Long Wong’s At the Firehouse

I have no idea what the heck is going on with this place sometimes. I’m friends with a lot of «regulars» here and overhear a lot of strange rumors about the management. Naturally, there’s been some changes here, such as moving the stage, updating the sound system and changing the menu. (Boo on removing band names from the menu. Jerks.)
However, the food is still really good and when the barman screwed up my order, he overcompensated me by giving me free chips, a beer and a shot of whiskey. I really didn’t expect that, so I was really grateful and no harm was done. BTW, their pesto chicken wrap thing is like drinking nectar of some sort. I don’t know, I’m stoned.

Just a bad time. We came in expecting the name Long Wongs. We did not find it. Took us five minutes of standing in the front to figure out where to order. Them we placed our two orders of wings for $ 20 plus drinks and waited. For a bar was pretty run down and the table was dusty.
We waited a little while considering we were the only ones ordering food. Them they came in small fries baskets lined with foil. Inside were these small little babe wings that had like a half a bite per wing. I only wish I took a pic. Through the whole meal never saw out waiter or bartender.
We are our wings and left in a hurry never to return.
Moral of the meal: Not all long Wongs are created the same.

We went on a Friday night to watch our friend’s band play. Food is good, but standard bar food so don’t expect fine dining.
The vibe is great though and makes this dive bar worth going to again and again. The live music plays regularly and the bartenders keep your glass (or can depending on what your drinking) full. I think my favorite thing about the bar is the Nintendo décor throughout and the game console hookup near the back room. If you’re looking for a low-​key evening with good music, keep this place in mind.

«Tasteless flatbread nonsense» you say?!
Flatbread in a bar?! Let’s burn this establishment to the ground! Grab your torches, we’ll show Mary Shelley a thing or two about a lynch mob!
Did I also see someone complaining about greasy food in a bar?
I’m going to go ahead and suggest we ignore such reviews and read mine.
1 – 5 (5 being the best)
Food: 4
The flatbread nonsense is actually pretty amazing, the ingredients actually taste fresh and the grease isn’t like the nasty, decade-​old grease that Denny’s calls flavor, it’s actually «clean» and doesn’t leave your stomach feeling like cats in a bag.
Atmosphere: 5
The art on the walls are all local artists, the staff are friendly and not the typical bar-​tenders filled with regret and shame. The space is comfortable to move around even when it’s packed and you’re wobbling around drunk, and when there is no band, the music is staff-​selected and versatile so you’re not stuck listening to something some jackass thinks is awesome to loop on a jukebox while he’s plastered and talking about how Sheila, Lindsay and Diane broke his heart.
The patrons of this dive-​bar are the best. Why? Because they’re all different. Every single one of them. You’ll have your hipsters, your white-​trash, your hip hops kids and your juggalos all in one, convenient people-​watching place. Everyone fits in here.
Drinks: 5
Cheap, well-​made and c’mon, fire trucks pass by all the time which means they’re a $ 1.00 and they don’t water down their $ 1.00 either.
Think of all of those wonderful electrical fires in the winter… now carry a pocketful of singles to the bar and you’ll be calling a cab.

Worst food I have ever had. Not even edible. Saw some people eating the food and could see the looks of disgust when they had the fist bite. Service was awesome! They make sure your happy and taken care of. I don’t know what happened to this place but it used to have great food. Now the menu sucks with a bunch of flatbread tasteless none sense. Not to mention the cook was super pissed off making the food and treating customers with ignorance. Must have not been having a good night, don’t let the guy with the Afro make your food (major bummer). We had to go get a pizza down the street and bring it back cause the food was so gross here and we were here to watch some friends play in a couple of the bands. The place has great music and great local shows. Bartenders are awesome. Place is fun. Don’t waste your money on the food.

I had heard about Long Wong’s great wings from several people, so I was looking forward to them after putting off going for so long. But guess what? THEY WERE OUT OF WINGS!!! What kind of place runs out of it’s main food item? I was there around 8:30, so it’s not like it was the very end of the night and they had to restock. I was told they had a big order earlier that day. They’ve been around for several years, you’d think by now they could handle a big order? I was completely shocked and now probably won’t give them a second visit to try the wings.
Also, as far as I could tell no beer on tap. A can of beer was $ 4, pretty high for a can.

