Customers dine for lunch at Bianchi's Italian, 1110 N. Silverbell Road, on Friday, April 4, 2014, in Tucson, Ariz. The family-owned restaurant squares off against Thunder Canyon Brewery for Wing Madness champion.

Bianchi's has been feeding mouths on the west side of Tucson since 1980. 

The restaurant was opened by Randy and Nancy Bianchi, who moved to Tucson from New York in 1976. 

They opened Bianchi's on Silverbell back when that part of town was mostly desert, according to a 2014 article from the Arizona Daily Star. 


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