Foods that are finger-lickin’ good might not be a first choice these
H1N1 days, but the ever-popular wing strip on Spring Garden Road shows
no sign of slowing its pace. Bring your friends (and hand sanitizer) to
one of these joints for cheap eats.
Bubba Ray’s Sports Bar
Bubba Ray’s is the king of wings when it comes to sauces: the bar
has more than 50, including apple butter and mango chipotle, with
hotness that goes up the scale to armageddon. Get them Thursday nights
(5-10pm) and Sundays (12-4pm) for 40 cents.
5650 Spring Garden Road, 405-4344
Onyx
Manager Kyle Higgins says the Onyx’s chicken chops—wings with the
small bone removed, with the meat balled up on one end to look like a
lollipop—have stayed on the menu through five years of changes due to
popularity. They’re half price on Wednesdays.
5680 Spring Garden Road, 428-5680
Oasis Pub & Eatery
This basement bar is still offering what we think are the cheapest
wings in town (if you know cheaper, let us know)—30-cent wings, which
were a quarter each until a month ago. Wing nights are Thursdays
4:30pm-12am and Saturdays from 2-9pm.
5675 Spring Garden Road, 422-2227
Your Father’s Moustache
Nobody’s scared of finger food at the Moustache, as wing night is
still one of the restaurant’s busiest during the week. The night of
choice for wings is still Thursdays, from 5pm to close, and wings are
now 40 cents each.
5686 Spring Garden Road, 423-6766
This article appears in Nov 12-18, 2009.
A good friend and I did a pretty extensive wing tour of Halifax a year or so ago, and our favorite wings were at Pogue Fado and The Ale House, which have similar prices as the above locations. We did our tour just before Bubba’s opened, and so we incorporated Bubba’s post-tour and it holds up well.
Wings are like pizza. Everyone has a place, and everyone has a preference. I still love Oasis’ wings. Cheap is the name of the game for me, considering wings are just comprised of garbage meat and the sauce is pretty well all the same.
Pogue Fado- 25 cent wings every night 🙂 Tuesday is my official wing night at the Pogue where you can play trivia in an attempt to win bragging rights and a free pitcher of beer in every round.
Anyone remember when they used to be 10 cents. I hate inflation.
25 cents wings and I think the best are Tuesday nights at the Lions Head.
I moved from away Halifax this year and am now living in a town where every wing place sells wings by the pound. I miss the east coast simplicity of just giving the server a set number and knowing how many wings I’d be getting. (and the fact that you’re lucky to get ten wings to a pound so even at the cheapest price of $5 a pound you’re still coughing up fifty cents or more per wing)