Ladies Night...Oh What A Night!

Sand bar Mexican Grill
10050 North Scottsdale Road
Paradise Valley, AZ 85253-1498

(Jen's experience)
So here I am, Scottsdale Arizona on my bachelorette party with some of my best friends. I am having such an amazing time, and you better believe I have been having some chicken wings. These wings I had on Thursday, the first day I got here and they were yummy! However, I must give you the story leading up to the chicken wings before I start telling about them. Haley and Raimey picked me up from the airport around 6:00 pm (with a beer ready for me) and we went back to their condo which is absolutely amazing! After we got settled in and met up with my friend Lisa we decided to go out and get something to eat. My only request was "nothing Mexican", well....that didnt happen. We drove around and found lots of restaurants but nothing really sounded great. We finally found California Pizza Kitchen and thought about eating there. We parked but right across the parking lot was this bar that looked awesome. It had a mini pool, that people could actually wade in, it was an open air bar, and it had sand on the ground. It was pretty cool, and since we dont have one back at home I decided we should go check it out. Turns out its Mexican food, but oh well.
So we sat down to order some food and drinks, by this time it is 10:00pm, and I am starving! I did not order the wings because I needed something a little more substantial, but Raimey did and I had a few. They were good, and hot which I liked. Raimey didnt like that too much because she thought they were too hot but I thought they were perfect. They also came with carrots and celery, which gets a big plus in my book. They didnt have much meat on them, but the flavor was great. I really enjoyed the. The best part was that it was ladies night and all of our drinks and appetizers were half off! So these wings were 5.oo! It was a sweet deal! I think Raimey would have enjoyed the wings a little more if our server didnt let us run out of drinks every 5 minutes! But speaking of drinks, I had an amazing martini. It was a lemon pepper martini, with actual crushed pepper....SOOOOO GOOD! I want to recreate it, but then again I love pepper!
So would I recommend this place for their wings, sure. would I recommend this place for the huge bar and awesome environment? Absolutely!

Hooterific

Hooters
6812 Tacoma Mall BoulevardTacoma
WA 98409-9088



(Jen's experience)
Oh Hooters...I love you!

Let me first start off by saying we almost didn't make it to Hooters because Jason said he likes Wingers better. I know what you are thinking, but yes, he is straight. It was my brilliant idea to go to both, so that's exactly what we did.


When we arrived at Hooters we were kindly greeted by our server named "Ashely" she was pretty and very nice. We learned a lot about her (it was slow in her section), and found out we knew some mutual people.


We finally decided on ordering a pitcher of bud light ($8.00 for happy hour, $12.50 for not happy hour) and 20 wings. We got 10 hot, and 10 spicy garlic. Both very good! We ordered the wings with extra sauce cause we LOVE lots of sauce. The spicy ones came out with plenty of sauce but the spicy garlic, not so much. We had to order additional sauce for those. Once we got the extra sauce, the wings were probably the best I had all day. They would probably rate in my top 6 for sure.


Unfortunately we do not have pictures of the wings. We took pictures of the waitress, and myself, but no wings. As you can imagine we got a bit distracted. Oops.

(Jason's Experience)
By the time we got to Hooters I was sufficiently primed. I dig Hooters because you know what you are going to get. Decent wings, decent looking waitresses that are required to be very friendly, lots of televisions with sports on them and cold pitchers of beer. I know that technically it's a family restaurant, I just couldn't get over how many parents bring in their small children to Hooters. I can't define why I thought this was not a great idea but I remember being shocked at how many children were there.

The wings were good. I do like that at Hooters they serve the whole wing. I love eating the little crunchy tips along with the meaty parts. The Spicy Garlic sauce was not only yummy on the wings but makes a great french fry dipping sauce.

One of my favorite things to do is to make my single friends uncomfortable by attempting to set them up with a waitress or bartender. This day was no exception. I was doing my best to try and get the waitress to tell us where the Hooters Girls go after their shift to unwind. She, of course, was not having it but was very kind anyway.

Going forward I am sure we will visit other Hooters Restaurants. I promise we will try a larger variety of what they have to offer.

Love, Peace and Chicken Grease!

Oops...

Wingers

5221 Tacoma Mall Boulevard
Tacoma, WA 98409

(Jen's experience)

Today we were off to finally answer the age old question "which has better chicken wings, wingers or hooters?" The answer is still out for debate and actually might have a different answer if we had ordered the correct chicken wings at wingers. Heres how it all went down...

We went to wingers this afternoon and remembered that they have happy hour every day! This made our decision on what to order very easy. Wingers has an amazing happy hour. We all ordered a bud light with the intent to have one and some chicken wings. We placed our order with our lovely server Chris. We said we would like the " classic spicy chicken wings" This was a "classic" mistake. What we meant to order was the "original spicy chicken wings" rookie mistake I guess. When the chicken wings arrived they were so FREAKING hot (spicy) they I could only finish 2 out of the 4 chicken wings! On a side note, I love spicy food. Nothing is ever too spicy for me, so i was surprised when I couldnt even finish them all. Please take a look at what Marc looked like after finishing all four.

They were so HOT, Marc ate his wet nap....Thats right, he ate his wet nap to cool his mouth down. I cannot say I have ever seen anyone do this before! Some of us (Jason and I) ordered another beer, and Marc ate a wet nap. Different strokes for different folks, I guess. We decided we couldnt come all that way to not have the chicken wings we came for, and being as how the happy hour is amazing, we figured we would order another order of the correct wings. They came and were faboulous as usual. AMAZING!!

The only down side to these wings (as you can see in the picture at the top of the page), they did not come with any celery or carrots! What the heck?

Two things are for sure. The chicken wings are wonderful, and the happy hour is awesome! You get 4 large chicken wings for $4.00, and microws for $2.00. They have some other stuff on the menu but I cannot imagine going there and eating anything else. If you havent been there you must check it out. Look out for Chris and say hello from the chicken wing bloggers!

(Jason's Experience)

I love Wingers. I first fell in love with Wingers' wings about 8 years ago in a little town called Moscow, ID. I was with my fellow WSU throwers, we each ate 3 lbs of wings.

Do not hesitate to stop in at the Wingers in Tacoma. Free popcorn, reasonable drink prices and the Original wings are THE BOMB. If you want a buffalo wing get the Classic at Wingers, but try the Original., It's sweet and a little spicy. A sweet glaze suggests that the wing wouldn't work dipping in blue cheese or ranch dip, but Wingers' Original wings do work with either of traditional wing dressings.