Went to a buffalo wild wings today...

[homebrewhaha]

You guys saying you like their wings, I live in Buffalo, have for 40 years, those wings are not Buffalo Wings. You may like them, you may think they are the best you ever had, but please do not call them Buffalo Wings, call them chicken wings.

I've been the BWW a several times, and their wings are small and skinny, and not crispy enough. Buffalo wing should have a decent crispy outer layer, with juicy moist meat in the center, and hot sauce. There are places here in Buffalo with wings are small clubs you can beat your wife with, and she will love the slapping slathering sauce. Crispness is key for a Buffalo Wing, BWW serves mass fried drop 10-12 mins in a fryer and call it done wings, and there is a toss up of getting wing soup (too much sauce) or barely enough.

Some of the sauces they serve are actually really good, but I find their hot sauce not hot enough, I would go along the path of saying they are a wing sauce restaurant that serves beer. I usually end up getting a sandwich there, and get my wings at hole in the wall bars in Buffalo as that is where you will find the best wings. There are distributors here that sell the larger wings, the chain restaurants here avoid them because of cost.

+1 mirrion. As an upstate NY resident, I agree that this is the biggest problem with this place. "Wings" is in the name of your "restaurant", and you can't get that right? C'mon. For me, undercooked, flabby skin and undersauced are the two cardinal sins of wing cookery. It doesn't matter how many different sauces you throw at these little wing-turds; they're just plain awful. If you've ever had really decent wings, these don't come close to measuring up.

 

[SouthBay]

I enjoy their wing sauces, but every time I go, my wallet keeps complaining to me about being raped.

 

[ReverseApacheMaster]

I don't like the food or the prices. The beer selection isn't the worst for a chain restaurant.

 

[ffaoe]

+1

 

[strumke]

I ordered a Rogue Dead Guy Ale on draft. Not half bad, i didnt hate it, i wasnt really in the mood for it though so i didnt finish it.. $6.50 for a draft. REALLY?! REALLY?!

No wonder I don't order beer when out to dinner.

Previously living in NY and now living in DC, $6.50 seems just right for a draft. basically anything from $5-8 for a "normal" craft brew is a reasonable price.

 

[Homercidal]

Wings used to be the leftover pieces from chicken companies and sold to places for CHEAP and resold CHEAP. They caught on and are now worth more since more people seem to enjoy a bony, saucy piece of chicken because of the marketing.

I feel bad paying more than 25 cents for original style real wings. Forget the boneless.

Even though I don't mind the food, I really go there for the craft beer and the games on TV with friends. My biggest complaint is when the servers don't know what kinds of beers they have.

 

[CGVT]

I don't mind BWW, but I find them hit or miss-very inconsistent from one store to another. I've been to a few different ones and even though they have the same menu, at some places the food is terrible and at others it is very good for the bar food that it is.

My local BWW is too far for me to go to AND it is one of the "miss'' stores. Service is bad, the food is not good, and the beer list is average or below. So I don't go to it.

As far as the homebrewer commercial goes, I got a bit of a grin out of it.

 

[Fennis]

The wife and I went a month or so ago as we had heard from people and coworkers how great it was, maybe it was just an off day there, but we were both very unimpressed. The food wasn't anything to get excited about, even kinda sub-par for chain restaurant food. The beer list wasn't impressive at all, mostly just the big ones and Sam Adams. They did have Sierra Nevada Pale Ale on tap which I haven't seen in Maine before at chain restaurants, but that was about the only interesting thing we found. Maybe 10 years ago or so when I was in college and wanted to watch the game on a big tv and hang out with friends and drink beers, I probably would have found it to be a great place, but even then they were priced quite high for fried food and beer.

 

[sweetcell]

in case anyone is keeping score: my local BWW had 34 beers on tap, 6 of which were interesting (troegs, founders, etc), another 6-8 were acceptable (good sams, sierra, etc) and the other ~20 were BMCs. why anyone would need twenty BMCs is beyond me... then again, i'm not in the chain-sports-bar biz so what do i know.

Previously living in NY and now living in DC, $6.50 seems just right for a draft. basically anything from $5-8 for a "normal" craft brew is a reasonable price.

yup. six and a half bucks for a craft brew is what i expect to pay, but i too spend most of my time in over-priced cities. *shrug*

 

[paithian]

I also work for the company that owns most of the Detroit area bdubs and the franchise owner has the choice of what's on tap but I work for a smaller portion of the company that ONLY has MI craft on tap

 

[Saxomophone]

Just went to one last night in Ypsilanti. They used to only have one or two micros on tap but last night there were closer to 10. I had a bell's two-hearted ale.

As far as wings go, if you ever come across a Quaker steak and lube, check it out. Their wings are much meatier.

 

[rs4life]

BWW is overpriced and the wings are inconsistent. Every time i have gone and ordered hot it either comes hot or some variation of the surface of the sun which makes the following day very unpleasant. Now EB's wings in Agawam, MA are truly the best wings I have ever had.