Hackett Hot Wings in Joplin, Missouri, soon will be featured on the America’s Best Restaurants website and YouTube channel.
A video crew from the company visited the restaurant at 502 S. Main St. (aka Route 66) last week. The video should be on the America’s Best Restaurants YouTube channel in eight to 10 weeks, reported the Joplin Globe.
More from the newspaper:
Hackett’s is known for wings, but it’s also known for its homemade sauces and rubs. Manning said the show will feature the good things about the restaurant and the good things about Joplin.
Jacqueline Hackett, who owns the restaurant with her husband and chief chef, Floyd Hackett, said they were honored to be nominated and given this national exposure.
“It means so much to us,” she said. “When we initially moved up here from Memphis in 2003, we were on Broadway in Floyd’s uncle’s building, and it was just a little hole in the wall.”
Floyd Hackett introduced Memphis-style hot wings to the Joplin area out of the building at 1301 Langston Hughes-Broadway.
The street called Langston Hughes-Broadway also is an alignment of Route 66. Hackett’s moved to its current location on South Main in 2008.
Here’s what the America’s Best Restaurants site said about Hackett’s:
Hackett Hot Wings is Joplin’s locally owned chicken wing joint featuring 17 signature flavors. We make all of our own sauces and have a flavor for any palate from sweet and tangy to smokin’ hot.
Hackett Hot Wings will mark its 20th anniversary this month.
(Image of wings from Hackett Hot Wings in Joplin, Missouri, via Facebook)
It’s 520 S. Main St.