Hit or miss-- mostly miss. You know, I love the *idea* of Buffalo Wild Wings. What's not to love? Chicken wings, boneless wings, chicken tenders, and an array of flavors. And boneless wings and chicken tenders are about the easiest things in the world to make-- fresh chicken, fresh oil, at the right temperatures for the right amount of time. It's not rocket science. But more often than not (lately WAY MORE OFTEN THAN NOT-- I am nothing if not a fool for location loyalty and the comfort of my own routine) it's just bad. Not "Call the health department," bad, just "why am I eating this?" bad. I don't know what they do to it, but everything comes out tasting old, stale, dry, and tough. And it's not like they can't do it right when they want to. The last time I was in, it was bad enough to really complain, and they took the dry stuff away and brought me something good-- fresh, tender, juicy, and tasty. I had hoped that maybe that would be a wake-up call. Nope. Back to the same stale, old, tough, dry chicken today. Maybe the one in Schaumburg is better, but I'll not be coming here again. Especially not at these post-inflation prices. I can get myself an excellent steak dinner for only a little more than the cost of lousy boneless wings and fries. read more

The wings are the smallest around the area for chicken wings but the flavors were great. The service was very poor: 1) They assigned us a server who got to work 5 minutes after we were seated. He did apologize and stated he just got there. 2) Only one food plate came out for wings and I had to wait 15 minutes. My food was getting cold so I ended up eating before my boyfriend could even get his food. 3) We asked for salt and pepper when the rest of the food came from the person who served it (wasn't our server) and she told us to ask our server not her. Wow. She couldn't get us salt and pepper? When we repeated the question, she looked annoyed like "that's not my job, the servers do that," and said she would tell our server. Our server came 10 minutes later to check on us not knowing anything about us asking for salt and pepper. Wasn't his fault but what happened to customer service?? The manager needs to do better and train his staff. Unacceptable. read more

The musky smell as we walked in at midnight was a turn off and I wanted to leave except that my husband was starving . The place was pretty packed at the odd hour , our server was very nice she took our order and bought out the food pretty quick. It was mediocre food but we ate because we were super hungry coming from a concert at the Sears Arena. read more

Buffalo Wild Wings - American Near Me - Hoffman Estates, Illinois

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This place is an absolute joke...a definite reflection of careless ignorant management. Yes, it is important to social distance. However, why would anyone with even reasonable intelligence close an entire section for "takeout waiting". At the time of this posting there are exactly 0 people there in the last 25min. I also find it strange that there are as many screens with the Packers-Vikings game on as the Bears-Lions. I now understand the consistently low ratings...this place should have stayed close. I will never return!! read more

I've been coming to this restaurant since it opened. Reason I'm posting a negative review Is due to the poor service, the food was served cold, received only half of the order and 15mins later the other half only after finding a different server and asked her to find ours, then she re-appeared but showed no immediate concern, she was very forgetful during the entire visit. The restaurant was not busy there is no excuse. I was served by the same person on my last two visits. Also during my stay she was having a conversation with another co-worker in which she said " no-s*it " audibly enough to be heard over the TV's ( I had children with me ) she realized we heard her and lipped " sorry " and covered her mouth. Needless to say she knew she had a bad survey coming so at the time we paid the check, she crumpled up the receipt with the survey code on it and never gave it back. If management wants feedback here it is, I don't want anything for free, Just step it up and train your staff accordingly. You are at a prime location and aren't that busy anymore. Here is the photo of my receipt since I didn't get the one that matters. read more

Buffalo Wild Wings - Proof of visit. - American Near Me - Hoffman Estates, Illinois

