now this is based on other hooter's, by no means is this a 5 star eatery. i think my other hooters reviews are 4 stars. Â im a hooters fan, so that should be noted as well. but compared to every other hooters i've been to, this one takes the cake. i've been to hooters in ny, nj, sc, fl, hi, il, and im sure at least another state or 2. and multiple locations in some of the states. when you walk in to this one (and granted it was a wednesday at 12), at least 2 girls, if not more say welcome to hooters. im a 37 yr old man and have no illusions that im gonna get w a hooters girl (some losers think that the girls actually like you bc they talk to you) but nowhere else have i heard that, very nice and welcoming for sure. super clean, all the girls were willing to help out other co-workers, manager came by a few times to check on our experience. very customer friendly for sure! and my smoking hot gf herself said that this was the prettiest group of hooters chics at anyplace she's been to. even gave me the go ahead to look at some clevage! so if you're near wolf road, and are thinking about hooters, i got 2 words for you. 1. Do 2. It!
Review Source:I am really happy that hooters decided to come back in to our area. Â With that being said I am not one of those people that need to have their wings. Â Sure they are good and the breading is the best I've ever had but i would much rather prefer to get their buffalo chicken sandwich. Â I had one today and I tasted the same as when i had it in their crossgates location back in the day. Fries are always good here too, even though they are extra. Â Great beer selections and the staff is what you would expect of a hooters. Â Pleasant and friendly, and easy on the eyes gentlemen.....LOL!
Review Source:If you took Hooters wings and removed them from their surroundings, and put them in a different bar where men in spandex shorts and tight shirts delivered them to equally creepy, leering single diners, I would still be a fan.
In this parallel universe though I suspect my wife would still be uncomfortable going there to eat. I can understand why people might not care for a side of overt sexuality with their bar snacks. But it is what it is.
These are not Buffalo wings. And that's okay too.
One city cannot lay claim to all preparations for a specific piece of an animal. Could you imagine, if anytime you had brisket everyone compared it to Texas barbecue?
No. Hooters wings are different. They are breaded and deep fried before being slathered in their own, more orange, take on a buttery piquant sauce. And that breading is always nice and crisp. Plus it serves its purpose of being a great vehicle for delivering that sauce into your mouth.
When I was in Tuesday for lunch, I ordered ten, hot. I noticed that you could get all drummettes for an extra buck. Which is crazy because drummettes are the worst part of the wing. Theoretically, I should have been able to get all flats for a buck less, but I didn't push the issue. I was just thrilled that I could get all ten pieces as the far superior flat.
And I didn't forget to order them extra wet. Never forget, wings are a sauce delivery device. Always get extra sauce.
Long story short, the wings were excellent. They were large, with a crisp exterior, and juicy on the inside. The kitchen knows how to fry and does a great job with these things. When you mostly make wings all day, you damn well better be good at it.
Their blue cheese comes in nasty little plastic containers with a foil lid that your waitress opens for you. Hey Hooters: if you are going to used industrially produced crap, please hide it from me a little better. But the celery is crisp and unblemished.
I could do without the creepy guys, and just hope that when I'm there all by myself, that I'm not confused for one of them. I just want my wings. I'd happily let the burly bouncer bring them to me, but I'll suffer through all kinds of indignities for good food.
A horrible experience from start to finish.
We had a friend coming in from out of town who suggested brunch, but then decided to go apple picking at the last minute. Â Okay, so let's have dinner. Â The guys decide it has to be a place with TVs and suggest Wolf's 111, but I said it was too loud to have a conversation, so they suggest Hooters, where I had never been. Â I go online to check the menu and find that there is one thing on the menu that I can eat. Â Turns out that one thing wasn't available in Albany, so I wind up having a gross, overpriced grilled cheese sandwich.
So I was already resentful that my food restrictions were not taken into account by the group. Â Turns out, Hooters isn't any easier to have a conversation in. In fact, it may actually be worse, what with the "wooo' jocks, arguing with the televised referees. Â There are televisions all over the place, so sitting across from people, you have no idea which of the four (!) games the others in your own party are watching.
Every single female patron in the place looked miserable and they didn't even offer the distraction of wi-fi.
Then, I got into bs drama with one friend, our out of town friend never showed up and, since I was too mad to ride with my friends, I walked to wait for a bus that, despite being parked, literally across the street for 15 minutes, was 10 minutes late. Â I know that's not Hooters' fault, but still - start to finish.
The only thing I didn't have a problem with was the staff. Â I wasn't offended by the uniforms and didn't feel like the girls were being exploited. Â Our waitress was great, but in and of itself, great service isn't enough to overcome how gross the place is overall.
