Which metro Detroit restaurant has the best chicken wings? Submit your nominations now!
Flats or drums. Breaded or naked. Plump and meaty.
Chicken wings, once the most underrated parts of the bird, found their calling as the ultimate bar food staple – especially at sports bars.
Metro Detroit is full of bars and restaurants noted for their mighty and delicious chicken wings. And as the NCAA men's and women's basketball tournaments get closer to unveiling their brackets of teams, we're getting ready to do the same.
Welcome to the 2025 Detroit Free Press Chicken Wing Challenge. We want to know which restaurant in metro Detroit serves up the best chicken wings, using a 16-restaurant bracket to determine the champion.
To start, we need you. Submit your nomination, using the form below, for a restaurant in metro Detroit that deserves to be among the 16 in the bracket.
To ensure the playing field is level and kept local, no chains will be included. Nominees should be an independent, favorite, go-to spot for chicken wings (bone-in or boneless) any time of the year or for any event. And, if you have a moment, tell us what makes the nominated chicken wings stand out. Is it crispiness? The sauce? The size? Tell us all about them.
To suggest a restaurant, use the form below. Tell us the metro Detroit restaurant that dish out the best chicken wings, and why it's your favorite.
The deadline to submit is 5 p.m. Thursday, March 13. We will review the entries, narrow down the nominations and reveal our first-round bracket on Selection Sunday (March 16).
First-round voting will begin on Monday, March 17. In the coming weeks, we will announce the winners of each round and open up voting for subsequent rounds. The field will narrow down to the two best places and, finally, an overall winner.
Best of luck to all our competing restaurants!
Contact Detroit Free Press food writer Susan Selasky and send food and restaurant news to: sselasky@freepress.com. Follow @SusanMariecooks on Twitter.
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