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Category: American (Traditional) [Edit]
Neighborhoods: Lincoln Park, DePaulFullerton (Purple Express, Brown, Red)
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Ok...again, I must begin this review by disclaiming the fact that I usually don't do chains. However, there are instances where the place is sooo good and stands out in your mind that I need to break this rule.
Having that said...I LOVE the wings here. And apparently, now that football season is back in full session...they hold football events. I have yet to go to one of those, but I am tempted too...I mean...FOOTBALL, WINGS, COLD BEER?
The wings are also served at different levels of spiciness. Yup, we even went ALL the way. Very interesting...at first...you don't feel much of the bite...but it slowly creeps in and gives you that KICK!
And I highly suggest picking up a couple of bottles of the sauce to take home. A couple of awesome friends and I hold Wings and Rock Band night and that sauce makes it...It's a GREAT thing we have a deep fryer too...WOOT...LIFE IS GOOD!
I generally enjoy most Buffalo Wild Wing locations. Large bar area, many TVs, a huge screen for main events, people rooting and yelling. A sports bar!
This BWW on Lincoln Ave. is just garbage. There are a few rooms you can be seated (odd). The TVs were crappy, the waitress forgot about my date and I for about 15 minutes. ..
You will have a far better experience at other BWW locations throughout the Chicagoland area. Go there instead.
Eat me,
Silky Ooooooh
I had heard about this place from friends but never really realized it was a chain!
Anyway, I found myself here with a big group of hungover and hilarious friends to celebrate a birthday on a Thursday afternoon. We ordered copious amounts of boneless wings and some sampler appetizer platters. The food wasn't outstanding or anything, but I liked the variety of sauces available. Our server was on top of it! Granted, it wasn't busy or anything, but she kept those drinks filled without me even noticing.
I could have over looked it, but I didn't see any sort of salad options on the menu. The only kind of veggie I could put in my face was some celery that came with the wings - and even then I ruined the healthiness with some blue cheese dip. Oops.
I'm all about cheap eats and coming here on a Thursday night for cheap boneless wings is fine by me. Its just a BW3. Nothing fancy. Spotty service. Lots of college kids. Food is what you would expect from any BW3. The boneless wings are great but just wish that I could mix and match my sauces with an order less than 8! Having to pay for a side of blue cheese kinda blows, but the sour cream and chive potato wedges are awesome and big props to our hostess that was from Green Bay and commented on my Packer sweatshirt!
Remember Buffalo Wild Wings & Weck? (BW3) When this place was still BW3 before it went mega-franchise and they dropped the 'weck, they were a pretty nice place.
However, 3-5 years ago they went under a major renovation, got rid of regular plates, glasses, utensils, in favor of paper baskets and little pre-packaged sides of ranch and bleu cheese that you must pay for (FML). They expanded the place. They went mega-chain pseudo sportsbar and well... the quality went down with it.
In fact, the bathrooms downstairs are still the original bathrooms (last time I checked) and reek of urine, no matter how frequently they clean them. I believe this to be the ghost of BW3's past... in the form of pee smell. Seriously. What else would explain it? Bad plumbing? pffft.
The only benefit now of having it be mega sportsy is that I can enjoy a basketball game and a beer from a wider selection of drafts... Additionally, there is more space. Pre-expansion this place would have a packed line waiting just to get into the bar area.
The sauces are still why I keep coming back. Medium sauce. Spicy Garlic. You know. Yum. Those cheesy buffalo chips. Yum.
Service is ok. College kids. Not horrible but not great.
To save a few cents, go to wing night (Tuesdays) or boneless wing night (Thursdays).
Remember, too, that it's in the DePaul neighborhood and that's most of the clientele in the evenings and on weekends. I prefer to go for early dinners during the week or for an afternoon meal on the weekends (when there is no major sports unless it's baskeball) to avoid that madness.
I used to like you. I'd come over, you'd serve me a good n' spicy dish of buffalo tenders on a real plate with real silverware. We were never really close, but I did enjoy your company time to time and would make sure to visit every couple of months.
But you've taken me for granted for too long. Now all I get is overcooked crap-nuggets served on a shingle.
Sorry, but it's time for me to move on to someone who can give me my buffalo love the way I like it. Hot, juicy, and with plenty of sauce.
