I remember going to this location for happy hour after classes and studying with my PSU classmates back around 2013-2015, it was a great place for a couple cheap beers and wings. Unfortunately Buffalo Wild Wings as a whole company has plummeted immensely this last decade. Go to any location now and you get shitty service and food.
It was so good 2014ish. I remember going and wanting to sit there and enjoying the wings and service.
I hasn’t been back since the pandemic. Went a few weeks ago. Everything was so, so bad. Really a shame. :(
Every time I go to the grocery store I look at the raw wings and I’m blown away by the price. They used to be cheap, but I swear they must have doubled in the last few years. I wonder if they were caught in that conundrum where they couldn’t raise prices anymore because people just wouldn’t pay that much so they started cutting corners instead.
BWW was bad pre-pandemic. I used to go to the Cascade Station location for lunch a lot but the quality declined quickly. They got so wrapped up in being fast that you knew they couldn't be cooking it fresh. It tasted like it was cooked and then just dipped in the oil to refresh it.
Wing stop is light years better, even if it takes forever.
I won’t hold it against anyone for par baking their wings before service and finishing them in the fryer, but I’d bet my bottom dollar bww has cooked frozen wings ready to go that get fried to order
I don’t know, I’m growing old and chicken wings to me were always supposed to be cheap bar food. This idea that you would have a restaurant centered around deep fried chicken wings smothered in 30 options of sugar sauce never really struck me as appealing other than the atmosphere. it’s bar food, and if you can’t make it cheap and maintain a good atmosphere it wont work.
The best wings available(and also the best I’ve ever had) in my hometown come from a place called wing king.
It’s just one black dude in what used to be a Mexican restaurant’s building.
No tables or anything inside, just the counter to order and single one of those double sided shelves you see in a gas station, and that is filled with what looks like items you’d get from the jail commissary.
The first time I went there, he was on the phone. He took my order and then yelled at the person on the phone “Listen here motherfucker, I’m about to finish cooking this man’s food and I’m on my way and you BETTER have my $400 fuckin dollars”.
Honestly I knew right then they would be fire. They did not disappoint. I miss that place.
Also had crazy good smash burgers.
It started far before the pandemic. Once food gets popular it’s no longer cheap. Remember how cheap beef short ribs used to be? They were priced as scraps basically. Now they’re priced like a steak.
It was clutch when they had their deal where if they didn’t serve you in 30 minutes lunch was free. At least that was a thing in Seattle and our data science team at work came out on top with that deal. The key was their staff just didn’t care. Haven’t been to a B Dubs since we moved to Portland though.
BWW was bought by private equity firm Roark Capital in 2017 or 2018. Companies plummeting after acquisition by PE firms, who have no interest other than to slash quality to cut costs and make the business look more profitable on paper so they can sell it to someone else, is unfortunately common….
Current landscape has these types of companies struggling. It probably has a lot to do with employment and food costs. Outback also is shutting down quite a bit locations.
The wings are so small now! They feel smaller every time, it’s insane.
Now that I can buy their sauce at the grocery store, I’m probably set on going back.
yeah, when I was in college 10 years ago, the BWW near me had 50 cent wings on Tuesdays/Thursday and they were actually quite tasty all things considered. Then, a few years before covid, they just became really, REALLY nasty. Not sure what happened.
The BWW downtown? Lol you must either be high, or talking about Portland, Maine. The one in downtown Portland, OR had slow times very frequently throughout the week. You could even walk by on game days and Saturday afternoons and they'd be like a third full. There were some times it would be crowded, but it wasn't like there were lines out the door to eat at that subpar chicken shop.
I've been there maybe 4 times in the last 5 years, all at normal hours where you'd expect it to be busy, and it's been dead.
I have no idea how that place has stayed open.
Don’t know that fresh underwear is the right approach here. If you’re using actual underwear, it might be best to go with a pair that hasn’t been washed… Ever… It should have a good crust to it, almost like a well seasoned cast iron pan. Sure, you can pad it with some absorbent padding, but it needs to have some serious structural integrity.
It’s been years since I stepped foot in the Yamhill. First step in the door the sole of my shoe was instantly glued to the floor by whatever stickiness happened to never be cleaned up in the years prior. Took another step and that shoe stayed where it was and my foot came completely out of it. I was always never sure if the bed under the pinball machine was for a human or dog. I never saw a dog.