Dear B dubs , I have given you so many chances but this will be my last. I love the sauces (the hotter the better) and cold beer is always a plus!! But every time I come to one of your establishments and get sub par service , I think it will be better next time...... and it's not. On this Friday evening I walked into your Hoffman estates location around 9:15-9:30 pm and saw an empty bar and less than half full restaurant. I thought for sure because it was "slower " I would get fresh , hot wings..... not the case at all. I ordered and waited , and waited in an empty bar so I thought for sure my food would be fresh and hot. I got an order of chicken that was ice cold, and actually cubed in shape ? Upon me sending them back , I conversed with the only other guest at the bar top , and he had also sent his wings back ?? At this point I should have gotten up and walked out , but having worked on the restaurant industry for over 20 years , I thought I'd give them a chance to redeem themselves. I got apologies from the bartender and someone whom I am assuming was a manager and they both stated they had been sorry for what was served. In all fairness , the replacement order was hot (temperature wise) and much better flavor and texture wise. My question, if you have management , "chefs" , food runners and/ or expos even looking at the food you would have known not to serve what I had gotten the first time around. To corporate or whomever the higher -ups may be , the bartender was great but whoever "cooked" and "plated" food on this evening from like 9pm - 10 pm should be fired! They offered to comp all of my food , which was awesome but it should have not made it out to me in the first place. Buffalo Wild Wings , I try to give you second , third and at this point 150th chances but you have failed . Let me be clear , not just here but the Skokie Illinois location , Nile's crossing location and a few others but all have failed miserably. On this evening 12/08/23 at 10:13 pm you have officially lost a customer. I will tell everyone I encounter to not wast their time, money or an ounce of breath with coming into your establishments. Melanie was awesome and will be well compensated for her service tonight , whoever is running the show here at store #0747 @ 2540 new Sutton road should be fired ! The food is awful , smells like puke and I am ashamed to be here admittedly and will never come back. Check number #30034 table 108/1 good luck and get your shit together, it's frying wings and fries for Christ's sake , I'm embarrassed I even came In here again but I assure you I will not be back. PS 1 star was the review for the bar service only , the food , manager and restaurant deserve negative stars if possible read more

This location is by my school so I have been here several times I've never had a problem I normally do a call in order and carry my food out on this particular day I called they said my food will be ready in 20 minutes what's your was it was hot it was fresh it was delicious no complaints I will continue to patronize this business read more

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I've been to this location at least once or twice a year for the past 7 years for dinner when my in-laws want BWW. The wait for a table is always obnoxiously long on a Saturday/Sunday unless you find an open table at a bar area (usually no wait) and great view of all the UFC / Boxing fights on TV. The wings are pretty consistent -- lukewarm, overcooked, and over-drenched in sauce. I wish the wings were served as soon as they're finished instead of waiting until all the other orders are complete. The basket of fried potato wedges are perfect every time -- crisp on the outside, hot, soft potato inside, and well seasoned. Desserts are always too sweet here -- it's better to go to a Korean dessert spot nearby. Beer selection could be better... it seems like they're always out of something on draft that my guests would like to order. Service is generally acceptable here. But last weekend, our server, Michael, at the bar table area, was fantastic and gave us a 5 star super service! read more

We arrived at 6:30. It is now 7:28, we've finished our drinks and still have no food. RUTH, the manager looked at us like a deer in headlights when attempting to address the issue. Did I mention it's my daughters 11th birthday? I hope corporate or the owner of the franchise reads this. Congrats to your staff in being the laziest, uncaring and unprofessional group we have encountered in some time. Also, we were offered no compensation for this lackluster experience. I don't often tip poorly. Bill was $99.76. I dropped a Benjamin and we walked. WONT BE BACK. EVER. read more

I try and give this bdubs the benefit of the doubt regularly because it's the closest to home however I have about had it with their service and quality...the staff for pick up are very rude and slow. The quality of food for what I'm paying is nonexistent. I've posted a picture of the wings I ordered today....6pc medium boneless....1.5 REAL pieces and the others were like crumbs with barely any sauce at all. I drive 15min for this?! I'm very unpleased! read more

Buffalo Wild Wings - American Near Me - Hoffman Estates, Illinois

Great customer service from this amazing establishment. Honestly very please with my experience as a frequent customer