This place has gone downhill. Way downhill.
I've been a semi-regular visitor for the last 5 yrs or so and it seems like it just keeps getting worse.
The portions have shrank, food is now served in those shitty little carboard boats and food quality has taken a nose dive.
After a couple of so-so visits, the last time I was there I decided I'm not coming back. Sorry B-dubs, there are far too many other wing destinations in the city for me to waste any more time/money/stomach space on your crappy food.
Compared to the location in Skokie, this place is so crappy! It just looks dirty. $.40 cent wings on Tuesdays though!
Asian Zing all the way =9 yum.
If you like crappy food and annoying college boys, this is place for you. The wings are tiny and come in cardboard boats. There are alot of sauces to choose from,however, my favorite being the Mango Habanero. The Blazing has to be one of the hottest sauces I have ever tried. I'm not a huge fan of their ranch, and the celery was a bit to aged and chewy. The boneless wings are really fast-food nuggets with less grease. I also had some mac and cheese, which was cold in the center. The waitress was friendly and happily reheated it for me.
The back room is a great place to catch sports with its TVs, huge projection screens and a bar.
What i like about this place over skokie is the beer selections and daily drink specials.
I actually used to work here and cleanliness is a big deal. The kitchen is really clean and the servers are super on it with washing the hands. Last time i worked that is.
On Fridays they have $4 23 oz. ANY BEER. i think thats a great deal. I mean i wouldnt spend my night there but few beers before u go out isn't bad.
Love the sauces. it's what i go there for...spicey garlic and asian zing get my rocks off.
What I can't believe is how a restaurant can run out of things.
When I went last they ran out of wings....
::pause::
yes I said wings. = /
come on guys. It's was hard enough when I worked there trying to explain to people how we can run out of chicken wings....but i can't believe it still happens.
don't make me sad yall.
I know, I know, why am a writing a review of a chain? Listen, I love B'dubs! It is seriously a goal of mine to patronize as many BW3's as humanly possible. I'm a sports fanatic, and a raging drunk. So, with this being said, what could be better than sports, wings & beer? Now, considering myself an expert in the B'Dubs chain, I feel as though I'm more than qualified to explain how the Lincoln Park location compares to others. First, I've always had excellent service here. The food...well, it's always been the typical artery clogging spicy wings that will tear my insides to shreds later in the evening:) Just what I like! Beer specials. Yes, just like every other location, they have daily draft & bottle specials. I'm frugal, so of course, I always opt for the cheap stuff.
Now, you must ask why an establishment that has such a special place in my heart does not deserve 5 stars? Well, this location, especially compared to most, is filthy & dated. It desperately is in need of a cosmetic face lift. Not to mention the restroom is a country mile from the bar---geez, I'm winded when I make the trek back up the stairs from the restroom to the bar. Drinking shouldn't involve this much work!
Nevertheless, it's the great service, unhealthy food & beer that brings me back, often. Oh, and not to mention, I've made a small fortune on this great corporation----Ticker Symbol: BWLD
*A great, well marketed, profitable corporation that feels just like the commercials you see on TV...well, sort of?
Yeah, it's a chain. But there's only one of them within my sphere of influence, and that means you're going to hear what I have to say about the institution as a whole.
It's got pretty generic decor. It's got a cheesy overall marketing scheme. You know what you're going to order before you come in. The wings probably all come frozen from some large distribution center for all of the BW3 locations in the area.
It's not so bad though. For starters, it's probably pretty rare to get wings in this city that haven't been frozen before, so it's tough to hold that against them. As far as wings go, they're pretty good, Reasonable amount of meat on them, easy enough to eat... but really the reason to come here is if you just want to have like 6 different types of wings. If you're not satisfied with your local bar's choices of "medium" "hot" and "fire" because medium is worthless and the other two are almost the same, BW3 is the place to check out. They have like 14 different flavors, most of which are pretty tasty. I recommend Wild, Mango Habanero, Caribbean Jerk and Spicy Garlic.
If you're thinking of ordering the Blazin' wings though, keep your hubris in check. They're really for (painful) novelty experience only.
