Bone-in fried chicken wings dusted in lemon pepper seasoning, often glossed with butter or hot sauce. Atlanta's signature snack, a hip-hop fixture for two decades.
Lemon pepper wings emerged from Atlanta's Black-owned wing joints in the 1990s and went mainstream after a 2016 Donald Glover Atlanta TV episode in which a character orders 'lemon pepper wet'. The wet refers to butter-tossed wings finished with a hot sauce coat over the lemon pepper. American Deli, J.R. Crickets, and Atlanta hot wing standards built the format. Today the dish is a marker of Atlanta hip hop culture and on menus from corner takeout to Magic City strip club's famed chicken wings.
2 editor picks for Lemon pepper wings in Atlanta, ranked by editorial score. All Atlanta signature dishes · Lemon pepper wings across every city.
American Deli ★ 4.4
downtown · 180 Auburn Ave NE, Atlanta, GA 30303
American Deli on Auburn Avenue in downtown Atlanta runs the city's canonical lemon pepper wings since 1989. Counter ordering; the order is wings and a side of fries.
J.R. Crickets ★ 4.1
downtown · 144 Walton St NW, Atlanta, GA 30303
J.R. Crickets has run wings and burgers in Atlanta since 1981. The Walton Street downtown shop is the cult choice for after-work wings and beer; the Buckhead and Tucker locations later.