Barrel Pizza Parlour & Spaghetti House

We just had THE most delicious pizzas in the most delightful and friendly Italian style Bistro, in Fort Éire!!! UBER friendly and efficient staff and the décor is to die for and believe it or not the prices are reasonable! Give it a try… you won’t be disappointed ;-)

Very clean, roomy restaurant. The wait staff were very friendly and helpful. The chicken wings were wonderful. Another reviewer said they were «breaded». Not so. They are lightly coated and very tasty. The pizza was great too. Will definitely go back.

Went for the first time today. Great meal, huge portion. My wife had some questions about the area and the server found out all the info, and did it with a smile. Had spaghetti with veal and minestrone soup. Fresh warm bread too.

The wings here are unlike anywhere else. I’ve never met someone that dislikes the wings here! The BEST quality blue cheese. Very saucy wings .Good pizza. Decent pasta’s.Fair price. Very interesting atmosphere for a sit down dinner, lots of fun stuff to look at. liquor licenced.

Barrel was our fourth stop on the International Chicken Wing Crawl. Not well liked by two of the participants, but I didn’t have a huge issue with the wings — but I’m getting ahead of myself.
Inside, the atmosphere is awesome. It reminds me of my own vague memories of a Mother Tucker’s Pizza place — neat glass lamps overhead, weird and interesting stuff on a shelf surrounding the seating area. Fireplace, and at this time of year a Christmas tree and decorations. Amazing.
Our waitress was incredibly friendly, and very accommodating to Sarah’s video recording requests (Sarah, we’re going to see that video at some point, right? :))
The wings… well, as I mentioned before, I don’t have a huge problem with the breaded wings or the more ketchupy sauce (plain old BBQ sauce for wings, I’m not a fan of though). I thought they weren’t too bad — more of a kick than Chuggy’s — but the sauciness and the breading made for a wing that was a bit tricky to hold onto. Also, the carrots that came with the wings weren’t carrot sticks, but baby carrots, which really just feels like cheating to me.
Pizza looked and smelled delicious — were I in the area and had the opportunity I’d probably come back to try it. Having said that, I won’t be making the trip back just for that.
I rank them #4 out of 5 on the Epic International Chicken Wing Crawl.

The Barrel… in Fort Erie :) This was stop number 4 on the EPIC International Chicken Wings Crawl and it was hilarious. Sorry Kelly O, but I hated these wings. We didn’t even eat them all. I had a lot of problems with this establishment.
But first the good things:
— The cokes came in normal sized glasses. What a relief! At every other location the pops had come in greater than 1l size and I was starting to get sugar sick.
— The décor here is PHENOMINAL. There are Charlie Chaplin photos everywhere, old singer sewing machines, a REAL Christmas tree… it was top notch and had great personality.
— The waitress was SO nice… she was just. so nice… and I told her I hated her wings. She looked heartbroken.
The bad things:
— The wings here are bad. Specifically:
(a) they are HEAVILY breaded
(b) they have a flavourless ketchupy sauce that’s more of a BBQ sauce than a wing sauce
© the veggies and dip were pathetic — the carrots were two (2) of those baby carrots from the pre-​washed and peeled baby carrots bags at the grocery store for $ 1.99.
The «of interesting note»:
This restaurant is a study in the clustering habits of Caucasian adults in rural settings. Our party of 3 was the smallest group dining in, and included the only non-​white person in the 60+ people dining that evening. Of particular uniqueness was that we were also the only people not of 60+ years. Connie went to the restroom and remarked, ‘even their HAIR is white!”
So… the waitress (Bless her heart… I understand that’s a customary statement when you’re about to say something negative about someone) said these were the BEST wings bar none, hands down, no further discussion, ever. When she came by to clear our plate we had left a few and she was all… «you didn’t like the wings.» Connie and Randy kinda looked down, but I thought she deserved the truth. I told her I didn’t like them, I told her why and she feigned interest in my feedback. Then she brought the grossest after dinner candies ever and I could hardly wait for her to turn her back before I discarded mine into the wrapper… I hope she didn’t see that because after all of my criticisms about the wings I would hate for her to think her establishment was an utter failure.
I would never have wings here again but their pizza smelled amazing. I remain particularly offended by the utter lack of effort or care associated with the baby carrots. The Barrel took an unfortunate fifth out of five stops on the EPIC International Chicken Wings Crawl (tm sarahlindsay 2009).

Mmmmm best wings ever! Soooo tangy and saucy. So crispy and fried!
Also, their pizza is dynamite! So cheesy, tasty light and chewy crust!
Ida the waitress has been working there since the lord was a boy. This is a great family joint just off the Peace Bridge!