02/09/2022
Matt’s Full Review:
Mr. B’s Pizza & Wings
340 Hirschland Rd
Evansville, IN
I’m excited about reviewing this place because it is another local favorite of mine. During the lockdown for everyone I think we got take-out from here at least once a week. I just love their wings and made in house sauces!
We went here a little while back and I’m just now getting the review of the place, but I’m left myself notes and and pictures to refer back to while writing this all out. When we arrived I would say the main room (not the smaller party room) was about half full and we were sat immediately, which is usually a surprise when coming here because it is usually a packed house. With that said, it didn’t take long after we were sat for the place to fill up and have people waiting, so I guess we got in just at the right time. We were greeted right away by our server, and got our drinks promptly. I’d also like to note that almost every server that walked by had to stop and wave to our daughter while mentioning how cute she is so extremely friendly staff here! We also ordered some cheese bread as an appetizer, I say this to touch on it later. While waiting on our food I decided to look around and try to put a finger on the pulse of this place, and I got to say, if you are a sports fan, this place is where you want to be on game day. They have big screens everywhere! I mean I don’t think there’s a seat in the main area that doesn’t have a view of one of the numerous sports taking place. As a sports fan (mostly soccer) I have to say this is a great environment to watch the games too! There’s no one really going crazy about the games, just some random cheers or boos if its a “big game” for the locals. This is a nice change of pace from some sports bars where people go bonkers as if their livelihood is riding on the outcome of a game. Don’t get me wrong, rooting for your team is fun and all, but no need to be over the top dramatic about it, it still is just a game (don’t hate me that’s just my opinion, you all do what you like!). Enough about that tangent though, let’s get back to Mr. B’s. Service here seems a tad weird to me because we hardly ever get our food brought out by our server. This isn’t a bad thing in the slightest because that probably means whoever is closest when the food is ready takes it out to the table. Now the reason I mentioned the appetizer was because we got ours and then about 2 minutes later they brought our meals out. Not the best timing, but we still devoured it all none the less. Per usual I went to check out their bathrooms, and besides some torn off pieces of paper towels it looks spotless in there. They chose a great color palette to use in their bathrooms to go with the stainless steel plus they keep it clean so for a Pizza and Wings spot I am always surprised by how clean it looks. On another note, I know they have outside seating with TVs out there as well we just haven’t eaten on the patio yet (just putting it out there for people that enjoy eating outside).
On to the food! The cheese bread is always extra gooey and delicious here and paired with marinara or cheese dipping sauce it just hits the spot for you before your meal. Our daughter even scarfs these down without hesitation. Cheese just seems to have that perfect doneness from the oven and melts over the breadsticks it a magical way like good cheesy bread does. I ordered 20 wings, 10 with sweet habanero sauce and 10 with Hurricane sauce. The hurricane sauce has a dijon type flavor with some added heat to blend into just a special mix, in my humble opinion this sauce is just dynamic and extra tasty (one of my all time favorite wing sauces). I also get the sweet habanero sauce because I do like a touch more heat sometimes while eating wings, as a lot of us do, and these take the heat and also punch you with the sweet flavors. Another pure gold sauce mixture created by Mr. B’s and don’t pass these up, they aren’t super spicy just leave a nice little tingle in your mouth. While I’m also going on about wings, I will say I’ve had them in Buffalo before, which they informed me was the wings Mecca (in the US at least), had some amazing wings and their sauce is just the perfect concoction of heat and velvety butter sauce. I mention Buffalo because the wings at Mr. B’s are the only wings outside of Buffalo that I would give a major stamps of approval, don’t hate on me yet I still like wings at some other places, but when you want so great flavor combos with a tender piece of chicken look no further than Mr. B’s. They are the real deal here and if I’m not mistaken they even make their own ranch sauce (that’s out of this world by the way), that’s just over and above what you get at many other places! My wife ordered some chicken tenders with medium sauce, and warns’t let down either. She loves boneless wings so on this day she went another route and just got the tenders. She can’t seems to stray away from the medium sauce (which again is pretty spot on with true Buffalo sauce). I don’t blame her because she found what she loves and sticks with it. I’m one that loves trying new things and I’ve tried a bunch of their sauces and found my favorites are the ones I ordered (some days I still have to get that medium sauce). On this trip, I will say their flat wing bones did seem slightly more brittle than usual as I had most of them break while trying to eat them. I don’t know if that’s something about how they were cooked or not, just something I noticed.
Checkout is what we all are used to receiving your check, giving your payment to the server then waiting to give them your John Hancock. So nothing special there.
Value: 8.5
Taste: 9.0
Atmosphere: 9.5
Service: 9.2
Speed: 8.1 (only because the timing was off for apps and meal)
Overall between an 8.8 and 8.9 right on the cusp to join the 9 plus club (would be there on this day had the timing worked out better) so still an amazing spot in the city! When you want some wings with some amazing sauces, look no further!
PS. I haven’t really tried the pizza (in a review state of mind) so that’s why there is no mention of it.
