Okay, today’s post started off a little shaky. Let me explain by showing a couple of photos I looked at before I started off on tonight’s bar visit.

I was hungry for some barbecue food, so I did a Google search on barbecue restaurants around Peoria and this popped up from the Restaurant Guru website. I haven’t eaten at Slow Hand Craft BBQ for a while and couldn’t remember if there was a bar in there.

So I searched through some of the photos on the website and found this photo showing that there is indeed a bar with stools for dining in there, so I decided that this would be perfect for tonight’s Saturday night dinner destination.

So I traveled over to Heritage Square in Peoria Heights to the Slow Hand Craft BBQ location, went inside and there’s no longer seating available at the bar. It’s just an ordering station and then you have to sit at a table.

Hey Restaurant Guru, update your website or you’re in danger of losing your “Guru” status. Asshole!

Okay, time to improvise!

I remembered that there’s Brienzo’s Wood Fired Pizza restaurant also in Heritage Square and i know they have a bar in there. So I went down the stairs and headed over to Brienzo’s, our second stop of this evening!

Wow, it’s packed inside of here tonight. Let’s go check out the bar…

The seats are all taken down at this end, but I think I see a couple open spots down at the other end of the bar.

Yes, there’s some open seats down at this end, so I grabbed one and checked out the menu for tonight’s Saturday night dinner! Okay, things are back on track after a brief hiccup at Slow Hand!

Bartender Angelo delivered me a bottle of Bud Light while flashing a nice smile for the MBIP Camera and took my dinner order. Things are definitely moving along nicely now!

There’s the kitchen directly behind the bar and they are very busy filling tonight’s dinner orders.

Here’s another shot of the packed dining room in here. I was lucky to get a seat at the bar!

Booths line the far wall and about ten seconds after I took this photo, they all filled up with customers. Brienzo’s is having a nice, busy night tonight!

Meanwhile, back at the bar…

Our Saturday night dinner is starting to happen!

I started off with a Caeser salad with grilled chicken and this was a delicious and tasty salad. There was a lot of the juicy grilled chicken chunks and the croutons added a nice crispy crunch.

For the main course, I got an order of chicken wings, I didn’t get pizza, because I had plans for pizza on Sunday night and you can read about that tomorrow!

I got an order of the dry rub chicken wings and they came with a dipping sauce.

The wings were seasoned nicely and the sauce complimented them in a tasty fashion. They were juicy and so delicious, some of the best chicken wings I’ve ever had!

This evening started off rough, but ended very nicely!

On my way out I ran into my friends, Pete, Linda, Steve and Kathy! Great to see them and we last saw them on our visit to Olympia Sports Bar + Grill which was our 8th bar of this tour back in January.

So, if you do the math, we’ll probably run into them on our 314th stop of this tour! But hopefully we’ll see them before that!

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