After a fun mid afternoon meeting with a very hungover @mattyspence at the utterly horrific Brant House, Kat F and I needed to chill with some regular people - and that's kind of hard to come by these days on King West. I was desperately craving chicken wings and after talking with Darryl at the elite event at Lou Dawgs about his in house smokers I had been itching to try their offering.
The best:
Lou Dawgs was empty at 4pm on a Thursday, and the girl working the counter was super friendly and cool. The 3 of us were literally the only people there and it was a great time.
The good:
- They have a real HD decoder box on their TV. Seriously. We watched women's Olympic hockey and it looked amazing. I'm pretty sure since we were the only people there we could have watched whatever we wanted.
- The coleslaw is great. It had red onions, raisins and maybe even currants in it. It was great coleslaw.
- The fries are very good. You need to ask for the BBQ mayo to dip them in. 5 star french fries.
The not bad, but not great:
- The wings were different - they are whole chicken wings with drumstick and 'other piece' attached. Very unique and I'm undecided on what I think about this style of chicken breakdown.
- I didn't like the BBQ sauce on the chicken wings. This is a personal preference issue and as you may or may not know, I like my wings a specific way (crispy, saucy and with a traditional New York butter vinegar sauce). I don't like BBQ sauce wings, but these were still pretty good considering the fundamental flaw of this not being a wing sauce.
- No veggies and bleu cheese, but the coleslaw was an almost-acceptable substitute.
Overall, I really like this place and I will be back, but not very often. I generally don't like this area of town and if it was located on the east side (note to people with VC $$ - they have franchise opportunities!) I would be by here more often.