The staff is friendly enough and the sauces aren't bad (lots of butter though); my problem is how pricey this place is... Especially for a sports bar right next to a university! The Wednesday all-you-can-eat wings special is just not worth the $18 (unless you can eat 20 wings in one sitting!). And they don't even let you take a doggie bag home. What a waste of food.
Review Source:Ohh B-Dubs (if you went to GMU, this is what we called it). I used to come here a lot back in the day. The best was going Thursdays. We'd do the B-Dubs then Auld combo. I mean for cheap wings, cheap shots, and $1.00 bottles, it was best way to spend $10 on a Thursday night at college. I have many fond memories here...but now when I go, I just feel old. I'm a little wiser and trying to stay on the classy side. It's not a dive bar, but it's close. Service is ok, much slower on their busy nights which is understandable. However, you would think they would learn and just have more servers work those nights. But you get what you pay for at B-Dubs.
Review Source:To be frank, BWU is not the cleanest, most patron friendly sports bar in the area by any stretch of the imagination. The service, at times, can be laughable; and the cleanliness is sub par, especially compared to Hard Times Cafe, the Green Turtle or even Red Hot and Blue (all sports bars in the same vicinity).
However, on Wed & Thurs nights, the wing and drink specials are unbeatable for the Fairfax area. And the wings themselves aren't bad at all -- the sauce selection is actually quite nice and diverse - far more so than any other wing joint in the Fairfax area.
I've occasionally visited BWU on Wed & Thurs nights to watch a game and eat cheap wings. But you wouldn't find me there any other night of the week.
I ended up visiting BWU as a first date, as selected by the girl I was meeting. Luckily I perused the yelp-reviews ahead of time, and so made sure to sit at the bar to avoid this atrocious service that seems to be the universal negative experience.
My bartender was very pleasant and provided service as fast as could be expected across such a long bar. I do not have any complaints of the service that I experienced, and attribute that you to wonderful yelpers.
I ended up being there on a Wednesday night, where there are no drink specials (what?) and there's all-you-can eat wings for $16. Now, I personally can consume a lot of wings, and so that's not a terrible deal for me, but for most people that will not end up being a very good value. What was a great deal was the $3 premiere bottle-grab, as I had some incredible bottles (including the 11.75% Harpoon Leviathan) at a very reasonable rate.
As for the wings themselves, they were okay. I tried four of the sauces, and would rate them as such (best to worst): Spicy Honey Mustard (legitimately very tasty), Spicy Crab, Spicy Ranch, Honey Mustard. The wings were rather small, for a wing-place, and their crunch seemed wildly inconsistent.
Over all, it wasn't a bad place to get some wings, but it didn't do anything to wow me.
This place was pretty good on the appetizers and drinks. The only thing that messed up was the waiter who messed up on my drink prices for happy hour, but he fixed it. That being said I only had the nachos and wings, as this place looked like that bar food was its specialty. Overall pretty cheap.
Review Source:I'll put this as concisely as possible. This place has great food and is a fun place to hang out, but the service is absolutely attrocious, possibly the worst I've seen in Fairfax.
I won't put this one on the bartenders, they rock, but the servers are the worst you'll be able to find in the city.
How these people keep their jobs is beyond me, they are rude, they are slow, and they have purposely forgotten things when I've been there on several occasions.
I have heard, unconfirmed, that the waiting staff gets rotated very often because of how bad they suck. This is obviously a failing on management as it is the higher ups who are the authority on hiring actions, they keep hiring horrible staff.
I went here on my birthday, made a comment about a certain type of wing sauce sucking and the waiter "forgot" my order every single time he came back. I was in a party of 8 people and I was the only one who wasn't getting what I would order. I asked several times for simple things like napkins and water before I had to go to the manager to complain.
Surprise surprise, I was sick for the next two weeks after that night. Although I can only speculate on what happened to my food it was obvious the waiter did not like me speaking to his manager and attempted to get revenge.
If you don't know the servers here, treat them like royalty or you will get yours. I imagine the kitchen is reminiscent of the movie 'Waiting'.
If you are looking for a place to go, experience some world class, no don't wanna give 'em that kind of credit, ASS CLASS Douche bags, mediocre(being generous here)at best service by girls that need to act like they have no dignity, shitty wings, and a cramped college environment, then THIS is your 5 star spot!
