Keto at a Sports Bar

It can be, with a few swaps. Game night at the bar is wings, and wings can be keto. Traditional bone-in wings with a buffalo sauce or dry rub are low in carbs. Boneless wings are breaded chicken pieces, and the sweet sauces are mostly sugar.

Traditional wings with buffalo sauce or a dry rub, celery and blue cheese, a bunless burger, a grilled chicken Caesar without croutons.

Boneless wings, nachos, loaded fries, fried pickles, sweet wing sauces and pitchers of regular beer. Hidden carbs to watch for: honey, brown sugar and teriyaki in sweet wing sauces; breading on boneless wings and tenders; sugar in some dry rubs, such as sweet or barbecue rubs; sugar in bar mixers and sour mix.

Try: “Which wing sauces have no honey or sugar?” Keep requests short and friendly; kitchens handle substitutions all the time.

Light or ultra-low-carb beer, hard seltzer, or whiskey and diet soda.