The best bird wing is an art. The meat deserves to be juicy, the skin deserves to be crunchy and you have to find the best sauce/wing ratio, and that’s even before dipping the sauces. The secret menu club Off the Menu knows all about the best wing (after all, they brought us last year’s Wing Fest), and this weekend they’re here to give it. Or, better yet, they’re here for your favorite celebrities to show up.
This era of social estrangement requires a delivery-based culinary festival and Off the Menu has partnered with Uber Eats to, well, propose the new Wing Showdown: a fundraising and voting festival that pits celebrity wing recipes opposed to others. you can spice them all up by tidying up the wings of their corresponding restaurants throughout the city.
Released and Sunday August 2, Snoop Dogg, Shaquille O’Neal, Tyra Banks, Haylie Duff and many others unveil their recipes, so you can also prepare them at home, and spouse at restaurants like Alta in West Adams and Honey’s Kettle in the city of Culver.
Each celebrity wing receives its own video, which you can watch on the site, then sort their wings on Uber Eats (search through the team’s corresponding restaurant base) and vote for your favorite.
The wings of the famous are sold a la carte of the angels in the place to eat and their value varies (counts between $12 and $16). And those are cause wings: the revenue component of a fundraiser’s request, basically the Center for Police Equity (you can also donate directly through the festival), while some celebrities donate for their own causes, such as the Snoop. Youth Football League for young people from disadvantaged neighborhoods.
Here is the detail of the wing you can ask for:
The love of the wing extends beyond Los Angeles as well: the delivery festival takes place in nine other cities this weekend, adding New York, Atlanta, Houston, Chicago and Toronto.
“Off the Menu is thinking of new tactics to help the restaurant industry and create dynamic concepts focused on the most desirable dishes,” says founder Lawrence Longo in a new version. “Wing Showdown is a way to help local food venues during their time of need and outline what food festivals look like at the time.”