I’ve been coming here on and off to see a friends performance! I love that they have live music, this is defiantly the best part of this place.
The food is awful! The wings are barely cooked enough to eat and the flatbread pizzas are greasy and undercooked. They need to be cooked longer so the bread isn’t squishy and still taste like dough. The bar is always out of tap beer and they only take cash. If it wasn’t for the live music I would give this place one star. The location is dirty and seems unsanitary. The bathrooms are grimy dim and have no mirrors and the bar top is sticky. The service is fast and friendly which seems to save them.
Keep up the live Music and great service Long Wongs… And although u just redesigned your menu it still needs some work.

I came out to Long Wongs for a friend who was performing at one of their artist showcases.
Not having had dinner, I was looking forward to the wings so highly touted on Unilocal.Guess what? It was about 9pm and the kitchen had been shut down. 9 pm. Who does that? Especially when you have an event going on that night…
My drink was watered down as well, wasn’t too pleased about that. So now I’m out $ 5 for a can of Red Bull basically, and I’m starving.
The bartenders were also asked by multiple people who was playing that night or what kind of music it was and they had no idea. That’s a little silly. I get that you have a showcase once a week, but keep a list at the bar or something each week, it ain’t that hard. Even telling people if it’s rock or rap or reggae would be appreciated.

Found this place via Groupon. It’s located near ASU in Tempe. It’s a dive bar for sure. The bathrooms have graffiti all over the place and stickers of rock/​punk bands. Also, the bathrooms look pretty bad.
However, the food is pretty good. The Wings are excellent. We ordered a dozen Wings, $ 6.50.
We also ordered an Extra Large Provence, France Pizza (Organic Tomato Sauce, Fresh Basil, Mozzarella, Roasted Garlic, Artichoke Hearts, Capers & Sliced Tomato), $ 18.50. The Pizza is delish and cut in large slices that can fill you up fast.
I guess this place used to be a Firehouse or something at some point. Every time a fire truck goes by with a siren blasting, they offer a Beer discount of some kind. We came in here for lunch and couldn’t partake in that deal, so I don’t have the details. However, a regular was in there and would order a Beer every time a siren went by… he mumbled something to us about it, hilarious.
Return Factor — 83%

There are tons of locations throughout the valley, but to me, this is THE Long Wong’s. Prices are substantially lower than other LW, and there’s live music and a full bar. Wings or GTFO, order hot for some of the best you’ll find anywhere.
Did I mention this is really cheap yet good bar food? Additionally, the establishment is dark, and can either be social or intimate. Tons of character. I love the graffiti in the restroom. Would recommend for anyone who loves Tempe, but needs a break from Mill.

This review is specifically about the food. I haven’t been here for any drinking or shows, so I can’t say how that would be. The food is another story. I ordered a pizza with mushrooms and pepperoni, an order of wings, and a cheeseburger with fries. Placed the order and got there in 20 minutes. Took the food to work and the horror began.
The pizza was cold as shit by the time I ate it, and the flavor wasn’t very good. The worst part was the mushrooms! They were literally black and hard, and I couldn’t tell if that’s how they were supposed to be or if they were just old and rotten. Gross gross gross!
The cheeseburger was very small, but the meat was good. Not much flavor but it tasted fresh. Fries were another story. They were cold and soggy, the worst things that can happen to fries. I ate three of them and threw them in the garbage where they belong.
Wings are the reason they don’t get one star. They were actually tasty, and the ranch wasn’t that bad. They were also still warm.
All in all, I would say this is a great place for drinking and catching live music, but the food isn’t too good. Hopefully improvements can be made.

must i give them one star?
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhheewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! nooooooooooo! nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooo!
What kind of amateurs? Hooooooooooorbile!!!
Like immigrants figuring out what to sell us while they figure it out…
the burger wAS HORRIBLE

Love their music scene here but wanted food first. I ordered the wings and it literally took 45 minutes (even though I was there before 7 on a Friday). The drinks are so cheap and I love the people who work there, though.

Long Wong’s (1639 E. Apache Blvd., Tempe), offers live music every night, a full bar and lots of good, cheap food to eat.
More than one of my friends have commented about what a great value the food and drinks are, and I agree. For less than $ 20, I got a huge salad, a cheese crisp, French fries, a margarita and a glass of wine-​needless to say, very filling, and the food tasted great!
The bar has a fun, kitschy atmosphere, with record covers decorating the walls and arcade games. And there’s even a little dance floor when bands play.
While Long Wong’s has garnered a lot of buzz for its live music, I’m excited to go back for the food. It’s not often you find a sports bar with ravioli and other pasta dishes, after all.

