{"id":10326,"date":"2026-01-18T06:00:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T12:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/?p=10326"},"modified":"2026-01-18T11:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T17:02:10","slug":"baked-wings-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/?p=10326","title":{"rendered":"Baked Wings &#038; Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-10333\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20251219_123304.jpg\" alt=\"Baked Wings &amp; Things\" width=\"300\" height=\"264\" \/>I&#8217;m a big fan of deep-fried chicken wings, so I was intrigued by the concept of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/details.php?b=2195\">Baked Wings &amp; Things<\/a>, which opened last September off State Street.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The baked wings are available as bone-in (starts at $8.99 for five), boneless ($6.99) and plant-based ($9.49), with your choice of a rub (e.g., lemon pepper) or sauce (e.g., mango habanero). I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;m not the first to say this, but if you weren&#8217;t told that these wings were baked, then you probably wouldn&#8217;t notice easily. The main reason is that have a slight char to them, giving them a crispiness that somewhat resembles being fried.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, I enjoyed the wings and the buffalo sauce, and I would definitely order them again.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, I wouldn&#8217;t get the Chicken Bulgogi Lettuce Wrap ($10.99) again. I thought the bulgogi sauce tasted more like teriyaki sauce, the bits of chicken weren&#8217;t tender and the wraps were overloaded with diced red onion and cucumber.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10335\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260116_115617.jpg\" alt=\"Baked Wings &amp; Things\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" \/>One more chicken dish I tried was the Chicken &amp; Waffle ($12.99). The two chicken tenders are actually fried, and I was pleasantly surprised that the shell looked and tasted like deep-fried cod, as in, light and crispy. The chicken was plump and tender and sat atop a deliciously sweet waffle coated with hot honey butter. I must say that the waffle complemented the chicken well, especially as the chicken was topped with sriracha aioli.<\/p>\n<p>Of course a chicken place has burgers on the menu. Like other restaurants, Baked Wings &amp; Things sells so-called smashburgers, but the patties were normal size, and they didn&#8217;t have the crust on the outside. I chose the Purdy Curdy ($10.99) burger, which centers on the excellent spicy bacon jam along with cheese curds and gobs of pepperjack cheese.<\/p>\n<p>Other menu items include salads, wraps, chicken sandwiches and chili.<\/p>\n<p>Baked Wings &amp; Things serves lunch and dinner every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a big fan of deep-fried chicken wings, so I was intrigued by the concept of Baked Wings &amp; Things, which opened last September off State Street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[20,16,56],"class_list":["post-10326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-restaurant-reviews","tag-american","tag-downtown","tag-wings"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10326"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10338,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10326\/revisions\/10338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}