For me, not so much. I will go out of my way to avoid this place.
I don't normally "hate" on places, and I won't start now, but this place has very few redeeming qualities, like curly fries and really good Ranch Dressing, and that is about it.
Food= Wings. And not even all that good, super small. OK, I just thought of another "redeeming" quality, they do  a Crispy Chicken Bacon Sam'ich type of thing and it is good. The pizza we got was under cooked and doughy.
Service= It's a majority college kids it seems, and if you are not one of their friends/frat bos/sor sis, you seem to fade into the distance as you shrivel up, and wither away while waiting for a beverage, or refill. Generally slow, and selective.
Ambiance = Â Sports bar. That's it. OH, and a shit ton of country music, nickleback, and creed. Lord kill me now.
Beverage= Actually, Beer selection is fair, and it's cold. Ok, so one more redeeming quality, but honestly, it's cold beer at a bar. . .duh, it's a given(hopefully).
Price= For what you get, there is certainly better to be had. I know it draws a crowd for $1 bottle night on Thursdays, so if you go on a Thursday the price is good, but due to the howevermanycollegekids there, it would take 6 hours to consume a 6 pack. Wings are over priced considering the small size of the wings given. If this is truly a Wing University, I would drop out.
Overall= Maybe I am getting old, maybe I am getting cynical, maybe I just don't like that kinda crowd. . .what I do know: I won't go out to purposefully go there, I will see what other resources are available first, and if worse REALLY comes to worse, and I don't feel like gnawing my own arm off, I may just swing by. . .or see what 7-11 has instead.
College bar environment but not super duper cheap college prices, with the exception of their specials.
Open and adequate seating. Â
Service has never been outstanding when I've visited. Â
Boneless wings are average to better than average in my opinion. Â I've tried a couple other appetizers and they were just alright. Â I'd stick with the wings.
My friends and I ended up choosing Buffalo Wing University over Buffalo Wing Factory for no other reason than that one of my buds said that BWU had hot waitresses who wore jerseys and tight pants. Boom, sold. That, and I've been to BWFs since there was only that one in Sterling, and I've already forced all my old NOVA friends to eat Flatliners and they hate me for it.
So we get to BWU, on a Saturday evening, the prime time for college football, and this sports bar is oddly pretty deserted. Â There were several nationally interesting matchups on this day, but apparently BWU isn't the place where people wanted to watch them. Strange to me, since upon first impression, it seems like a pretty rad sports bar, with lots of seating, generous space, plenty of screens, and even cornhole and a beer pong table in the back. Â With a place so properly equipped to be a rocking sports, bar food, and drinking establishment, why it was so deserted on a Saturday night was beyond me.
Our server ended up being a dude, which was a disappointment, but looking around, it didn't look like there were any hot waitresses anywhere. Â Bummer. Â But it's fine as long as the service is still good. Â Unfortunately, it wasn't. Â Our server was off in la-la land, let my cup go empty, put the wrong table down on the order, didn't actually serve the food to us himself, and had to be requested in order to bring us our check. Â At least if she was a hot waitress, there'd still have been something in it for me, but instead I get a bro with his CW network
haircut who isn't good at his job.
Food was average. Â No better than what could've been gotten at a BWF, or any other sports bar. Â Wings and fries. Â Bar food.
Location is convenient, and easy to get to with lots of free parking in a Safeway shopping center.
Cost was average, and I ended up paying more than I should have because my a-hole friend stiffed the crappy waiter and I think I made up for the difference inadvertently.
Conclusion, I wouldn't go back. Â Even in NOVA, the land of franchise restaurants, there's lots of better options than this place.
Blah! Just straight up gross in the evenings.....if you want  a lunch time buzz....fine. But beware...................you have been warned. Beer is OK, food not so much.
Now for the evening crowd, this is the most pitiful group of wannabes that I have ever seen. wall-to-wall slim shadies, throw in a couple dr. dres and all the hoes you ever wanted to see mingling in a loud and rude manner. They fight each other....they should all just punch themselves in the head. TOO bad this is right next door to ABC.
