(Disclaimer: I ordered this through instacart (UberEats) and he picked it up quick and delivered…read moreit).
I ordered the $30 combo pack they have. 4 types of wings and two fries. All of the chicken wings I ordered were absolutely disgusting. I grew up in upstate New York, home of the Buffalo wing...I love chicken wings and know I may be bias, but I usually can't turn away from one because a wing is a wing. However, these are hands down the worst chicken wings I've ever had (besides eating a cold soggy leftover Domino's "chicken wing" after a late night at the club when I was 21). But I digress.
To start, just by opening the box and looking at them, I knew it wouldn't be good. The wings themselves were fatty, pale, soggy and undercooked. Absolutely disgusting. They were also very greasy which it's confusing to me. I took one bite and I instantly knew this was a mistake. But I was trying to be optimistic. Then I tried a little bit of the other flavors and had to stop.
The sauces were all wrong. The buffalo sauce was like a red vaseline paste with cayenne pepper added to it, yet somehow it tasted like nothing and no actual flavor. The garlic parmesan wings weren't even properly coated with sauce (see in the picture) and it was all garlic "nose heat" but bland butter flavor, and needed salt just to balance it out. The dill pickle was ok, but the wings were so soggy and chewy I had to stop eating. Then, I had an amazing thought to dry the dry rub butter cheese (because that doesn't have sauce so how could they mess that up?) and it was the worst one. Soggy, no flavor, fatty, disgusting.
Honestly, even the side of blue cheese tasted like crap.
The fries were fries. Nothing mind-blowing but I was grateful to have something edible to eat. My 4-year-old daughter and I basically just ate french fries for dinner. My kitchen sink and counter outlets have an issue and aren't working right now. The last thing I wanted to do was waste more time cooking and having to wash my pots and pans down in the basement in the laundry sink with a bin. That is why I wanted to order take-out tonight so I could catch a break for once.
Anyway, I honestly don't understand how you can actually send this food out to paying customers. I'm a single parent and wanted to get my daughter a little treat for dinner from having a busy week. I don't get takeout often I'm just trying to survive society but I had some rewards through instacart and $0 delivery so I figured it would be a good thing. I admit that I made a mistake. This was me being annoyed, it was actually upsetting, and my daughter was upset as well because she was hungry and didn't like them either. .
I have had the wings at the location in Eastpointe a couple of times...my mom lives over there. For mother's day my mom and I request to have chicken wings for dinner as a family (with my siblings and their wives) which means we do love wings and consider ourselves connoisseurs (casual ones of course) At that location, yes the wings are good. Not amazing, but it serves its purpose.
Pro tip:
If you're only going to make wings as a business concept they better be damn good. Especially with a name like yours (claiming the entity after an entire city) needs to uphold better quality to reflect positivity on Detroit.
So now, it is 8:45pm, I'm defeated, my kid is upset and hungry and it's time for bed.
Actually, I'm not feeling defeated, I'm pissed. And I want my money back.