Was expecting something like out of the commercial...a big, fun place, lots of people, tv's wings....not so much here. the wings were good, i liked the options of sauses and wings, yet it was too small, and not as nearly as fun as the commercial made it out to be. Oh Hooters, I'm sorry for ever doubting you.
The food is way too pricey for such small portions, the bathrooms are always completely disgusting due to plumbing issues that will never be resolved, pretty much everyone there hates their job / lives, there are (or was at least) rodent/insect problems, and the place is filled with 90% college douche bags or dudes that wish they were still in college.
Next time you go in there look at the health evaluation sheet that is usually posted by the carry out counter. There's usually at least two things that the store is marked down for, mostly insect problems or unsanitary kitchen conditions.
On the plus, the wing sauces are really good. Do yourself a favor and buy a bottle of the sauce and never enter that restaurant again.
We were on our way to Ringo for lunch, but silly us for not checking the schedule - it doesn't open until 4 PM. Luckily, the 2400-2600 blocks of Lincoln are jam-packed full of restaurants, diners, and bars...of course, my date picked Buffalo Wild Wings. For the food? Of course not. No, for the trivia.
I'd only been to this chain once before, while he was a self-declared veteran of Tuesday's Wing night. So on "Boneless Thursday", I got the Honey BBQ Chicken Salad because I saw the word "cilantro" and my eyes lit up. My date had 6 parmesan garlic and 6 honey bbq. I tried both and I won't lie, I'd get them next time too.
My salad got to the table and alas, no cilantro visible to the eye. But it was like CPK's BBQ Ranch Chicken Salad, so I devoured the whole thing anyways. and at 7.29 compared to the date's 12 wings at $0.70 apiece, came out to a wash.
The main reason we wanted to come, trivia, was shuffled aside by our server since we never got our little thing to play with electronically. But we played anyways and what can I say, I won. Ringo better be open next time I come up or else there will be another smackdown.
I have been to this location twice, even though I'm kinda anti-chain restaurants. To put the bad first... dinner and drinks here at night is kinda a mess. They are understaffed and getting a view of the TV you want for the game you want can be hard. Then again, it could be my own fault for getting there at 7:30 pm on a major pro sports night.
However, when I had lunch and some drinks here on a random day off work, my friend and I couldn't have had more fun. The guy behind the bar was friendly and we had a blast playing trivia.
Conclusion: lunch on a week day when you play hooky from work and this place will be more fun than usual.
Everytime I come here, I have less of a desire to return. I don't even know how I end up at Buffalo Wild Wings. The "specials" don't seem so special anymore after constant price hikes, the chicken pieces are always smaller, drier, and over-cooked, and the wait staff does not let you push one table next to another if you are in a big group.
The sauces have stayed boring for awhile. The last time I came, they had a new Southwest-style sauce which was actually delicious, but this time, I was disappointed to see that they had discontinued it and were back to the original sauce line-up.
If you're OK with boring, go to Buffalo Wild Wings. I prefer Hooters wings.
So I've admitted I'm a pizza addict & now it's time to come clean about my other addiction...buffalo wings. I like 'em spicy, I like 'em tangy, I like 'em wings & drumsticks, I like 'em with blue cheese, I like 'em with ranch, I like 'em all the time. I think, breath, and dream wings. Okay, I'm not that bad but it's close.
To satisfy the always growing desire for wings, we decided to stop by B-dub's. Little did I know what a predicament I would be in with all the different types of sauces-14 in fact. I ended up with 3 sets of 6 wings with 3 different sauces & yes, I ate them all. For the first 6 I went with the good ol' hot sauce, second batch I went with Parmesan Garlic (no smooching after dinner!), and my final batch was coated in Asian Zing. On top of my wing bliss, I also ordered a huge glass of Miller light to cut down on the spice. Yum, yum! I thoroughly enjoyed all of the sauces, but will probably go with hot instead of medium wing sauce next time. I wasn't as hot as I like it, so there's only one thing I can do & that is go back again! Soon!
Rule of thumb: if you're a true wing lover, you gotta go with the traditional wings & NOT the boneless. Boneless wings are for losers. Sorry.
Chicken wings, chicken wings, alitas de pollo! Thats what I was craving last night!!! So we headed over to the Bdubs..................
as always, fabulous stuff! I mean I love that these wings are NOT breaded! And I love the spicy sauces.....I got Wild this time, Ive had Blazin before but I wasnt in the mood to sweat like a piggy yesterday.
