While it may sound like a sports bar, this is a gentrified, suburban, box-store restaurant. A step up in decor and presentation from a Swiss Chalet, Scores is, boiled down to it, a chicken and rib joint.
So what makes them stand out? Well, they put a lot of emphasis on their salad bar for one. Personally, I wasn't too impressed with it, having eaten for 4 years in a Uni cafeteria with an excellent salad bar. Just not many choices out there: 2 soups, fruit salad, and then your pretty typical salad toppings. But, the salad bar craze of the 70's has been over for a while, and this is a unique concept for most people nowadays.
I did get wings, but I got them more as a tasting than a meal. You might call it an appetizer, I guess. My main dish was a club sandwich. I was really craving a club sandwich, and I figured a rotisserie place should make a good chicken.
The sandwich was a constructed mostly like a classic Club: 3 slices of bread, lettuce, chicken, bacon, tomato. My complaint: the mayo was on the side. A lot of places put the mayo on the side and I hate it, because you cannot deconstruct a triple-decker sandwich quarter that is being held together by a toothpick. Grrr.
But the sandwich was good. Juicy white chicken breast, crispy bacon - it was all good. The fries on the side were blah frozen fries, and I got their 'sauce-gravy', which I didn't really care for.
LJ went with the ribs special, a full back of ribs and side with AYCE salad bar. The ribs were very tender - fall off the bone. The BBQ sauce was a mild, sweet yet slightly smokey sauce, but was pretty underwhelming. But enough of the entrees, let find out how the wings stacked up.
2008 THE SCORE 3.0: Scores Rotisserie & Ribs ~
STYLE: | breaded, deep fried | |
PRICE: | $5.45 for 5 $9.75 for 12 $11.75 for 16 | |
SAUCES: | § Spicy § BBQ § Honey & Garlic | 0/1 |
HEAT: | hot was not, but it was a tasty sauce | |
SIZE: | medium to large, relatively meaty | 1.5/3 |
WETNAP FACTOR: | sauce on the side | n/a |
CRISPINESS: | very crunchy – almost too crunchy. I take away a half point for that. | 2.5/3 |
FLAVOUR: | the sauce was a sweet spicy, almost a sweet & sour. Unique for sure. I liked it but I wouldn’t want a ton of wings in this sauce. | 1.5/3 |
SIDES: | veggies, sour cream and some cabbage as garnish (I hope its garnish) | 2/3 |
CLEAN UP: | napkins, wetnaps | 2/3 |
WING NIGHT: | none | 0/1 |
OTHER: | this place is all about Rotisserie, so I would stick to that. Oh the ribs are tender, but not that special. And I don’t think the salad bar is that great either. | |
TOTAL: | Wings have an interesting fresh sauce, but overall they aren’t amazing. | 9.5/17 |
The wings came plain with hot sauce on the side. The sauce was really unique. It was a very sweet sauce with a very small heat kick. It was almost like a sweet and sour sauce with a kick. But more hot sauce. If any of that makes sense. I wouldn't want this for all my wings, but it was good to see something different in the playing field.
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