My daughter and I went to Hooters tonight. They sat us to the side where it was a quiet. Â The waitress came right over to offer us a balloon. When I order chicken wings I like them crispy. Â When asking her to make them extra crispy she said do you want them well done. Â I said yes. Â 15 minutes latter the wings came out perfect! Â And they were not small at all.
Service was good and the food was good....enjoy....I did.....
Thursday night, around 5pm
Place wasn't dead, but not crowded either. Â We were immediately seated and "our hooters girl" was very attentive throughout, kept our drinks full and checked in regularly. Ordered the loaded tots appetizer. It was good, not great. Reasonably crispy tots covered in nacho cheese sauce, bacon, and sour cream with chives. Came out piping hot, not the ever so common lukewarm with chain restaurants. Â Hearing bad things about the regular wings, thought I'd try the boneless. Â Still hardly a value, $9 for essentially a 10pc McNuggets with sauce. Most pieces were bite-size or smaller. I didn't care for their teriyaki sauce at all, too sweet and had a strange taste to it.
Ordered the fried chicken sandwich with the spicy garlic sauce. One tiny side of (coleslaw or beans). Sandwich was again good but nothing memorable. Skipped dessert.
The menu for this place is surprisingly small for a chain resto. Places like Chilis or Fridays have huge selections of sandwiches, steaks, salads, ect. Hooters has your typical bar food appetizers, wings, maybe 5 kinds of sandwiches, oysters, burgers, and that's about it. The whole menu is on an oversized brochure.
As for the place, it's in the former Fuddruckers building except what used to be the topping bar is now the actual bar. Music was loud, but not to the point of needing to shout. This place gives Buffalo wild wings a run for cramming the most TVs possible into a given space.
Here's the weird part. This fat guy I took to be the manager. He was waddling around the whole time, looking pissed off and scowling at everyone. There are the hooters balloons the girls write messages on ties to most of the tables. Manager guy  grabs a few and squeezes them until they pop with a bang that makes everyone in the place look over. Then he does it again, and again, randomly grabbing balloons and popping them. Then a group of patrons comes in, who are maybe regulars or something, since they attract like 5 girls immediately. They're chatting and shireking with laughter, which immediately gets pissed-off manager over there to yell at them to essentially get back to work and "apologized" to the patrons.
It's a decent place. Don't feel a need to go rushing back but wouldn't object if friends wanted to go.
Alright, I never been to hoots in my life. First timer here. I've read all the reviews  on here before going to this place. I knew before coming wings would be small and over priced, how correct everyone was on that.
We had 4 in our party, me and my buddy got there first, we sat at the bar. They only serve people sitting in chairs, Â no standing. The other 2 in our party showed up, no chairs available for them, so they stood next to us as we chatted and a fat manager guy comes up to us to tell them there is no standing around the bar, WTF seriously?
The girls/ atmosphere: We finally got seated, our waitress seemed kinda clueless (maybe new to the restaurant biz) but she was nice. Most of the girls at the place had smoke'en hot bods, but they could tone down the darn make-up. Less is best. One girl had a snookie thing going. Shame. Plus, who would have figured the crowd would mostly be families with their young children, kinda weird when there are half naked girls running around.
The food: We ordered wings and burgers/buffalo chicken sandwiches. We got 10 horribly small wings for $8.99 and was charged .80 extra for blu cheese and I am sure extra for celery and carrots? I didn't know there were species of chickens in our food chain that are bred to be that small. That or hooters must get a discount on deformed chicken wing batches from it's suppliers. Wings tasted alright but they were seriously small, 2 bites max and you finished one. We each got a sandwich/burger. 8.99 for each sandwich that comes with no fries. Food was alright, nothing special, but I would not go back.
Place did not have a good sports bar feel. We left and went to wolf's across the street to finish watching the yankee game. Much better.
I will not be going back to hooters anytime soon, I really do not think this place will last long. Place was kinda dead when we left on a Friday evening at 8:30 pm.
By all means go once just to see what its all about.
Happy Eating!
Food was typical for a hooters, real loud greeting as friend and i walked in.....Problem: manager or whatever was singing every song that came on as he walked the restaurant. He is the thin squirrely looking one with a beard. Dude SHUT UP! Let us enjoy the atmosphere and enjoy the meal. Hence the 2 stars. btw why did i pay extra for blue cheese and celery when i only got 2 cups for 20 wings? Really getting expensive for wings at almost a buck apiece
Review Source:Maybe I was just extra hungry but the wings were perfect. Yea they are a lot smaller than they used to be, Yeah they cost about $8.99 for 10. And yea they charge extra for bleu cheese. But when it comes to good tasting food, I don't mind paying extra. The breaded wings here are some of my favorite of all time. Its like eating a juicy chicken finger on a bone. The hot sauce is not very spicy but has a great flavor to it and the 3 mile island is a bit much for me sometimes and just isn't as tasty. Order your wings with heavy sauce for maximum enjoyment. If you order them regular there is only a thin coat of sauce. The atmosphere is always fun and don't be surprised if there is a line out the door since they opened recently.
