The Fat Duck- Guelph

Location:
The Fat Duck Gastro Pub
210 Kortright West
Guelph, Ontario N1G 3Z1

Dates of Visits:
October 31st, 2015
December 5th, 2015

Menu
http://www.fatduck.ca/menu

Price Per Wing: 1.86 when buying seven jumbo wings
Price Per Wing: 1.67 when buying twelve jumbo wings

Quick notables
-A strange fusion of South-East Asian and high end English Pub’s cuisine
-Good service
-An ever changing menu

Hot, hot, heat!

My girlfriend’s family visits this pub quiet frequently and often takes me out for dinner there. It is very close to their home making it very easy to walk down and have a pint or a bite to eat. A cozy pub, it’s menu sports a very bizarre mix of Indian Cuisine and Pub Food that confuses me, but it works. My girlfriend says this combination of cuisine is very common in Irish and English pud fare.This fusion transfers itself into the sauces they serve with their wings. Unfortunately, they do not allow you to try more than two or more sauces unless you buy two sets of seven wings (which in my opinion is a little ridiculous). The wings are very expensive compared to most other pub wings.

When going to this pub on Halloween I bought seven wings with the Honey Hoisin sauce. The wings themselves were large, crispy and perfectly cooked. The sauce was mediocre to my taste but then again I do not know much about what an Asian hoisin sauce should taste like.

On my most recent visit to the Fat Duck I was feeling brave. I had just visited Wild Wings two days before where I got very hot wings at the restaurant, this made me feel confident enough to try suicide wings from the Fat Duck. When receiving the wings and taking my first bites I could not believe how much they hurt my mouth, even drinking beer was painful. I was definitely sweating, but I got through four of my seven wings before I could not continue! I took them home with me to finish the next day. The server and I joked about how hot these wings really were. She said that the suicide wings are always changing their heat levels depending on whatever the kitchen has that day. That night ghost peppers were the hottest things they had on hand! I can honestly say it was as hot going in as it was coming out, which I have never felt that before.

Overall, this pub is a good place to hangout but the wings are a too expensive to be more than a rare treat, unless you really enjoy having a burning good suicide sauce on your wings and holes burned into your pockets.

Chicken Wing Score: 2.5/5

Heat Level: 4.5/5

Overall Experience: 2/5