Starship Billiards Parlor

Vulcan Hot

Today we embarked upon an intergalactic journey to Starship Billiards Parlor crossing time and space to 2301 Adlai Stevenson Drive, Suite C in Springfield, IL.  They must be from a land far, far away because they don’t have a webpage.  Upon entering deep space, you must travel through the asteroid field of pool tables and make your way to the black hole of a bar area aptly named, The Enterprise.  The bar has a few low tables with 2 chairs positioned at each.  If you haven’t picked up on it yet, the theme of this joint is Star Trek.

We were rewarded today as we quickly learned the special of the day was $ 0.50 wings.  We immediately learned we could order as many flavors of wings we wanted as long as they were in half dozen increments and the wings were naked and therefore, not breaded.  None of us are Trekkies who speak Klingon so we had to ask the wait staff to translate the wing menu into normal terms.  He did a poor job of doing so as his explanation of one particular flavor was exactly as a different one was named.  Regardless, we chose the Vulcan Hot which was our base test flavor, Bones Honey Hot, and Neelix Lemon Pepper.  We ordered each by the dozen and a side of fries for two and tater tots for the other.

  

Neelix Lemon Pepper

We sat the next 20 minutes waiting for food and our drinks to be refilled.  There was only one wait person working and he was located behind the bar.  There was no crowd to speak of so it’s astonishing we weren’t given more attention.  I’m uncertain if he was also the cook.

 

Our wings finally arrived with a fistful of napkins and wet wipes.  We immediately realized the massive size of these wings.  They didn’t come from a chicken but more like a pterodactyl.  They were massive and meaty.  The waiter did his best to identify the wing flavor as he set them down in front of us.  Our sides quickly followed and we started to dig in.  We started with the hot wings as this is the test flavor to be compared from restaurant to restaurant.  The flavor was good and had a little heat to it.  There was certainly more heat to this wing than the Westwood’s wing.  When you picked up the Honey Hot wing, you immediately smelled the Tabasco sauce and the flavor didn’t surprise your palate.  We didn’t sense the slightest hint of honey in this flavor.  It was spicier than the Vulcan Hot and our nasal passages opening up was a clear indication.  The Lemon Pepper was a nice dry rub compliment to the wet sauces of the hot flavors.  It was a very salty lemon pepper.

Bones Honey Hot

 

The cost was $9.00 for a dozen wings and side of fries so it was a little pricey.  The restaurant was fun with the pool tables and Star Trek theme.  The lack of wait staff and time it took to have our food served was very disappointing.  The wings were massive and cooked perfectly.  Two of the three sauces were flavorful and relatively unique.  The hot sauce was good and flavorful but not too spicy.

 

The environments were equally interesting and the wait staff were equally disappointing though for different reasons.  The mass and girth of these wings along with the ability to order multiple wing flavors without penalty give Starship Billiards Parlor the lead over Westwood’s.  To infinity and beyond.