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Atomic Wings
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Category: Chicken Wings [Edit]
Neighborhood: Park Slope321 9th St
(between 5th Ave & 6th Ave)
Brooklyn, NY 11215
(718) 768-5665
- Nearest Transit:
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9th St-4th Ave (F, M, R)
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Street
- Attire:
- Casual
- Price Range:
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$$
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- No
- Delivery:
- Yes
- Take-out:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- No
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Good for:
- Dinner
- Alcohol:
- None
12 reviews for Atomic Wings
So, confirmed by three out of four doctors* is the fact that I am a guy and predisposed to enjoy events in which I can gorge myself of on all things terrible for me. And NCAA Tournament time (not to mention the start of the MLS season -- what? I'm not the only one who watches that league) is the greatest annual sports time on the calendar** for exactly that purpose.
When I realized I still had a ton of vacation time to use, I decided to take the first day of the tournament off, go to a bar and revel in all things basketball.***
Do you know how crowded sports bars are this weekend?
Anyway, I compromised by sitting on my couch but I still wanted the juicy, delicious wing-y goodness that sports bars are known for and the new Atomic Wings on 9th St. said they would deliver that to me.
The wings arrived quickly and piping hot. I got the waffle fries as a throw-in option because I have absolutely no self-control when it comes to fries, which is why I've yet to go anywhere near Pomme Frittes. Everything was tasty and I'm happily ensconced in my warm blanket with feet up, my computer on my lap and a bottle of Diet Coke to my side.
Does life get better than this?****
* - The fourth had bad eyesight. At least that's what I'm telling myself.
** - Best non-annual time? Big-time financial institution failed management steel-cage jello wrestling -- to the death!
*** - Best name so far? Temple's Dionte Christmas.
**** - I submit it does not.
The girlfriend had a wing craving all week so in an attempt to do something nice, I popped over to Atomic after the gym (ironic, I know). She likes it hot & spicy so I went "Nuclear" with the sauce selection. The wait was quick, but the atmosphere of this place is a total buzz-kill. Insanely bright florescents illuminate a row of TVs and internet cafe terminals. The place looks like a hospital cafeteria or a bad sport-bar spin off ala Rice to Riches or Pinkberry. They get One full star for cleanliness though. This place was freakin' immaculate.
So I get my order, head home and hand my "present" to the woman. She lights up like a Christmas tree. Too bad the wings were about as dry as the Christmas tree you'll be putting to the curb after the New Year. Boring, dry and bland. In the garbage they went after a two wing rescue mission with tabasco and dipping sauce. There was no saving these poor things.
Meh... pretty much describes it. They were not the worst wings that I have had, but certainly not the best. They would be good enough for a football party. However, there were a little pricey...about $1 per wing. Don't drive across Brooklyn for them like I did, but if you want a quick bite to eat on a hungover Sunday, they would probably hit the spot.
Atomic Wings is located dangerously close to my gym, and unfortunately for my waistline, I have found myself calling in an order for pick up, going to the gym, and rushing into Atomic Wings after my pathetic 30 minute work out hoping that no one sees me running across the street from NYSC directly into a fast-food joint. Can we say counter-productive? Whatever.
Mostly, the layout of Atomic Wings confuses me--decked out with three flat screen TVs, leather couches, and a floor-to-ceiling mural of Niagara Falls, it seems like they're trying to encourage people to stay and hang out. Too bad it's empty whenever I go in there. Probably because if you're going to eat an entire bucket of wings by yourself, your face and fingers covered in sauce, you're gonna wanna do it in the privacy of your own home while watching a Lifetime Movie or Wife Swap.
Offering 10 wings for 7.99 bathed in a variety of saucy options (for the sane: mild, medium, hot, honey mustard, BBQ, etc. and for the insane: abusive, nuclear, and suicidal), these wings are big, meaty, crispy, and have great flavor, even when ordered mild.
Nice job.
Ok ,so I know today is the Super Bowl and everyone and their mother wants wings. So I anticipated the delays and placed my order via SeamlessWeb at 12:30pm for a 6:45pm delivery. They would arrive right after kick-off. Perfect!
When they didn't arrive at 6:45, I gave Atomic Wings the benefit of the doubt. When they didn't arrive by 7, I was hungry so I picked up the phone. It took about 5 times to get past the busy signal, and then a full 3 minutes before anyone picked up the phone. But it's the SuperBowl, of course they are busy. When they finally answered, the woman told me they would be there any second.
Half an hour later, my buzzer rang. There were my wings... but what now? The guy refused to give me them! His receipt didn't show that I'd charged them (you have to when you order from SeamlessWeb), so he refused to turn over the goods. I went upstairs and got my phone and my laptop and brought it down to the guy and showed him my confirmation email. He looked at it as if he didn't know what a computer was and did not loosen his grip on the wing bag.
So I dialed the store. Busy signal, again, the first four times I tried. Then it rang and rang and rang until my phone disconnected itself after 4 minutes of ringing because no one picked up. Redial. Busy. Redial again. Busy. Redial AGAIN (dude, my wings are getting COLD!!!) and the girl finally answers. I put her on the phone with the guy. He seems to push back a bit, as if he STILL doesn't want to give me my food. She persists. He finally relents.
I dig into the wings at 7:45, an hour after they were scheduled to arrive.
They are overcooked and dry, but saucy. They were fine, but not fantastic.
I know SuperBowl Sunday is a crazy night for a wing place, and I'll cut them some slack. But all in all, not impressed.
