Critic's Review
Legends, who have a venue with the same name in Sunrise and a Pizza & Wings place in Plantation, have taken over the old Clamstar's space in the Publix shopping center on S Military Trail in Deerfield beech.
As I got to the place I parked out front and realized that it was yet-another storefront bar. It looked relatively empty. I wondered if it was just a bar with some high tops; I really didn't want to sit in an empty place. Nobody knows that they're open yet. They have a $5.99 lunch menu, so worst case I'd just get a salad and blow out. So I went inside.
There were a couple of people at the bar; there was no acknowledgement of my presence. No-one at the hostess stand. A guy on a ladder with an electric drill. Employees gathered without seeming to care than someone just walked in. I though about just sitting down,but I thought nobody would notice. There's a row of booths that looked like they might be temp seating; it was pretty dark. I wondered if they are really open yet.
I was just standing near the booths, when someone finally came over. I sat down and she brought me a menu. I ordered an iced tea with extra lemon.
I went through the multi-page menu and didn't see a lunch menu. Great. She delivered the iced tea in a few minutes and asked "Have you Decided?".
"There's no Lunch Menu?", I asked, fully knowing that they'd posted it on their Facebook page yesterday. "Oh, yes. Let me get it for you". I was smelling a bad restaurant already. She came back and I ordered 2 of the $5.99 specials; The 6 wings with fries and the house salad with Blue Cheese dressing. My server suggested a side salad for $2.99 instead, indicating that the lunch special was a big salad. I ordered the side salad.
I couldn't get past the idea that I was eating in a warehouse. They've put in some nice TVs; I'd never been to Clamsters but I doubt that they had these big flat screens. The problem is that the place is just a big storefront with a bar in the middle.
Rather than replace the floor, they seemed to just strip it down to the cement. It would have been nice if they painted or stained it. It just looks like they rushed to open the place. Cement floors are great for college parties because you can mop up the beer easily.
The salad came out in just a few minutes.
Shredded cheese from a bag; I didn't really expect differently. A pretty typical bar side salad. Rough cut, unpeeled cukes. They have a monkey with a cleaver in the kitchen.
The decor "idea" here is that they have a lot of plaques from sport legends; Joe DiMaggio, Jack Nicklaus. The music is old school as well, with Billy Squire, Loverboy and The Clash's "London Calling" detected.
The wings came out in 7 minutes.
I ordered the wings because I figured a place that had a pizza and wings location might have some new ideas on how to cook wings. At first glance it didn't appear so. Ketchup was on the table, but they really served me wings with no dipping sauce?
I took some pictures and waited for a server to pass by. "Shouldn't there be blue cheese or ranch with these wings?", I asked. "Oh, which do you want?". "Blue Cheese Please".
The fries were good; although I don't know why restaurants are seemingly emphasizing healthy food but they still serve a load of fries with everything. (oh, because fries are cheap and fill the plate).
She brought out the blue cheese; a lot more than I expected. I really didn't need the celery bits.
She explained to me that blue cheese usually isn't included with the lunch specials, just so I know the next time. Don't worry, babe, there won't be a next time.
The wings were just deep fried and coated with sauce; tough, chewy; TG for the Blue Cheese. I also used some on the salad as the amount provided wasn't quite enough.
Note to the Owner: Here are some ideas: How about 8 wings and no fries? Or maybe just give 1 thingy of blue cheese instead of 2? I understand you need to make some profit, but you can't serve wings without a dipping sauce.
Conclusion
You can learn a lot about a restaurant from their menu; read the wings section where they lay out their sauce splitting policy. It's simultaneously comical and insulting. I can picture them carting someone out of the restaurant for dipping a wing in their friend's sauce.
I have a new policy. When a restaurant "forgets" to give me the lunch specials menu, I recommend that people go somewhere else. Because that's only the beginning of the ugliness to follow. As a restaurant, this place is a joke.