Wings in Denver

2251 S. Parker Rd. Southeast Denver

303-755-0771

The Piper Inn looks like a biker bar — and it is. But it’s also an everyone-else bar. You can find your mom, your co-worker and dudes who ride Harleys all enjoying cold brews and house specialties like Chinese-style wings, burgers and carne asada fries. The bar, which opened in 1968, was named for the Piper airplanes that used to land on a dirt airstrip when this part of town was still the country; people even rode horses to the bar. Today it still offers up free birthday drinks, televised sports, an affordable happy hour and delicious bar food, much of it straight from the pages of a classic Chinese takeout menu. It also serves some of the best wings in town; they're available in classic Buffalo, a garlic dry rub, a seasonal option and Chinese style — fried in a wok and doused in a blend of oyster sauce and a secret Chinese spice mix.

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Buffalo Wings & Things

7236 E. Colfax Ave. East Denver

303-355-0098

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CD's Wings

7685 W. 88th Ave. Westminster

303-467-7700

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With a large dining area plus a patio, CD's has room for a lot of wing fans — which is a good thing, since it tends to draw a big crowd regularly. And for good reason: Its deep-fried wings are available tossed in over twenty sauce options that range from totally mild choices like lemon pepper and teriyaki to the ghost pepper-spiked Last 1 Standing. CD's also understands that wing preferences are a personal thing. Want all flats, extra crispy, swimming in sauce? No problem. Beyond the wings themselves, the eatery serves up an extensive menu of other fried fare, from corn nuggets and okra to beer-battered haddock.

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CD's Wings

6710 S. Cornerstar Way Aurora

303-993-8662

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The Aurora outpost of CD's has room for a lot of wing fans — which is a good thing, since it tends to draw a big crowd regularly. And for good reason: Its deep-fried wings are available tossed in over twenty sauce options that range from totally mild choices like lemon pepper and teriyaki to the ghost pepper-spiked Last 1 Standing. CD's also understands that wing preferences are a personal thing. Want all flats, extra crispy, swimming in sauce? No problem. Beyond the wings themselves, the eatery serves up an extensive menu of other fried fare, from corn nuggets and okra to beer-battered haddock.

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Clove Pizzeria & Tap

2222 Bruce Randolph Ave. North Denver

303-379-9369

Pizza, Wings, Salads, Bars

Fire on the Mountain

300 S. Logan St. Central Denver

303-480-9464

American, Wings, Best Of, Readers' Choice

This wing joint with a jam-band soul opened in West Highland in 2012 and added a Wash Park outpost in 2019. Yes, the wings are on the small side; that's because FOTM uses only cage-free, antibiotic-free chicken, along with making other environmentally conscious moves like composting all of its food scraps and recycling its cooking oil. But size doesn't really matter when the wings are cooked perfectly and tossed in a stellar selection of sauces, including a rotating sauce of the month. The killer beer list is a major bonus, as are the ever-changing specials, just in case you're in the mood to skip wings once in a while.

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Fire on the Mountain

3801 W. 32nd Ave., Denver Highland/Lower Highland

303-480-9464

American, Wings, Readers' Choice

This wing joint with a jam-band soul opened in West Highland in 2012 and added a Wash Park outpost in 2019. Yes, the wings are on the small side; that's because FOTM uses only cage-free, antibiotic-free chicken, along with making other environmentally conscious moves like composting all of its food scraps and recycling its cooking oil. But size doesn't really matter when the wings are cooked perfectly and tossed in a stellar selection of sauces, including a rotating sauce of the month. The killer beer list is a major bonus, as are the ever-changing specials, just in case you're in the mood to skip wings once in a while.

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Golden Flame Hot Wings

18757 E. Hampden Ave. Aurora

303-690-1171

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Golden Flame got its start in Aurora as a takeout-only joint under the name Wings of Fire in 1994. It's since grown and adapted, moving to a dine-in model with additional locations in Castle Pines, Parker and Colorado Springs. There are currently twenty flavor options to choose from, running the gamut from a zesty lemon pepper dry rub to the well-balanced signature Golden Flame sauce to spicier options like the new Tango Mango made with habanero chiles. The wings themselves are big, meaty and crisp, and they come out of the kitchen fast, hot and easy to bite off the bone. Bring a group and pair your basket of wings with a beer or mimosa tower, each of which holds eight servings.

In the Zone Sports Bar & Grill

15600 W. 44th Ave., Golden West Denver Suburbs

303-279-3888

Burgers, Pizza, Salads, Sandwiches, Wings, Bars and Clubs, Music Venues

Located in Golden, not too far from the Coors brewery, In the Zone is first and foremost a sports bar. With eighty flat-screen TVs spread around the huge place (it's home to a 120-foot bar), chances are that any game that’s on will be showing on one of the screens, whether it's professional or college football, hockey, basketball, baseball, or UFC and NASCAR. While sports may be king at In the Zone, the spot also offers live music, DJs, poker and beer pong tournaments. The menu offers standard bar food, including wings, burgers, sandwiches, salads and pizza.

King of Wings

1100 Arapahoe St. Golden

Wings, Burgers

King of Wings launched as a food truck before debuting a brick-and-mortar that doubles as a taphouse in 2020. A year and a half after its opening, a kitchen fire forced it to close, but after staying alive thanks to a successful Snipeburger smashburger pop-up, King of Wings came back better than ever in 2023 — and in early 2024, a second outpost opened in Golden. Each order of wings gets grilled, adding a deep, smoky essence and a charred caramelization to the skin before the bird is doused in one of ten sauces. Golden exclusives include a full tavern license and selection of agave spirits, as well as regular appearances of the joint's fabled Snipeburger.