PLEASE READ IF CONSIDERING ORDERING TAKEOUT - the wings were all very dry as if they had been sitting under a lamp all day. Each box of 5 wings had enough sauce for 20 or more, maybe to make up for how dry the wings were. Potato wedges were good so at least we had that. Sadly threw most of the wings out as they were borderline disgusting to try and eat. read more

Buffalo Wild Wings - Cold wings and way too much sauce :( - American Near Me - Hoffman Estates, Illinois

I had dinner at Buffalo Wild Wings and had a fine meal. If you've been to one B-Dubs then you've been to them all, because they are all nearly identical. We sat in the bar area, where it is much more lively, and had a quick dinner before catching a show. The food was just as you'd expect from BWW - it came out warm, not hot, and tasted good. However, the wings were slightly over-sauced. Which is the thing that tends to annoy me about BWW... they cannot seem to get the goldilocks zone of hot, fresh wings that are perfectly sauced. They are either cold or luke-warm and are either nearly completely lacking sauce or are just drowned in it. Anyway, our waitress was average and thus our entire meal was as described above: "fine." This location doesn't stand out form the rest for exceptional or terrible anything - it's an average Buffalo Wild Wings. read more

Terrible service. Not a place to spend football Sunday at. Restrooms dirty. Food takes about 45min to an hour to get served. Not recommend to anyone. Bartending is terrible read more

Very disappointed. My fiancé and I are huge fans of bdubs. Normally we get fast service, fresh food, and have a good time. This was our first time at this location in over a year, and we are upset about the negative changes at this establishment. First off, they had a limited menu, but we were okay with it since we usually only get wings anyway. Well to our disappointment, the wings took a very long time. Our friends got served first since they only ordered something small. But our fried pickles and wings took forever. They were pretty much done eating before we got out meal. And when we did, we decided to leave instead. After a long day of work and looking forward to these wings, we were super disappointed. This place is going down, go to another bdubs for wings. Don't waste your time or money here. Waiter was nice but Im still starving and looking for another place to eat :( read more

The last 3 times we had the worst service! We love Buffalo Wild Wings so we kept trying. The first time it took over an hour for wings and kids mac & cheese. When food came it was cold and our child Mac & cheese had hot sauce in it. Our child is terrified he will have spicy Mac & cheese every time. When brought it to managements attention she did not Apologize she responded with "oh we are understaffed" Last time we tried we waited at the hostess stand for 10 mins with no acknowledgement. Finally we asked if there are seats at the bar. We sat at the bar and no one even came to our table after another 10 minutes. needless to say we will never go to this location again ! read more

Lets be honest. Wing joint Should be simple and easy. Didn't even get that far this time. Sat down in the bar. Tables all over clutiered with junk. Employees standing around. Bartender serving the table by us beers and shots not problem. After 10 minutes of no contact or service my wife says hi to the bartender as she passes by. Bartender response with "it will be atleast 10 minutes Until I can get to you."..... It 3 in the afternoon with only a few tables staff standing around and the place looked like a shit show. The south Elgin location is never like this avoid this place like the plague and with how sticky the tables were and rude the bartender you will probably catch COVID here. read more

After a few terrible services, we thought we would try again. BAD IDEA! 1. Placed an order to go. 2. Said it would be ready at 9:40 3. 20 mins after 9:40 and still no wings Too expensive for the terrible service read more

Without a doubt the WORST BWW I've ever been to. I'm typing this from the bar right now. The bartender has left for ten minutes twice now in the hour I've been here. I ordered my appetizer twenty minutes ago (Buffalo chicken tots) and it's still not here. Just bad bad bad bad service.. read more

Like everyone else said, this place has really slow service. It took almost an hour to get my carry out food. They gave me less wings than I had originally ordered + the fries tasted old... like they were inedible bc they were fried like 2-3 times over. read more

It would be nice if you guys updated your hours on here instead of wasting people's time.