I could go on and on.....but every now and then I find myself wondering into this place....damn friends have no taste. But I like being a DD, so...talking to drunk chicks that have no idea about anything when sober is fun....kinda hard to do, but rewarding...
The wings are, like other reviews say, average. Â Only reason I go is for the Thursday night happy hour, but it can be very loud, crowded and hot.
If you go on a Thursday night and pay by credit or debit, make sure you keep your receipt. Â They charged me $30 when I wrote down $10, so I brought my receipt back and they game me $20 cash. Â Of course, keeping your receipts is a good practice in general, but pay extra care here.
This establishment is a very average restaurant. The name "Buffalo Wing University" connotes that this is the school for wings, where cooking these tiny bits of meat is somewhat of an education. The name doesn't work. Their wings are average at best, and this is after sampling the vast majority of their wings on their menu. Service has repeatedly been very slow, and rarely worth the wait.
If I was a GMU student I might be able to justify coming here due to location and drink specials, however I'm not. Wednesday nights are all you can eat wings & fries for $15, which isn't a bad deal if you're ready sit for a three-hour finger licking ordeal. Thursday happy hour is good for drink specials, however other than that I see no reason to ever visit this place-there are more than a handful of other sports bars and wing joints within the Fairfax area with significantly better wings, and other options on their menus as a whole.
BWU had one of the best happy hours around so I can look past a lot of its faults. Dollar domestic bottles Thursdays from 5(?)-9. Yuengling for a buck. You can really beat that. They also had $2.50 bomb (rail shot and flavored water) all day. The food isn't bad either. Typical bar food.
The achilles heal of this bar is the is the crowd it attracts and the service can be slow sometimes. Probably the largest concentration of bros and dbags of any bar in Fairfax. Another thing that keeps it from getting 4 stars is the volume of the music. This isn't a club or a lounge, its a bar. Its loud enough from people talking when it's crowded. The music shouldn't be so loud that you can't hear the person across from you talk.
Go with a group of friends early and get one of the tables by the bar and avoid the corn-hole and pong games at all costs.
Just returned from the 'all you can eat' Wednesday special at this joint. I haven't been to this place in a couple months but the last time I came I had a decent but unmemorable experience so I decided to check it out again with a couple friends. I was initially worried about having to wait in line for hours on end like at other local wing joints on nights where the wings are discounted, but I was pleasantly surprised to get seated immediately. One thing I did notice upon walking in was the smell of what can only be described as "wet socks" being a college bar/restaurant you can only expect the cleanliness to be sub-par but to have the joint smell like a college locker room is just plain unacceptable.
The place was decently filled but not "packed", supported by the fact that there wasn't even a wait to be seated. There were only two large groups seated in the middle consisting of about 10 and 15 people respectively. All in all it was busy but not to the extent that it should cripple the wait/cook staff.
Our waitress seated us and got our drink orders fairly quickly and after having some time to mull it over we chose our wing flavors and then the waiting began...It took her about 1:15 - 1:20 hours to get our initial order. The wings were pretty standard fare, nothing remarkable and not worth paying full price for, the "celery" we got with our wings looked like it came from the bottom of a cardboard box and chopped with a dull butter knife..not that it mattered anyway seeing as we only got 1.5 pieces between the two of us. We finished eating that order and waited around for another 20 minutes. After finally flagging a waitress down we ordered another helping of wings and began the waiting game yet again. This time we waited for about 30 - 40 minutes for our food, also we requested napkins to clean off our fingers (aren't they supposed to bring out sani-wipes with the wings?) and I was forced to eventually raid the men's restroom and take the paper towels because the wait staff either forgot or didn't care. By this time we got so sick of being completely ignored by the wait staff in favor of the two large groups in the middle, we just walked out after leaving cash and 0 tip on the table.
Save your time, money and olfactory senses and go to one of the multitude of other sports/college bars in this area to get better wings and service in a cleaner environment.
Three stars for the memories this place holds. Circa 2006, BWU (affectionately called B-dubbs) was the hottest spot in the GMU area. Â Now that I am a college graduate, I wonder why I ever frequented this place at all. Â A fight breaks out everytime I go here. Â The wings are soaked in a puddle of oil. Â Wings are small and limp - - no crisp at all. Â All of their other food is gross. Â The service is terrible. Â I have a hard time lifting my feet off the sticky bar floor. Â This whole place is gross and I am pretty sure they are the reason I got pneumonia shortly after the final four. Â G-M-U-WHAT!
