D-Spot

Recently, we made it over to Maplewood for a long anticipated visit to the D-Spot. They seem to be on every list of places with great wings and after our visit we have to agree.

The D-Spot is a small place in an obscure strip mall located near a McDonalds. The inside is rather spartan, but functional, with a TV and 6 or 7 tables for those that wish to eat in the restaurant. There is a pretty cool mural on the wall that looks like it might still be a work in progress. We placed our order at the register and the food was brought out to us after a short wait when it was ready.

The menu consists of a huge variety in wing flavors. It is divided up into spicy wings, comfort/savory wings, sweet wings and Ph D, meaning sophisticated flavor combinations. They also have spiedini, burgers, chicken sandwiches, fries and onions rings. No alcoholic beverages are available though. Only juice, water and soda.

We started with the salsa verde wings. The sauce has cilantro, garlic, onion and chiles in it. It tasted a lot like cilantro, lime and the flavor was very fresh and unique. The skin on this batch of wings was a bit soggy unfortunately. The rest of our wings had a very crisp and flavorful exterior and interior. The size of all of the wings was excellent. No tiny wings here.

Next, was the Asian BBQ wings, with a hoisin soy glaze. The sauce was salty,  sweet and pretty spicy, but not overwhelmingly so. These were listed in the spicy section of the menu, so I don’t think all the spicy sauces are blazingly hot.

Last, but not least was the tarantula wings. These were probably my favorites. They had a soy glaze, roasted garlic, chili, dry rub and fried garlic in the sauce. The skin was crispy and delicious and the garlic flavor really came through even though the soy was strongly flavored. They were spicy as well, but not so hot you lose feeling in your tongue.

We also added on a basket of seasoned fries to help cool things off. The fries were pretty good, seemed to be freshly made, though neither one of us love fries with that extra coating or breading seasoning on them. They were seasoned with some sort of seasoned salt, which was good and they came with a side of spicy dipping sauce, which was sour cream based and quite good too.

The D-Spot is certainly worth the drive to Maplewood and we look forward to returning and trying more of their wing flavors. The choices are overwhelming, but they did a great job making recommendations and steering us in the right direction. The food is amazing, the wings were great and the prices are a good value.


The D-Spot
705 century Avenue N, Suite B
Maplewood, MN 55119
651-730-7768
www.eatatdspot.com