Winston-Salem, NC – It took nine years for East Coast Wings & Grill to finally attend the National Buffalo Wing Festival, but the wait paid off as the North Carolina-based chain took home top prizes in two of the annual event’s more popular competitions.



Held over Labor Day Weekend in the namesake’s birthplace, Buffalo, NY, the 9th annual festival attracted an estimated 71,000 visitors and featured a potpourri of local and national restaurants competing in various categories, including the highly touted “best wing” category, which rates sauces ranging from traditional hot, traditional X-hot, creative spicy, creative barbeque and traditional medium.


East Coast Wings & Grill submitted recipes in the creative spicy, traditional and sweet sauce categories, taking first place for its traditional hot sauce and second prize in the creative spicy category with its Santa Fe Inferno wing. Contestants were judged solely based on taste by 12 blindfolded judges.