I Can Do Another 12: The Global Chicken Wing Show
The Quest for the Greatest Chicken Wing
It started with ten-cent wings and cheap beer.
High Street in Columbus. East Exchange in Akron. The kind of Tuesday nights that didn’t require a reason — just a table full of people who knew a good thing when they tasted it. Buffalo Wild Wings was still just BW3’s back then, and the wings were honest. You showed up, you ordered a dozen, and somewhere between the ranch (not blue cheese) and the second round, you understood that food could be an event.
That was the 90s. This is now.
We got older and the chains got corporate, and somewhere along the way the wing became a commodity — a menu afterthought dressed up in sauces named after things that have nothing to do with flavor. A lot of places stopped caring. A lot of customers stopped noticing.
We noticed.
“I Can Do Another 12” was never a slogan. It was a confession. The kind of thing you say when a cook has done something right — when the crisp is real, the sauce isn’t hiding anything, and the plate is clean before you’ve even thought about it. That phrase came out of a real moment, over real food, at the kind of place that doesn’t run ads and probably doesn’t need to.
Those are the places we’re after.
The dive bars with handwritten specials. The back-alley breweries run by someone who mortgaged something important to make a go of it. The neighborhood spots where the owner still works the floor on Saturday nights. Small business owners who treat the wing like a craft rather than a cost center — and who deserve a bigger room than the one they’re standing in.
This show exists to find them. To eat their food, tell their story, and let you decide for yourself whether the drive is worth it. Most of the time, it is.
So here it is: a messy, salt-stained, unreasonably dedicated search for the greatest chicken wing on the planet. No chains. No hype. No pretending a celebrity chef’s airport outpost counts.
Just the food. Just the people. Just the truth about what makes a wing worth another 12.
Cheers!
"Wing King" Mike, Jon "Wing Man" and all our other special guests
Episodes
24 episodes
The Basement Cuyahoga Falls Location - I Can Do Another 12 Ep 024
Episode 024 — The Basement Sports Bar & Grill, Cuyahoga Falls, OhioSeason 2 opens in Cuyahoga Falls, and the Falls keeps delivering.The Basement Sports Bar & Grill does exactly what a sports bar should do and then g...
Opal On Pearl - I Can Do Another 12 Ep 023
Episode 023 — Opal On Pearl, Cleveland, OhioSeason 1 ends where it should — at a neighborhood bar in Cleveland that nobody needed to tell us about. We found it ourselves, on the way to the Zoo.Opal On Pearl sits down the ro...
Dolphins Waterfront Bar & Grill - I Can Do Another 12 Ep 022
Episode 022 — Dolphins Waterfront Bar & Grill, Merritt Island, FloridaThe quest heads to Florida, and Jay Thornton does not disappoint with the dispatch.Dolphins Waterfront Bar & Grill on Merritt Island is the kind ...
Tim's Pizzeria & Pub - I Can Do Another 12 Ep 021
Episode 021 — Tim's Pizzeria & Pub, Cuyahoga Falls, OhioSome bars earn their crowds. Tim's Pizzeria & Pub in Cuyahoga Falls is one of them.Nestled into a neighborhood in the Falls, Tim's is the kind of place that do...
BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse - I Can Do Another 12 Ep 020
Episode 020 — BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse, Fairlawn, OhioTwenty episodes in, and the quest has earned a seat at the bar.BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse in Fairlawn sits right next to Summit Mall, which makes it the kind...
Block 7 Bar & Grill - I Can Do Another 12 Ep 019
Episode 019 — Block 7 Bar & Grill, Barberton, OhioRight across the street from M & M's Taphouse, which means Barberton just became a two-stop wing town.Block 7 Bar & Grill does not advertise itself from the outs...
M & M's Taphouse - I Can Do Another 12 Ep 018
Episode 018 — M & M's Taphouse, Barberton, OhioThere is something specific about walking into a bar where the owner is behind the bar.Not a manager. Not a shift lead covering a Friday night. The owner, pouring the beers...
Tres Potrillos - I Can Do Another 12 Ep 017
Episode 017 — Tres Potrillos, Copley, OhioNobody walks into a Mexican restaurant expecting the wings to be the move. That's exactly what makes this stop worth talking about.Tres Potrillos in the Montrose area of Copley is a...
Ray's Place Fairlawn Location - I Can Do Another 12 Ep 016
Episode 016 — Ray's Place, Fairlawn, OhioRay's has a reputation, and reputations like this one get earned over time.The original Ray's Place is in Kent, Ohio, where it built its name on hamburgers. The kind of burgers that ...
