{"id":317945,"date":"2026-06-01T18:57:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T18:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/317945\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T18:57:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T18:57:26","slug":"new-yorks-atomic-wings-gets-a-fort-worth-do-over-and-chicken-steals-the-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/317945\/","title":{"rendered":"New York\u2019s Atomic Wings gets a Fort Worth do-over, and chicken steals the show"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York\u2019s famous Atomic Wings<\/a> are back in Texas, this time with a much better restaurant that showcases the first-rate chicken<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A new location at 1229 Eighth Ave. in Fort Worth features Atomic Wings\u2019 giant, all-natural chicken wings, tenders and sandwiches, spiced with Buffalo<\/a> or Nashville Hot<\/a> sauces.<\/p>\n

This restaurant is completely different from the last Atomic Wings here. The company tried to bring a Manhattan<\/a> take-out menu to an obscure Arlington location<\/a> four years ago.<\/p>\n

Instead of the fast-food takeout in Arlington, this Fort Worth Atomic Wings adds a small bar area with a beer selection, happy hour deals and excellent munchies such as waffle fries with queso.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s still a small chicken stand selling hot wings, tenders and sandwiches next door to the familar Cheba Hut subs restaurant. That\u2019s across the street from Baylor All Saints Medical Center on what has become the \u201cchain restaurant end\u201d of West Magnolia Avenue.<\/p>\n

\"Chicken<\/p>\n

Chicken wings and sides at Atomic Wings in Midtown Manhattan. The restaurant is opening in Arlington.<\/p>\n

This version of Atomic Wings is much more inviting. Now, it\u2019s focused on what the chain does best: huge chicken sandwiches, plank-sized tenders and wings tossed with a choice of 15 sauces and rubs from honey barbecue to the hottest \u201catomic\u201d and \u201cnuclear\u201d flavors.<\/p>\n

The nuclear flavor proved too much for host Jimmy Fallon on \u201cThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,\u201d from a New York studio 3 miles from the Atomic Wings locations in Tribeca or Harlem.<\/p>\n

There was no need to test fate on a recent visit. The medium Buffalo tenders (three for $7, or $10.99 as a combo) were plenty hot, on large chicken tenders twice the size of those at some restaurants.<\/p>\n

A Nashville hot chicken sandwich was just as impressive, with a chicken filet so big it spilled out from a buttery brioche bun, plus slightly sweet and creamy slaw to cut the fire, and premium pickles.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s $6.49-$7.49, or $9.99-$11.49 as a combo. I\u2019ve paid twice that much for chicken sandwiches half the size.<\/p>\n

Waffle fries ($3.99) can come with firecracker seasoning or parmesan-truffle dust. But skip them both and get the white-cheddar queso.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

A mural at the Atomic Wings location in Fort Worth features images of New York, Fort Worth, TCU and actor James Dean from the poster for the movie \u201cGiant.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s thinner than the queso served with chips in Tex-Mex restaurants, but it goes perfectly with the fries.<\/p>\n

Desserts include Atomic Wings\u2019 familiar fried Oreos.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s easy to see why Atomic WIngs is focusing on its very good chicken wings and tenders, not on its multiple mistakes from Arlington.<\/p>\n

The chain tried to feature veggie burgers<\/a> (!?), New York-style pizzas, gyros and salads, when it had the best Buffalo chicken sandwiches, wings and tenders this side of Buffalo Bros or Duff\u2019s in Southlake.<\/p>\n

The hours are good for Magnolia residents or hospital visitors. It\u2019s open from 10 a.m. to midnight daily, 1 a.m. weekends; 940-783-5402, atomicwings.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York\u2019s famous Atomic Wings are back in Texas, this time with a much better restaurant that showcases…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[114084,23055,81191,4436,116,118,117,114085,188,114086],"class_list":["post-317945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-atomic-wings","tag-chicken-sandwiches","tag-chicken-tenders","tag-chicken-wings","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-hot-chicken-sandwich","tag-new-york","tag-waffle-fries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}