The Kickin' Chicken

Location:

(there are multiple locations in the Charleston area, check the website for address. I am going to be reviewing the one that I visited in downtown)

337 King Street

Charleston, SC 29401

Type:

College Bar

Website:

www.thekickinchicken.com

Experience:

For those of you keeping track, I have more or less been going in order of my experiences with different establishments. And we last left off with dinner on Saturday night, which was visited with the bachelor party.

Well the party didn't stop there. It was fairly early on a Saturday night and so we decided that we should go and do something else. However, I said in the last review, that half of our party does not drink alcohol which led us to have more problems trying to figure out where we were going. Well, since none of us had any other ideas, we decided to ask the young guy that was working the desk at our hotel. 

Rule of advice. If you are looking for something to do on in a town you are unfamiliar, the stoner kid working the hotel front desk on a Saturday night is probably not the best person to take advice from. But hindsight is 20/20 so we took his advice (and promises of pool tables) and made for the Kickin' Chicken in downtown Charleston.

When we found the place, we quickly realized that there were no pool tables but as it took us over an hour to come up with a single place to go, we didn't dare try to make for another location so we just took up residence at a table in the back and watched the UNC v. Duke game that was on TV. And the place did have plenty of TV's to watch. 

The place is pretty much a typical college bar. Not much money spent on the decor, but instead all of it put into really nice giant plasmas everywhere to watch sporting events. Food consisted of typical bar food (wings, sandwiches, appetizers), and other than cute names, I didn't see anything particularly interesting. Their draught beers left much to be desired as they only had the same four as every other bar on the planet. The one beer they were pushing as if it were new and interesting was Yuengling, which is an okay beer, but it isn't anything really special. 

The waitress was fairly nice to us, and at one point when they ran out of clean glasses and she had to resort to plastic cups, apologized profusely as she could tell that the older members of our party were not happy with this development. Since we had been to dinner a few hours earlier, we ordered a few appetizers and split them around the table but none with much gusto. The food was all right but nothing that couldn't be served at Corner Bar in Everytown, USA. 

(Picture from ladies room coming soon...)

Overall:

Other than the name, this was the same wing bar that exists next to every college campus in America. It didn't feel as clean as most bars which lends itself to some atmosphere but this place just had no personality. Needless to say I wasn't impressed. The only thing I really liked about this bar was that during a trip to the restroom which I accidently used the ladies, there was a poster soliciting the sale of eggs. It's sad when that is the best part of a bar. I am going to follow my newfound rule and never get advice from the stoner kid working the hotel front desk again...

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