Winking Lizard Tavern

This is my favorite hangout! I’ve met great new friends and come here at least 2 – 3 times a week! Plus my favorite server Dana makes The Lizard awesome.

I have always loved Winking Lizard! Great food and a VERY expansive beer selection (to say the least)! I was just there on Thursday and ordered the Caribbean Jerk and 911 wings, along with a Dogfish Head Punkin Ale. Loved it all! The wings are huge and every flavor I’ve tried has been amazing. The waitress was friendly and attentive as well. This is definitely my favorite place for wings and beer!

Can you believe it. Ok to smoke cigarettes on the patio, but Cigars and Pipes are forbidden. Only have Dewars Scotch even though some other cheap blends on the menu. 100’s of beers, but they seem to be out of the ones you want. Ambiance is casual sports bar. What a backward tasteless classless place. Avoid is my recommendation

Great wings and good beer selection. Only downside is that they often seem to be out of some of the craft beers on the menu, but that’s ok, as there’s literally probably over 100 beers to choose from. Go with the cajun wings, you won’t be disappointed.

Boring bar food is overpriced. Venture off the bar menu for dinner and you will be even more disappointed. One and done for us.

When in town I will go here, the good beer selection and decent food. I got the burger with fries, I can’t remember which one. The burger was cooked good and to my liking. The bun however was stale, and crumbled in my hand ever time I would take a bite.
Will I go back, sure. I will ask if they have fresh buns for burgers if I choose to eat that again.

Full disclosure. I worked at this location for 5 years on the day shift. This is both good and bad, I have also been a chef for over 13 years. This is one of the few spots in canton that had a good Fat Tuesday menu. The Mardi Gras seasonal menu is also wonderful. I called in for a to go. Medium well bourbon steak with sub p-​fry. The girl who took my order told me 15 minutes. I arrived approximately 20 minutes later. I waited an extra 10 minutes for my food. They had 3 customers at the bar, one arrived after me and the other put their order in while I was there. A table of two that were sat after I got there. Now keep in mind it takes roughly 15 minutes to cook a 12 oz medium well steak. The ticket times for lunch there are 12 minutes. Add 4 minutes for well done steaks. So even being generous and giving them an extra 4 minutes with an empty dining room, I waited twice as long as I was told. The bartender did keep me informed of my order status. Finally get my food. Everything looked amazing. The steak wasn’t burnt and the fries looked wonderful. The way the food looked is why I have generously given 2 stars. The steak was overcooked and dry. It also had the texture of boiled meat. There was a very obvious slit in the bottom of the steak, either to check temperature or to quicken the cooking process. Aside from the bourbon sauce on the outside it had no flavor at all. And the sauce was used in a very sparing manner. The fries were grease logged and cold. Much colder than one would expect from a short 5 minute ride home. The garlic bread was rock hard. The part that was edible was extremely «wet».
Management should check into properly training their cooks. Showing them how to check temperature without cutting into the steak as it dries it out and unevenly cooks it. Timing up foods that take longer and foods that take shorter should be a priority. Especially with to go orders. Im not sure what’s happened in the past 2 years but I can honestly say it isn’t good. I was extremely disappointed by the taste of my food and the wait time was ridiculous. I’m sorry to have seen this establishment slide so far down the scale of acceptable food. Acceptable service.

Best beer selection, fun atmosphere, good food, great service. Tons of places in the area to choose from, but this is Our fave.

Yikes. Ive been a patron of the various Winking Lizards for nearly 20 years and what was a nice, easy going sports bar/​restaurant/​neighborhood eatery has morphed into a crowded, nondescript and overpriced watering hole. Being a former World Beer Tour finisher, I was hoping to see some form of a rotation with their beer list (which has not happened). At the very least, I hoped they would purchase enough of their monthly bottle specials to last the first week of the month (also a no go).
In addition, the constant inconsistency with food coupled with a generally incompetent management staff make me second guess any visit to this location. Ive had a great time at the Lizardville’s, so perhaps the issue rests solely with this location. How difficult is it to make a pizza that is not burnt/​undercooked?
The only things going this for this place is the free popcorn, a massive (but overpriced) beer list and a fairly friendly wait staff. Once the area residents realize there are far better options for a bar/​grille in the surrounding area and stop patronizing this restaurant, maybe then will this location make some kind of effort to produce a quality product.

The wings are not that much coated with sauce but hot is nice with flavor. Popcorn is ALWAYS FREE. The lguana loves to watch TV with kid shows on so kids can sit on the bench and watch the Iguana or the TV. Recommended for family dinners.