Oh and do yourself a favor get the buffalo chips with cheese, who cares about cholesterol or high blood pressure your at B dubs man!!!
The ambiance is cool...............Monsta got jealous as a group of white chicks were eyeballing big brown! hahahahahaha
What can I say........Latino heat baby latino heat.
So heat yourself up with some hot wings and head on over here!!
Shake & bake seal of approval!
Did not like this location much, resembles a dark and dingy bar. I had previously been to the one in Galesburg and it was huge, lit up and had the game kiosks next to every table. They also had a better DRINK selection, what gives with the bare bones beer selections?
I've got no qualms with the food however. Love the wings with a sauce on the side and the onion rings are just plain yummy. Its worth visiting if you have never experienced BW3, otherwise i'd take the time to drive to a better location.
Why do you have to give me a crappy ass mug to drink out of?
I think the food is good. From a vast selection of wing sauces, these unbreaded wings will give hooters a run for its money as they aren't completely doused in breading and butter. If you like breaded wings, here is probably not the place to do it, their breadings aren't very good, particularly on shrimp.
Yes, they have salad, pizzas, burgers, and all the usual pub fare. The sauces are where it's at and you should go with some Asian Zing as it has the best of spicy and sweet. I like this place so much I've actually gone in and eaten by myself.
Of course you can slam back a few beers while over here and there are enough TVs here to watch the big game. Do not come here at night as the Lincoln Park / DePaul degenerates populate the area and you will be trapped in a sea of pop collar Chads and tricked out Trixies.
BW3 is a publicly traded company trading under the ticker symbol BWLD. They have a market cap of over $400M and have 0 debt. Their EV to EBITDA is about 7.75 which I think is fairly valuated given the current market environment. The forward P/E is a little high at over 20, but given it's lack of debt once this economy starts improving there is great upside for BW3
The sauces are great. We really like the Parmesan garlic the best. You'll never find a selection of sauces as good as BW3. 5 stars!
The wings are average. Aren't they usually? The salads come with iceberg lettuce, one of my pet peeves. 3 stars!
The service and atmosphere are awful. They never gave us a trivia game when we asked. The sports TV's are up SUPER loud, even when there the place is pretty empty. Our servers haven't been the brightest stars in the night sky, they have been pretty rude. I dislike that all the food comes on paper and plastic trays, especially since they give no sign to recycling. 1 star!
I highly recommend take out. Average - 3 stars.
Ok I should start by saying that I have eaten at too many BW3's throughout my life... I grew up in Columbus Ohio, and the chain is quite popular there, but let me just say that this location was far and away the worst that I have been to.
I went on the 40 cent wing night, and since that evening I decided to go with the most spicy wings they had I only wanted water -- and from there I knew my experience was going to be bad since when I told the waitress this she looked at me as some cheap poor college student. She goes off for a while and then comes back with our wings, and some celery that we had ordered, and did refill our half empty drinks but this would be the only time without my group making a big deal to get her attention. Now had it been busy I would have said well ok, that is fine, but no she was standing at the waitress/ waiter station laughing with her co-workers and we knew this since she was in plain sight. After about 20 minutes of me and everyone else running out of things to drink we finally had to motion to her to get her attention, which is when she came to our table like we were asking some great task of her... so the wait staff gets 1 star since we can not go lower.
The food was ok i guess if you really like bw3 I only went since my roommate asked if I wanted to go and thought why the hell not. so the food gets 3 stars.
But here is the kicker when we got the bill we saw that we were charged for celery... I mean really? For what amounted to about 1 stalk of celery they charged 40 cents for, and they said we had 4 orders, when we ordered 4 but only got 2... I mean if you are going to charge us for something that should be free you could at least give us all that you are charging us for.
Needless to say that my experience here was terrible. I have not been back since. And we as a group decided that they deserved no tip. so that is what we did, I have never done that before and hope to never do it again (the lowest I have ever gone in a restaurant is between 12 and 15 percent when I have gotten poor service).
I would say that this place is not that nice, the from my experience sucked, and I would just say no.
I was just here on Saturday with my BF and I must say I'll NEVER go back.
