Wings Suds & Spuds

I've heard for years how good the wings were here... and so we finally stopped at my husbands suggestion.  With a near empty restaurant, we were guided to a table at the dark top level.. .no thanks. I asked to be seated at the lower level by a window. Table was small small small. Chair was small small small. We got a pitcher of beer as $3.50 for a draft of Bud was a bit much. Wings are sold in quantities of 5, 10 or 16. What happened to dozen or 1/2 dozen. Prices were, again, a bit high... 5 for $5.79!!  Best part was the curly fries... very good. Wings were small and very disappointing. I asked for Cajun Rub, but my wings came to me wet. I was not happy. My waiter said that because I asked for hot, he assumed I wanted the wet rub as the dry rub has no heat level.  Ah, he may have known that, but I didn't know that's how they did it there. That's his job, not mine to explain while ordering. We ate off of small paper plates with cheap plastic forks and used napkins that shred with the first touch.  What a gold mine to be close to Robert Morris U with students who may not be used to better. WAY too expensive. We'll keep going to our dive bar - Rooster's Roadhouse. We like, no make that LOVE our dive bars, but appreciate getting our money's worth! Adding 'Dud' to the end of their name.....

OK, I read all the other reviews that called this place divey but I assumed they were exaggerating.  They are not.  There are miles of Formica and wobbly chairs everywhere.  The place is small.  How small is it you say, so small that two people can barely squeeze into the foyer.  So small that if you have a party of four waiting for a table to be ready no one else can even enter the place, so small that only one person can stand on either side of the register counter at a time, I'm talking small.

By comparison the parking lot is, well that's small too.  When I went the parking lot was full except for two spots but the restaurant was only 80% full.  This included some folks who parked long the fence line making entry and exit a little difficult.

Onto the food.  The chili was hearty and extra thick.  No significant heat but a cup of this stuff would have made a hearty lunch with some crackers.  I had the Cajun rubbed wings.  These are really cooked wings that are then doused in a cajun rub.  So much so that the container has excess rub (a good tablespoon or so) floating around in it.  Some other places re-fry the wings once they are dredged in the dry rubs to give more adhesion and a more consistent taste.  These were OK but they were more dry than I prefer for an optimal wing.  I suspect that this has to do with the cook time along with the addition of the dry powder that wicked away any surface moisture that was there.

They also have their own kettle ships.  These were tasty but lacked salt.  When they told me they were not seasoned I assumed, no special seasonings and not sans sodium.  They were tasty enough but some salt would have made them completely addicting.  They give you a small sack that's big enough to share with one or two people.  There were some underdone chips but not so many that it was annoying (Best kettle chips so far IMHO Cincinnatian Hotel In Cincinnati).  

If I am back this way again, i will make another stop in and try one of the wet sauces.  That could take them from 3-4 stars easy if the wing is not as dry.

The wings are not that good.  Definitely not worth the price!