Messy’s Birds & Brews

I give ‘em 4 stars for the food. It’s delicious. Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays are 50¢ wing nights. The only downfall is the actual restaurant. It’s ‘messy’ for sure. The menus had crusted wing sauce from other people’s hands and, although they no business besides the 2 people I was with and myself (they were playing some grand theft auto-​type game), the place had tables that were cleared, but hadn’t been wiped down. And the floor had (used) napkins. Typical of Westport (kinda), but I’ll probably call ahead and grab my future orders from them. They deliver too!

Unfortunately, I have a to do this. Most recent experience… I call to order delivery for lunch and they have a $ 10 minimum. My bill was coming to $ 8 and I live literally two streets down from this place. Little irritated, but I said no problem, make it for me anyway and I will pick it up. I show up about 20 minutes later, and it becomes clear that they did not make it.
So I have to sit there hung over and not in the mood for any bullshit, and there is a woman working there who has her BABY!!! in some crib in the customer area screaming its head off while she is in the back cooking shit. I got two thug/​gang member lookin dudes sitting at the bar who keep glancing at me in the mirror while i have to hear this baby and wait for my order which should have been done a while ago.
Then she commits the ultimate, unforgivable sin. When I asked for light mayo on my cheesesteak, I did not mean forget to put it on the bun and then go back and squeeze some DIRECTLY ON THE MEAT!!! after the fact. And then come and charge me $ 8.50 for the wrong order. I analyze small businesses for a living and this is one of the most half assed operations I have ever seen. I had no problem putting up with it at first, but now they had to go and F up my order and then my cheesesteak. Done and done.

Great lunch and dinner specials, philly is amazing, new burger menu is great, probably the best tenderloin in the city.

If I could give this place a NO STAR — I would, because they don’t even deserve one.
We purchased two vouchers from Muncharoo for this place and I am currently asking Muncharoo for a REFUND as we have been unable to use them.
This place is beyond TERRIBLE.
We have attempted to eat there four times now and they have been closed — during their posted open hours.
The last straw for us was when we called two days before New Year’s Eve to place an order for that day for a huge party we were having and discussed the order with the owner. My husband called that morning to confirm the order with the owner and the exact time of pick up and the owner said he would have it ready at the agreed time. Three hours before our party my husband called several times to confirm before he drove over to pick the order up. No answer? He drove down to the restaurant and they were closed? Needless to say-​we were furious?
We were the customer, and we did everything to accommodate the owner?
We had to run around at the last minute for another option for catering for our party. Unbelievable.
After looking here on Unilocal-​the comments seem to reflect that this is a regular occurrence with this business-​closed during posted open hours? Wish I had checked here on Unilocal first before purchasing my vouchers!
I hope this review helps others.

The food is decent when youre hungry and broke. Not the best place to eat or healthiest, but it gets the job done

This Place is a joke. The people working here I am sure just got out of prison. Everything has been said already in other posts. So ya they never have half the stuff on the menu. I think they are all high and you have to keep reminding them of the stuff they forgot to give you that you ordered. This place must be a front for something much bigger

I’m giving them 3 stars for the food. But, the restaurant itself would have warranted less that 1.
The good: The food. Cheap prices. Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays they have $ 0.50 wings. Not bad.
The bad: We walk in and it’s half-​expectant of a shabby joint in Westport. It’s ‘messy’ to say the least. We’re not sure what to do, but someone walks into the front door shortly after us. (It’s the owner/​worker/​whatever.) He immediately asks if we’re to order. We’ve never been there, so we have no idea what’s on the menu. He asks us what we want to drink. I respond with Pepsi. «Out of that, out of Diet Pepsi.» This doesn’t bother me, I know things happen. It’s common.
I look over the menu, which contained crusted spots of wing sauce from other customers’ hands and pick what I want. Luckily, it wasn’t one of the million things they were out of, which included about 4 of the sauces and a few other things on the menu I wasn’t interested in. That started to irritate me. How can a company function without having any products to sell?
As we’re waiting for the food to cook, another guy walks in and sits at the bar. The TV had previously been on which was fine, and I thought there was a commercial on for some sort of Grand Theft Auto-​type game. It was actually the dude sitting at the bar playing a game. This was fine, for the most part. I wasn’t expecting much from the place. It became less fine when I couldn’t hear the person I was with talking over the Italian on the game yelling «Fuckin’ blow this guys head off, eh!» At this point I just want to eat and go.
No idea if I wait for a check or pay at the bar, I decide to just pay where I want (the fastest place, the bar). The guy who initially ‘seated’, if that’s what you want to call it, and gave us our food was no where in sight. So, I ask the guy killing shit in his game where to pay. He kinda just looked at us for a second and then took the money to the other guy. That guy comes out and looks over the menu to try to figure out what I owe. He informs me that it’s .50 cent wing day, or whatever, and confirms that I got 6 wings, but has an issue with doing the math. Finally, we come to the price being $ 3.20. How we got this figure, I’ll never know. I give him a $ 5 bill. He starts gathering the change, but hesitates for a moment. «Fuck, it can’t be this hard» quickly goes through my head. He informs me that they’re out of nickels. At this point I figure, were it possible, they’d be out of oxygen. So, instead of being a considerate business, because it’s sure as hell not my fault they’re nickel-​less, they give me back $ 3.75. Not a big deal, it’s a nickel, but I had already left a more-​than-​generous 66% tip.
As for the rest of the place, it was dirty. Instead of playing some game, they could have been cleaning up the used napkins from the floor or wiping the tables that still had sauce on them.
I’ll try again by calling ahead and picking up the order. However, only on a Tuesday, Thursday or Sunday, with a credit card or exact cash, and slim chance for a tip.

