For the Win(g)! Syracuse Eatery Nabs National PETA Award for Best Vegan Wings

For Immediate Release:
February 4, 2026

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Andrew Grant 202-483-7382

Ahead of Super Bowl LX, PETA has drafted its picks for the game day hotspots serving up the nation’s best vegan wings—and Syracuse’s own Strong Hearts is a winner. The fully vegan restaurant’s wings are deep-fried to perfection and tossed with a choice of Buffalo, BBQ, Sweet n Sassy, Garlic Parm, or General Tso’s sauce, and served with celery sticks and a side of creamy vegan ranch, chipotle aioli, or miso.

“Strong Hearts is dishing upgame-changing gameday nosh with its delicious vegan wings, which are as finger-licking good as they are kind to chickens,” says PETA President Tracy Reiman. “Every winner on PETA’s list shows that doing right by animals and your arteries ain’t no thing but a vegan wing.”

Chickens form complex social structures, dream when they sleep, and worry about the future, just as humans do. Yet every year, hundreds of millions of chickens are killed for Super Bowl Sunday alone. At slaughterhouses, mechanized blades slit their throats—often while they’re still conscious—and many are scalded to death in de-feathering tanks. PETA’s free vegan starter kit—and guide to the best heat-and-eat vegan wings available at grocery stores—can help anyone thinking of making the switch.

Strong Hearts will receive a framed award certificate from PETA, along with bragging rights. Other winners on PETA’s list include Triangle Tavern in Philadelphia; Fifth House in Omaha; Piper Down Pub in Salt Lake City; and Radical Rabbit in Nashville.

Strong Hearts is located at 315 Irving Ave., Syracuse, and is open from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat”—points out that Every Animal Is Someone and offers free Empathy Kitsfor people who need a lesson in kindness. For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow PETA on X, Facebook, or Instagram.