Restaurant Review: Smoke Eaters - Hot Wings

Jan 22, 2010

It's about 5:30 pm on a Friday evening with a light drizzle of rain. My friend and I decided to stop by Smoke Eaters - Hot Wings as we were in the downtown area. This place was featured on Man vs. Food where Adam Richman takes on the Hellfire Challenge of eating 12 of the hottest wings. The place had a several customers at the bar and a table full of loud college students which made the place seem like the place was packed. We ordered  10 wings, half atomic, half nuclear. The atomic sauce was sweet, vinegary, and tangy with a nice spice at the end. The nuclear was like the atomic except towards the middle of the bite, the spiciness starts to kick in much much faster. I felt nice and warm after eating the nuclear hot wings with a tingle to my mouth that I wanted to cool off with celery and blue cheese dressing. The celery was cut unto small bit size pieces rather than celery sticks that I'm used to when eating hot wings.  I much rather preferred the sticks which are a lot easier to handle with my fingers. Overall, the wings were very tasty and I would return here to try the next level  of spiciness.Would I ever do the challenge? Probably not? Maybe if I had enough practice.

The only way to wash down hot wings is a jar of Blue Moon beer with orange wedges of course.