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King of Wings

7741 W. 44th Ave. Wheat Ridge

303-424-3489

Wings, Best Of

King of Wings launched as a food truck before debuting a brick-and-mortar that doubles as a taphouse in 2020. A year and a half after its opening, a kitchen fire forced it to close, but after staying alive thanks to a successful smashburger pop-up, King of Wings came back better than ever in 2023. Each order of wings gets grilled, adding a deep, smoky essence and a charred caramelization to the skin before the bird is doused in one of ten sauces.

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Scotty's Event Center

16251 E Colfax Ave Suite 210 Aurora

303-807-2408

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Twin's Wings

8580 W. Colfax Ave., Denver Highland/Lower Highland

303-477-4460

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This spot that specializes in wings and burgers has no official website, but what it does have is big, meaty wings at an affordable price. They're available in ten sauce options, including a buttery garlic parmesan and a standard hot with a vinegary punch. They take about fifteen minutes to cook to order, so call ahead for the smoothest experience, but plan on dining in for the crispiest eating experience. And if you're hungry for more, it also offers daily specials like a burger, fries and drink for $9.99 on Thursdays.

Wing Alley at Ace

501 E. 17th Ave. Central Denver

720-897-8002

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The Wing Hut

15473 E. Hampden Ave. Aurora

303-699-9464

Wings, Best Of

This small family-owned spot has been specializing in wings for two decades, and the experience shows. The wings are on the smaller side, but with tender meat, a nice, crisp bite and a whopping 46 killer sauce and dry-rub options, size really doesn't matter here. Not sure where to start? The garlic parmesan is a customer favorite, while the hot honey mustard offers a sweet and tangy experience with a kick. Orders are placed at the counter, and you can go half and half on flavors when getting wings by the pound — an essential move if you're going for variety. Wing Hut also has a lineup of Cajun items, too, including po'boys, gumbo and fried okra.

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Wingin' It

8200 S. Quebec St., Centennial Southeast Denver Suburbs

720-207-2435

Wings, Dessert, Best Of, Menu

This little storefront sports bar is the only local eatery serving fried Twinkies, a cardiologist's nightmare. Sure, it makes other things -- good chicken wings, for example, with an ungodly number of sauces (47, if you want to be specific) -- but the fried Twinkies (and candy bars and bananas and funnel cake) are reason enough to stop in.

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WingWok

7530 S. University Blvd., Ste. 120 Centennial

303-221-9433

Fried Chicken, Korean, Wings

This takeout joint from James Park, the former CEO of Garbanzo Mediterranean Fresh serves double-fried Korean-inspired wings. The small but meaty Red Bird Chicken wings come tossed with whatever sauce is desired, be it tangy citrus, soy garlic or gochujang. The wings can also be served naked or with a Korean Buffalo dry rub. The eatery also serves chicken sandwiches, tenders, fried rice and sides like cuke-kimchi, white pickled radish and Seoul-slaw.

Woody's Wings 2

313 Havana St. Aurora

303-366-6880

Wings, Menu

Woody's kitchen does wings by the ten-count, in sauces that range from mild (pretty much just butter with a kiss of hot sauce) to hot (which isn't that hot, but biting enough to call for a cool cup of blue-cheese dressing) to nuclear. The dining room is just a white box festooned with sports pennants, wobbly tables, an ancient Galaga machine and a couple of TVs showing sporting events, but at the open line in back, sweating line dogs dunk and shake and sauce and toss all night long.

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Woody's Wings N' Things

1740 S. Buckley Rd. Aurora

303-696-7227

Wings, Recommended, Menu

Woody's kitchen does wings by the ten-count, in sauces that range from mild (pretty much just butter with a kiss of hot sauce) to hot (which isn't that hot, but biting enough to call for a cool cup of blue-cheese dressing) to nuclear. The dining room is just a white box festooned with sports pennants, wobbly tables, an ancient Galaga machine and a couple of TVs showing sporting events, but at the open line in back, sweating line dogs dunk and shake and sauce and toss all night long.

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Woody's Wings N' Things

6817 Lowell Blvd. North Denver

303-427-0302

Asian, Pan-Asian, Wings, Best Of

Don’t let the name of this strip-mall joint (which is not affiliated with the Aurora or Arvada locations of Woody’s) fool you: This is one of the metro area’s best Asian eateries, in disguise. The menu — a literal binder — is full of dishes with roots in the Indochina peninsula, from duck larb to whole fried fish to big bowls of Thai soups and so much more. Much of the staff hails from Cambodia, but there are also items whose origins lie in Thailand, Vietnam, China and Laos. If you do want a wing fix, that’s on the menu, too, but skip the buffalo sauce and go for the Thai lemongrass with peanuts or spicy Sichuan sauce instead.

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Woody's Wings 1

700 S. Buckley Rd. Aurora

303-696-7227

Wings, Menu

Woody's kitchen does wings by the ten-count, in sauces that range from mild (butter with a kiss of hot sauce) to hot (which isn't that hot, but biting enough to call for a cool cup of blue-cheese dressing) to nuclear. The dining room is just a white box festooned with sports pennants, wobbly tables, an ancient Galaga machine and a couple of TVs showing sporting events, but at the open line in back, sweating line dogs dunk and shake and sauce and toss all night long.

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