Buffalo Wild Wings

RE: Buffalo Wild Wings (2005Equinox)

Sat, 25 Sep 2010 02:55:49 GMT

The one here isnt too bad. The service is very good at this one

RE: Buffalo Wild Wings (Karyyk)

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:18:01 GMT

I'm not a fan. I've been there a few times (never my idea, meeting with friends and that's what they chose) and for what it is, their wings are expensive, as is their beer. Honestly, I can think of at least 5 local bars with kitchens (that's bars with kitchens, not restaurants with bars) that serve better wings for a whole lot less.

RE: Buffalo Wild Wings (ken8038)

Fri, 07 May 2010 22:38:56 GMT

I keep hearing ads for BWW on the NY Mets Radio broadcasts and I was actually considering it for an easy-to-get-to (North Brunswick NJ) no-hassle place for dinner out tomorrow. Thanks to all you Roadfood people for generally talking me out of it.

Plus, thier website has a lot of features I don't like (eg: no prices, very little about the individual locations other than their addresses, no pictures, etc.

RE: Buffalo Wild Wings (MetroplexJim)

Sat, 09 Jan 2010 10:38:42 GMT

Their hot sauce is good. Their wings are tiny. Their prices are astronomical for what you get.

RE: Buffalo Wild Wings (JDofDE)

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:25:33 GMT

They are just OK and over priced. And they do practice that annoying policy of spending far too much time training the service staff in "upselling". But they do have the NFL Sunday Pass and do seem to hire good service staff.

RE: Buffalo Wild Wings (Alco251)

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:09:51 GMT

BW3 was great back when they were still BW3 (the main office was upstairs over the location I frequented!) and were more of a college sports bar (and a dive). They went all wrong when they went to suburbs and dumbed it down. I remember them more for their schnapps selection than their wings at that University of Cincinnati location, I always got the weck anyway.

RE: Buffalo Wild Wings (IntelligentT82)

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:24:02 GMT

We had a BW3s (Buffalo Wild Wings West) in Kalamazoo Michigan. I remember it to be really really good wings. I live in the DC area now and I recently went to a Buffalo Wild Wings in Greenbelt Maryland and it was very ordinary. I was disappointed. The sauces were pretty good but the wings were small (no meat). I like CLUCK U CHICKEN wayyyyyy better. The sauce is excellent, plus the wings are big (alot of meat). The sides are even good...like the clucker bees (fried dough bites) or the macaroni and cheese is off the CHAIN.

RE: Buffalo Wild Wings (CheeseburgerChet)

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:15:53 GMT

http://www.buffalowildwings.com/

They all have 50 cents leg night, it's a company policy not just your local w3's

RE: Buffalo Wild Wings (sgtboots)

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 04:55:37 GMT

I can't even remember what sauce we ate.

RE: Buffalo Wild Wings (Ackman)

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:54:29 GMT

I wasn't too impressed with them. The spicy sauce is their saving grace.

RE: Buffalo Wild Wings (buffalomoose2211)

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:33:08 GMT

i can easily say its pretty good. the one i go to has 60 cent drumsticks on wednesdays

RE: Buffalo Wild Wings (sgtboots)

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 06:00:07 GMT

I've been to the Greensburg location. I must not have been too impressed because I don't remember the wings at all.

It was noisy. So noisy. I like loud music but this was bad. That's what I remember about the place.

RE: Buffalo Wild Wings (pcdiva)

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 02:18:09 GMT

I enjoyed the one in Ypsilanti by Eastern MI University. I especially liked the round Buffalo chip fries and that you could get legs as well as wings. I got the medium hot or barbecue sauces. I usually went for the trivia games and it seems the soft drinks were self serve. I always stayed in the restaurant part except to get my trivia game board since the bar was the smoking section and I have asthma.

RE: Buffalo Wild Wings (SeamusD)

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:09:47 GMT

I've been to bw3 in Rochester, Syracuse, and Auburn, NY, just as a matter of happenstance, never "planned" to eat there. It's ok, I liked my burger better than the wings.

