We attended Back 9 in Addison to celebrate the recent engagement of the King and the Queen. In our typical fashion, all serious great life events must be celebrated with the mixing of miniature fried chicken wings with various sauces. Our initial announcement was made at Buffalo Wild Wings, but this meeting was for a friend who couldn't make it initially. When the Queen and I arrived, we entered and found him sitting at a table enjoying what appeared to be both a beer and a shot. We figured he must have been really getting after it since it was happy hour. However, he was enjoying a beer and the shot glass had a sample of another beer in it. They have a handful of lesser known brews on tap, so if you're into that kind of thing you might give this place a shot (even though Flying Saucer is just down the street).
The Back 9 has very much a feel of a college bar found not in a college town. They have a decent happy hour special on drinks, half price appetizers (which we will get into later), allow smoking, have loud music and bar games all over the place for your entertainment. I'm talking pool tables, old school arcade games, giant Jenga, giant Connect Four, a game where you try and swing a washer on a rope onto a hook, and more I'm sure I'm forgetting. If you like activities while drinking then you should check it out.After getting some drinks, we decided on some appetizers. We got some fried pickles, and of course a dozen wings. Regularly 9.99 for a dozen, at five bucks during happy hour this is a good deal. The wings themselves are bone-in naked wings. They were slightly undersized, but acceptable for being a non-wing-joint. We got half in lemon pepper and half in their DIABLO SAUCE!!! The lemon pepper were pretty good, pretty crispy, and pretty generic when it comes to lemon pepper. The wings are served with a little bit of celery and ranch (no blue cheese option, so that's too bad).
The Diablo sauce was generously applied to the wings and had a good flavor. It tasted like somewhat of a traditional buffalo sauce, and had a pretty good kick. The biggest difference I could find is that this sauce had quite a bit of black pepper in it, which gave it an extra peppery flavor. I'm not sure I'd say the sauce was worth the label of "Diablo", but it was pretty flavorful and had a decent kick to it.As another side note, I ordered what I believe was called the Volcano Burger. This is also not on their website (it appears the menu is not up to date from what I can tell). I definitely was pleased with this burger, as it actually delivered on its promise of spice. It had grilled jalapeno slices and some kind of paste or jelly made from freshly pulverized habanero peppers. Quite tasty and a great heat to it. This makes me far more interested in the pizza challenge because this burger had legit habanero on it. Surely the pizza is much more intense. Anyways, I recommend going to Back 9. We will definitely go back there for a combination of the wings, the games, the drinks and hopefully the pizza someday. If I ever attempt the challenge I will do a special post on here to document the success or failure of my attempt, so check back someday to see if I ever get around to it.
