When looking to see whether or not a place is for real, you must judge them on their go to meal. If I reviewed a sub shop and docked them points for offering a poor slice of pizza that just wouldn’t be right.
The Chicken Bone Saloon in Framingham, Mass is known for its wing flavors and multiple sauces. When you risk your reputation on chicken wings, tenders and beer you better be real careful, but the bone gets the job done.
Pro’s-The “Bone” has an all you can eat chicken wings. (Mon & Wed 8-10, $7) Although the hours have been shuffled to a later start and price has gone up a few bucks, they still do it right. They offer bone-in wings rather than the more typical boneless you often see with all you can eat.
The service can sometimes be a little slow on these nights but the portions are just right. They bring out around 12 wings for the first portion. Once you devour these bad boys and you will, they continually bring out 6-8 wings until you tap out or crap yourself.
One positive of this style is you get to try different flavors. Now, I almost always choose garlic hot for 3 of my 5 selections, but other people may want to switch up more often. They have many great flavors, some of the fan favorites are:
I refuse to rank them because some people don’t like buffalo as much as I do. These are people I refuse to be friends with, but its really a matter of preference.
Garlic Hot may be the most dominant flavor, they are they same as just plain hot but with little garlic specs which give them a delicous twang. Just plain mild is delicious on your 4th batch when your mouth is numb and you just want more meat.
They have solid flavors of BBQ, Honey Mustard and Teryaki but nothing out of this world. Roman always seems to be popular as the wings come tasting like delicous italian dressing. Always a solid 3rd or 5th round order depending on how much you weigh.
Beer- Its cold and bountiful.
Catering- They do a solid job for lunch parties and you can get a few different flavors to please the party. They have a vast menu and while you may want to stick to the safer wing waters, you never know if they have hidden jewels elsewhere on there.
Hours- They are open quite late and do deliver to a limited area.
Fries- They have waffle fries that are amazing. They also come with cheese if your over 200 lbs and gravy if your over 300 lbs.
Cons: Thermonuclear- I’m not scared of hot but when you have to sacrifice the true flavor of buffalo for heat and use a tabasco base then shame on you. If your gonna bring the heat, keep the flavor consistent.
Price- If you miss the all you can eat, then the wings can get a little pricey but overall still worth it for the quality. Beer is a little pricey (no great deals)
Loud- The bands are very good but its a little tight and the music is super loud. Im not gonna pretend about music reverberation or any b.s. but if your there and not drunk or with your grandma and the band is on, your ears will bleed. I just pull the batteries out of grandma’s hearing aids and eat wings until my ears start to ring, plus she always pays. God bless social security.
Overall- The bone offers solid wing sauces and has really grown on me over the past few years of all you can eat. While they have created a small wingopoly over framingham, the new “wings over framingham” should force them to remain on their game. As with all business, competition is a good thing and the more wings I get at a lower price the happier I am, until the next day of course.
