So they opened one of these joints in Amherst this week. I had never heard of it before, but all these people in my program from the south and midwest love the place, so our Thursday Night Out (the customary mba organized thursday drinking) this week was held there. First of all, the place weirded me out a bit, and I think the reason why was described best by one of the other attendees...it's a sports bar on steroids. Like Bonds, Clemens, A-Rod, etc. the place delivers the goods in a very pleasing way (there are huge tv screens everywhere, excellent sight-lines, lots of food and beer selections), but something feels a little unnatural about the place. The ambiance is not what I came here to complain about, however.
When you call your place Buffalo Wild Wings, shouldn't the signature item, the wings, at least be above average?!?! I tried a couple different flavors, both traditional wings and boneless, and while it's all certainly edible, it's all fairly disappointing.
The one positive I came away from the place with, this...
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I have never been to one, but that commercial where the ref looks into the replay hood and asks the patrons of a BWW what call to make, and rather than asking him to make a call favorable to whatever team they are presumably fans of, the patrons ask him to leave the game tied and thus send the game into overtime, where their favorite team then has about a 50-50 shot at actually winning...
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Follow up note: part of BWW's plan to get people in the door was to offer 16oz PBR for $1.50. That's a deal that's hard to beat. Well, a local sports bar establishment called The Hangar, which also serves the best wings in town, responded by offering draft pints of Guinness for $2 from now until St. Patty's Day. Now THAT is an unbeatable deal!
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Save the Drake.
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