Wendell's has to be in the running for the best chicken wings in Massachusetts! They are without a doubt Fantastic. The place is really old school and they make wings perfectly. They remind me of the old Ground Round type of wings that we got back in college. The place has lots of other items but I tend to stick with the wings and fries. read more

Wendell's - Chicken Wings Near Me - Norton, Massachusetts

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We went in around 2pm for a late lunch and there was only one other table busy. The service was outstanding. Our waiter Sean O'Malley greeted us with a smile and was very polite, happy and professional. The wings came out very fast. The ambiance was a typical sports pub. The wings were outstanding. I got 3.5 heat rating, my wife ordered 3.25 heat rating. We will definitely go back for more wings. read more

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This is your classic old school spot. May not be the prettiest place in the world BUT this has some of the best wings I've had in New England period. I would put them up even against the legendary Duff's in Buffalo NY (IYKYK) These wings wow. HOT, crispy, full of flavor! Not crazy in size but they just hit like an old school chicken wing. The fries were your normal Krinkle cut fellas, and probably the most unique potato skin? Yes they came like that. Should be called build your own? Was a bit confusing but can order bacon too didn't see that but this was not what I was expecting for sure. This is the spot for wings and would be back. Don't pay attention to the inside, it's the wings that keep this place going. It's just that old school charm you gotta try! Definitely come on down before a show at Xfinity! read more

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If you like over cooked dry wigs , this is the place for you. I called and let the owner know his wing were over cooked and dry, his response was that the way we make them . Worst chicken wings ever. 2 orders at 14.25 each. .50 cents extra for take out. read more

Wendell's - Dry chicken wings - Chicken Wings Near Me - Norton, Massachusetts

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Love this place. Finally had the wings, the sissy ones they were very good. Also had onion rings and jalapeño cheese ball( cowboy balls) so good could probably have had eaten 2 more orders that good. The service is great. The sports pub vibe is my speed. read more

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Great classic wings done right! Wings: 9/10. Price: Decent/average. Cash only! Wait time: 35-45 minutes. Inside: 3/10. But with a very old school vibe. If you're into that. read more

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Great place. Old school had many wings and few drinks. Definitely worth a stop. Bar is small but cozy. Cash only but has ATM. Staff works had. read more

Delicious wings!! Wish they had salads on the menu , Our service was very good. A little wait However worth it the wait !

Haven't been to Wendell's in years!! I was slightly disappointed d that they no longer had the variety of wing flavors (used to love the salt n vinegar ones). We got the medium spiced wings which were flavorful and tender. The kale soup was so good!!! Really hearty! Lots of potatoes, meat, kale and the flavor was spot on!! The pastrami sandwich(Wilkey) had a coleslaw on it-really fresh and bright. The Wendell burger was the star!! Tender, spicy and truly filling! That spicy brown mustard was truly delicious! Highly recommend Wendell's! read more

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Did you seriously just charge me over $23.00 for 10 dinky little wings?! (Ordered wings with reaper sauce and blue cheese)

PROS: Amazing chicken wings !! Super crispy and delicious 10/10, pastrami sandwich 10/10 (use left over wing sauce to dip) CONS: CASH ONLY Extremely slow service Place needs updating read more

Lousy service and over rated! Bern in Norton for over 30 years and it hasn't changed. They take forever to serve you and just as long to get you your check. read more

We have gone to Wendell's many times over the years for the wings. A bowl of wings is just enough along with a beer or two to fill you up. I tend to prefer the 3.5 and my wife the regular. Our kids enjoyed the milder ones. Simple place, cash only, not a fancy spot but the wings are worth it. They appear smaller and I am told that this is because of how hot they cook them, which removes the water and makes the chicken wings look smaller. Compare this to a moist / slimy wing and this is better. It can get loud inside and it is a bar room atmosphere so as you would expect it can be noisy. Nice people and good service. The phone rings endlessly sometimes which is like nails on a chalkboard. But still worth it. read more

Wendell's - Chicken Wings Near Me - Norton, Massachusetts

Just No. Overpriced, overcooked, greasy, smelly wings. I haven't been there in over 10 years so I thought I'd give it another shot. The people were very nice though. read more

AMAZING. Great local spot with authentic wings and original sauce. Service is great at the bar and vibe/ambiance is very laid back.

Guys...if you're going to eat here, get takeout. And just get the wings. The wings are delicious and the best I've had in my two years of living in the area. Service is VERY slow (seems to be one girl waiting tables. She's friendly but just one person). The restaurant is dingy, outdated, and cash only (there is no sign that tells you that). Potato skins were literally just potato with a cup of microwaved nacho cheese. Nope. Would not eat in the restaurant again. read more

I love going here for wings! If you're visiting definitely check this place out. If you don't like spicy food they have non spicy wings that still taste almost as good! read more

