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| - I wanted something hot, familiar and comforting for dinner on a cold, wet, icky day and I decided to try out Fill Station Bar for some bar/pub-ish food I knew would fit the bill. Even though I had a feeling I'd be able to find what I wanted on the menu (standard bar fare) I would have liked to check out the menu prior to heading out to the restaurant but my searches yielded nothing. I wasn't really feeling going out on a limb with my food tonight and Fill Station fit the bill.
The bartender was rather friendly, greeted me right away and took my order for take-out and offered me a drink while I waited. I could definitely see that if you went often enough, the staff would likely remember you. While I didn't spend a lot of time looking around, the bar is pretty standard but I think there's an upper floor with more seating (my food came via dumbwaiter, so this is an assumption). They were doing quite a business for a Wednesday night (from what I see, Monday is the night to go).
I took a seat at the end of the bar with my drink and waited for my food. And waited. And waited some more.
For chicken fingers, they took quite a while. However, I will take into consideration that they were rather busy and while I sat at the bar at least two people came up to order more wings and there were a lot of tables having wings too (which looked yum by the way). But the bartender checked in with me a few times to make sure I was doing alright and when my food came out, it was super hot and packaged rather nicely. There's something to be said about taking the extra step to line a plain old Styrofoam container with checkered paper (also keeps grease and condiments from seeping through).
I'm about a five minute walk away so I got my food home fast and even though it was cold and wet outside, my food was still piping hot. The chicken fingers were nothing incredible (sorry guys but Jack Astor's holds the #1 chicken fingers in my books!) but they were great just the same. The breading was different from the usual kind of breading I find on chicken fingers but they were very yum and just the right amount of crunchy. Not a whole lot of chicken in them but there were 5 small to medium sized chicken fingers and it was just the right portion size. Any more would have been too much. The fries were yum - not super crispy, but not intended to be; the skin-on, hand-cut style fries that I can never stop eating. I'm a "no fry left behind" kinda gal and unfortunately, I had to leave a bunch behind tonight because there were SO MANY.
While I felt a tad awkward sitting at the bar waiting for my food, the location and the good food will definitely have me coming back to Fill Station Bar. The service was great, very friendly and attentive (even considering I was just there for take-out) and the food was pretty damn good. I hope to check out the wings next time or have a night out of drinks here with some buds. Seems like a good place to go out for some drinks and it'd be convenient to stumble home from :)
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