Third Wave BBQ

Slow-smoked Chicken Wings

Slow-smoked BBQ chicken wings with sesame served with fries

Picture the best chicken wings you’ve ever had, then times that experience by 100%. This is the Slow-smoked Chicken Wing experience.

Slow-smoked chicken wings are soft, silky and delicious. They are also incredibly tasty in their delicious spices and smoky flavours from the slow smoking process. Marinated for 24 hours and smoked these wings are tasty, glossy and addictive!

Chicken Wings

Traditional BBQ chicken wings styles (like buffalo wings, bbq wings or sweet and sour wings) are cooked very fast over a high heat flame. Slow smoking it at a low temperature over a long period of time turns the chicken wings into one of most delicious experience you’ve ever had. The meat becomes soft and silky and falls of the bone. Traditional chicken wings hold onto the bone and can be tough, slow-smoked falls off the bone and is rich in flavours and is silky textures.

Imagine chicken wings that are flavoursome, soft and covered in a custom BBQ Sauce! That’s the slow-smoked chicken wings from Third Wave BBQ. Book your table now.

See this video of our smoking process for chicken wings on youtube.

The thing with these slow-smoked chicken wings is that tasting them can become a life changing experience. Properly slow-smoked chicken wings set a NEW STANDARD in how you expect from American BBQ and chicken wings. The smokers at Third Wave BBQ are working nonstop. These days we smoke up to 1000kg of meat per week. Hundreds of kilograms of meat is received and processed daily. Our chefs are constantly trimming, deboning and removing membranes. The kitchen is always full of smoke and spicy rub aromas. 

Everything from dozens of pork shoulders for pulled pork to huge whole beef briskets is smoked for up to 12 hours. The meats we regularly serve include Texas Style Beef Brisket, Pork Ribs, Beef Ribs, Pork Belly, Lamb Shoulder, Salmon, Chicken, Chicken Wings, Chicken Ribs, Sausages and more. The meats are smoked with Hickory, Maple and Apple woods. Hickory is used for all the dark meats like Beef Brisket, Beef Ribs and Lamb Shoulder. Maple is a little milder, so we use it for the lighter meats like Pork and Chicken. Finally, Applewood is great for smoking Salmon.

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ABOUT THIRD WAVE:

Meat Mountain: a towering stack of smoked ribs and meats beside a hot sauce bottle

Third Wave has become a religious experience on the Melbourne restaurant scene. Since opening in 2010, Third Wave has grown from a neighbourhood cafe into one of Melbourne’s favourite American BBQ restaurant groups, with a huge emphasis on slow-smoked meats and burgers. People come from far and wide to enjoy our exceptional coffees and vast breakfast & lunch menu. Then by night, we transform into a bustling BBQ joint, inspired by the classic American smoke houses of the deep south. Today we are proud to be recognised as one of the best American BBQ experiences you’ll have outside of the US.

Sliced pork ribs on a board with ketchup and BBQ sauce

BOOK YOUR TABLE TODAY!

Third Wave BBQ started as a trendy inner Melbourne café with an aim to grow and so we did. Since opening in 2010, Third Wave has grown from a neighbourhood cafe into one of Melbourne’s favourite American BBQ restaurant groups, with a huge emphasis on slow-smoked meats and burgers.

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ALBERT PARK

181 Victoria Avenue, Albert Park, Melbourne

MOORABBIN

20 Station Street, Moorabbin, Melbourne

HAWTHORN

232-234 Riversdale Road, Hawthorn, Melbourne

OFFICER

Shop 7/43 Siding Avenue, Officer, Melbourne

ASCOT VALE

508/510 Mt Alexander Rd, Ascot Vale, Melbourne

APPLECROSS

888 Canning Hwy, Applecross WA, Australia