Three tests in one week can make a high schooler hungry for something besides chips or cookies.

So the Friday before spring break, I decided make a stop at Wingstop on Stevens Creek Boulevard. The restaurant is similar in size to a generic Starbucks and didn’t seem like much with only 10 customers inside.

But the excellent food and service more than made up for the humble surroundings. The wait to order only lasted a few minutes, and I was able to order a family-size deal that consisted of 30 wings, large fries and three types of sauces and dips for $26.59. There was also the option to order a mix of boneless and traditional wings. Like any other wing place, the wings came with celery and carrots.

I chose to order 20 wings coated in the chain’s original hot sauce and 10 cooked with hickory smoked barbeque sauce. I added a soda to my purchase when I saw the Coca Cola Freestyle soda fountain. I don’t know about other people, but when there is a touch screen machine that offers 24 types of drinks with about five different flavors for each of those sodas (strawberry Sprite is good stuff), there’s no reason not to drink some.

The service was better than average. The cashier, who was older than me, addressed me as “sir,” which made Wingstop feel less like the fast-food restaurant it was.
After about 15 minutes the wings were ready, and I brought the food to the table. The tray was filled with a pile of fries and three baskets of wings with 10 in each.
The food did not disappoint me.

The boneless sections had a slight crisp and were tender inside. The bone in the hickory wings had a slow-cooked texture.

The wings coated in original hot sauce had a good fieriness and pepper flavor to them. I found myself enjoying the hickory smoked barbeque wings more because they had a thick sauce with a hint of sweetness dominated by a smoky flavor.

Out of the three sauces that I received (honey mustard, ranch and bleu cheese), the honey mustard sauce stood out with the addition of a sweet sweet and sour taste to the wings and fries.

After about 10 wings, I was full. I had to get two take out boxes to hold all the leftovers.

If I have anything to criticize about the restaurant, it was that the sauce selection needed some expansion. But for less than $30, I received more food than my mom and I could eat in one night. The meal mainly consisted of wings and fries, and though the menu did not have a variety of foods. Still, the effort that could have been used to make other types of food was put into the wings, the spotlight of the foods offered.

I can confidently say that Wingstop is going to be a hotspot for me from now on.