Ok so I'm going to be brutally honest about Wendell's since I've been coming here for over 10+ years... I'm not sure I would recommend this place for any new customers as the service is good, but very, very slow due to this place just being understaffed, but always filled with customers. Because they don't have the proper amount of staff it can look a little dirty sometimes as you will literally see trash on the floor and it takes them forever to clean it up because it's so busy. My main issue with restaurants in general have always been bad service and cleanliness, which this place does lack, but even with all that these wings are still the best around! Prices are good and the owner who mainly is working the bar and making sure everything goes smoothly does a great job with the customers coming to pickup their takeout orders and the customers around the bar. I'm definitely a hypocrite on this one lol, but I can't lie I just love these wings! read more

This spot deserves better. This place lives and dies by the way they do things and there is nothing wrong with it. Wings are great, cash only, domestic beer. You know what you're getting here and it's awesome. read more

It took over an hour to get our food. Plus they nickel and dined everything. We were charged extra for blue cheese dressing, which normally comes with buffalo wings when you order anywhere else. While we dined in, we decided to get a pint of 3.5 sauce and were charged a 50 cent take out fee, don't understand why that would be an extra charge, seems like they just slip in charges here and there, which is kinda shady. The decor is dated and not the cleanest place, but my boys love the sauce, so we have been there a few times. read more

Ambiance: very old fashioned, wood panels, dart boards, neon beer signs. Food: the wings here are incredibly Good and packed with flavor. You can tell they are freshly made. Bone in are great as well as boneless (better for takeaway) Drinks: Not a complex drink selection but a simple ice cold beer goes perfectly with the wings Service: Typically one waitress/ bar tender. The food will take a long time and you will be taken care of but it will take time. Noise: bar area can be noisy dining room is quiet to moderate in noise Price: wings run 12.95 bone in, a great deal Recommendation: someone looking for quality wings at a great price this is ideal. Wendell's is not for everyone as it has a very New England gritty feel, but is clearly a local favorite read more

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Great taste and crispy wings. Wings can be small at times but I guess that's what makes them taste good. Thrown back in time feel in the place is nice. read more

Don't bother. No one who works there gives a $hit. One hour for two orders of basic wings. Still waiting. Disaster and not once did anyone ask if I was being served or if I was alright. Done, no more. read more

It's conveniently next to the concert center...which also means it can get crowded and have more people than there is staff. Wings are ok, but not the greatest I've had. read more

Newer to Norton in the last 6 months. Have tried a few different places recently. Wendells was what I expected, decent wings, good flavor, dive-ish feel inside. Went with the 3.5 and probably should have gone hotter. Wings are very small but great taste. Would go back again. read more

For sure a tired looking place (my seat had several strips of black duck tape). Our waitress was nice and it seemed she was the only one taking care of the whole place (???). The wings are a 3.5 in a 5 point scale. Small, crispy and coating was tasty. I know that prices have gone up everywhere, but could not believe each small blue cheese tub was $2.50. Actually, the waitress asking us if we wanted blue cheese should have tipped me that there was a charge; usually blue cheese comes with this type of wings. This was supposed to be a light lunch for us; 4 wing orders, one cup of chili and kale soup, one order of fried pickles and two soda waters came to $92. Wow. the food we got was definitely not worth nearly as much as that. Live and learn, we will not be back. read more

Took advantage to finally try WENDELLS in Taunton. You walk in a the joint is a dive. Grab a seat and check out thee affordable and simplistic menu. The wait service was nice enough. The prices are great but up charge for fries and sauces. The chicken is what we came for, buffalo and garlic butter with fries and blue cheese sauce. Chicken is ordered by the pound and served in wooden bowls for tossing the sauce. Because they cut the sauces with butter choose wisely how often you'll indulge. read more

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The food wasn't the major problem. It was HORRIBLE service. 15 minute wait for drinks, 25 minute wait for food, 15 minute wait for bill..... not even any apologies. The food was good but the service alone would keep us from going back. read more

If you are a fan of Buffalo-style chicken wings, you need to get to Wendell's in Norton, MA if you haven't already. They specialize in serving the best Buffalo-style wings I have eaten outside of western New York. Wendell's wings have become the yardstick I measure all Buffalo-style wings against. The best-kept secret about Wendell's wings is that they owe their superiority to their relatively small size. That's right: frying up big, meaty wings is a culinary mistake. The larger your wings are, the more difficult it is to control their temperature, resulting in uneven cooking. Besides that, the large, burly wings you get in many places are not natural, and are typically the result of hormones and genetic modification. Purely from a taste and texture perspective, you want Buffalo wings to be small so they have a higher ratio of flavor-concentrated skin, fat, and cartilage (i.e. the "good stuff") to meat. Wendell's achieves this by using wings that are sized at about 10-11 pieces per pound. Most chicken drumettes and wingettes (mid-joints) you find in a grocery store are significantly larger, approximately 6-8 pieces per pound. The small stature of the wings, combined with Wendell's time-tested technique of quickly frying them up in canola oil at 375F, results in chicken skin that is so light, crispy, and crackly that it shatters if you are unlucky enough to drop one on the floor. The shorter cook-time keeps the meat inside uniformly juicy and tender. Sauce is applied by shaking the wings with it between two wooden bowls. This is Wendell's signature move, a messy tableside flourish signalling that it's game time. All of Wendell's sauces are heavy on garlic, much to their benefit, and with varying amounts of chili extracts and pastes. Heat options range from the aptly-named "Sissy" (level 1) to "Double Dare" (level 7). I tend to stick around the "Extra Spicy" (level 5) or "Suicide" (level 6), but I would suggest others may want to work up to that, as anything above "3.5" (literally level 3.5) can hurt you. Yes, Wendell's is a cash-only operation, and yes the wings take a while to come out when the place is busy. I've learned to embrace the slower pace of this venue, where I can frequently be found slouched over their bar while unironically sipping a macrobrew and watching 350-pound men maim each other on TV as everyone cheers, groans, and swears. This is America stuff. Dude stuff. Dad stuff. On this first Sunday of the NFL during the COVID-19 pandemic, I would be at Wendell's today if I wasn't grounded here in California, unable to make my monthly trips to New England since March. I'm pulling for Wendell's to get through this as much as I am for my New England Patriots to stomp the Miami Dolphins this afternoon. Food/Décor/Service: 4.5/2.3/2.8 What to Order: Wings (3.5-level) with Blue Cheese Dressing read more