Wow, I can't imagine a more miserable delivery experience! Tired and hungry, we ordered 3 simple things from here from seamless. And the waiting started. After an hour and 15 minutes, my roommate called. He was told the delivery guy had left and was on his way. Now, Atomic Wings is on 9th street and we live on 12th. I'm no speed demon, but even I can walk back and forth between 9th and 12th in about 15 minutes. So after a bit over an hour and a half, we called. Apparently, they had misplaced their delivery guy. Yeah, go figure. He wasn't answering his phone. Good job, but we're still really hungry.
Fast forward another 20 minutes. We call again. Apparently the delivery guy came and left? And we didn't answer our cell phones so it's our fault. Wait, what? Why didn't he ring the bell? And our phones were on, ready to be picked up. Now the manager gets called, and he claims the guy speaks no English. That's fine, the streets are numbered, 12th is 12th in English and in Spanish!
Finally our neighbor from downstairs guides this lost soul to our door, over 2 hours after the food was ordered. We are not in good spirits, as one might imagine. Our food is squashed flat, cold, and all the orders are wrong (that last one definitely can't be blamed on the delivery guy). One star only because when we called, they agreed to refund the full cost of the order and offered us a free meal for our next order.
The food was absolutely gross (and I have had atomic wings downtown before, which was really quite good). The chicken littles were hard as rocks (totally fried through) and instead of a salad I was given fries. No extra honey mustard as requested. The salad my roommate got was a few pathetic leaves of wilted iceberg (I didn't even know iceberg could wilt!). The one thing they got right was the refund, which he checked on his credit card and he got. They can keep their free meal though, just cos it's free doesn't make it worth the hassle.
Usually I think chain wing places are pretty gross, but these are some surprisingly meaty and tasty wings. I got lunch time delivery and had no problem with it. I don't think I'll be eating in anytime soon - it looks pretty sterile with a bunch of TVs everywhere, which is not my scene. Since Bonnie's doesn't deliver their wings, I now have a go-to wing place in the Slope. Yay!
Co-worker hyped up this place for me, claiming they make the best chicken anything. So I got the chicken quesadilla and it was kind of dry...nothing wow. Something I could've made at home instead of paying $8 for. rip off. Maybe I'll try out their wings next time and see how that goes. But for now, this place is just a-ok.
I chose to eat in rather than ordering delivery. (Well, technically I didn't have a choice; I'm not within the delivery area. However, I'm of the opinion that wings, like just about all fried foods, travel very poorly, so if I'd had the option to order delivery, I still would've chosen to eat in.) The store front was very clean for a place that specializes in a very messy food. Only a few customers were eating there, but there's a lot of room for eating in, including a surprisingly homey couches/armchairs/cafe table setup in front. They also have an internet terminal, which is not what you would expect to see in a wings place, but there were people using one, so I guess there's no harm in providing it.
The folks who were working there were very friendly. My wings came out in the right amount of time: neither so quickly that I thought they'd been sitting under a heat lamp waiting for someone to order them, nor so slowly that I had to wonder whether they were doing a bunch of delivery orders in the meantime. The wings themselves were very good, probably the closest replica I've found in NYC to what you'd get in Buffalo. (As a point of reference for serious wing fans, or a recommendation for those who aren't, in Buffalo I prefer Duff's.) The only reason I went with four stars rather than five is because they're a bit on the expensive side; even if a single order had been a dozen (which I think is standard most places) rather than ten, it still would've been a little more than I'd expect.
I just love Atomic Wings. They are gooey and well done and the sauces I've had were very tasty. Pretty expensive, but I guess spending $20 to get sinful deliciousness delivered to your door isn't really that bad. I like how they have someone stand at the 9th Street subway just as people are getting off from work with fliers about the wings. Very enticing. They don't give you enough veggies, though.
The wings themselves get three stars. They're pretty good. For a chain, they get like a billion stars cause chains suck so so much.
I'm excited about this place. Andy L and I, after dropping off a TV in Manhattan for 15 bucks and a pack of cigs, and then shooting over to Sunset Park to pick up his spanking new Keg O Bud, stopped at Atomic Wings. Because see, once we get to talking about wings, we simply must have them. So we order a double order and go across the way for a beer. Coming back 20 minutes later, we pick them up and head to the truck. After driving approximately one block we realize Andy's got a big fat flat tire.
After consulting the manual and hemming and hawing we take turns lying on our backs underneath the car banging away at the rusted spare trying to get that motherfucker off. It was cold as all get out. After about half an hour of this, and eyeing Jackie's 5th Amendment across the street for a while we finally decide to call AAA.
After being told they'd be "no longer than 40 minutes" we head over to the bar. When they called us back half an hour later to reschedule for forty minutes after that, we figure it was safe to eat the wings, now getting cold in the car.
They were suprisingly good, even after sitting in the truck getting uncrispy and cold for an hour or so. Not breaded, thank god, check. Meaty, check. Decent sauce, check. Whilst ordering a new kind of hot wing for the first time, it is best to go for Hot, so one can accurately judge what a place views as hot. Next time we'll get at least two more hots up, suicidal or insane or whatever they call them. But they just have really decent wings.
It's lit up like a cafeteria in Disneyland, and I wish it was a bar. it was empty as hell in there, I can't believe they waiter service. Do they think they're three blocks from NYU? Expensive too, but hey this is the Slope, that's why you people live there, right?
Very friendly service and 4 flat screen tv's (great for football). The wings are good, but not great. It's surprisingly hard to find really good wings in new york, but I've lived in Buffalo so my standards are pretty high. Order them "crispy", better that way.
