Six Wings War titles. That’s the tally Jimmy’s Old Town Tavern in Herndon has racked up in Northern Virginia Magazine’s “NoVA Wars: Wings Edition,” most recently in April 2024, when it defended the crown after five rounds of voting and edged out Vienna’s Bear Branch Tavern in the final round. In a state where nearly every neighborhood bar insists its wings are worth a drive, that’s an unusually concrete pile of evidence.
Then came 2026, and the magazine’s Best of NoVA reader poll handed the Wings category to somebody else. Velocity Bar + Kitchen took the top spot, and Jimmy’s landed as runner-up, though it still carries Virginia’s flag on the OIYS best wings roundup. So if you came here hunting for the best wings in Virginia, the honest answer is that you have two excellent orders to place, roughly thirty minutes apart.
Inside Jimmy’s Old Town Tavern’s Championship Wings
Jimmy’s sits at 697 Spring Street in Herndon’s historic district, inside a late 19th-century commercial building that has done a lot of living. Local restaurateur Jimmy Cirrito founded the tavern in 1997, and it has anchored Old Town Herndon ever since: the sort of place where regulars have strong opinions about the heat levels and are more than willing to share them…