in charitable contributions and yes, even a wedding ceremony.

The Wingfest has drawn the attention of media throughout the world, including many appearances on CNN, The Travel Channel, The View and Regis and Kelly, NBC’S Today Show, and was also the subject for a PBS Documentary. The festival also drew the attention of the Food Network as Food Icon Bobby Flay came to Buffalo for a chicken wing throwdown and Emeril Lagasse filmed the festival for a show on Buffalo Wings.

The National Buffalo Wing Festival has become one of the best culinary road trips in America. Last year we tracked visitors from all 50 states and 36 different countries. All for the love of the “Buffalo Wing.”

Thanks for joining us this Labor Day Weekend as we celebrate the 13th annual National Buffalo Wing Festival.

“Keep Wingin’ It”

DREW CERZAThe “Wing King”

Each day features over 35 local and out-of-town restaurants serving over 100 diff erent styles of Buff alo wings.

Other festival food favorites include Pizza, Chicken Wing Soup, Chicken Fingers, Ice Cream and more!

Admission $5.

Children 8 and under FREE.Courtesy of

Table oF ContentsFestival Sponsors ..................................................................... Page 3

Schedule of Events ................................................................... Page 4

Buff alo Wing Hall of Flame Inductees ................................... Page 5

Sponsor/Vendor locations ....................................................... Page 7

Festival Map/Restaurant locations ................................... Page 8-9

and all of the volunteers for making the Wing Festival possible!

Jumbo Chicken Wings$1.00 each

Other food and beverage pricing displayed at individual booths

Hot Sponsors

The National Buffalo Wing Festival has raised over $275,000 for local charities. Thank you for your support!

2014 Benefiting Charities

Event Sponsors

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Jumbo Chicken Wings$1.00 eachOther food and beverage pricing displayed at individual booths

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS


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Main Stage House BandHeavenly Chilbillies

Saturday, AUGUST. 30 2:00 & 7:00 PM ...... Heavenly Chilbillies Blues Concert

SUNday, AUGUST. 31 6:00PM ......................Heavenly Chilbillies Blues Concert

Main Stage Schedule

Saturday, August 30, 2014ALL DAY Kids Zone – Play all day

1:00PM Amateur Creative Sauce Off

1:30PM Amateur Traditional Sauce Off

2:00PM Heavenly Chilbillies

2:30PM Dennis George – QuizMaster

3:00PM The Healthy Zone Recipe Challenge

3:30PM Bobbing for Wings

4:00PM Amateur Wing Eating Championship


5:15PM Restaurant Award Ceremony

6:00PM Buff alo Buff et Bowl Eating Contest


9:00PM Closing Ceremonies

Main Stage Schedule

SUNday, August 31, 2014ALL DAY Kids Zone – Play all day

12:30PM Baby Wing Competition


1:30PM Miss Buff alo Wing Pageant

2:00PM Bobbing for Wings

2:30PM College Wing Eating Competition

3:00PM Hot Wing Eating Contest


5:00PM United States Chicken Wing Eating Championship


7:00PM Closing Ceremonies

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After you’ve had your fill of wings, there’s always room for a little bit of fun. Visit Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino this weekend – conveniently located only 1/4 mile from Coca-Cola® Field – and exchange your Wing Festival ticket for $10 Free Slot Play, or stop by September 1 – 7 to receive $15 Free Slot Play. Come experience downtown Buffalo’s hottest entertainment destination.$15 Free Slot Play. Come experience downtown Buffalo’s hottest entertainment destination.

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As with any good story, it all started with a road trip in the ‘70s.

In 1978, Judy and Floyd Anderson crammed their family and their belongings into their car and did what Americans have been doing for more than 200 years – they headed west to chase a dream. They embarked on a cross country move from Buffalo, New York, to Phoenix, Arizona with their four young daughters in the backseat.

The Andersons decided that once they had settled in Arizona, they would open a restaurant.

Sharing a passion for food and people, Floyd and Judy believed that a restaurant would allow the family to work together.

They bought a small local pizza joint, named it “Native New Yorker” in memory of the home they’d just left, and threw their life savings into building a successful business. It wasn’t that easy.

After months of terrible sales, long hours, and a roller-coaster of emotions, Judy had an epiphany: Chicken Wings. Being from Buffalo, New York, Judy and Floyd had spent many nights feasting on a local culinary phenomenon served at the now famous Ancho r Bar. “If it worked there”, Judy thought, “why not here?” And with that, Judy made a trip to the local grocery store to buy enough chicken wings to test the east coast favorite on the incidental restaurant patrons they still had.