In most ways this is a typical BWW. I've only been there for weekday Lunch, so it has never been crowded. This past Wednesday some friends and I met for an extended lunch (~4 hrs) and we had a the best server - a middle aged guy who knows his job cold, and kept our drinks refilled. The lunch fare here (on the lunch specials menu) is a subset of the main menu, with some very good pricing. The Buffalo Hot Chicken Tenders and potato wedges (tossed in Lemon Pepper dry seasoning) were both excellent. My friend's salad looked great as did the other's sandwich/salad combo. The only outlier is that they charge almost $4 for soft drinks! Perhaps that's to encourage beer sales? read more

Buffalo Wild Wings - Tenders, lunch combo - American Near Me - Hoffman Estates, Illinois

My husband ordered their new chicken on tator tots. No chicken, we thought in the tots? Asked the waitress,she looks and says should be on top. Nope. So she comes back with a cup of shredded chicken , it looked dried out . So he ate half my wrap lol read more

Service ok. Food is always as expected. Been coming here for many years. Service is hit and miss. Went in recently to order carry out wings. Host rang up my order and tells me the food should be ready in 30 min. At first I asked wow it's really going to take that long? She replied yes they are very busy. So I said ok I'll wait. Food was ready in 10 min. Like wth? Manager said it should never take 30 min. Service is hit and miss read more

Started out very well. Seated right away. Waited for awhile to get our appertizer which was good but took some time. While waiting the temperature of the place is under 68, we waited over 15 minutes just to order and another 25 for our food. Its a friday lunch but not really thag busy. The waitress had an attitude while making us wait another 25 minutes for our check in the cold . read more

This place is trash! My wife and i ordered delivery and it was HORRIBLE! First they dont let you choose more than one sauce, basically if you get 10 wings you can only pick one sauce. Second we asked that our boneless wings come we, instead we got wings and one tiny little packet of sauce. Like WTF you gave me a small cup of sauce for 10 wings and you didnt even toss the wings in the sauce? I will NEVER order or eat from place ever again! Do not eat at this place, its completely TRASH!!!! read more

Extremely slow service, I was dying from spiciness and I asked for more ranch, vegetables, and water and I was dying from extreme spiciness waiting about 7-10 mins for my extra water ranch and vegetables. read more

Buffalo Wild Wings - So spicy - American Near Me - Hoffman Estates, Illinois

Wife and I went here to get a bite to eat and the messed up my nacho order. I was told that they had added chicken to it and I had not ordered that so instead of asking me if I wanted it which the never did and I would have taken it.They decided to remake it and it was taking forever. So I cancelled the order. No manager ever came to the table to ask if there was anything wrong. I just got a reply from this review which was 5 months ago read more

Love the bartenders here. One of the better bdubs food wise as well. Sometimes they are a little slow, but understandable due to volume and staffing it seems. read more

If I could give it 0 stars I would. My server came over to the table to "greet" myself and 4 others. She asked us individually for what we would like to drink, After she would ask us for our drink she would go one by one to the register ring it in and then come back and do it again. She did the same for the food and the appetizers. I asked for ranch and silverware with my wings it NEVER came. I asked for a refill on my water it NEVER came. To be respectful about this the server smelled so putrid that I had to get up and leave to use the bathroom for about 10 minutes. She didn't even tell us her name to begin with. She came up to us and stood weirdly close and tap us on the shoulder and tapped on the menu. She didn't ever use her words. Just stared awkwardly. My wings came out crazy cold couldn't even eat it. All of our food came out 5-10 minutes apart. It absolutely ruined my weekend. I have no idea who hired this server but she is laughable. I've worked in the restaurant business as a server for 6 years and even my first serving job on my first day ever I could've done better. Anyone could've done better. Props to a phenomenal manager "Madison" for disputing this situation. She went above and beyond to make me feel good about this situation. read more

Almost $50 for an appetizer, 10 wings, an order of fries, and a soda. Not sure what BWW thinks is teriyaki sauce but was horrid. Over-priced for below standard food. First time going there in a long time and never going back. read more

I really enjoy Buffalo Wild Wings it's funny I don't eat chicken but their shrimp is delish . You can have them tossed in any flavor as you would do the wings . They were fresh and delicious. The staff is always very nice and very accommodating. read more

