The new restaurant, located in the former Good Thyme location behind the Dixieland mall, is scheduled to open Thursday, May 14. Spinosa said a grand opening party with live music and give-aways is in the works.
Spinosa started spending a lot of time in Buffalo — the city where Anchor Bar co-owner, Teressa Bellissimo, first started cooking deep fried chicken wings in peppery hot sauce in 1964 — after he became friends with Josh Allen, quarterback for the Buffalo Bills.
“Those guys and girls just know how to cook a chicken wing,” Spinosa said. “You can go to a gas station in Buffalo and they got good chicken wings.”
It started at Knights of Columbus
The original owners behind Wingnutz, Ed and Alisha Wrazen, began serving wings out of a Knights of Columbus banquet hall in Buffalo in 2018. Orders were placed via Facebook messenger, and service stopped each day when the wings ran out.
In 2021, the hole-in-the-wall received national attention and opened their first dedicated restaurant.
But when Ed started having health issues, he planned to close. That’s when Chris Cavallari and AJ Giordano stepped in, buying the restaurant from the Wrazens in 2022 to keep the place open. Ethan Stack and Spinosa joined the ownership team in 2025…