660 Richmond Street, London, ON, N6A 3G8
Date of Visit:
12th February 2016
Menu
http://jackastors.com/dinner-menu-english/
The back of their menus are pretty funny and in my opinion a pretty good idea. My girlfriend’s menu had “The methods of a 24 hour chicken finger marinade.” But each hour was listed giving little fun facts about what can be done or is done in house at Jack Astor’s during that 24 hours. Mine had “The great chicken wing conundrum.” As the title suggests if you are having troubles deciding your sauce you want on your wings. I thought this was pretty neat and I ended up choosing off this!
Price Per Size:
5 Wings $9.96 (Price per wing $1.99/wing)
10 Wings $15.22 (Price per wing $1.52/wing)
15 Wings $ 20.07 (Price per wing $1.33/wing)
Average price per wing $1.51/wing
Quick Notables
-In house breading and sauces
-They sauce it at your table?!
-Flavourful sauces, not as spicy as they were boasting
-Medium sized wings
I met up for lunch with my girlfriend and she suggested going to Jack Astor’s. She told me how much she loved their mild sauce, after she went out with her friends two weekends ago. She was saying it was a great buffalo sauce that the vinegar pierced her nose when they sauced it right in front of her. That really enticed me to go to this place. I have never had wings tossed in front of me. We went in, and I ordered the ten wings, five Hot sauce and five Korean sauce. They let me pay for ten even though I ordered two sauces which was really great as most places do not let you do that.
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| Hot Sauce (Left) & Korean (Right) |
When the wings came, they came in those bowls you see above. The busser tossed them within the bowls to your desired amount of sauciness. That was really cool and a neat experience. I can really see people enjoying that, especially those who do not know how the saucing of the wings is done. It also allows the customer to choose how much sauce they want. My girlfriend was right, the flavours really hit your nose when the busser tossed them, it really got me salivating to be honest.
I really enjoyed the flavour of both sauces, but the heat level was not to par. The Korean sauce I have trouble describing, as it had the same heat level as the hot sauce and had a that vinegar hit, but it tasted a little sweeter and faint hints of soy sauce. The hot sauce flavour was excellent, but it I felt it was more of a medium heat level. The wings were in-house breaded which is always nice to hear from a chain restaurant, as they are not just freezing the wings with the breading on them or ordering them to the restaurant with the breading on them. The sizes of the wings were pretty average and the same can be said for the meat to bone ratio as well.
All in all, it was a pretty enjoyable experience and the wings were good.
Chicken Wing Score 3.5/5
Heat Level 2/5
Overall Experience 4.5/5
