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BORN IN BUFFALO
The sauce’s origin stories vary, but most agree Teressa Bellissimo first tossed chicken wings in a mixture of cayenne pepper, hot sauce and butter at her family’s Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York, in 1964. Others say John Young first came up with the flavorful combo, called “mambo sauce,” at his restaurant, Wings ’n Things. Either way, we know the celebrated sauce was born in Buffalo.
By the ’70s, Buffalo wings were a popular staple at bars throughout upstate New York. And in 1982, when two friends from Buffalo moved to Columbus, Ohio, they missed the spicy, buttery sauce on their chicken, so they opened Buffalo Wild Wings & Weck, the first restaurant in what became the Buffalo Wild Wings chain.
Since then, restaurants and home cooks across the country have given…