Review Source:Food was ok, Lukewarm by the time I ate it. What annoyed me was the 25 - 30 minute wait to get my food. I arrived at the place about 1/2 hr after I put the order in. There were about 6 - 7 people waiting for take-out orders. What pissed me off was guy behind the cash register felt bad and took a couple gift cards out and gave them to some of the people waiting and not to others. It seemed if you came in with another person or group you got one but if you were an individual who only ordered $30-$40 forget it. I thought that was retarded to do in front of the rest of us who noticed. We're not blind or deaf fool! I saw one chunky girl asking why she didn't get one when she was there before the other two girls and had been chatting with them or something. Unless they improve treatment to be fair to all people, forget this place. I can find better food elsewhere. A handful of the girls are pretty smokin!
Review Source:I love Hooters!! I luv Hooters!!
That is the chant amongst the staff here. Hooters is now back open in the Albany area after closing its former location at Crossgates Mall a few years ago. Â It's like having a reunion with an old friend, weep.... This new Hooters opened a few weeks ago in the former Fuddruckers (Lone Star Steakhouse & Saloon before that). Hooters is a great place to go out for drinks, bar food, chicken wings, and to check out sports shown on the many TVs here and for "other" reasons as well, *wink*!!!
The place has been very busy since its grand opening and sometimes there is a line to get in the place. My buddy took his old man here a couple weeks ago and told me they had a real blast here and the Hooters Girls were very friendly.
I decided to take my old man here for lunch since he has never stepped foot inside a Hooters. The place was busy, but we were able to get seated at a high top table with stools. The place looks great with a southern sports bar atmosphere with around 20 big screen TVs throughout the place, beer neon lights, classic Hooters pictures on the walls, booth seating, tables, high top tables, and seating at the bar (straw awning covered). There were plenty of Hooters Girls on staff and some of them were from other Hooters locations (in New England), saw several MA and NH tags in the parking lot. I miss going to the former Hooters locations (Salem, Nashua, & Manchvega$) with my buddies back in NH, all 3 NH Hooters locations were within a half hour from my home.
We started out with 2 Diet Cokes ($2.79 each), which are served in big plastic cups. We ordered some appetizers to start off. The parmesan garlic chicken wings (10 for $8.99) here were still pretty good and tasty, but the wings have gotten smaller than from a few years back. The sides of bleu cheese and celery are extra charge ($1.49). Â The Fried Pickles ($4.99), which was highly recommended were an excellent choice which was lightly breaded dill pickle chips (salty and spiced taste) with a remoulade dipping sauce. These fried pickles I had were better the ones I had in South Charlotte, NC a year ago.
The old man ordered the Grilled Chicken Garden Salad ($8.99) which was a big salad with a mix of crispy lettuce, diced tomatoes, shredded cheese, croutons, and tender slices of grilled chicken, Ken's dressing packets on the side.
I ordered the Grilled Grouper Cousin Sandwich ($8.49) served with a side (potato salad) and dill pickle spear. This big sandwich was spot on, a tender grilled grouper with a soft firm texture and crisp to perfection on the outside served on a big soft bun. This was one of the better fish sandwiches I've had in a long time (I enjoyed an awesome grilled mahi sandwich at similar type place named Longdoggers in Melbourne, FL). The small side of potato salad was very dense and the standard cold deli salad.
The service was very friendly and attentive. We were given free refills on the Diet Cokes and checked up on often. I also asked for a photo op with our Hooters Girl which was happily obliged. Also, someone at the other table was celebrating their birthday, so the birthday guy was made to stand up on a table with a Hooters Girl and shake his hips with his arms up while the other Hooters Girls were clapping and chanting happy birthday around the table.
After lunch, I checked out the merchandise counter near the front entrance offering Hooters apparel, shirts, and other souvenirs. I bought myself and the old man some very tactful Hooters of Albany, NY t-shirts ($16.95 plus tax each) to wear around the yard for our upcoming summer holiday BBQ.
Overall, we had a great lunch at the "owl" with some good bonding time. Glad to see Hooters back open again in this area! I'm hopeful that Hooters will someday return to NH, sigh....
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