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Worst service ever! Don't know what the kitchen staff was doing but it took forever to get food and it did not come out all together! Also I ordered a bacon cheeseburger! When I got it there was no bacon! So I told the guy! He said he would get me bacon. Well 10 minutes later here comes my bacon! Well now my burger is cold!! Ugggg I will not be back here!!!! read more

This place has gone down hill since the previous owner sold. No one cares expect for a few long term employees. Went to the men's restroom and they were out of paper towels and the manager didn't care. He stood there watching football oblivious to anything else. read more

Ate there on 09/14/20 with my friend. Our server was Jeff and he was awesome. Great service. Not the best wings I had, but the potato wedges were Great. Plus booths/tables were social distanced, servers were wearing masks and there was hand sanitizer available. 4 stars just based off wings, everything else especially Jeff's service was great. read more

It was a bad experience. We had to wait 15 minutes for our table. The guy was very nice in the front. However we saw empty tables and people waiting for them... im not sure why that was. Imposdibly not enough staff? It all started with us ordering our food and 25 minutes later our server told us that our order was brought to another table. Not an "I'm sorry for the inconvenience" or anything. She was blunt. Had no sympathy. She just said that it got brought to another table and that they had to have it do it again. After we waited for another 30 minutes we got our food and we see our wings coated in sauce. When ordering my fiancée asked if the wings would be mild and she said yes. The wings were not mild at all but spicy. We did not request any sauce on it but on the side, yet the wings were coated. When the server happened to by our table my fiancée asked if these wings were mild. With a blunt attitude she says that it's based on tastebuds. At this point I'm in disbelief. I have ordered wings all the time and they have never been coated in any sauce. Towards the end of our meal our drinks were running low and no server was around. Our server happened to be behind the bar and my fiancée went by and asked if he could get a refill... once again with a blunt attitude she says: "I'll bring it to you". She was not attentive at all the whole time. At the end of the night she gives us our check without even asking if we needed anything else and again with a blunt attitude she says that they had taken $10 off our meal... which was then placed as her tip. Just terrible experience in this particular location. read more

This place is absolutely disgusting. My husband and I walked out because of the terrible service and unsanitary atmosphere. There was 10+ tables dirty for the 15 minutes we sat and waited without service, overflowing garbage cans, and the floor was filled with food. Just gross. Everyone working is in a terrible mood and while we waited no one was cleaning the dirty tables that were taking up half the restaurant. If the floors and tables are this dirty I wouldn't want to know what the kitchen looks like. Never again. I was going to ask to speak with a manager but then questioned if there even is a manager at the place. Not worth my time! read more

Woke up at 3am thinking my appendix was about to explode because of this place. Don't go here.. good location. But food is beyond horrible. read more

We used to order the Tuesday wing special (but one get one free) for carry out, as we have a young toddler at home and goi g out is very difficult for us. We called today to place an order only to be told they no longer offer this deal for carry out orders. While I understand they may be losing some revenue by allowing carry out by not having dine-in customers order drinks and such, I'm sure they are losing even more business by no longer doing carry out. If this BW3 was downtown Chicago I'd understand fully but being in the suburbs, they're probably losing more business this way. I'm sure there are several other families with young ones where going out to eat is too much of a chore than bringing food home. (Plus the food being thrown on the floor by the toddler is a tab bit embarrassing when eating out). Go back to allowing this great Tuesday special for carry out, please! read more

This location is alright. We used to go all the time when they had bingo. I mean its free and they had decent prizes, plus the bartender knew us after coming so often that she took great care of us and was always awesome. It sucks because they got rid of bingo and since they cancelled it I don't remember the last time we went. Something about no live entertainment with the new buy out or something. I don't know the specifics. When we didn't sit at the bar/in the bar area the service wasn't the best. There were only two or three bartenders/waitresses that were really attentive, otherwise service was slow. Never really had a problem with the food, was always the same tasting. To-go was always on top of everything. The one male manager was always really nice to us and greeted us too. read more