3.5 Stars
This place is unique, to say the least, but in a good way. First of all, free popcorn while you wait (awesome) and Doug the iguana. Definitely gives this restaurant some character!
My party of 6 was here on a Saturday night, and had about a half hour wait before seating. Our server was friendly, but didn’t seem knowledgable about the menu. We asked what the soup of the day was, and she said it was chicken velvet, but she didn’t know what was in it.
I ordered the open face steak sandwich. The steak was pretty good and it came on garlic bread. On their menu they say they are all about fresh food and ingredients but the fries that came with it were definitely of the frozen variety.
For dessert we had the summer special: lemon blueberry meringue pie with blueberry sauce. This was definitely a highlight– so good!
The total for our table came to about $ 70, which included beers, dinner, and 2 desserts. Pretty good value!

Great wings. asian ones are good. Excellent beers on tap. pizzas are excellent for a wing place. gets pretty crowded during dinner and lunch

Great food, drinks, atmosphere, and service. Always one of my first choices when going out. Wing flavors are among the best. Fantastic beer selection with knowledgable bartenders. Clean, and consistent quality as well.

Good bar food with something for everyone! Great food specials all week long. Excellent beer selection that is constantly changing. The beer tour is a great way to try new beers. Great atmosphere and the best staff!

The beer selection is great and probably the best reason to come here. The second best reason is the numerous TV’s that line around the restaurant. Being from PA, we’d often request a Phillies or Flyers game, and the staff always changed the closest TV to us without any problem. The food is pretty good too, especially their wings and salads. Their seafood was the only thing that I didn’t like, but I guess it’s my own stupidity for getting a $ 8 salmon filet at a bar and thinking it was going to be good. The only drawbacks are that it is always loud, almost always crowded, and for some reason parents love letting their kids run around the restaurant here.

I’ve have been here countless times and most times have a very good experience. Food is solid, above average bar food with many options. Most menu items are worth getting and trying. I enjoy their seasonal menus too. However, the main reason to go is for the beer selection. It’s the best beer around and changes month to month in many cases. It’s often a bit loud here and during busy times can often be a reasonably long wait.

I really like the Winking Lizard.
First and foremost for the insane amount of beers they have available along with a decent list of seasonal and local taps. What’s not to love?
And the BEER OF THE MONTH! Take home the special glass that comes with the beer. It’s a bargain and they sell out, so go early in the month!
Other goodies:
Free popcorn.
Doug the Iguana who watches Cartoon Network.
Some veggie options for when your friends are chowing down on wings of various flavors and spiciness.
Outdoor patio
I want a veggie burger just reminiscing about this!

This is a very large sports bar themed chain location. They specialize in wings, burgers and deep fried things.
I haven’t been to a winking lizard in well over a decade. I found myself craving wings. I haven’t had a really good wing in quite some time. I still haven’t
The food is simply made to be mass produced. I didn’t care for the jumbo wing they use. The skin doesn’t get crisp and the meat is a bit off putting. The sauce was good and the fries were the best thing on the table.
The thing that raises this place up is the beer selection. Literally over 100. So many that our waitress didn’t know what we were ordering. She asked us to give her the number next to the beer. Kind of like ordering strip mall Chinese food except with beer.
They have a live Iguana named Doug who lives here. He looked kind of dead, but that’s what Iguana’s look like 95% of the time.
Beer is 5 food and service is 2.

Of the locations I’ve visited in the Winking Lizard chain this one by far has the best patio! They also have the most TV’s of any of the lizards I’ve been to…
Get here early on Thursday, Friday, and Saturdays or you’ll never get a parking spot much less a table. It’s proximity to the Lake Cable /​Jackson Township crowd means this place gets packed!
Make sure you take your picture with the lizard next to the dinning room.
(If you’re under 21, you wont be able to get a table here after 5PM without someone of legal drinking age. That goes for the dinning room and the bar.)

Was looking for a place in Canton that had good wings and I found it. Monday and Tuesday were 40cent wing days and I took full advantage. They have plenty of flavors and the wings were always hot and plump when they came out. I thought the service was always good and when i sat at the bar it was even quicker.
For all the beer fans out there this place is your spot. Tons of brews, mostly imports but some locals as well. You can do the Beer Tour and blah blah blah but seriously they have a nice selection.
I have never tried anything else but their wings so I can not comment on the rest of their food but I’ve been told their pizza is also delicious. If I am ever in Canton again I will be back here again on Monday or Tuesday.