The Flying Beaver - Christmas Break 2010

The Flying Beaver - a little pub near the South Terminal Airport and once a regular hang out when I used to work for an airline.  Many Wednesday nights, we'd head on over there for Wing Night.  Back then, they were 25 cents each...it's now gone up to 45 cents each, and the wings are a hit and miss.  Sometimes they're really good, other times they're a bit off.  Still, despite all this, there are still a lot of people that flock tot he Flying Beaver and pack the place from wall to wall.  

My pals from my other job celebrating the holidays properly - with beer and wings.  From left to right: Kirk, Jay, David, Collin, Leon, and Kenneth.

The Salt and Pepper

Honey Garlic

Red Hot Chili - not edible unless dipped in a bit of ranch

Spicy Thai - actually, not that spicy.

Ranch - the stuff that makes the wings taste that much better.....or on some occasions not that crappy.

Someone's trophy plate...in our glory days, it would be 5 times this many by the end of the night.

Our server - Ayako-chan and Kirk.

If someone were to ask why we go the Flying Beaver, I'd probably have to say nostalgia and atmosphere. The service is pretty good most of the time, our server in particular was really good to us.  We use to go for the cheap and tasty wings, but now they're not so cheap and not always tasty, but it's still a nice place to hang out and relax. 

Flying Beaver

The Flying Beaver has some of the best wings in town.  I started going here more than ten years ago when I used to work at the airport.  Wing Night Wednesdays, when wings were still 25 cents a pop.  It's gone up in price, but then again, so has everything else.....but it's still worth it.  There was one time, a few buddies and I polished off about 300 wings between the 6 of us.  It was disgusting that so many chickens died for a few hours of fun, but what the heck, good wings.

            

Whenever I go now, I usually stick to salt and pepper.  It's funny, but when I first started going, all they had was honey-garlic, spicy, teriyaki, and BBQ.  Plain wasn't even on the menu until my buddies and I asked for it.  Then we'd dump loads of salt and pepper on them and plow into the wings with a little ranch sauce on the side.  Not long after, salt and pepper appeared on the menu.  I've got some pictures from some crazy nights, if I ever find them I'll post them.  Each of us used to keep a bone plate, or "trophy plate" and pile the bones into towers.  We refused to let the servers get us new ones. 

The atmosphere is pretty laid back, but it gets really crowded at times (especially Wednesday nights) and it's hard to find a place to sit.  The service is really good, very friendly, and pretty fast, and the price for most items on the menu are reasonably priced.  The nachos are really good here as well, huge......HUGE.