Buffalo Wild Wings

I stopped here for dinner this evening.   From the outside it looked like the place was closed.  But after going in, there was at least some activity although they certainly don't get the kind of business that (my favorite) Roosters does.  So after looking over the menu, I settled on a pulled pork sandwich with an order of potato wedges.  I ordered the hot sauce on my sandwich and for a while I thought I made a mistake but the heat graduallly settled down and I was able to east the entire sandwich without too much water.  

The service was pretty good and the place looks good but their tv screens are a lot smaller than Roosters.

While we didn't eat there, we drank there, and it was great! I have been to bdubs many many times, but not at this location or recently. Our sever was attentive to the point of annoying, and it was a friday night! She changed the tvs for us and gave up drink recommendations, and was great. I like bdubs because I don't feel cramp, and the atmosphere is just so relaxed. We even played sport trivia until the thing broke for some reason. I will come back to this bdubs again for food because of the great service!

I love wings.  So the prospect of an entire restaurant devoted to wings sounded like just what I needed on a dreary rain-soaked weekend.  Even more than I love wings, I love restaurants where I can place an order online and go pick it up, so I did just that.  The online ordering system was a little more complicated than it needed to be, but eventually I placed my order, went to run and errand and then go pick up my wings.

The advantage of ordering ahead is supposed to be that I can pick up my food and go without any hassle.  Sadly that was not the case here.  I walk in to the special counter for take out orders - a promising sign - and the woman behind the counter was on the phone.  No problem.  I sit down and wait along with another guy.  And I wait.  And wait.  And wait.  The restaurant itself wasn't packed and I must have seen half a dozen servers walking around who weren't stuck on the phone, but none of them stopped to help the woman at the take out counter, even when there ended up being five of us waiting.  Apparently the woman was taking some sort of exceptionally complicated order?  I don't know.  Anyway, finally she gets off the phone and she goes to get the orders for me and the other guy who had been waiting.  

I get them home (I don't live far) and the wings are cold and the sauce is just globbed on, as if they'd poured a jar of thick. cold sauce over the top of the wings once they were already in the box.  Not exactly appetizing.  I reheated them and at least the sauce turned to what you'd expect was normal wing sauce consistency.  Once they were reheated, the wings were decent, but nothing to write home about.  The spicy garlic sauce was tasty, but not the slightest bit spicy and the hot sauce was hot, as promised, but there was no flavor to it, just heat.

I think I'll find somewhere else to get my wing fix.