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Hot Opening: Wooboi Chicken in Herndon

Plus, after a decade, Maple Ave Market closes.

Photo by Stefanie Gans
Photo by Stefanie Gans

“We don’t mess around here,” is what the man behind counter said to the customer who just ordered the hottest of the hot: level Cold Blue for a chicken sandwich. It’s described as super extra hot and also includes an extra warning: waiver required.

The waiver, it seems, is a signature inked on a chalkboard-painted wall where language alleviates liability of the new Nashville-style hot chicken shop, Wooboi Chicken. From a quick glance, there’s about 50 signatures. It opened less than two weeks ago.

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Photo by Stefanie Gans

I didn’t feel like expiring in a Herndon strip mall, so I went with a level two chicken sandwich and a level three chicken wing. Both were hot, but enjoyably hot. Deliciously hot. I’ll be writing much more in a future issue, but until then, check out Wooboi Chicken. And remember, when you’re at the counter deciding the fate of your taste buds, the yelps of a man who could barely speak after a bite of Cold Blue: “I didn’t think it would be this crazy.” // Wooboi Chicken: 139 Spring St., Herndon 

News, events, etc. 

After a decade in Vienna, Maple Ave Market‘s last day in business will be this Sunday. [Facebook]

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Bunker Sports Cafe is now Loudoun Kitchen & Bar, replete with new decor and menu. [The Burn]

Shinsekai Ramen opens in Vienna. [Tysons Reporter]

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Utility player: the pairing knife. [Bon Appetit]

$2 cocktail specials at the grand opening of Em Oi in Ashburn. [Facebook]

A live poultry butcher shop hopes to open in Alexandria where “customers would be able to identify the live chicken they would like to purchase.” [Alexandria Living]

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