The Orange Buffalo

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Orange Buffalo, The Joker, Brighton | Restaurant Review | Foodie ...

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A table close to a roaring open fire had been reserved for me near The Orange Buffalo hatch, so I had a prime view of all the menu options coming out of the kitchen.

Now three years on with a permanent truck in Shoreditch and the title of the UK’s best buffalo chicken wings under their belt, they’ve branched out and landed a gig at the Joker.

Amazingly it takes 6 hours to prepare the day before, and all the ingredients (almonds, kidney beans, beetroot, tofu, spring onions, mushrooms and bread crumbs) are slow-roasted and dried before they are coated in egg yolk and mayo to fuse together.

They advised me to go for the free range chicken wings, plus one of their homemade sauces.

After tasting all but the Viper sauce (which was marked with the health warning: ‘It will make you cry…’ ) and I opted for the buffalo chicken wings with chunky chips and the homemade Vincent sauce; concocted with a mango pulp, Dutch chilli & scotch bonnets.

What's For Lunch? The Orange Buffalo | Londonist

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A relatively new food truck perched in the yard within the Truman Brewery complex off Brick Lane, The Orange Buffalo does hot wings the way they're supposed to be done: decadent, messy, and off-the-scale spicy.

Six quid-fifty will get you eight buffalo wings (along with a drink and chips / onion rings), served up on a cardboard tray with some blue cheese dip, celery sticks and a choice of sauce.

Three sauces are on offer: the standard American style, the piquant woof-woof, which is made from a blend of Naga and Scotch Bonnet chillies, and the Viper.

The latter, recently kept behind the counter so as not to frazzle the taste buds of unprepared diners, contains a small amount of a Naga Viper chili which, at around 1m on the Scoville scale, is one of the hottest in the world.

The Orange Buffalo can be found at Elys Yard, part of the Truman Brewery complex, just off Brick Lane (nearest stations: Liverpool Street, Aldgate East, Shoreditch High Street).

The Orange Buffalo Review | Public House Magazine | UK

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Branching out from their little food truck next to Brick Lane, The Orange Buffalo has taken-up residency at Hoxton Square Bar and Kitchen; I am not going to explain to you what it’s like there, décor and such, because if you are reading Public House then the chances are you have already been and you know exactly what it’s like.

The Orange Buffalo does – *spoiler alert* – Buffalo wings, which is an American style of cooking wings by deep frying them and then tossing them in sauces of varying degrees of heat.

Here is the problem with deep frying wings: first of all, the wings that are used at The Orange Buffalo are not big, juicy, free-range, organic wings from comparatively happy chickens that have spent their short lives running around outside being all chickeny; these are tiny little wings from etiolated little chickens that have probably spent most of their life inside.

I was going to give The Orange Buffalo the benefit of the doubt and say that, you know, it’s only wings, and I am sure they would be fine with a few beers and some mates.

In fact, two of the restaurants I have recently reviewed for Public House, Pickled Fred off Brick Lane, and Taco Queen in Peckham, have wings on the menu that are better than The Orange Buffalo’s by a distance measurable in magnitudes of ten.

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