It is a huge chain! It have VERY cheap drinks! It has food! It has a zillion TVs! It has a very large space to accommodate a large crowd! It often has live music! Q: What could possibly be wrong with that? A: Every goddamn thing!...Except that part about the drinks.
Located right across the bridge, near the corners of Eastwood and Military Cutoff Roads, Wild Wing Cafe is a just turned 21 year old's dream come true. You might even enjoy it until you are 25, then it gets very annoying. Here's why:
1) We don't know who does the hiring, but the staff there are not the best and the brightest that UNCW apparently has to offer. The bartenders are humorless dicks (all dudes whenever we go there) that have this sourpuss look on their faces like they really need to take a dump. They all look like they are really pissed off that they didn't get to the gym that day and you will rarely see any of them crack a smile. Hate your job, man?
2)The hostess and waitresses behave like this is the first time they have ever had a waitstaff job and they are constantly walking at high speeds in a crowded area which has caused more than a few of them to trip and fall. We used to think that the place just hired klutzes, but we soon realized that management tells them to run around like headless chickens so the place looks more efficient.
3) The wings taste like ass for a place that is suppose to specialize in...wings. There are about three of the twenty or so varieties that could stand up to other decent wing places around town. They are dried out, skinny, and look and taste like they were the cheapest wholesale wings the chain could buy. Let's put that another way: The wings at Jerry Allen's are better! WOW Wingery (which is out of business) had better wings!
4) The place is fuckin' loud. You cannot have a decent conversation at your table without yelling, which ups the ante for everyone else to raise the volume of their voices. The worst is when you go there on a football Sunday and all the games are turned up loud. Cacophony! Unless the band is playing booming, amplified rock-and-roll, or you are next to them, it is not easy to enjoy live music above the din.
So what's left? The Griller menu has good food on it; you get what you pay for. The sandwiches are fairly plain and bland. The wraps are nothing special that you could not find made better elsewhere.
But check out the link above for what are some of the best drink specials you can find; the mixed drinks are not weak. You will need to drink a lot of cheap booze to enjoy the atmosphere and the auditory hallucinations that being in Wild Wing Cafe will surely bring. Our suggestion is to get really drunk at WWC and catch a cab or a ride to another venue. But if you want to spend some time around drunk, loud, 21 year old UNCW chicks that are falling over themselves, then you can hang at WWC. Whoa! Say again?
Maybe we should give this place another shot. This review might have been unnecessarily harsh and expectations may have been placed too high. Maybe. You tell us.
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