The service was HORRIBLE and the food was just OK. I had the wings with Jamaican Jerk sauce (yum) and my BF had the Honey Bacon BBQ burger which was kind of good.
I couldn't enjoy my meal b/c I had to keep swatting flies and gnats! Can you imagine what would have happened if they had gotten stuck to my fingers in the midst of my swatting? YUCK!
The place smelled like old beer and the TVs were waaaaaaay too loud, all 10 of them.
I understand it's a sports bar, I like sports bars but I just wasn't impressed.
I love this BWW because of all the sports they show. I think they were also one of the few places that showed the UFC match that happened recently...can't be completely sure as I didn't go. Last time we went was for the NFL draft and it was just great having some beers and wings while watching it (plus it was a pathetic excuse for us to wear our Bears jerseys as we are feeling deprived until the next season starts). Try their southwestern eggrolls in addition to wings...they were delicious! They also have some really fun games such as trivial or poker on some of the smaller tv screens that I was playing with my friends while we were waiting for the next round pick for the Bears/other teams we were actually interested in watching.
Will be back for the NBA draft!
When I attended DePaul, I was here more times than I care to remember. I don't really frequent it much any more but I did stop by last night to pick up a carry out order I placed much earlier in the day. I guess I ended up placing my order with a manager who was no longer around when I came by to pick it up, as indicated by the person manning take out orders. My order wasn't ready on time because they had some questions but failed to call even w/ a number being left. Yeah, I don't expect much but I asked for it to be ready by a specific time.
Taste-wise, they aren't out of this world delicious but definitely good enough to tide you over if you're craving wings. Of the three sauces we got, the honey bbq was the preferred. An order of 50 wings was roughly $36 w/ tax. Decently priced.
Portions are small for the prices. We ordered roasted garlic mushrooms and were given maybe 8 tiny mushrooms. Same for the wings. Don't get me wrong, the wings are decent, but there's just not enough of them.
You're given cheap paper plates, and an extra one for the bones (gee, thanks). Only one napkin per person, so you have to keep asking the server for more. The bathroom is gross. Yes, there's only one bathroom and it's unisex. Last time I went, there were no paper towels in there. Yuck.
This location is really popular with the college crowd, and there are big-screen tvs EVERYWHERE. Don't go here if you want to have a conversation, because your date's eyes will be glued to the 10 different football/baseball/basketball games playing on tv.
Went here for the Bears-Packers game tonight - a nice crowd. There was a lot of seating in 3 different rooms and many HDTVs. The wings were very good, nice and meaty. I'd say spicy garlic was the best. Our server wasn't that great, but overall it was a pretty good experience.
I actually don't mind this place at all. Whenever I go I get the medium wings and the buffalo chips with cheese and canjun spice (the only way to really have them anyway). Its your normal sit down sports bar kinda place so don't expect some fancy place. You just got eat watch a game maybe place a game. They have these fun trivia games that you can place with via remote. Its just fun. I've always had friendly and fast service. If you really don't like the place then order carry out and just eat at home. Either way...I love their wings!
I'm more than slightly obsessed with the Caribbean Jerk-style sauce on any kind of chicken product they have there - dipped in blue cheese dressing. Or maybe I have a cast iron stomach. Who knows.
Regardless, this place is an "upscale" wing joint - if there is such a thing. It's just like every other B-Dubs you've ever been to (eleventy billion sauces, trivia, wing specials), only a lot smaller. So if you have a group of more than...four, be prepared to wait a long-assed time, or scout for open tables in the bar, and jump on them like a fat kid on a cupcake.
A weird thing I noticed is how they process your bill when you have automatic gratuity (on parties of 6? or 8?). Our bill was somewhere in the $200's, so I handed over my card and said, "Put $25 on here" - which covered my food and my beer and my tip. When I got my receipt, I saw that it was for 25 PLUS a portion of the gratuity. Maybe they're using a different Point Of Sale system, but that's pretty lame. I've never seen that in any other restaurant - ever.
No, just don't. Or at least don't get take out. We put in orders, they tell us twenty minutes; we arrive twenty minutes later, and wait another twenty for them to make our order. The wings are fine, yes, but the rest of the menu is too expensive for what it is.
This is not a restaurant for eating, it is for laying down and avoiding.
