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National Buffalo Wing Festival
Buffalo, NY · Food & Drink
- When
- September 4–5, 2027
- Where
- Sahlen Field · Buffalo · NY
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
A festival celebrating the city's namesake chicken wing at Sahlen Field, home of the Buffalo Bisons, with dozens of restaurants competing for wing titles. It has run since 2002. The 2026 festival, its 25th, runs August 29 and 30.
The history within reach
- National Buffalo Wing Festivalsame spot
A festival celebrating the city's namesake chicken wing at Sahlen Field, home of the Buffalo Bisons, with dozens of restaurants competing for wing titles.
Buffalo was the last stop before the Niagara crossing, and this church was a station on the Underground Railroad with a hiding space under the sanctuary.
Louis Sullivan wrapped a steel frame in terracotta ornament of his own devising, every panel different, and it is generally counted among the finest early skyscrapers anywhere.
- Buffalo City Hall0.5 mi
Thirty-two storeys of Art Deco, one of the largest municipal buildings in the country, finished just as the city's fortunes turned.
Black musicians shut out of the white local formed their own union and then a club above the hall, and it is the oldest continuously operating Black-owned jazz club in the country.