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| - This place apparently serves non-wing related food. If you want a review on that, look elsewhere. For me, this place is all about the wings.
Wings are not hard to make, and I like them in a wide variety of styles: naked (just deep fried with no breading or anything), breaded, or even lightly battered (although naked is probably best I think). Yet so many places screw up the simple recipe of "fry wings till crispy, toss with sauce, serve". Quaker gets it right.
First, the wings are good sized and have always been consistently well cooked - crispy on the outside but still juicy in the middle. None of those tiny, overcooked pigeon sized wings that places like Buffalo Wild Wings serve. Second, the sauces are great. If you want your stero typical "hot wings", well, you're still going to have to be more specific, because there are a variety of heat levels - mild, medium, hot, supercharged and atomic. Unlike a lot of wing places, Quaker manages to make sauces that are hot, yet still TASTE GOOD! So many crappy wing joints think its all about heat and forget flavor - not here. Finally, a wing place needs character and Quaker has that down pat. Housed in an old gas station, you have a quirky, fun, lively atmosphere from the building, the staff and the patrons.
I would give this place 5 stars, but that fifth star is on hold right now. They have a (supposedly) ridiculously hot Triple Atomic sauce challenge. I've avoided doing it, because so many times I have taken a "spicy food challenge" at a wing or bbq place and found that the sauce is just horrible. Bitter, hot without even being spicy - like gargling pepper spray. My next trip to Quaker will be to try the Triple Atomic. If it is as good as the rest of their sauces, I will give them 5 stars without hesitation, and they shall be crowned "Kings of All Wings", there will be rejoicing in the streets, and peace shall reign on Earth.
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