I went to Quaker Steak and Lube a couple nights ago, and I thought the food was a lot better there, the wings I really liked. That and they have the Lube Tube (100oz tall tube of beer with a tap on the bottom, they park it right on your table). Can't really go wrong with that.

RE: Buffalo Wild Wings (TenPoundHammer)

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:05:26 GMT

I rather like Buffalo Wild Wings' food. I rather like spicy food, and I think that the sauces in the middle range are VERY hot but still flavorful. They are expensive, yes, but I rather enjoy the food. Every time I've been to the Bay City one it's been a longish wait, but the food was very generously sized and tasty enough. I'm not a wing person, so I don't actually eat the wings; instead I go for the shrimp and some nachos.

RE: Buffalo Wild Wings (anpmarble)

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:55:43 GMT

they are over priced and small portions ,AVOID AT ALL COST!!!!!!!!!!

RE: Buffalo Wild Wings (surrycounty)

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:40:01 GMT

I've had the wings at Hooter's ( a waste of time ), Wingstop and Buffalo Wild Wings ( both decent ), and Beef O' Brady's ( better still ), but when I've got a taste for wings, I go to a Hoosier mini-chain called Buffa-Louie's; they have three locations, all in Indiana ( Highland, Valparaiso and Bloomington. ) Their wings are, IMHO, the best in this area; they're meatier than the others I've tried, and I love their medium-heat Buffalo sauce ( I haven't tried the other sauces available. ) Great onion rings too.
www.buffalouies.com

RE: Buffalo Wild Wings (Davydd)

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:00:38 GMT

Fieldthistle mentioned BWW was across from the university. BWW started out by concentrating in cities with universities and locating nearby to capture the collegiate crowd. They are now expanding to other areas following the graduates to their new locations. That little bit of info came directly from the CEO, Sally Smith, on a local TV news feature last night here in the Twin Cities.

RE: Buffalo Wild Wings (SurrealGourmet)

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:25:17 GMT

Our local BWW has 50 cent DRUMSTICKS....as in a chicken leg on Wednesday nights.

RE: Buffalo Wild Wings (Nancypalooza)

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:22:22 GMT

Weirdly enough, we just had lunch at one yesterday--first time ever--in Charleston on the way home from a store. We got a chicken tender salad with teriyaki on those and an appetizer sampler with mild on the boneless wings. I would try the boneless wings again--the meat was still moist and the sauce was pretty good, even though that whole notion is weird. Teriyaki was good. Everything else was just kind of okay. The service was pretty good even though I think we did wait about 10 minutes too long for our food--I bet it's a procedure to bring your food out slow so you'll drink more. Mostly there's just so many TVs and the place is so loud it's kind of mesmerizing.

RE: Buffalo Wild Wings (Fieldthistle)

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 05:33:12 GMT

Hello all,
The local BWW is located across from a university
and thus is usually full of college kids. They do great
business. I used to go there in the 90's and it was
good food and designed like a local bar with a few T.V.s,
but haven't been there in many, many moons.
I dropped in last autumn to get the family a surprise
snack of wings, and was amazed how it had changed.
Describing the changes in the decor would mean littlle
to most and take too much space, so I'll just speak of the
wings.
There were no pre-made wings that they nuked and
plopped in a box to send me on my merry way in 2 minutes.
They took my order and cooked it fresh.
They had a variety of sauces to have on
the wings and I was a bit unsure which my family would like.
I chose 4 types- sweet BBQ, teriyaki, hot BBQ and Mild BBQ.
My family appreciated the thought, but didn't think much of the
wings. The teriyaki was the only winner.
My future son-in-law said I should have gotten the spicy garlic.
I wanted something sweeter, and he suggested the honey BBQ.
We all thought there was too little meat on the wings.
There was no flavour in the hot or mild, just different degrees
of heat, which neither seemed to have much hottness.
Oh well, an educational experience for me.
Take Care,
Fieldthistle

RE: Buffalo Wild Wings (chewingthefat)

Sun, 15 Feb 2009 12:50:25 GMT

It's amazing how a huge advertizing budget can promote such a crap food place into a profitable chain. Many people convince themselves they liked the food because the place is so well known. Sheep!

