a joint · NYJeremiah's Tavern

A tavern at 1104 Monroe Avenue in Rochester, the first of four rooms, frying wings that arrive "fresh, never frozen" in sauces the company mixes daily at its own commissary. The house claims a run of readers'-poll wins for wings longer than most of its staff have been alive. The Monroe Avenue kitchen also sells a plate, which is what Rochester calls the pile of meat and starch Nick Tahou Hots trademarked as the Garbage Plate.

Seventy miles east of Buffalo, Rochester breads its wings and Buffalo notices. Jeremiah's sits on the Buffalo side of that argument — fried, sauced, not battered — in a city that does not.

The house's claim is the streak: it says it has "been voted Rochester's Best Wings for 21 consecutive years as well as Best Family Friendly Restaurant and Sports Bar in Rochester." It does not name the poll. Inference — a twenty-one-year run in a city readers' poll is a claim about a ballot nobody else has to ratify, and this project records it as the house's own count rather than as a finding.

The Bee Sting is the house sauce people ask for by name; it turns up on the wings and then again on a chicken salad the menu trademarks.

Wings come in fresh and go in the fryer. Dressings and signature sauces are made daily at a commissary kitchen that supplies all four rooms, which is why the Bee Sting tastes the same in Greece as on Monroe Avenue.

Four rooms as of September 2026: Monroe Avenue in Rochester, Penfield at Fairport Nine Mile Road, Henrietta on Jefferson Road, and Greece at Paddy Creek Circle. Monroe Avenue runs Sunday to Wednesday 11am to 11pm with the kitchen closing at 10, and Thursday to Saturday 11am to midnight with the kitchen closing at 11.