Living in Portland Maine, one of my favorite things to do was go to a great neighborhood wing place. I would wait all day on my days off, for their happy hour special of all you can eat wings. The wings came in many flavors, they even came a flavor called Chernobyl; if you were able to eat a dozen, you got it for free and your picture on the wall..

When I moved back out to Sacramento, I was in search for wings, that were as good , as my neighborhood haunt back east. I tried Fanny Ann’s, Wing Stop, and to my own personnel shame even Hooters. I had gotten so desperate, I was even hitting every Asian buffet I could find, but always disappointed.

I had given up my search.

Then I heard a new bar was opening called Bar West.

I tried looking it up on the Googlesphere, after 10 minutes of getting listings for all Bars in West Sacramento, I finally figured out to put Sacramento, then Bar West , then found it.

I walked in around 930 on a Wednesday night. Walking in I realized, I did not exactly fit in, I should have done some recon. No Ed Hardy shirts for me. I decided togo with my Chuck Finely look, which consisted of a Hawaiian shirt and shorts.

The Bar was packed, and a waitress directed me to a cock tail table. The Bar had a Tiki Motif with Grass hanging from the ceiling , and surfboards hanging on the wall. I found it ironic I was the only one with a tropical shirt.

There are a least 10 big screen T V.s with football, baseball, ultimate fighting. There was even a documentary on the life of Bruce Lee..

There was a stair case leading up to a second level. My waitress informed , that Bar West was going to start lounge service in the near future.

Like most new bars in Sacramento this bar had decided to go with with an Internet Juke box, that seemed to be stuck the radio station 105.1. Don't get me wrong I am not country music snob, but to me Country is Johnny Cash, Waylon Jenning , Loretta Lynn, Patsy Cline, Emmy Lou Harris. The Music that coming out starting to effect my equilibrium. An occasional Sublime, and Hip Hop song came on, but few and far between.

Seeing all the waitresses, I felt like I was in a Robert Palmer Video, All the waitress were petite with tight shirts that displayed their attributes. In my personal opinion any woman applying for a job, would not get it if they weighed over 125 lbs.

I started with my favorite local brew Lagunitas Draft which ran me 5.00, which is not too bad of a price for that part of Midtown. The Tiki Theme is reflected in the Cocktail drinks. There were at least 10 lemonade slushie drinks. There are two options on sizes for most of the drinks; 16 0z or what they call the fish bowl, which is 64 oz, and is meant to be shared, but I was told by a waitress , that a single person could order it by themselves .

I ordered a 16 oz bourbon slush. It tasted like a tropical pineapple drink., The drink had bourbon and sweet tea vodka. I could not taste the alcohol at all. If you have more than three of these type of drinks , you can easily start doing a Frank the Tank impersonation..

I finally decided to go for the wings,.. The Wings come in three different sizes, batch of 10, 20, or 50. Starting at $10 , and up to $40 You can get the wings in seven different flavors. teraki, BBQ, garlic parmesan, lemon pepper, Cajun, garlic BBQ, and sweet and sour. There were also degrees of spiciness, from mild to “Oh my God, I cant feel my tongue!!!!”

Reading the menu, I thought it was going to BBQ sauce in fused with garlic. Instead it was BBQ wings with a garlic sauce dripped all over it. The garlic sauce was so strong , the table next to me complained of the smell. I bit into the wings, expecting a semblance of what I had back east, but. what I got was slightly undercooked wings that tasted like a bulb of garlic.

I was given napkins, but this was the first wings place I had ever been to, that did not give me a wet naps, which can be annoying when you are grabbing your drinking glass.

For my main meal I decided to have one the six burger options, the cowbell burger., with bacon and a onion ring. I had the option of regular fries,sweet potato, or tater tots. Tatar tots of course.

The cowbell burger patty was organic and fresh, but the the bun was so thick, the only thing I could taste was the onion ring. The taters tots were addictive as hell. I was like Zoidberg with a plate of Popplers. Out of all the food Items, the tots were the only thing I actually finished.

I really hope this bar is not hoping to base it's food menu, on the belief, that their patrons , would be so drunk, that they cant tell the difference between good food and over priced pub grub. Spin Burger made the same mistake, and its doors closed, in less than a year.

I really dont know what this bar is trying to be; a sports bar, a country bar, a tiki bar, a wannabe Hooters ,or a lounge. Honesty this bar would be a better fit, in a strip mall in Roseville, or Granite Bay. . The bar does not seem to fit midtown. There is no sense of the grid,, no original art on the wall, nothing to connect it to the neighborhood it resides.

My wing quest will continue. Maybe I can convince the place back east to open a franchise here.