Excuse me everyone!!! Listen up. Frat dbags and babies belong under one roof together. Forever. Remember to bring your newborn infants here! Oh you listened... cuz I saw three of them here, just kickin it in their carseats. ok one was probably a couple months old. I liked it when they got cranky, it was pretty sweet. You guys should go kick it at ESPN zone too, especially during the college football national championship game. Quiet, wholesome family dinner with the wife and kids? Bdubs is PERFECT. Um hellllllllooo. How can you not know?
Nothing against family units, iddy biddy little babies and young children, but I'm just irritated when some square chump decides to make it a family thing and gets all offended, acts shocked and shoots dirty looks when people start getting rowdy, cheering during a game. We're not at church sweetheart. I'm using my curse words freely and chugging my alcoholic beverage, sometimes straight pouring it down my throat cuz I'm pissed at my team for playing like they're borderline retarded. Shame on me! Did your face not get the memo... I know the restaurant can't help this but I'm tellin you what to expect in terms of ambiance... that happened a couple times when I came to Bdubs- so calm yourself if you're one of THOSE people. It's a sports bar/restaurant lest you forget. I'm a fan of their appetizer sampler platters. The mini breaded and deep fried cheeseburgers... is a yesss! Typical, heavily breaded and battered grease, lard fried in lard. Good God, Say no more. BUT-their wings suck, the boneless type sucks too. Their hottest sauce that they have for their wings is indeed hot but it's a lot more tolerable when the chicken gets colder. That's all I got for you.
One star because there is no option for Zero stars.
If you would like to witness 100 different ways how to make chicken, bad service, and being served food on paper plates and wax paper, GO HERE!. It is really hard to mess up wings but BWW has mastered it and somehow stayed in business. Good luck with their well diversified menu of 35 sauces.
I'm not big into Lincoln Park in general, but B-Dubs does have the best wings I've found in Chicago. They have a ton of different sauces, which can get overwhelming. Hot BBQ is my favorite, but if you want something milder, check out the parmesan garlic. I love the southwestern sauce that comes with the onion rings. Delicious!
Parking in the neighborhood usually sucks, but you can usually find a metered spot further North on Lincoln or Halstead before walking there. It's also around the corner form the Fullerton Red/Brown line stop.
This is a good solid chain restaurant, where you can get some over priced wings that taste pretty good. I've been here many times, and have tried every sauce, even the hottest one... it's not really that bad. It has a lot of good qualities, especially the vast amount of space and decent selection of food and drink. It's a great place to hang out with your friends and watch a game, or just go and have dinner. It's not very unique, but it is definitely the type of place you could take your suburban parents, and make them feel comfortable... Go on Tuesdays, when the wings are a bit cheaper... otherwise the wings are like $1.30 a piece (or something close to it)... Lincoln Park standard.
My husband and I meet friends here on the day after Thanksgiving every year. I guess this is a Colorado bar, and our friend is a Colorado alum, so we always go to watch the football game.
I'm a fan of buffalo wings, and Buffalo Wild Wings. Each time we go here, I'm reminded that it's not my favorite BWW, but it will suffice. Our group can get pretty rowdy while watching the game, and the employees just laugh at us. At least they haven't kicked us out yet...
So I was up late in the hostel on the internet. All the Chicago yelpers were discussing who had the best wings in Chicago. Everybody seemed to like Buffalo Wild Wings. I took note and made sure it would be one of my destinations before I left Lincoln Park.
A day or so later...I was hungry and was on a mission. There it was. Their awesome logo catches your eye. Who can resist a picture of a winged buffalo? I'd love to send it to Sanrio so they can create a winged buffalo playmate for Batz Maru. (I know, that was random - but this is, yelp, right?)
Had some sort of boneless wings with three sauces. Yuck. Nothing like breaded chicken nuggets with halfway decent sauces to dip into. I wasn't impressed. However, I was impressed by their onion rings. They seemed to be perfectly processed/engineered to actually give you perfect portions of onion AND fried batter with EVERY BITE. It was kind of like Chips Ahoy...but instead of chocolate chips...their slogan should be "betcha bite an onion!" Yeah, perfect onion rings.
Next came the actual wings with the Nuclear/Atomic sauce. The waitress gave me fair warning.
