Wings Bar and Grill is located on Highway 87 in Spout Springs (address is actually Cameron if I'm not mistaken), and opened up around 6 to 12 months ago. I've been wanting to try them out for some time now, but never had the chance till yesterday.
A friend of mine and I were in the area, and decided to go check them out for lunch. It's located in a small strip mall, and looks pretty small from the outside, but it's larger than you'd think just from looking at the outside of the place. Like most wing joints, it's pretty much a sports bar. Lots of TV's for you to watch whatever game happens to be on.
Walking in, we were immediately greeted. We arrived for a somewhat late lunch, and there weren't many other patrons at the time, so we grabbed a seat as soon as we walked in. Moments later, our drink orders were taken by our waitress. We looked over the menu, which is fairly small. Wings, chicken fingers, chicken sandwhiches, and I think they had burgers as well.
A couple minutes after that we had our drinks, and gave her our food order. Both of us ordered fried chicken fingers. Typically, when going into a new wing joint for the first time, I get wings. Now that I have grown a beard, I normally stay away from them as I don't feel like wearing sauce on my face all day. I got their hottest sauce as usual, which is called "Backdraft" (the place has a bit of of fireman's theme going on), and Jeremy ordered their second hottest, "Cajun"...both of us ordered sauce on the side, rather than having them dipped in the sauce.
Around 10 minutes later, we had our food. Both of us ordered the 4 piece, though we considered the 7 piece. Boy were we glad we only ordered 4. These things were HUGE! Each piece was about half a breast. Definately not your typical chicken finger. They were cooked perfectly as well. I said they had a small menu, but what they do, they do right.
The sauces...they were good, but they certainly weren't what I'd consider HOT. The cajun sauce that Jeremy got has a very good flavor, but I couldn't detect even a bit of heat in it. The backdraft sauce I had was "warm", but certainly not hot. "Normal" people may think different since I'm a bit of a masochist converning spicy food, but even Jeremy didn't think it was hot. Flavor was pretty good, though it was a bit vinegar-ish. Still, it'll likely be the sauce I get next time I visit the place. The waitress asked me what I thought of backdraft, and I told her it wasn't hot. She said there's another flavor, NOT on the menu, that they'll bring out by request, but they were currently out of it. I may give it a try next time.
Staff was very friendly as well. My drink never ran dry, they took our drink and food order quickly, the food came quickly, etc. When our waitress became busy for a few moments, another waitress asked if we'd like more drink, and asked if we needed anything else. Zero complaints.
For score, I'm going to give this place a 9.5 out of 10. The ONLY thing I can complain about is the sauce really wasn't as hot as I like it. For most people, I suspect this won't be a problem. Service, food, atmosphere, etc...all of it was great! It'll definately be a place I visit on occasion. Were it closer to me, or atleast in an area I frequent, I'd probably visit them once a week! I really do dig the place.
