Restaurant Roundup: Broasted chicken, Flyboy in Tea, new happy hour
March 24, 2022
Broasted chicken options in the city keep growing. BB’s Pub & Grill at 49th and Westport has added equipment to make the pressure-fried food. A two-piece meal comes with a choice of white or dark meat and a side – and there’s a long list of those. The four-piece mixed pack offers two dark and two white pieces with a side. The kitchen is open until 10 p.m. most nights.
FatKid Saloon in Salem is closing Friday after six months in operation. Owners Cody and Amber Sauers, who started their business as the Fat Kid Filly’s food truck in 2020, said several factors were part of their decision. “After a ton of consideration, with trying to raise four children, school and the sports they are in, trying to manage separation of work life and marriage, parenting and private life, having troubles finding reliable help, along with the expansion and direction that our other business is headed with additional concessions and more, we have decided to close FatKid Saloon,” they wrote in a social media post. Hours for the final day are 5 p.m. to 2 a.m. Fat Kid Filly’s is a vendor at the Denny Sanford Premier Center and Sioux Falls Stadium, operates concessions at Huset’s Speedway and expects to add a second racetrack this summer. It’s working to open a restaurant in Sioux Falls sometime this year and plans to be back this season with a different food truck.
Urban Chislic has new happy hour hours of 2 to 6 p.m. daily. Get half-price domestic 34-ounce taps or $2 off craft taps of that size. A special appetizer menu includes spicy pork egg rolls, beef sliders, chicken quesadilla or chips and queso for $4 or happy hour nachos for $5.
Flyboy Donuts has started making farm-to-table homemade bread. It features wheat that is grown and ground on the same family farm where owner Ben Duenwald’s mom baked bread weekly while he and his siblings were growing up. It’s available in fresh loaves and buns Thursdays through Sundays at the four locations or can be ordered at flyboydonuts.com for pickup or delivery.
And the doughnut shop is returning to Tea with a twist. Flyboy Donuts, which started in 2007 in Tea as Mary Lee’s Bakery & Daylight Donuts, is using Zooks Coffee Bar in Tea as a pickup spot for online orders on Fridays. Customers have to place orders by 10 p.m. Thursdays and can pick them up from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday. The coffee shop also will have single doughnuts for sale that day. If the service proves to be popular, more days will be added. Flyboy closed the Tea bakery in 2014 after expanding to Sioux Falls in 2013.
Crooked Pint Ale House has a few new menu items, including another version of its signature lucy. The California Lucy is filled with pepper jack cheese and topped with bacon, more pepper jack, avocado, romaine and tomato. Calamari stars as an appetizer and in a new Caesar salad. There’s also a new pimento cheese crab dip that’s served with tortilla chips.
Check out the origami butterflies decorating Harvester Kitchen by Bryan just in time for Sunday’s Spring Equinox Celebration. The dinner will feature live music by the Sioux Falls Chamber Music Collective. View the menu and RSVP on the downtown restaurant’s website. Tickets also are available for a Discovery Dinner on April 5 with Scott Heckel, head brewer of Severance Brewing Co. He’s taking over the taps and has collaborated with chef Bryan Moscatello on five-course tasting dinner. View that menu and RSVP here.
McDonald’s is bringing back its viral Szechuan sauce for a limited time. It will be back for a few days starting March 31, while supplies last. To get it, you’ll have to add it by ordering through the chain’s app. The condiment was introduced in 1998 to promote the Disney film “Mulan” and reappeared in 2017 after a petition drive that was sparked by the sauce’s feature on an episode of the cartoon show “Rick and Morty.” The last offering was in 2018.
Get a meal Wednesday, March 30, at Jersey Mike’s Subs, and every cent will go to the 2022 Special Olympics USA Games and the local state programs attending the USA Games. It’s the national chain’s annual Day of Giving, which has raised more than $47 million for local charities since it began in 2011. There are two locations in Sioux Falls: at 57th and Louise and on the north side of Dawley Farm Village.
Sioux Falls Food Tours is taking a road trip Saturday to share a childhood tradition for owner Dana Wohlwend. She grew up attending the annual Mountain Oyster Feed in Ramona to support the volunteer fire department and says eating deep-fried livestock testicles is a true South Dakota experience. The tour from 4:30 to 10 p.m. includes stops in Humboldt for a pre-dinner drink and appetizer and at the Ramona Bar and Buffalo Ridge Brewing for after-dinner drinks. Tickets are $99, and there are six remaining.
Changes in hours, service
Tasteas is closed through Monday but customers can find drinks at Samurai Tasteas on Sertoma north of 41st.
Reminder: Josiah’s Coffeehouse, Cafe & Bakery closed Monday for a remodeling project. The downtown restaurant plans to reopen April 11.
Here are other food and drink headlines from the past week.
Former Papa’s Pub chef brings his cooking skills into people’s homes
Murph’s Burgers & Fries will use new space to expand offerings
Parker’s Bistro expansion to include full bar, additional seating