DAMN. That was hot. My homeboy, J., had no idea about the pain I was feeling. I was taking it like a man or rather like a Yeti. The only thing that was helping me out was my gulps of Newcastle. The wings were ALL HEAT and no FLAVOR.
I give them credit for the hot factor; but its no fun if the taste isn't there. Sigh, even in Chicago, they have over-hyped "wing" restaurants (Chicagoans, if you come out to LA and stop by a Wing-Stop, you'll know what I mean.).
The LOWDOWN
Minus 1 star for the less than spectacular sauces. I thought they were repackaged McDonald's sauces.
Minus 1 and a half stars for the overrated wings. No breading...and not as meaty. I'm a fan of the baked variety served in Clarke's or Gino's East.
Plus 1 star for having a bar - its a Chicago thing.
Plus 1 and a half stars for the perfect onion rings. Their uniformity was a bit scary. Cheers to Frankenfoods!! (2.5 stars)
I went here on Sunday to watch the Bears game after our usual spot was overtaken with *reserved* tables. boo.
For a group of 10 on a busy day, we were very well received and our diet cokes and buckets of beer were always full. The service definitely bumped the restaurant up from a 3.5 to 4 stars.
We split a bunch of wings and chicken tenders, and I have to say the honey bbq sauce variety were my favorite. The *spicy* flavors are VERY *spicy*, so keep this in mind when ordering. As Mary mentioned, even the medium spicy bbq is HOT.
I ordered a side salad as well, and it was basically a small bowl of iceberg and romaine. Can't say it was worth the $2.50, but I felt a little healthier for it.
B-dub's is B-dub's, and they're generally not much different between cities. I do enjoy their wings, but even on Tuesdays when they're 35c, they're still the most expensive Tuesday wings (Redmond's has bigger wings for 10c, and Finley Dunne's has tasty ones for 20c). That doesn't mean there won't be a giant crowd on Tuesday nights, though. It was definitely almost 11pm before my friends and I got in.
Our waitress, though? Adorable. She made fun of me for getting a side of medium sauce with my apple pie (which - by the way - is one of the best desserts ever...seriously, try it) and jokingly offered to eat half of one of my friend's wings when he ordered 15 1/2.
I dare you to do the Blazin' challenge. I didn't do it at this B-dub's (one of the Cincinnati locations suckered me into it) but it's not something I'll forget anytime soon. I will totally buy you a beer if you rock that challenge, because WOW it hurts.
Going to B-dub's reminded me that I live in Chicago now...back in Ohio, the giant draft beers are $2.50, but here they're at least 4 bucks. C'est la ville.
Before you say, "But you're a vegetarian!" let me please tell you that I speak for my bf as well, who is a huge carnivore.
The food here is no good. Bland, poorly cooked, no imagination (save for the flavors of sauce), & poorly executed.
It's too bad, too, because we really wanted to like the new layout. Lots of places to watch the NFL ... right across the street from the bf's pad. But no.
When we went here, our service was shoddy at best (the waitress couldn't answer one of our questions without running to the back to check), the food was brought out like we were taking it to go (meaning: plastic utensils & plates), & the music kept fluctuating between incredibly eardrum-bursting loud & regular volume. Also, for some reason, they kept shufflilng the tables around like they were expecting a big party, wait no, no party, wait, yes, there is a big party, wait, no just two guys, wait, there's a big party now, no, no, no big party.
He'll probably go back to watch football & drink beer, but to eat lunch or dinner, we'll go somewhere else, thank you very much.
Sad ... I had such good-time memories of bw3.
Great wings, great salads.
I liked the pre-remodleing vibe here better - when they remodeled this summer, the new "oh yeah, this is a chain" atmosphere may have dressed up the interior, but it's not as warm and indiviudal.
But - this is a great place for getting your wings on!
Six Bucks Before Six
Neighborhood: South Loop
Free Aperitif On Arrival!
Neighborhood: Roscoe Village
Neighborhood: Lincoln Park
Category: American (Traditional)
Neighborhood: Roscoe Village
Category: Chicken Wings
Neighborhood: Lincoln Park
Category: Sports Bars
Skokie, IL
Category: Restaurants
Neighborhood: Near North Side
Category: American (Traditional)
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