Potential. Lottttts of potential.
I walked in pre-​concert, looking to get some grub and a few drinks. May I just say that the parking lot slash alley area is super creepy. As I walked in the door, I was a bit confused on where to go. Do I order at the front? No one seemed to know. I just mosyed on into the bar instead.
Bartender was friendly, made a great gin and tonic with bitters (read, strong). Atmosphere was dark, dank and kinda manky. I like dive bars but I just couldn’t quite love this one. The place was filled with hipsters, who aside from being very sexy beasts, seem to always warp the ambience a bit.
Add to that, the 3-​piece band that played was a little… unusual. How would I describe it? Funky urban blues-​rap with a hint of Vanilla Ice. I was heading to a concert, obviously I’m a fan of music in general, but this was just a little too out there. I packed up my fried zucchini and bolted out of Long Wong’s.
In a perfect world, this place would be doused in a good deal of Jack Daniels, introduced to something called Rock and Roll, and filled with lots of boisterous/​fun/​crazy indivduals who wear leather. I could see myself visiting then.

Parking: it’s in the back, behind the yellow building that houses the bar. It’s a small lot and fills up quickly so be prepared to cram your car into a tiny space!
Always live music (most of it good), cheap drinks, good wings and fun atmosphere. The décor — a ton of old albums tacked to the wall, a built in drinking game (for every terrible 80s singer, take a drink!) It gets a little cramped on weekends, but that’s the fun — no one likes an empty bar on a Friday night.

Me and my friends went on Friday night. We sat on the table and nobody come to our table. After we decide to ask to the bar, they said that we have to order the food at the cashier and then sit.
The place is full of pictures and logos on the walls. Its really cool for guys hangout! The beer only $ 1.50 for happy hour.
We ordered normal chicken wings and spicy chicken wings. It tasted good! The minus was there is not different between spicy and regular flavor. Its not kicking enough.
We ordered pizza too, thin one. It was good! The slider was not great for us, its like something missing in the flavor. The burger was warm, the bread is cold or fine.
The place was quite pack with tables and chairs plus crowded of people suddenly came after 9pm, maybe because of the live music every Friday.
Overall, I might be going back for the chicken wings and pizza but definitely not for slider and will not on Friday night because of too crowded and make me sweating. Friday night is definitely for people hang out… lol not for eating…

I’ve gone a few times recently because one of my good friend has been doing shows here. They do a good job of putting on shows showcasing local talents. There is always good music playing.
I have heard a lot about the wings so on my last visit I decided to try some. There was nothing remarkable about them. I don’t know what the hype is. They are typical average wings. I also had a slider my friend ordered and thought they tasted like mcdonalds hamburger. My friend agreed.
Drinks are on the cheap here and that is probably more of my concern here than the food. All drinks are $ 1 anytime a fire truck passes by with the sirens on which I’ve been lucky to score at least once on each visit. On normal times, they are pretty inexpensive as well.

Decent wings and pizza, slow service. We tried some medium and teriyaki wings, and a Provence, France pizza. The medium wing sauce was just right– not too spicy, not too sour, as buffalo wings can sometimes get too vinegary. The wings themselves are more crunchy than fall-​off-​the-​bone moist. The teriyaki wing sauce was also pretty good– not too sweet, with just the right amount of sauce coating the wing. The pizza was decent– very large portions with a good amount of toppings on a thin-​crust base.
Service was, as stated, pretty slow. This was in part probably due to the bar being understaffed that night, but I had to personally go find the waitress who was at the bar to get my order in, since we had been waiting, and waiting, and waiting, for her to come to our table to take our order.

Last night found memories of the the old Mill location were relived.
Full bar, live music, quick service, cheap booze, and those crack like wings. I went with hopes that it would not be a huge disappointment and luckily it was far from it. For a place which just opened on Tuesday they had their act together. At 6:30 on a sat the place was already at 75% capacity.
Their wings are actually hot so make sure you order accordingly. Many wing spots in the valley you have to get «super, atomic, suicide» whatever they call it to actually get some heat. This location their standard hot will bring the heat you probably want. The Inferno here will get you… twice ;)
Pros:
Cheap Food/​Booze
Hot Wings are actually hot
For those lucky enough great location right off the light rail
Cons:
Damn light rail makes vehicle accessibility a pain
Going to be very very noisy in there once they hit peak popularity. But hey. its a bar.
Skimpy useless napkins in low volume. Get some real napkins and provide some of those «Moist Towelette /​Wet Nap» for the end of the meal.