Yup…It’s Hooters. This particular restaurant is located in
Beckley West Virginia, just off of I-77.
It was lunch time during one of our treks north to visit the family in
the Cleveland Ohio area. I go back a
long way with Hooters…having eaten in the original Clearwater location shortly
after the chain was founded. Laurie grew
to like the wings and, from time to time, we ate at one or another of the
restaurants for several years.
The first thing that we noticed when we
sat down was the greatly expanded menu!
Hooter’s, as we knew it several years ago, had a very simple and relatively
small menu. Wings were then pushed as the
primary item…followed closely by beer!
There were no less than 9 appetizers
listed, (per the menu, these items were called “Hooterstizers”), as well as chili,
2 soups and 3 dinner salads. As you can
see, we decided to go for the fried pickles.
They were quite good…plenty of them with a nice dipping sauce.
What seemed weird to me was the fact that
the “wings”, once the primary menu item, are now just one of eight sections on
the menu! You can order 10, 20 or 50
wings…now with 8 different sauces, (versus 4 sauces in the olden days), plus there are
‘naked’, (not breaded), wings as well as ‘boneless’ wings. What is the world coming to!
We ordered a combination plate consisting
of 10 of the standard breaded and fried wings plus 10 Buffalo Shrimp…all tossed
with the Hooter’s Hot Wing Sauce. (By the way, the Hooter’s Hot Wing Sauce,
purchased from the grocery store, is our favorite wing sauce)
So…Laurie doesn’t like the breaded wings
anymore. The shrimp were OK but she felt
that they were overpowered by the Hot Wing Sauce. She also didn’t like the wings and shrimp
stacked on top of the carrots and celery.
I personally thought that everything was as I expected… I enjoyed the
hot wings as well as the shrimp…although I must admit that the breaded wings
were a bit heavy in comparison to what we’ve become used to.
The menu lists 3 salads, 3 soups/chili,
the ‘Hooterstizers’, wings, seafood, burgers, sandwiches and desserts. Change has also brought some ‘healthy dining’
and gluten free items to the menu… A number of Hooters locations now even have
a full bar!
This is an interior
photo of the Beckley West Virginia Hooter’s restaurant. The young lady on the right, her name was Desiree, was our very cheerful,
friendly and efficient waitress. Our
lunch, with the fried pickles, buffalo shrimp and wings, plus tax and tip came
to $25.71.
For further information
on Hooter’s Restaurants, just go to www.hooters.com. Note: Hooter’s on-line/website menus do not
list prices. Even with a disclaimer that
prices may change without notice, I much prefer to see the prices on-line just
so I can get an idea re: my expected costs.
Just click on any photo
to enlarge it…
Thanks for stopping by
for a visit!
Take Care, Big Daddy
Dave
I can't forget my first visit to Hooter's in Sarasota 20+ years ago and I could hardly take my eyes off our waitress - I think I ate my meal.
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