Showing posts with label Suicide. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Suicide. Show all posts

Monday, 21 December 2015

Beertown- Cambridge

Location:

Beertown Public House Cambridge
561 Plaza
Suite 1A, 561 Hespeler Rd
(519) 629-0288

Dates of Visit:

November 11th 2015
November 21st 2015
December 18th 2015

Menus
http://www.beertown.ca/menus

Price per pound: $12.99/lb or 22.49/2lb
Price per wing: $1.30/wing +/- 30 cents
The wings vary between the sizes that they get in the kitchen. I think they weigh them to ensure you are getting a pound.


Quick notables
-Great location and great atmosphere
-Good wings
-Interesting selection of sauces
-An extensive and ever-changing list of different beers to pair with your wings!
-Try the 18-hour Brisket Poutine

Since coming here on a lazy night off from school, I have been back to this location multiple times.There are also restaurants in Waterloo and London which I haven't visited.  I really like the hip, welcoming atmosphere they present the customer, even holding the doors for you as you walk in and leave. The chef changes up every two weeks or so but they do a great job keeping the classic menu items that sell while allowing for very different creative dishes and sauces to be added to the menu. The downfall to this is that there can be a gamble for what quality of chef you can get, so the repeatability of your meal might not be the same every time you go to a Beertown.


The wings are very good here. On my first visit, I tried the Spicy Pineapple Hot Sauce, and the Classic Hot Sauce the first time I was here, and I wasn’t disappointed. The Spicy Pineapple actually tasted like real pineapple flavour and not the cheep plasticy artificial one, and then hits you with a flavourful spicy hot sauce. The Hot Sauce was great as well, everything you expected a hot sauce to be was delivered.

The next time I came I ordered the Hot Butter Sauce and House Chilua Hot Sauce. The Butter Sauce tasted just like the original Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York, which if anyone who has been there knows that is a great wing. The House Chilua Sauce was a great mix of lime and raw, tangy heat. The only problem we experienced was a mix up with my sister’s wings and mine from the kitchen. As a result, we were given two pounds for free which was unexpected as we didn’t really care if we got them for free. Which is great as we all know free wings taste even better, am I right?

During my most recent visit to Beertown with a few classmates, celebrating the end of the semester, I ordered the Honey Garlic and Dry Cajun and was impressed. Both were evidently made from scratch right on top of a crispy chicken wing. There was a problem with my classmate’s Suicide Wings and jeez were they ever spicy! Beertown really delivered on the heat, he was expecting the Wild Wings heat which is toned down and he was rudely awakened by the spices on these wings. They didn’t look very appetizing, they looked like a dry pasta sauce that was just sloughed on the wings. My classmate did not enjoy the wings and our server without us even asking or complaining just gave the wings for free as he felt the standards weren’t par with my classmate’s wings. Again free wings are even better!

Overall, Beertown is a great place to try a different brew every time you go, their service is excellent and other than their great wings they have amazing selection of other great menu items.

Chicken Wing Score: 3.5/5






Heat Level 5/5







Overall Experience 4/5


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