Best Wings In White Plains Named

WHITE PLAINS, NY — More than 16,300 wings were eaten over a four-week period and the winner has been announced.

White Plains Mayor Tom Roach and the White Plains BID said Alex Lounge Bar & Grill made the best tasting wing during the 2021 Downtown White Plains Wing Weeks. The wings came from downtown White Plains restaurants.

Every Wing Weeks ticket provided four wing passes that could each be redeemed for a dozen wings each at any of the participating restaurants between April 11 and May 8. The event featured 15 participating restaurants, each with a different flavor of wings.

A total of 531 Wing Weeks tickets were distributed and 1,362 passes were redeemed, organizers said.

After redeeming their wing passes, participants were prompted to rate their wings from one to five.

Roach, who brought the idea of a Wing Walk to White Plains, offered his congratulations to Alex Lounge Bar & Grill for 2021 title.

"We have a lot of great food options in our city and ‘Wing Walk’ — or, for this year, ‘Wing Weeks’ — is a great way to showcase our local restaurants," he said. "Kudos to the BID, which worked to adapt the event this year due to COVID."

Roach said he believed that Wing Walk is on its way to becoming a much-anticipated annual tradition in White Plains.

With so many different flavors and restaurants from which to choose, competition for the title of “Best Wings in Downtown White Plains” was steep, officials said. However, when the ratings were counted Monday morning, it was clear that with an average rating of 4.76 out of 5, Cilantro Lime wings from Alex Lounge Bar & Grill has emerged as the crowd favorite.

Organizers said Downtown White Plains Wing Weeks was a safer alternative during the COVID-19 pandemic to the Downtown White Plains Wing Walk event from in 2019.

That was a one-day event in 2019 in which Lazy Boy Saloon & Ale House won with their Tequila Citrus wings. The 2020 Wing Walk event was canceled due to COVID-19 shutdowns.

The 2021 event allowed for safe social distancing by doing digital voting, spreading the event over four weeks and providing takeout options.

Brittany Brandwein, executive director of the White Plains BID said her staff implemented a way to engage the community and promote White Plains restaurants at the same time.

“There was a demand to bring back one of our most exciting events, but knew it was not an option to do so in the same way we had done it in the past right now,” she said.

A proclamation and plaque will be delivered to Alex Lounge in the coming weeks.

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