Let me start off by saying I have been to other Cleats restaurants and had great experiences. This was hands down one of the worst bars I have ever had the misfortune of entering.
Walking in my boyfriend and I are not even greeted. I would understand if they were busy but the place was dead. So we decide to sit in a booth and a waitress finally notices us. We ordered drinks, salad, and 24 wings (extra crispy).
I ordered a Lake Erie Monster, which was average only if you like super sugary kool aid like drinks. Don't blame that on them because the menu states whats in in and I still picked it.
So we get our food; salad and wings come out and the same time. Salads not dressed so we save that for last so our wings don't get soggy in the sauce. We ordered two dry rubs and two sauces. The dry rub is perfectly coated. The sauce on the other hand? Glopped on. So we start with the dry rubs obvs!
I had the five pepper with was soooo salty I think it should be 5 salts! He had the cajun which was good. After getting through about half of the first wing we notice it is still really pink inside!! The outside was crispy so we figured maybe to cook raised the temperature to get them crispy faster. We open a few more wings just to check and sure enough they are all pink.
After waiting about 5 mins for our server to check on us we tell her about them so she brings over the manager. The manager apologizes but then starts making excuses and tries to convince us that they are ok to eat. Um no honey, I'm not eating pink chicken. She tells us that they bake the chicken first and then fry them so theres NO WAY that they aren't cooked thoroughly. Upon asking her why they are so pink then she says that theres no way to cook the wings to get all the pink out without over-scorching them. WHAT?!?! So all the other twice cooked wings that I've had in my lifetime were a figment of my imagination I guess. Theres no way we are eating bloody wings so she takes them away and doesn't even offer to recook them.
She asks us if we would like to get something else and we say sure. While looking through the menu we decide to start on our chicken cobb salad. We decided to stop looking at the menu because the salad was so gross. How do you even mess up a salad. I was picking at it going around the chicken because it was so gross tasting which is unlike me because I am a huge carnivore!
So we ended up getting our check and getting the hell out of there. I wouldn't recommend this place...ever.