Quaker Steak & Lube

Wife and I decided to try this place out tonight. Fun place for a car guy, great food. Will definitely go back again and the wife wants to too!

I've never seen a place where you can sit under an XJS and a Cutlass S. Oh yeah that's a C4 Corvette mounted to the wall in the background. Apparently they change the cars out every couple months.

One of the two bar areas. Motorcycles in this one, a stock car hanging over the other.

A Midget and Mini Dragster right when you walk in.

This was also a first, they put the wings in egg cartons.

Place looks like an old service station from outside.

Is that in Sharon PA? If it's the same one, I was there 25 years ago.

My favorite is the Arizona Ranch wing sauce..

YUM

Is this in IL? Ill try and check it out sometime

Nice. They have one here- I'll have to check it out. Looks like fun!

This one is in Portage, IN. We drive from Illinois to go to a movie theater there and today we decided to try something new.

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm QS&L......

Bucket of Suicide, errrrrr, Supercharged wings and a Lube Tube of Blue Moon to this table!!!

SyntheticBlinkerFluid wrote: This one is in Portage, IN. We drive from Illinois to go to a movie theater there and today we decided to try something new.

Heh, nice!

I made a 3 hour long detour to that very same one last time i went up to Tire Rack to pick up my tires.

Very worth it. Once you've had QSL, you'll never look at BDubs the same way again. (BDubs SUCKS compared to QSL.)

The egg cartons must be recent, though. Haven't seen that yet, but then again i usually order 18 wings for dinner.

SyntheticBlinkerFluid wrote: This one is in Portage, IN. We drive from Illinois to go to a movie theater there and today we decided to try something new.

I was there 2 years ago and they had a newer Corvette on the rack. This place s pretty cool. Hamburger was good too.

Not a fan, honestly. The local one had great promise with open garage doors to the bar and car shows on the weekend but they also have lousy food and E36 M3ty country music blasting to go with campy Harley decorating that is an irresistible siren song for fat PA rednecks with NASCAR tattoos.

I do like to snag a bucket of the Buckeye BBQ wings from the drive-thru when I'm too lazy to cook and need something to bring to a party.

The franchise nearest to me is a converted waterfront restaurant. It's only interior car is an Amphicar
And there is a KTM inside since their US HQ is just 10 minutes away.

Food prices at this location seem unusually high to cover the high rent. Food is low to average overall, nothing that special.

I wouldn't want to sit under the XJ-S, I don't like oil on my wings.

I got the LubeBurger. It was delicious. The wife and I split an order of wings. My wife fell in love with the wings.

EvanB wrote: I wouldn't want to sit under the XJ-S, I don't like oil on my wings.

I actually went under it and looked for that reason

But it was high and dry.

EvanB wrote: I wouldn't want to sit under the XJ-S, I don't like oil on my wings.

beat me to it!

The one here in Columbus is pretty good.The food quality has gone down a bit. The atmosphere is pure coolness, I just wish that they would have more events during the year...used to be packed, but lost a lot of sponsors due to the economy.

I grew up a mile from one of the founders homes and about 7 miles from the original in sharon, PA, My mom worked there in the 70's as a waiter and that's where she met my dad. Egg cartons are new, I agree. They have weekly car nights and a separate weekly bike nights and it is the final destination of the annual

They have/had quite a few original movie prop cars at the original place, including a car that was done up as a blues mobile. I still don't know if it was the real one or not. Also was a futuristic blob car from an unknown movie, This was many many years ago.

jrw1621 wrote: The franchise nearest to me is a converted waterfront restaurant. Food prices at this location seem unusually high to cover the high rent. Food is low to average overall, nothing that special.

hahaha no way. thats right where my buddy docks his boat. it two minutes up river.

Now THAT's a restaurant. I'm sure all the car clubs meet there.

I'm always so disappointed when I hear food isn't good at places like that. They've gone to so much effort on the decor and since it's so easy to make good food vs. bad that I just don't understand.

they hope the decour brings people in instead of the food?

For the longest time the original QSL was in Sharon, PA. I used to go there with mom and dad and we would shop for shoes at Reyers shoe store and then go get wings.

My wedding's rehearsal dinner was at QSL in Sharon.

For the longest time, the Sharon location had a railroad car on a short, abandoned set of tracks in their parking lot. The car was Robert Kennedy's personal traincar, signed by him and a few other Kennedy's. QSL was trying to give it away for free but no one could afford the permits to move it on the road. I looked into it and it would have been about $15,000 just to get it off the tracks and out of town, then another bazilllion to transport it 250 miles since it needed all kinds of "oversize load" escorts and stuff.

mad_machine wrote: they hope the decour brings people in instead of the food?

Two things:

1) If you've never had their Louisiana Lickers wings, you've not truly lived.

2) They started in 1974 with an abandoned Quaker State Lube/Service garage in Sharon, PA, and now they have about 50 locations internationally from Colorado to North Carolina to Ontario Canada. Each location has (on the average) about $234,000 worth of vehicles either sliced in half, hanging from the ceiling and rotating, or on some other random display.

... yeah... they're makin' money. The food is really friggin good. Nothing fancy, just insanely good grub at cheap prices.

92CelicaHalfTrac wrote: Very worth it. Once you've had QSL, you'll never look at BDubs the same way again. (BDubs SUCKS compared to QSL.)

O
M
G.

Someone else who calls it "BDubs." Welcome to my friend list.

We always called it "BW3" because it was originally called "Buffalo Wild Wings West."

slopecarver wrote: Egg cartons are new, I agree.

I have been to the original Sharon location and the Pittsburgh location within the last month and I didn't get egg cartons. They still sold by weight when I went.

Are those maybe the boneless wings?

In reply to curtis73:

Not true: buffalo wild wings and weck

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Wild_Wings