Great Oaks Tavern - I Can Do Another 12 Ep 015
Episode 015 — Great Oaks Tavern, Wadsworth, OhioBack home in Wadsworth, and the hometown delivered.Great Oaks Tavern sits in a building with some history behind it — the other half used to be a bowling alley, the kind of an...
Farmhouse Kitchen Grill - I Can Do Another 12 Ep 014
Episode 014 — Farmhouse Kitchen & Grill, Cedar Point, Sandusky, OhioNot every episode starts well. This one started with a park employee rejecting gift cards that should have been honored — a Covid-era courtesy that Cedar Poin...
Black Tap - I Can Do Another 12 Ep 013
Episode 013 — Black Tap Craft Burgers & Beer, Geneva, SwitzerlandThe wing quest has officially gone global.While traveling for business in Geneva, Switzerland, the show's correspondent on the ground had exactly enough t...
35 Brix - I Can Do Another 12 Ep 012
Episode 012 — 35 Brix, Uniontown, OhioThe best discoveries on this quest have come from accidents. A Google Maps search from a moving car. A beach access path. A wrong turn on the way to get ice. This one came from a hair salon.
Winking Lizard - I Can Do Another 12 Ep 011
Episode 011 — Winking Lizard, Copley, OhioBack home in Ohio, bad wrist and all, the quest doesn't stop.The Winking Lizard in the Montrose area of Copley is the kind of place that earns repeat visits without having to try ve...
The Sombrero Restaurant - I Can Do Another 12 Ep 010
Episode 010 — The Sombrero Restaurant, South of the Border, SCIf you've driven I-95 between New York and Florida, you already know South of the Border. You've seen the billboards. Dozens of them, counting down the miles like a car...
Barrel House Grill - I Can Do Another 12 Ep 009
Episode 009 — Barrel House Grill, Walterboro, SCThe parking lot has potholes. Real ones. The kind that make you reconsider the turn you just made off the highway.Pull in anyway.This one came out of a road trip down t...
Buffalo Wild Wings - I Can Do Another 12 Ep 008
Episode 008 — Buffalo Wild Wings, Medina, OhioSome places on this quest get found by accident. Some get found by Google Maps on a moving car. This one was chosen on purpose, for reasons that have nothing to do with wings.Th...
Against the Grain Brewery - I Can Do Another 12 Ep 007
Episode 007 — Against the Grain Brewery, Louisville, KYThe Bourbon Trail delivered. Just not in the way anyone planned.Against the Grain Brewery sits inside Louisville's historic baseball stadium, and before you even get to...
Bubbarino's Bites & Bubbles - I Can Do Another 12 Ep 006
Episode 006 — Bubbarino's Bites & Bubbles, Hurricane, WVHurricane, West Virginia: That's "HURRacin" to the locals — is not where most people stop on the way to the Bourbon Trail. That's exactly why it made the list.A qu...
Castaway Beach Bar & Grill - I Can Do Another 12 Ep 005
Episode 005 — Castaway Beach Bar & Grill, North Myrtle Beach, SCNobody plans to find a place like Castaway Beach Bar & Grill. You stumble into it cutting through a beach access path, on a walk that started as a run for ice...
Molly Darcy's – I Can Do Another 12 Ep 004
Episode 004 — Molly Darcy's Irish Pub & Restaurant, North Myrtle Beach, SCThere are Irish pubs, and then there are Irish pubs with the Atlantic Ocean sitting just past the patio railing. Molly Darcy's in North Myrtle Beach is ...
Snooky's Oceanfront – I Can Do Another 12 Ep 003
The search for the best wing in the country doesn't stop at the state line, and this stop put Mike and Wingman Jon (PFFNinja) right on the sand in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Snooky's Oceanfront sits with its patio facing the water, the...
The WORKZ Speakeasy - I Can Do Another 12 Ep. 002
The Workz Speakeasy — I Can Do Another 12, Episode 002Episode 002 takes the crew to The Workz Speakeasy in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, a multi-level spot that hides more than one surprise behind its doors. Upstairs there's a full arcad...
Spunkmeyers Pub - I Can Do Another 12 Ep. 001
Episode 001 — Spunkmeyers Pub, Wadsworth, OhioThere are places that don't need a publicist. Spunkmeyers Pub in Wadsworth, Ohio is one of them.Every quest has a starting line. This one starts where it should — not in some bu...