Review Source:Tooooo freaking hot. It's a sauna in there for Fridays happy hour.
Bartenders completely ignored one side of the bar to the point I just bought a beer off one of my friends who happened to have extras. Boooo
Wings are just o.k.
Only reason they get 2 stars is because the bottle domestic beers were $1 till 9 p.m.
Word to the wise, wear underarmor or a nike dri-fit outfit there on Friday nights.
Wow... I must say the wings are good not great but good. Â Wednesday night is the night to hit this place up as they have a great special for 15 you get all you eat wings, fries and a drink.
Only problem is the service and the fact that you can hear the crazies playing corn hole the entire time you're eating?! Â Plus every 10 min some table for of teens wants to order the hottest wing on the menu and eat as many as they can for a discount. Â This can get a bit much but its expected at a college joint.
I'm not sure how to write this review.
This is a GREAT Sports Bar to go with friends. Lots of Big TVs. Lots of beer on tap and the staff is happy to put your game on for you.
As for the "wings"..... please go elsewhere if you are just looking for good chicken wings. The wings here are terrible. The rest of the food is avg. Nothing to write home about but you can find something to satisfy you while you drink tall glasses of beer and scream at your team.
Best wings in the Fairfax area.
I think of this primarily as a college bar. Even though I've been hitting this place up since high school. Depending on what your needs are, you may want to check the schedule of events for the restaurant. If you're in no mood to deal with college kids, then this may not be the place for you, ever. But if you really want some good wings, and a good spot to watch any sporting event, this is my favorite place near George Mason to go.
note: they discontinued the mediteranean wings - which are my fave, but if you ask for them, there are still a few vet chefs that know the recipe and will be happy to make it for you...
small wings.
horrible service.forgot my food...TWICE. ( out of a group of 7 I was da ONLY one she kept on forgetting?)
there are maybe 20 different choices of sauce for the wings.
"how's the SO & SO"
"never had that"
"ok how's the choice #2"
"i don't know *gigglez*"
"how about the CHOICE #3?"
"HEHEHE i DUNNO SORRY"
WTF are u really working here???the most unhelpful service I've ever met!
put TWO regular drink on bill when only ONE was ordered and actually DIDN'T wanna take it out by arguing with us. I don't mind paying that extra 3 bucks but they included gratuity  because of our party of SEVEN. (thought it was 8?) which she def did NOT deserve!
SUCK IT wing university.if it wasnt for my friends dragging me out, i prefer glory days!
btw, ur all u can eat for 15.99. I ate 6 wings. i ordered like 234324 more and had it ALL in front of me and took it to go for the bf.
gawd, where do all these senseless, horrible service restaurants come from?! Â i sense another close down SOON.
Went here for a Friday afterwork happy hour. Â The place was practically empty, so the service was great. Â
It's hard to be a buffalo wing snob at a place like this. Â I mean, you really should know what you're getting into when you go to chains. Â They clearly fry the wings, and then just douce it in one of 20 sauces of your choosing. Â So, the sauce flavors aren't cooked into the wings, nor does the frying batter necessarily compliment any particular sauce. Â
But at least they have a pretty good happy hour special, and you get what you expect. Can't ask for much more, really.
Date Attended: 02/20/10, Saturday
Met up with some friends to catch the UFC PPV fight. Â No cover charge, we had our own little corner spot to chill. Â Ordered some food, drinks, and were good to go. Â The food is decent, not great, but good nuff. Â It's pretty spacious inside, definitely a plus for that. Â Would come back.
This place is blah. The wings arent that good, when i went it was a late tuesday night and they were pretty much dead.... except for the kids all the way in the back of the restaurant playing beer pong.... well red bull pong.... who were extremely rowdy and obviously had nothing else to do with their time
Back to the food... the wings weren't that good... i tried the honey barbeque wings... the celery i paid extra for looked dead.... the waitress wasn't that helpful... service was lacking... she seemed to be paying more attention to the guys in the back jumping around playing "red bull pong"... what stuck out the most was the horrible music.... i don't know what was worst... the outdated music or the drunk guy in the back thinking he was a rapper....
the experience was blah... i dont think i will be back.... ever
We went here on a Sunday afternoon for some football. I wanted to see my Eagles, and my friend wanted to watch the Redskins.
