#boulder cafe

Boulder, CO

http://www.bouldercafeonpearl.com/

Wild Fire Chicken Wings

The Boulder Café has been around for 19 years or so. They are located on Pearl Street, over where the street performers do their thing. It has a slightly up-scale café atmosphere. Truth be told, I was a little surprised they even had wings. They only have one flavor, “Wild Fire;” which needless to say, pretty much sealed the deal for me. Also their happy hour deals are pretty awesome, so there was no reason to pass up these wings.

I’ll talk about the good things first. The chicken was a good size, not huge but noticeably large. If the wing is of the jumbo variety, they are often not cooked as well as they could be. I don’t mean cooked in an unhealthy manner, just soggy, for lack of a better word. No real crunch basically. These were cooked well, despite their size. That's about it for the good stuff. The sauce, while having different taste than the average wing, was just not that exciting. There was kind of a minestrone taste to it, at least to me. My girlfriend tried one and said that I was crazy. I am pretty sure there was a tomato type taste. Which didn't really go all that well with the Gorgonzola dressing. In addition, the wings weren’t sauced well either. I asked for extra, and that helped, but I shouldn’t have to do that. As for heat, the term “Wild Fire” for them apparently means a tiny flame that can be easily put out. They aren’t very hot. After a while, a good five wings or so, my lips (not my tongue) started to burn a little. This burn wasn’t really anything to write home about. Interestingly though, they are gluten free for those of you who dig that. I realize these wings aren’t the Boulder Café’s specialty, but I think they could use some improvement. I recommend the Café, but try something else other than the wings.

Brass Tacks:

Price: $7.99 for 6 wings, $11.99 for 12. However, there is a 3 to close happy our during the winter so the wings are half off. Nice deal there.

Flavor: 4 ~Unusual flavor, not bad really, but not really exciting either.

Heat: 2

Grade: C (75)