Service extremely slow when they are busy. Good variety of heat with their sauce offerings, but many times there is only one wait staff. read more

Update: concerns about "one finger sized" wings were brought to the owners attention. His response- "We like them small, Our customers like them small as possible". I've been a fan of this establishment for a long time- but won't be returning indefinitely. This review is specifically related to the size and quality of wing. I would preface my review by saying that I have been a customer for a little over 10 years now, and I certainly know what to expect when I order pick up or dine in at Wendell's pub. With that said, my review pertains to the two weeks leading up to Christmas, and the week of New Year's when Wendells re-opened. I regret to say, but the past four orders of wings have been abnormally small. I cannot overstate to you how long I have been a customer, because I want to communicate properly my familiarity with Wendell's wing size. . They do not look like this. Each flat was about the size of my thumb, and I'm not a very big human. The drumsticks were shorter than my ring finger. Each wing was a one bite wing- very much not what I would come to expect from this pub after 10+ years of patronage. As many of the reviews have shared, this is a famous Hometown-pub, with award-winning wings, that people do in fact travel far and wide to enjoy. One silly catch about Wendells, is that called the pub prefers to serve wings very much on the smaller side. . Generally, this makes for a really satisfying wing experience, as the wings are cooked through, slightly crunchy, and have very little cartilage whatsoever. I called the pub when they re-opened after New Year's, to explain that I was very familiar with what to expect from the wings, and that the last few orders I have got were abnormally small... I spoke to a bartender on the phone who shared with me that Wendells serves small wings, and when I communicated with her how long I had been a patron, she shared with me that the owner was now spending extra money to get these new wings because they were so much smaller. My tldr "too long didn't read" version of this review ; Wait staff has confirmed that Wendells is now paying extra for smaller wings, that offer no improvement from the previous wings, and substantially less meat. and by the way the price has increased a little less than a dollar. The sauce is still amazing as usual- but the product itself has suffered. If you're going to give people smaller wings with less meat, the price should reflect that. read more

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Food was great wings Great staff and ambiance if you like dive bars Thanks for all the laughs It's a awesome time

We wanted to like this place as we heard about the wings. Boneless wings were just average and overpriced. The service wasn't bad, but no one was friendly. Everything seems outdated and overall it felt like a lack of effort all around. That they only accept cash isn't a big deal, but even I take Venmo. It just gives the customer the sense that it's an honor to eat there, and I don't get it. Everything about Wendell's is average or below average. read more

I was excited to try this spot due to it having good reviews on google. Unfortunately it did not meet my expectation. Food: was average. Wings are crispy but very small. The wings are the size of a fork tip. See my picture for comparison. The shrimp wasn't very good either. Service: waitresses were very nice but clearly overworked. Both serving and cooking. They need to hire more people. The wait was ridiculous and not worth it. Ambiance: the bar is very small. Pub environment Parking: parking lot available Overall, I would not come back to this place. Oh and its cash only. Atm available in the dining area. I spy the sign. read more

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Absolutely Not worst service ever!!! Wait staff avoids you! Bartender says he's manger gets in my face when knowing they are in the wrong totally! Save yourself don't go! read more

Wings amazing service amusing best wings I've ever had I promise you will have a great time totally recommend read more

Wendell's - Chicken Wings Near Me - Norton, Massachusetts

Good food just the same as it was ten years ago constantly awesome. Wendell Burger 10 3.5 wings and their sauce for dipping was amazing 10 !!! Amazing!!! Love this place !!! The one comfort food I can count on every time!! My Uncle Steve brought me here when I was 18 now 46 and it's as good as I remember as a kid!!!! read more

Really good I recommend it , service was amazing wings were amazing the spice levels were perfect the wings were a little too small but I still give it a 5 star read more

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Kitchen closes at eight as stated on their website, we arrived with a party of 4 at 7pm and was denied seating and service. Would not recommend. read more

5 star wings, Friendly staff but always seem to be down 1-2 people, also cash only establishment. Wings have been great for years and the people here are really nice. Sometimes your wings come out 15 minutes, other times it may take as long as 45 minutes. It is worth a trip and definitely should be on your bucket list. read more