I rolled in 10 minutes before kickoff, and got a table right in front of the TV showing the Eagles. The Redskins were on a couple TVs.
They had $8 domestic pitchers and $12 imports/crafts... that made me happy.
The sauce for the wings was pretty good, but the wings were small and greasy. I ordered grilled chicken tenders with one of the sauces/spices (Caribbean) and they were pretty good. I would definitely go that route, and avoid the wings.
Also, Bud Light promoters were there and they gave us free beer. Win.
I would agree with the commenter who said that this place should be called buffalo wing community college, but I WENT to community college and I would never want to insult NOVA like that.
Shortly: Just don't bother. Go to Hard Times. Go to Bridges. Go to Shebeen. Not here. Dollar bottles? Isn't every other place having in Fairfax having that special? I wish this place would die a quick death and be replaced by something better already, its depressing to look at.
They should rename this place buffalo wing community college, as there is no way anyone is getting a masters degree in buffalo wings from this place! Â Its saying a lot that i dont eat wings, and yet was still completely repulsed by this place.
My girls came here for the wednesday night 14.99 all you can eat wing night. I will admit thats a good deal. Â The place was easily able to accomodate 20 teenage girls and our waiter was really good about doing separate checks. Â He got an awesome tip from me! Â But the rest of the experience.... well... not so good.
I decided to just get a wrap. Â i went with the chicken club wrap, without bacon. Â Well all i really got out of this wrap was a whole lot of ranch dressing. Â Seriously! Â It was everywhere. Â The only thing that redeemed this meal was the ability to pay $1.50 extra and get curly fries. Â That was exciting.
While i didn't eat any of the girls wings, i did look at them. Â Man did they look disgusting. Â The fries looked like they came from the high school cafeteria. Â And while they advertise like 20 flavors of wings, they aren't really flavors. Â They are really just wings covered in some kind of dressing or sauce. Â The honey mustard and ranch wings just looked awful.
So overall, i have absolutely no need to ever come back. Â I am more than capable of chugging ranch dressing at my house, if i ever feel the neeed to consume that much in one setting.
Anyone who goes to a place called Buffalo Wing University located in an old strip mall wanting anything but beer specials and pitchers of Natty Light probably deserves to be disappointed. Â
This is a great place to drink Natty Light with people who you will regret ever talking to. Â It doesn't purport itself to be anything other than that so I can't give it less than 3 stars.
This place is horrible, it takes you 30 minutes just to get a drink order (Multiple Occasions too), then it'll take another 20 minutes to get your order taken, and then another 35 minutes to get your wings, and then 20 minutes to get your server to tell them you need your BILL, then another 15 minutes to get the actual BILL, then God help you if have a credit card instead of cash...........Oh heavens.... Â Plus check your BILL cause 9 out of 10 time your BILL WILL BE WRONG!
Review Source:I have only been to the bar area and the service is terrible. Â The bartenders would rather sit there and talk to their friends than work (actually, so would I....I wonder if I can get a job here). Â The waitresses (if you choose to get a table in the bar area) do the same thing. Â I asked for a beer once and the waitress said she would get it as soon as she smokes a cigarete. Â Ok... Â Â I mean this place is run by retards, seriously. Â The cocktail waitresses were probably the girls who were too stupid to get a job at hooters around the corner (hey, say what you want about hooters those girls work for their tips at least). Â I can see the interview now (at hooters) "Were sorry Miss _____, but you just dont have the brains for this job" Â Sad thing is, they probably go to George Mason University...wait so did I.
Review Source:I went here while I was waiting for an appointment at Salon Mint. I ordered a buffalo chicken salad and they gave me salad that was rotten. You know how you leave salad in a bag and it starts look like sea weed, all wet and translucent? Well this is what they tried to feed. me. They tried to fix the situation but after you see that do you really want another dish from the same kitchen? I paid for my bottle water and got out of there fast. This place reminds me of a  bar at Radford University, but at least the food there was good.
