Mar

25

Buffalo Wings from Benny Tudino’s

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Mission Impossible: good take-out buffalo wings from a Hoboken establishment.

Living next to Hoboken, you’d think I’d be there all the time, sampling victuals from the myriad quality restaurants in that one square mile of eclectic cuisines. I thought that too, when I first moved in to Weehawken. After several frustrating visits to Washington Street in search of a parking spot, take-out became the main way I eat meals cooked in Hoboken.

Nearly every restaurant in Hoboken offers a take-out menu, which works out nicely. However, some dishes are either difficult or a bad idea to take in. French fries, for example (always soggy). Sushi (it seems they always give you the two-day-old pieces). And buffalo wings.

Wings in Hoboken are easy to find and usually acceptable — assuming you are in a pub. Getting wings delivered — good ones, anyway — is a difficult task.

Few pubs offer takeout wings … or if they do, it isn’t advertised. That leaves you stuck with wings from either a pizzeria or a wing place.

The other night we tried Benny Tudino’s, figuring that their pizza is good, maybe their wings are as well. Luckily, we figured right.

The wings were obviously fresh and had plenty of meat. They were breaded — from what seemed to be homemade breadcrumbs — and not coated with any sauce. This seemed strange at first, until the sauce containers were opened. You apply your own buffalo sauce, which after getting used to, found to be preferable, as I could apply as much or little as I wanted. It was also a lot less messy. The sauce choices were mild or nuclear, and I’m glad I chose mild, as it had plenty of heat.

Not much else to say. The chicken was tasty and fresh, the sauce was typical buffalo with a zesty zing. Not as sloppy as traditionally prepared wings, but that was OK with me. I’ll try wings from other places in the future, but that said, I’d order wings from Benny’s again.