What’s your favorite sports bar food?
Throughout America today, I expect to find places on our road trips to sit and watch television broadcasting of competitive events happening in what’s commonly referred to as the sports bar. Upon desiring food in these somewhat informal places, I might order something quick to prepare and easy to eat before concentrating most of all on the games. While traditional fare like hamburgers and hot dogs seem tempting on these occasions, I personally favor chicken wings as my munching item of choice. Give me ten wings, fried or baked, accompanied by a variety of sauces and a Diet Coke and I’m “good to go” for the upcoming game.
But what happens when something other than the chicken wings themselves are the main feature of my meal? Such a phenomenon happened at a recent road trip stopover in Buffalo, New York at the famed Anchor Bar. For here we frequented the widely recognized home of the original Buffalo Chicken Wing concocted by Frank & Theresa Bellissimo for a group of friends in this city in 1949. Know then upon entering the lobby of this eating establishment, I gazed in awe at a vast collection of historic memorabilia and amusing artifacts accumulated along the walls over the years of its operation. With such hyper focus on this flashy ambience, it oddly did not seem to matter that no sports blared from televisions throughout the building.
As far as the food itself, I ordered my typical ten wings fried and found them tasty yet not remarkable in a somewhat confining dining area. So it goes to show that that the alleged stature of anything being dubbed so famous as “The Anchor” seems strictly in the “eyes of the beholder.” So let the games begin again this NFL season as I foresee making my choice of sports bars more selectively in the future. For it’s not about the food then that really matters! Enjoy the photo collection below.
Snippets of a Traveling Mind 
The place was more fun to be inside of than the food!
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