RE: Buffalo Wild Wings (Niagara)

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:17:46 GMT

We have Buffalo Wild Wings here in Kansas - they're overpriced crappy bar food.

My daughter's friends want to go there all the time, and she sits there and tells them about eating at the Anchor Bar and other places we've taken her to eat wings in WNY.

I usually just make my own wings in my deep fryer and use Frank's & butter to make the sause - cheaper and better than BWW.

RE: Buffalo Wild Wings (Scorereader)

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:30:26 GMT

HollyDolly

Like you around Universal City and Live Oak, there are a lot of new places opening up.
There is one by the Live Oak Regal Cinema, but still haven't tried it yet, nor the Wingstop on Pat Booker road or the Wingstop in Schertz.

If I do eat buffalo wings, I just buy the frozen TGIFriday's or Tyson's. Don't really eat them much.

then you will LOVE Buffalo Wild Wings.

RE: Buffalo Wild Wings (HollyDolly)

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:04:33 GMT

Like you around Universal City and Live Oak, there are a lot of new places opening up.
There is one by the Live Oak Regal Cinema, but still haven't tried it yet, nor the Wingstop on Pat Booker road or the Wingstop in Schertz.

If I do eat buffalo wings, I just buy the frozen TGIFriday's or Tyson's. Don't really eat them much.

RE: Buffalo Wild Wings (eruby)

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:07:54 GMT

I'm the opposite of SassyGritsAL, I get all drumsticks. The 40 cent wings on Tuesdays are a good deal, even though they charge 60 cents each for celery and bleu cheese. They also have boneless wings (50 cents) on Thursday, but they're a little dry to me.

Friendly staff who will take care of any problems. Pricey on other nights but the Tues & Thurs specails are worthwhile.

RE: Buffalo Wild Wings (Davydd)

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:25:41 GMT

This explains Minneapolis. Oddly too is the company really started in Ohio and not Buffalo, NY as one might have assumed. I had paid no attention. Did not even know they had so many restaurants around Minneapolis/St. Paul. From Fundinguniverse.com...

Mid-1990s: Expansion and a Move
In late 1994 Buffalo Wild Wings hired Sally Smith to serve as chief financial officer, initially on a part-time basis. Disbrow had met Smith through his new father-in-law, who employed Smith as his CFO at a hearing-aid company, Dahlberg, Inc. He was impressed by her intelligence and unflappable personality. Smith wanted to remain in the Minneapolis/Saint Paul area, however, so Disbrow made the bold decision to move the firm's headquarters there from Cincinnati to win her services. Disbrow himself had been commuting weekly to the Minneapolis region from the company's home base since 1992, as his new wife preferred to live there to raise her two children from a previous marriage.

RE: Buffalo Wild Wings (hatteras04)

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:55:58 GMT

I don't think they are that bad but they are kind of pricey at the full price. I will generally only get them on Tuesday when they are 40 cents each. I call in a takeout order on the way home and they are ready in about 10 minutes. Of all the sauces I have tried, I like the spicy garlic best. Not super hot but pretty flavorful. I have not eaten any wings in Buffalo but we had pretty good wings in central NY where I went to school and I spent a lot of time with my roommate in Erie, PA which has pretty good wings as well.

I have not actually eaten in one for years. The last time we ate in, everything came out cold after a 40 minute wait. But I will continue to do takeout on Tuesdays.

RE: Buffalo Wild Wings (MiamiDon)

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:23:21 GMT

Interesting, Davydd. I noted that in the comments section that someone wrote a Wikipedia article:

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

http://www.buffalowildwings.com/

RE: Buffalo Wild Wings (Davydd)

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:16:08 GMT

Along with McDonalds, Buffalo Wild Wings has been a success story in this economy. They grew 29% and surpassed expectations according to this article today in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.

http://www.startribune.com/business/39470402.html?elr=KArksUUUU

BTW, their corporate headquarters is in Minneapolis/St. Paul. Who would've thought that?