They were an instant hit! Even though they left western New York, the Andersons were thrilled to be able to bring part of the culture to the southwest. Native New Yorker began receiving awards for their wings almost immediately.

The Andersons soon became local icons, and Native New Yorker (or, “Native”, as the regulars called it), became an Arizona favorite. Floyd and Judy have been credited for not only pioneering the wing movement in the southwest, but for creating a lasting legacy for their family.

Fast forward to today. In 2014, Native New Yorker officially shortened its name to Native Grill & Wings, and gave the logo a much-needed facelift.

These days, the family, together with a strong leadership team and a grow-ing group of franchisees, is expand-ing Native Grill & Wings and receiv-ing nationwide recognition. Recently named on Restaurant Business Magazine’s Future 50, Native has become known as a polished sports grill that proudly offers 19 wing flavors that the guest can order by the each!

This year, Floyd and Judy are being recognized for bringing the infamous Buffalo wing to the Arizona market, and for founding a brand that has acquired a cult following over the past 35 years. Native Grill & Wings is proud to announce the Andersons as this year’s 2014 Inductees into the National Buffalo Wing Hall of Flame.

B U F FA L O W I N G

H A L L O F F L A M E

Floyd and Judy AndersonFounders, Native Grill & Wings


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Barefoot Wines Wine Tasting and Giveaways

Snyder’s Snacks Sampling Hot Buffalo Wing Pretzel Pieces

Pucker Butt Pepper Company Sampling and selling hot pepper products

Dollar Shave Giveaway of Adult Bibs

Science Diet Giveaway of Hills Science Diet Cat Food (dry) in sample as well as premiums

Yuengling Beer Tent Serving America’s Oldest Beer

Geico Interactive games and giveaways

Frank’s RedHot Interactive games and giveaways

BAC for Women Membership Information Center

Marie’s The Official Blue Cheese of the National Buffalo Wing Festival

The Keg Works Store Selling beer and chicken wing/outdoor related products.

Festival Merchandise Festival T-shirts, Hats, and other chicken wing novelties

sponsors on main field

sponsors and vendors in entertainment areaSailor Jerry Rum Interactive Display

UV Vodka

LA Fitness Membership Opportunities

I Love NY Interactive Display

Buffalo Citybration Promoting Buffalo one event at a time

Anthony Jewelers Unique inexpensive jewelry items

BPO Nation DJ spinning music all weekend long

Yuengling Beer Tent

smart car Buffalo Get your photo taken with the “WING MOBILE”

Pole Position Raceway $5 off coupons and prize wheel

The Buffalo News

Allegany Mountain Resort

Consumer’s Craft Beer Pavilion Proudly serving Brooklyn Beer, Flying Bison and MacKenzie’s Hard Cider

Buffalo Visitor’s Welcome Center Sign up here and register if you are from out of town. Enter a drawing for Cutco Cutlery, Emerilware Deep Fryers and Bottles of Frank’s RedHot. Last year attendees represented all 50 states and 36 different countries.


Jumbo Chicken Wings $1.00 each

1 Perry’s Ice Cream Akron, NY

Ice Cream Various Novelties 2 Ru’s Pierogi Buffalo, NY

Chicken Wing Pierogi’s

3 Pop-in-Bob’s Williamsville, NY

Kettle Corn 4 Booty’s Surprise, AZ

Buffalo Chipotle Garlic Booty’s Medium Insanely Hot Booty’s Blast Triple Threat 5 Sliders Grill & Bar Connecticut

Buffalo Medium Buffalo Hot Buffalo Insane

6 Smokey Bones Bar & GrillCheektowaga, NY

Buffaque Cajun Rib

7 Morris Concessions Kettering, OH

Deep Fried Snickers Deep Fried Twinkies Deep Fried Oreos Deep Fried Pickles Deep Fried Mushrooms Deep Fried Cookie Dough 8 Arooga’s Pennsylvania

Mildly Hot: Traditional Kinda Hot: Satisfying Ghost Face Killa Buffaque Almost Everything Hickory Smoked Honey BBQ 9 Boneheads Wing Bar

West Warwick, RI

Breakfast at Tiffany’s- Candied Maple Bacon Wrong Side of the Road - Honey Sriracha Smells Like Teen Spirit- Golden BBQ Balsamic Hot for Teacher- House Hot Buffalo