Visited Messy’s for lunch after reading the good reviews here. I’ve never been led so astray by you guys before. Major, major disappointment.
First of all, we walk in, and there’s a guy sitting at the bar playing what appears to be some Call of Duty type game on the big screen. It isn’t clear whether we’re supposed to sit down or what, and the gleeful gamer ignores us. When he finally manages to pause and put down what the screen claims is a session of Team Deathmatch, he turns around and, apparently annoyed at the prospect of having customers, says with maximum disinterest, «You know what you’re having?»
«Uh, no, sorry,» I say, scanning around for a menu. As I do so, the gamer gets up and relocates to a position behind the bar. Menu in hand, we quickly decide and prepare to order.
«Oh, um,» the gamer says, «we’re out of traditional.»
«You only got boneless?»
«Yeah. We got boneless. We, uh, you know. Waiting on the delivery.»
My boss, having decided, steps up to order. «I’ll take a Diet Pepsi – «
“Oh, uh, we don’t have Diet Pepsi. The machine is broken. Waiting on the repair guy.»
«Fine, water, then,» the boss says, «and six Caribbean jerk.»
«We’re out of Caribbean jerk.»
«Ok, then Jamaican jerk.»
Gamer nods, takes boss’s money. I’m up.
«I’ll have six medium buffalo with fries,» I say. No problems with my order. Gamer guy hollers our orders back to someone in the kitchen and we sit down at one of the two or three actually cleaned tables. Even if the experience up to this point hadn’t been bad, the rest of our visit still would still have warranted a one-​star review.
After taking our orders, gamer guy got back to his game. After a few moments, the cook yelled at gamer dude from the kitchen, saying, «Dude, come check this out! Dude, seriously, come check this out!» Reluctantly, gamer dude re-​paused his Team Deathmatch and disappeared into the kitchen, where indecipherable murmuring was followed by uproarious laughter.
Seriously? What the hell are you idiots doing back there? Shoving our wings up your asses before depositing them in the fryer? The kitchen of a restaurant is not place where you should be engaging in boisterous shenanigans, whether you’re messing with the food or not, when customers can hear you. Most especially when you’ve been acting like our business is bothering you! It’s creepy and disgusting.
Another person shows up, apparently either a friend of the employees or another employee, at which point similar kitchen shenanigans happen a couple more times. By this point I’m not even really hungry anymore, having been reminded of all the nasty things I saw when working in restaurant kitchens, but I’m determined to stick it out, figuring the food must be awesome.
Eventually it arrives. It’s ok. Not great. The medium buffalo sauce is about what I expect from medium buffalo sauce. The Jamaican jerk looked disgusting, literally like frosting. My boss’s wings looked more like frosted donut bites than chicken wings. He ate them all, but said they weren’t very good. I wouldn’t touch them, they looked so bad.
Of course, during our meal the kitchen shenanigans continued. At one point, someone yelled something like, «Oh shit, I forgot that was in there!» and someone else screamed, «You didn’t open it did you?» Then the dining room filled with the unmistakable aroma of rotting food. How appetizing! Gamer guy grabbed some air freshener and gave the dining room a one-​over, which added a distinct floral note to the overall stench of death and decay.
As if trying to eat mediocre chicken in a cloud of rotting food wasn’t bad enough, the cook then came out of the kitchen and began regaling the gamer guy and his friend with tales of disgusting things. «Do you know what a fuckin’ osso bucco is?» he asked. «It’s a fuckin’ cow’s kneecap. Can you believe that shit? They scrape all the shit out from behind the fuckin’ kneecap, all the bone marrow and shit, and charge like $ 20 for it! And people buy it!»
I didn’t bother to point out that a veal shank is not «all the shit out from behind the kneecap» or that roasted bone marrow is delicious. Instead, I just left.

