Hard Hat Cafe

"More Wings Please!"

Tommy, August 8 2022

The year 2022 is a little more than half way in the books and what a half year it's been! 1. We started up our "Saucy Saturdays" series with YouTube episodes featuring 16 different sauce brands that you can purchase nationwide. 2. We successfully launched the world's first chicken wing app "Wingaddicts Starter Wings" which helps you find (and even...

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Best Dry Rub Wings!

Tommy, July 6 2022

Ever since I was old enough to squirt ketchup on my french fries at the diner, I have been a lover of "external sauces." Every chef's nightmare, I reach for the A-1 Spicy for my 32 oz ribeye steak. I wanted to get married in the condiments aisle at the grocery store, but my wife wouldn't have it.

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CT Wing History - Just DOOB It!

Tommy, June 13 2022

As we continue to celebrate Wing History Month (OK, I just made that up - but why not?) we need to take a trip back to the turn of the millennium to a Connecticut town called North Haven. It was there that John Acanfora purchased a long-standing drinking hole and turned it into Hard Hat

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CT's 25 BEST Buffalo Wings

Tommy, July 1 2021

What is a perfect buffalo wing? Who serves the perfect buffalo wing? Created by accident in the early sixty’s when Terresa Bellissimo mixed up some Franks Red Hot with butter and poured it over some wings for her son and his buddies at Anchor Bar in Buffalo, NY with some salad dressing to lower the heat, for years and years, “buffalo” was about the...

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