BLOGIVERSARY YEAR 5: The BEST & WORST of 2010

I don't have an exact Blogiversary I follow - just usually the end of December begining of January where I review the previous year and all my wing experience. I like to highlight my favorite places I ate at, the products I reviewed, the recipes I tried, the events I went to. I want to point out what places did well and why. It is important to realize that when I say the best of 2010, it is the best of these review that I did in that year, not total. Got it?

2010. What can I say, a good food year for Wing King, but not such a great wing year. I didn't get very many reviews in of anything; Wing snacks or sauces or even restaurants for that matter. And the one's that I did were mostly meh. Because of this I don't have as many categories as in past years. It was a busy year over all - with various commitments, getting a new job, moving cities etc. I have a feeling 2011 is going to be different.

BEST OTTAWA WINGS
BEST TORONTO WINGS
BEST ONTARIO WINGS
WORST WINGS

BEST NON WING PLACE
BEST WING RECIPE by WING KING
BEST WING RECIPE not by WK
BEST NON-WING RECIPE by WK
BEST WING RELATED BUT NON-WING RECIPE by WK
BEST FEST
BEST EVENT

BEST WINGS OTTAWA REVIEWED IN 2010















#1 Mr Mozzarella - I was impressed for a pizza joint. Big and lots of flavours.
#2 Moon Dog Pub - Classic Buffalo.
#3 The Prescott - Big and crispy pieces of meat.
#4 Cheese Lover's Pizza & Greek -Another decent pizza joint wings.
#5 Wedges Plus - Crispy crispy wings.

BEST WINGS TORONTO REVIEWED IN 2010

#1 The Wing Company - Stepping up the take-out wing business with  good sized tasty wings.

#2 The Big Slice - Bigger, breaded, saucy.

#3 Johnny Rockets -Plump and crispy.

#4 Wing Shop 366 - Unique homemade sauces.

#5 Chick'n Deli -Standard pub wings.

BEST WINGS ONTARIO REVIEWED IN 2010















#1 Muir's, Burford ON ~ Wow. Probably the best wings I had all year.
#2 Cheshire Cat Pub, Kanata/Carp ON ~ Buffalo wing heaven.
#3 Bojangles Sports Bar & Grill Cornwall ON ~ Crispy large wings.

WORST WINGS REVIEWED IN 2010

#1 Tucson's Ottawa ON ~ I just felt lied to. The wings did not seem fresh and the sauces could be so much better. 

#2 3 Brewers Toronto ON ~    Meh. MEH! 

#3 Iwing Toronto ON ~ Smallest wings of 2010. Of possibly the decade.  Lots of room for improvement.

HONOURABLE WING MENTION 2010

Not open to the public and thus I didn't SCORE them. They are always good. Meaty wings, and different styles depending on the rotation, these wings are aces over most restaurants.

BEST NON-WING PLACES REVIEWED IN 2010

#1 New Ho King, Toronto ON ~  My favourite for awesome Shanghai Noodles & General Tao chicken.

#2 Hintonburger, Ottawa ON ~ Great fresh burgers from a cool local burger shack.

#3 The Piggy Market, Ottawa ON ~ Awesome little Butchery/Breads/Ice Cream place. Mouth watering lunch time sandwich for sure!

FAVOURITE WING KING RECIPE OF 2010

#1 Skillet Wings  ~ I didn't do enough recipes, but I really like using a cast iron skillet to fry then bake wings.

BEST NON-WK RECIPE OF 2010

#1 DivaQ Sweet & Sassy Chicken Lollipops ~ She made these on the Today Show!

BEST WING-RELATED WK RECIPE OF 2010

#1 Hot Wing Chicken Burger  ~  This  had all the great flavours of hot wings: sauce,

chicken, blue cheese - soo good.

BEST FEST 2010

#1 London Ribfest / Backyard Ribfest BBQ  ~ Once again, it was awesome to be a judge, at the official London Ribfest! And this year our Backyard Ribfest was also cool. I love that long weekend.

BEST EVENT 2010

#1 Chestnut'S Battle of the Wings  ~ 4 Chef's battling it out for my Wing love? How could this not rock?

#2 Wing Eating Contest @ PJ Quigleys ~   Coming  back again and being a judge was stellar. 

#3 Boston Pizza Tweet Meetup ~ Great meeting up with the Ottawa Foodie community was

 great and menu sampling was a bonus.

We've come a long way here at Lord of the Wings. 5 years of writing about chicken wings. People don't believe me that you can have a blog dedicated to wings. But I never have nothing to report regarding chicken wings - often I have too much and no time to report it all. I started this blog for me to keep track of where to go for wings, but its become so much more. Of course, I've eaten a lot of good food. But I've learned a lot about food along the way. Most importantly, I've met a lot of great people who cook, who eat, who like talking about food. I want to say thank you to all of you who read, who write, and who put up with my sickness . . . and will continue to for another 5 years. 

Thanks.

The Wing King/Lord of the Wings

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