Allstar Wings & Ribs

First time at All Star Wings and Ribs

The place is pretty great if you're a big sports fan as there are TVs everywhere and locked into booths as well. Located right by the Scarborough Town Centre, the restaurant is in the same plaza as the supermarket (FreshCO? I don't remember and am too lazy to look) on McCowan and Ellesmere. 

First of all, the choices for wing sauces is ridiculous! I didn't count them but I would guess it's easily over 100 different combinations. The crappy part for me is that they don't give you a description of what the sauces actually are and you're forced to ask the poor waitress for any questions you may have. Being the indecisive person that I am, I found it a bit disappointing. Nevertheless, you can pretty much guess certain sauces. Caesar Does Texas and Texan Creole...gee, I wonder what those could be...

I opted for the "This is Sparta!" sauce which was chipotle BBQ wings and Tzatziki. Sounded good when I repeated it in my head, but I just wasn't a fan of the combination. The wings come coated in the Chipotle BBQ sauce but it's not mixed with the Tzatziki as the tzatziki is just poured over it. I will say that the wings without the tzatziki were actually pretty damn good. They were crispy, hot, and really juicy on the inside. 

Servers are friendly with some looking pretty good. Clientele here look like a bunch of douchebags, which is fine as I'll just ignore them and focus on my football. The prices are pretty standard, and that wing selection is intense!

There are a lot of wing flavors and even the waitress didn't know what some of them were. The appetizers I shared were the jalapeño popcorn shrimp and the sweet potato fries. They were mediocre.
I ordered Nero's Epilogue which was garlic and hot sauce mixed together.
The wings were pretty good but not the best I have tasted.
I preferred the honey garlic wings my sister ordered.

Good and bad. First off, great atmosphere. Wings taste great and are large (pumped with hormones of course). I didn't have any issues with service or speed like some of the reviews.. I mean it does get fairly packed in there so if the server is new, they may still be adjusting to a very busy environment.

My issues are these..

-WAY too much selection of wing flavors with literally no explanation of what they are so I find this can be fairly annoying. And I'm sure neither myself as a customer or the server of the time or patience to go over what's in each wing selection. Because of this, you can't really pick what may be best for you and just end up settling with whatever looks like something you would understand on the menu.

-Another minus for me is that fries do not come with your wings. You're basically paying like $11-12 for a pound of wings then another $4-5 to add some fries. St Louis wings wins my over with this as every pound you order comes with a fries and the side and their fries are absolutely AMAZING!!!! And the dill dipping sauce is amazing as well, but All Stars dips are also decent.

-Didn't notice any daily specials and no specials on drinks.. again this is where St Louis wings me over.. the one close to here (behind Scarborough Town Center) has daily food and daily drink deals.

All in all, awesome wings (try the Nero, its amazing) with some minor room for improvement.

Thanks for reading!

Great place to eat wings because you have plenty of parking spots and it’s right smack beside a mall. Why not come over and drink some beer after some shopping or movies? It’s accessible by TTC, and you can do so by riding the SRT or the bus

Location
Great place to eat wings because you have plenty of parking spots and it’s right smack beside a mall. Why not come over and drink some beer after some shopping or movies? It’s accessible by TTC, and you can do so by riding the SRT or the bus.

Service
I think we were unlucky because our waitress was very slow and she also had to take a break at that time (nothing wrong with that but meh). My boyfriend’s beer took forever and by the time it came, he wasn’t thrilled to be drinking it. We thought the waitress would do something special for us like more fries, extra wings, free drink, but nope – quick apology then explained that her order was thrown in the trash. Not a very satisfying answer. In general, you are coming here for the atmosphere because it is great. They have more TVs than waitresses lol and each table is equipped with one. I give the waitresses a ranking of “B”, B for boring and bland.

Food
This is not my favourite wings place unfortunately but that is not to say it is poor. In fact it’s quite average, nothing bad but nothing good. We ordered 3 flavours including:
1. Lemon grass – this is a dry rub wing. It’s forgettable but no one will hate it.
2. Mardi gras – this is surprisingly very good. I actually forgot how it tasted but it has a unique taste worth trying.
3. Greek honey – wouldn’t bother ordering this again. Is it because there wasn’t any honey? Or was it because there was too much greek sauce? The combination wasn’t good
All hail ceasar fries – wow I was pleasantly surprised. Even though we ordered greek honey wings, these fries are WAY BETTER. Yes, they have a lot of sauce but it doesn’t disappoint. It’s not that big in portions but for 4 people it’s a good sharing size.

I don’t know what to say about All Star Wings because nothing was horrible, in fact everything was tolerable. It’s a restaurant I would go back to if I really wanted to watch a sports game but the wings are too mediocre. Funny thing is this chain is not on Urbanspoon so I had to submit a request. We know there are many All Star Wings around the GTA but I’m surprised this one wasn’t advertised.