10 Anchor Bar Buffalo, NY

Medium BBQ Suicidal

11 Chrusciki Bakery Buffalo, NY

Chrusciki’s Raspberry Knot Caramel Confusion Old Fashioned Cup Cake 12 Danny’s Orchard Park, NY

Tailgate-Cajun Spices General Tso Also Serving Original Chicken Wing Soup Peanut Butter Pie 14 Hard Rock Cafe Niagara Falls, USA Classic Wing Sauce Tangy BBQ Sauce Heavy Metal Sauce 15 Duff’s Buffalo, NY

Medium Hot Death 16 Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino Boneless Wing Dings Buffalo Mac & Cheese Charlie the Butcher Beef on Weck 23 Wing Street Plano, TX

Buffalo Medium Buffalo Mild Buffalo Burnin’ Hot Honey BBQ Garlic Parmesan Spicy BBQ Spicy Asian Honey Sriracha Wasabi Ginger Korean BBQ Ranch Dry Rub Lemon Pepper Dry Rub 24 Even Flow Bar & Grill Bay Shore, NY

Habanero Hot Buffalo Parmesan Buffalo Jerk Spicey Indian Chile Rub Habenero Bourbon BBQ Tropical Thai Chile

24 Even Flow Bar & Grill con’t Garlic Parmesan French Toast 25 RuChDa Wings Russy Hot Garlic Parm Honey Garlic Honey Cajun Brown Star Shanghai Zagrev Devrubik 26 Quaker Steak and Lube U.S. and Canada

Haute Parm BBQ Supercharged Boom Boom Thai Cracker XXX Atomic Mango Habanero Dry Rub Louisiana Lickers Golden Garlic Arizona Ranch 27 Scallywags Grub & Spirits Derby, NY

Gator JacApple Caribbean Curse

28 716 Food and Sport Dry Rub Beer BBQ Signature Chicken on Weck Honey Chipotle Classic 29 Falletta’s E. Amherst, NY

Chicken Wing Rice Ball Fruit Cup Hot Pepper Sandwich Strawberry and Peach Short-cake Cannoli Jumbo cupcakes 30 Buffalo Wild Wings Tonawanda, NY

Parmesan Garlic Medium Mango Habanero Honey BBQ Kicking Honey Garlic Salt & Vinegar Chipotle BBQ Salted Caramel BBQ Blazin

31 Legend Larry’s Sheboygan, WI

Medium Scary Larry DOA Hot Garlic Spicy Bacon BBQ Honey BBQ

32 Bocce Club Pizza Buffalo, NY

Wings Medium Honey Mustard BBQ Pit Also Serving Pizza Slices

33 Healthy Zone Buffalo, NY

Healthy Pasta Salad Watermelon Vegetarian Wings

34 Brick House Tavern + Tap Buffalo, NY

Man Cave Garlic Parm Suicide BBQ

35 La Nova Buffalo, NY

Medium Hot Inferno BBQ Roasted Garlic BBQ Golden BBQ Honey Mustard Garlic Parm Peanut Butter & Jelly

36 Native Grill and Wings Arizona, Colorado, Texas

THE GHOST Honey Hot Strawberry Hot Spicy Honey Mustard Ancho Chile Lime dry rub Buffalo Ranch dry rub

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The Best Wings Since Sliced Bread

Best Creative BBQ ...........................3rd Place; Brown Star

Best Traditional Hot ........................2nd Place; Russy Hot

Best Creative Sweet ...... 2nd Place; Honey Garlic Pepper

Best Creative Spicy ................................2nd Place: Shanghaii

Best Traditional Hot ........................ 3rd Place: Russy Hot

Best X-Hot ........................................ 1st Place: Russy Hot

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National Buffalo Wing Festival Awards


2014 US NATIONAL WING CHAMPIONSHIPSUNDAY, AUG. 315:00 PM

Jeff “The Beastman” Butler,

#10, Cleveland, OH

Yasir Salem, #12, NYC

Marcos “The Monster” Owens,

#16, Hillside, NJ

“Buff alo” Jim Reeves,

#21, Boston, NY

Eric “Badlands” Booker,

#22, Selden, NY

Steve Hendry, #24, Dixon, CA

“Big” Brian Subich, #25, Johnstown, PA

“Wild” Bill Myers, #27, Breinigsville, PA

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