Wing Tour, Stop 2: The Gardenville Hotel

Location:
The Gardenville Hotel
Intersection of Pt Pleasant Pike and Route 413
Pipersville, PA 18947

What I Ordered: Plate of 24 wings split between me and Dan, and a Pabst Blue Ribbon.

I've always called this place the Gardenville Tavern, but I guess I should go with the proper name of the Gardenville Hotel.  The hotel part of it is gone and now its a bar and restaurant.  Dan and I sat in the bar side.
I have to give this place an A+ for ambiance.  The building is an old one, and they've done little to modernize it.  While Dan was saying hello to some of his friends there, I had some time to myself to really take in my surroundings.  Sitting at the bar is like a time warp back into the 1930's or 40's.  The room is very dark and decorated with various animal heads which really gave it an almost horror movie like feel.
The jury is out on the wings.  It was an unexpectedly busy night, with only one bartender and two 21st birthday parties, the staff was strained and I'm not sure that the wings were what they could've been.  They weren't soaked in sauce, which is how I really like my wings and were a little more dried out, possibly from sitting a little too long from between being prepared and being served.  Once again, we had the standard buffalo sauce, nothing too fancy.  I would probably give these about a 6/10, but as I said, I'm inclined to go back on a less crowded/more staffed night to give them another shot.

Wing Tour, Stop 1: The Candlewyck

Location: 

The Candlewyck

Route 413 & Route 263

Buckingham, PA 18912

What I ordered: Plate of 25 standard hot wings, and some beer that I can't recall.

The wings at the Candlewyck were nothing new to me.  Back in high school, it was the thursday hangout for their five cent wings.  Now, 4 years later, I believe the wings are something like 15 cents a wing.

The 'wyck's wings are really hard for me to judge because I've been eating them for so long, and they don't really take me by surprise anymore, I know exactly what I'm getting. As they were my first real wing night experience, they set the standard for what a buffalo wing should be.  Pretty traditional wings with hot sauce, spiciness was right about where a chicken wing should be.  Overall, I'd say about a 7/10.

Update: Went there tonight and snapped a few new pictures

Thanks for stopping by

My name is Bill, and I love buffalo chicken...it's probably about 80% of my diet.  A year or two ago, some friends suggested to me that I start a blog reviewing buffalo chicken.  At the time I was pretty busy so I filed the thought away in the back of my mind...  

This summer, when I met up with my cousin Dan at a local bar for some beer and hot wings, we hatched a plan to go on a tour of the local bars of Bucks County and sample all the wings we could.  A few places later, and I decided that a blog might be handy to document our wing trials.

Stay tuned!