Review Source:This place is ver interesting for the fact that I knew the preious owner. When BW was first established, it was the bumb for middle age business man to have cold drink and feasting on hot young waitresses with your eyes.
It also was very good place to pick up chics. Clean enviornement, good service, hot girls, good for kids too, because resturant is physically divided into bar and resturant area.
However, that's all in the past, original owner left and place has lost it's mojo.
Serive is slow, food is less than average, place is cold and loud.
However, the serive is depending on which waitress service you. Some are very good, some just don't want to work.
I'll say this place is luck of draw... somenight it's very good, some night's it sucks!.
That's all because of service.
Good choice of drink: beer, rail, mixed... lots of munchy... Interestingly this place serves very good nacho salad(?) and mini burgers.
I think they should change the name to Nacho, mini burger Unniversity.
Price is good both during happy hour and non-happy ours.
Boy has this place changed! Â My wife and I used to be regulars here, then they changed the menu and took off some our favorite sauces. We gave it another try last Sunday and were once again disappointed. The sliders weren't as good as they used to be (almost like they were commercially frozen) The wings had no bite.
Plus there were gnats all over the place. We sat in the booth area and at first I thought we were where someone had spilled some fod. So we moved a couple of times. The waitress apologized but said they didnt know what else to do.
Well, if they were in the dining area I can just imagine what the kitchen was like.
All in all, a 2nd bad experience in this place. I think the managment must have changed. Too bad. It used to be such a nice place.
College sports bar serving wings. Everywhere you turn there's a tv showing some sports game.
The night I went, they were out of sweet tea :*( I was a little sad, but got over it. Â
The good thing about the place is that there are a bajillion sauces that you can choose from to put on your wings. Â Don't think you can try and get in on the price break and buy 50 wings and try 2-3 different sauces.. NOPE not allowed - you HAVE to order them by 10s if you want to try different flavors. BOO. Â Plus their wings are super greasy. Â My tummy hurt for a while after eating 10 wings there.
Worst. Service. Ever.
The last two times my friend and I went, we were seated and ignored. No one came. The place wasn't even really busy at all. We'd wait 10-15 minutes and then just walk out. One time a manager spotted us and asked us what happened. He looked pretty irritated, but instead of trying to fix things with us, he sought out the servers to scold them. I guess maybe this happens often?
The door bouncers at night are assholes. They'll let all their friends cut to the front of the line-lots of them. And just laugh at you while you stand at the front door waiting to get in.
The buffalo wings aren't that great. I love that there are a variety of flavors, but the wings themselves aren't very memorable.
The atmosphere is somewhat trashy. It's terribly smoky with a very young and obnoxious crowd...and seriously, I'm not even old.
Picture in your mind what you'd think a typical college sports bar would be, then add in a bunch of GMU students and LOTS of smoke -- presto, welcome to the U (as they affectionately call it ... but by no means is this a place for higher learning).
First - Â the atmosphere. Big bar, plenty of space and lots of tables and chairs which are often used as crutches by those stumbling college kids that have had one to many Jager bombs. Yes, this is a college bar no doubt. During the evening one of our future leaders of America that was sitting next to me rolled up Captain Black PIPE tobacco into a paper TABLE NAPKIN and gave it a go. It promptly shot up in flames. Pure genius I tell you.
Second - the food and drink. Given the college crowd this place caters to, you can be rest assured you can get your drink on -- and on the cheap. Every day they have new specials, and you can always try your hand at the "happy hour wheel" and give it a spin. Surprisingly, the food here isn't to bad. Yes, it's hard to mess up typical bar fare, wings especially, but the food coming out of the kitchen works for what it is. And lets be honest, the bar isn't set to high since 1/2 of the folks eating probably can't taste their food anyway ...
Third - the entertainment. Well, beyond just watching everyone make complete asses of themselves, there actually are plenty of TVs to watch the games -- including a nice big projector screen. They even pipe in pay per view fights, which is a bonus.
So all in all, if I were still in college I'd give this place five stars no doubt. But ever since my liver sent me that thoughtful thank you note after I graduated, I'll give it a solid three.
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