Kings Sports Bar and Grill

A booth at Kings Sports Bar and Grill comes with more than a menu. On Guelph's north end, off Woodlawn Road, there's a pool table and a dart board within reach, six big screens around the walls, and a projector for when one screen can't hold the crowd. The food is the reason to sit down — wings and burgers, mostly — but the games, the screens, and the live music are what keep the night going long after the plates are cleared.

The kitchen's clearest draw is the wings — breaded or regular, ten or twenty to the order, with a sauce list that runs from Mild and Buffalo through Honey Garlic and Sweet Thai Chili to Ghost Pepper, Garlic Parm, Dry Cajun, and the house Forty Creek BBQ, served with carrots, celery, and ranch or blue cheese. The ten-piece is the safe first order; the twenty-piece is the one for a table that came to stay. The burgers hold a lane of their own: the everyday Burger on an Ace Bakery bun, the Forty Creek Burger finished with cheddar, onion rings, and that same Forty Creek BBQ sauce, and the Kings Burger — three four-ounce patties stacked with cheese and bacon, the menu's biggest build. Around them sits everything a sports bar runs on: Garlic Parm Fries, Poutine and Chicken Poutine, Torpedo Shrimp, one- and two-piece Fish and Chips, pizzas, salads, and a deep rack of chicken wraps.