50cent boneless wings 3 days a week. Heck yeah! They are definitely a hidden gem.
The hottest sauce if fire, makes my nose run and I love real hot stuff. The ranch could be better but it’s ok. The seasoned fries are awesome as well.
Kind of mad though because I tried to place a carry out order one day last week and the phone kept going to the answering machine. I never got to order, now I don’t know if I will call again: /

Best Philly in the City. Period!!!
They say grinders is one of the best because the owner is from Philly but i find it too salty. This philly melts in your mouth, the cheese is gooey and melty and almost acts like a mayo rather then a cheese. The bread is nice and toasty and the meat is cooked perfectly.
I will be coming back many times for delivery or carry out, i would not suggest eating inside, place kind of looks like a whole

Checked out their new Brookside location this afternoon when I realized that there was now a location in my neighborhood.
As happy as I was to discover this, I was a little not so excited because I try to be as health conscious as possible and I realized that I have reasonably priced-​yummy-​get in my tummy-​fatty deliciousness within walking distance.
Just like the Midtown location:
Same crummy interior.
Same deliciousness.
Plan on getting take out.
The food is delicious. DEEEELICIOUS. best philly cheese steak sandwich my husband has ever had (and he has eaten a few in philadelphia so he has credentials) and i’ve eaten my fair share of gyros and this is one of the best gyro’s i’ve had while we’ve been living here in kansas city.
the wings are also really yummy as well. good spiced fries. good prices. good service.

The brookside outpost of Messy’s is a welcome addition. Firstly, I enjoy any place that delivers. Second, I enjoy things that are golden brown and delicious. The wings are delish, but the poppers and mushrooms are meh. I’ll order again until they go out of business. Unfortunately, they’ve taken up residence in the sort of restaurant-​cursed a-​frame across from the mostly defunct chiropractic college. Hopefully, Messy’s will succeed where others fail.

This place has awesome food. The wings are fresh and big and reasonable priced. The sauces are all homemade and hot means hot not for wimps. I’ve had there Philly and tenderloin and there both some of the best in town. The owners are here everyday and cooking your food so they definitely have a stake in you being happy. I would much rather give these guys my lunch money than some corporate chain. The atmosphere is divey but clean and comfortable, and I’m not here for the scenery. Spicy barbecue wings are my favorite

they don’t deliver. false advertising.

Wow, talk about a nice surprise! Messy’s is this little «hole-​in-​the-​wall» restaurant that, when you enter, seems very unassuming and laid-​back. The atmosphere is very friendly; the kind you get when you know you are either ordering from the owner or they are cooking your food.
I can tell this might be a nice place to eat while having a few beers and watching the game (on the nice plasma screen they have), but I got an order to go. The prices were definitely reasonable and the food was wonderful! Had an order of Garlic-​Parmesan tenders and, again, WOW!, I was not expecting the great flavor and the obvious nice quality of the chicken. It was big, plump pieces and they were not holding back on the sauce it was spun in.
My friend got a Philly and, after his continued sighs and Mmm sounds, I had to try it. I have to say for a place that advertises chicken in their name and pictures, the Philly was one of the best I have tried. I know what I’m getting next time I go back, with a side of more tenders that is!
With my experience, I can guarantee I will be back very soon! Thanks Messy’s for a rare nice surprise!

Perfect for a Call of Duty marathon with the guys, or the game with the guys, or poker night with the guys.. .. . definitely must be accompanied by several beers.
Don’t wimp out and get the medium. We did and could have used some more fire.

Messy’s has fantastically delicious, fresh-​fried chicken in generous portions for fair prices.
Admittedly, this is kind of a low-​key, «dude’s» restaurant:
1) Decidedly un-​beautiful
2) Huge plasma TV
3) Un-​fancy neighborhood
They make your order from scratch, and it does take about 10 minutes: WORTH IT.
We had two orders of chicken tenders, 1 spun in garlic parmesan wing sauce and 1 spun in spicy Asian wing sauce. They put the sauce over the breaded-​and-​fried part, which was yummy.
The chicken was fresh, plump and juicy. It was good, quality chicken… not the chopped-​up stuff you get in fast-​food chicken nuggets, and not tough or stringy like the «real» chicken tenders at a lot of places. It also was NOT the flat and tasteless fried-​from-​frozen Tyson-​style tenders.
«Garlic parmesan» consisted of generous amounts of chopped garlic and freshly-​shredded cheese. «Spicy Asian» tasted like a giant piece of some cross between General Tso’s chicken and spicy cashew chicken sauce. Nevermind double happiness, this was DOUBLE YUM.
The server was sweet; the owners were low-​key. Everyone seemed glad to be there and be in business. Had a good time with the hubby, so we’ll be back soon.