I have never heard of Anthracite before a couple weeks ago, but I’m happy I went here. It’s a large building that looks like it was made out of an old fire hall. The bar is to the left as soon as you enter. Straight ahead of the entrance is the cavernous dining room. I’m not sure how it is any other night, but the place was packed for their wing night. The group of two in front of us was told it would be 30 minutes, which had me worried a bit. When I told the hostess there were five of us, I was surprised when she said it would only be two minutes. In fact, my one friend was going to the restaurant between shifts so he called ahead to place an order. When he arrived, they had his wings ready for him and a seat at the bar with his name on it. That’s just awesome service. The place just had an awesome atmosphere overall. They also have a great craft beer selection if you’re into that kind of thing. The server was nice and was able to get all our wings to us in a fairly timely manner. It did take a bit long to get out check when we were done, but, overall, it was a great experience. Also, you can only place orders of six.
The wings were a bit pricey at $0.45, but they were very large. There were so many flavors to choose from that I had to place four orders to get as many flavors as possible. I was nowhere near close to eating all 24. I don’t think I could have even eaten three orders worth.
This is one of the best selections of wing flavors you will find anywhere. The amount of options is ridiculous. The amount of flavors I have never heard of or tried before was outrageous. I have been to a lot of different wing places, but they had some choices you won’t ever see anywhere else.
I don’t even know where to start with the amount of wings I tried. I wanted to go as a large group so we can try as many flavors as possible. I ordered Mango Jalapeno, Cajun Ranch, Ginger Teriyaki, and Sweet Thai Chili. Mango Jalapeno had a nice sweet flavor from the mango, but not much spice from the jalapeno. I wish they mixed the mango with habanero to give it more of a kick. The Cajun Ranch came out much different than I expected. I was expecting a wet ranch sauce mixed with Cajun seasoning. This was a dry Cajun rub with ranch dressing powdered sprinkled over it. It was interesting and reminded me of a cooler ranch Dorito. It had a pretty decent taste. I was really let down by the Ginger Teriyaki. Teriyaki is by far one of my favorite wing flavors. I also like the taste of ginger. This had zero teriyaki taste. It could easily be considered just a ginger wing, and not even a good ginger wing at that. My favorite of the wings I had was the Sweet Thai Chili. These were awesome – A perfect mixture of sweet and spicy. I highly suggest getting these wings. I also tried the Garlic Parm. I never really had a bad Garlic Parm in my life. These fit the mold pretty good. Fu-manchu were amazing. These wings were similar to a chipotle ranch taste, with a great spice to it. I have never seen anything like the southwestern chili. These were wings with chili sauce right on them. The chili was delicious. I wish they found a way to make it more of a sauce, though. The regular hot were slightly above average. A good spicy taste with a hint of butter.
As soon as we entered the Anthracite, I was instantly in a good mood because the vibe that I felt from the atmosphere was one of a welcoming and fun. You walk in to the Anthracite and immediately you are in the bar area. There are tvs to watch whatever games you want and people were yelling and laughing having a good time. We ate in the dinning area and when we walked into there the atmosphere did not change much from the bar area. That was cool. It just felt like a good time anywhere in the place. Our waiter was kind and attentive to us. We had extra people in our group so there were a lot of different wings he had to get and he got them all.
I feel that the wings at the Anthracite were the biggest that I have EVER had. They were ginormous. Huge pieces of meat. One thing to note however, they come in orders of 6, not 5. I thought that was interesting. At 45 cents a wing that wasn’t too bad considering that the size of them was incredible. I swear to you, you will not leave hungry.
An absolute plethora of flavors. Typical flavors like hot garlic, cajun, bbq but then some that we had to ask about like fu man chu, karate kid and cactus. All in all, there were around 45 different flavors. There is something for anyone. Great selection.
Here’s where the Anthracite came back to Earth. Though they were huge and I had so many different choices, where it really matters the taste was just alright. Not bad but also not great, which was what I thought would occur. I got hot, karate kid, cajun bbq and southwest chili. The hot were actually pretty good, real good spice with those. Cajun bbq was not as spicy as I wanted them to be. The bbq portion of the cajun I think diluted them to much. The karate kid, which were their sweet thai flavor mixed with other flavors, which I don’t know which ones, were pretty good. They had a nice sweet taste mixed zesty spice. The best I had were southwest chili. These wings were quite interesting because they had a southwest taste to them but then they had actual chili on them. Like real pieces of beef. A real cool idea and an even better taste.
