Today we made the trip to D’Arcy’s Pint for the next stop on
our Wing Tour. You can find D’Arcy’s
Pint at 661 S. Stanford St. and online at http://www.darcyspintonline.com/. You may remember our stop at this restaurant
during the Tenderloin Tour of 2012.
We were seated in the middle of the restaurant after no wait
at all which is very odd for this restaurant.
We scanned the menu for the wings and found them in the starter portion
of the menu only. Your only option was
to purchase them by the pound. They were
listed in 1 pound or 2 pound increments.
I don’t know if the Culinary Delights Team wasn’t into wings today or if
the wings just weren’t looking good from the menu but we all decided to just
purchase a pound of wings for the table and each of us get a Horseshoe. I will explain a Horseshoe later. Our sauce for the wings was Buffalo.
After a short time, the wings showed up at the table and we
were shocked when we saw them delivered on a long, skinny platter. It was as if we followed Alice down the
rabbit hole and we didn’t get smaller as we fell. Or, as if the Giant went down the beanstalk
and stole Jack’s wings. Or, as if Mini
Me gave his wings to Dr. Evil. Members
of the Itty Bitty Titty Committee would call these wings just right. If we had pterodactyl wings at other
restaurants during this tour, we got hummingbird wings served to us today. In case you haven’t picked up on my
references, these wings were tiny. I
believe picking up and biting into these wings was referenced to the scene in
Big when Tom Hanks was at the party and picked up the vegetable he thought was
an ear of corn and started eating it as you would an ear of corn.
The sauce had a gentle heat depending on the wing you ate. Some were a neutral sauce and others had some
heat. There was a hint of the same bad
flavor we had from ShowMe’s when we ate some of the drumsticks. There were a few bad apples in the
bunch.
We didn’t even finish the platter of wings before our Horseshoe’s
arrived because we were that disappointed.
So, a Horseshoe was invented in central IL and has been a local favorite
dish ever since. It started as a simple
open faced sandwich but has evolved over the years to keep it fresh and
enjoyable. At its root, it’s a piece of
bread with some kind of meat on it, topped with a cheese sauce, then French
fries, and finally more cheese sauce.
It’s a true artery hardening, calorie stomping, fat producing meal. In support of the Wing Tour, two of us had a
Buffalo Chicken Horseshoe as our meal.
The Shoes were tasty even though the Buffalo Chicken isn’t my favorite
specialty Shoe. There was some
discussion about the sauce and whether or not it’s one of the better in
town. The cheese sauce is really what
makes the Shoe.
The pound of wings set us back $7.55 and the Horseshoes
another $7.25. The wings were a complete
waste and I wouldn’t recommend you make a special stop to purchase them or that
you even try them during a regular dinner visit. The Shoes were good but I didn’t get my usual
favorite. Overall, this trip was below
average even with the special delicacies and side option purchase we made to
try to lift our spirits. I think a case
of spirits would’ve been the only thing to make this meal acceptable but
unfortunately, we all had to go back to work after the meal.
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