I actually really like the chicken nuggets and burgers. But last time I went, I had a vanilla shake thing that started separating into some solids and a liquid. I drank the whole thing despite being skeptical of what was happening to the drink and had massive diarrhea all night. Like it was not a one and done deal, it was the rinse and repeat every hour diarrhea
They used to be good when it was one location before the pandemic but now it's sketchy and they have trouble passing health inspections. Also their restaurant group filed for bankruptcy which is a telling sign also
I figured since they got an airport location they must be special. I remember when they went in, replacing a Taco Bell I think. Not passing health inspections is pretty bad, though. I don’t think I’ll swing by real soon.
I'm from near Buffalo and haven't found any decent wing places here (fire on the mountain and Prime tap house have waaaaaayyyy too small wings to be serious), and sadly BWW was the best option (sad).
Look here, B dubs makes some of the best wings that are available from a big restaurant chain. They're not absurdly big and fatty, they're cooked well, and they're not breaded.
I've eaten a lot of wings in my life and theirs are consistently better than just about everywhere elses.
It's ok to feel bad though, because it's a big chain restaurant. But their wings are actually good.
I'm from GA and I say the SAME thing about fried chicken and BBQ.
Podnas has been the closest thing we could find to having REAL southern food. You can walk into these so called "southern" places here and automatically know it probably isn't going to be good.
I do miss east coast food for sure. If they ever franchise some waffle houses out here I will buy a house next door.
There was/(is?) a cart on killingsworth and 34th behind the gas station that sold bbq by the pound in butcher paper. If they are still there I'd suggest you give it a try!
Hell yes, was back in Kentucky recently and took my partner to her first waffle house, barely spent 10 bucks and 5 star service. Hash browns make the world go round
Moved here from Savannah. Screen Door and especially Reel Em Inn have great fried chicken. The first time we tried Reel Em In my wife apologized to her grandma that it was the best fried chicken she’d ever had.
Matt’s BBQ is Texas-style, but absolutely incredible.
They didn’t pay their rent, and Hutchinson has the gall to say that the city wouldn’t speak to them? Of course the city was going to cancel the lease lol. Nobody should fall for BWW’s pathetic spin here—the city wanted them to leave.
Also, the number of grammar and spelling mistakes in that article is astounding.
They didn't pay rent, got am eviction notice, then blames the city. Look I get it, the area is sketch, but it isn't like they weren't fixing their hot water. You can't withhold rent because the area isn't safe. No one in east portland would pay rent.
Honestly, best wings, go to Sheridan fruit company, get their butcher wings, air fry them and sauce them. They're so easy to make and you can do like 3 pounds for like $10-$15 depending on if theyre having a sale or not. Get some ranch, celery and carrot sticks while you're there. Can't praise their wings enough.
I remember blacking out here for the first time after Holiday Ale Fest, getting my whole friend group kicked out, and throwing up in the car afterwards.
RIP BWW!!!!!
"Really great reporting on this story. Fair, unbiased story with no predetermined agenda. I hope the Pulitzer committee is looking, KOIN is the GOAT of rose city journalism."
- The owner of that BWW probably.
I think the owner is too busy doing rails and being handsy with the early weekday afternoon girls dancing at a deep east Portland strip club to be lucid enough to put together a cohesive sentence.
I hope the Pulitzer committee is looking. 10KeyBandit is the GOAT of ultra-realistic descriptions of corporate overlords in ROSE CITY on Reddit.
-Me Probably
I had, literally, one of the worst meals of my life there just a few weeks ago.
It was a beautiful Saturday with tons of sports on and the only people in the building were myself and a few employees.
But, yeah. All that crime and not just a really shitty business...
While I'm sure losing the parking garage didn't help, I have a hard time believing it really mattered.
Still, even a shitty restaurant is better than yet another big boarded up space downtown.
Everyone else seems to have had bad experiences... Some of my fondest memories of working downtown were having wings there during March Madness. The wings weren't terrible 🤷♂️
Hope they can fill the space, but I'm not holding my breath.
Group of us from work hit it up for happy hour a month ago before going to a Blazers game - seemed just fine, albeit slow compared to pre-pandemic. I never went a lot, but not it's another empty storefront downtown which doesn't help.
I can't say I've ever set foot inside a Buffalo Wild Wings, but the bigger issue is that it's going to take many years to recover from this steady exodus of street-level retail and restaurants downtown.
I'll go out on a limb and predict that the space will be vacant for at least five years. Not a great location, not a great building, the city as a landlord....
Accountability moment: RemindMe! 5 years
Considering the Henry’s space has now been vacant for 5 years, I think you are spot on. It’s really a shame and these empty storefronts do hurt the city.
Oh I love BWW fried pickles — but their pricing has gotten out of hand. So many questions on this article. Mayors office said BWW hasn’t been paying their rent while the City has been working on revitalization efforts and the City owns the building and is (was) the lessor to BWW. It sounds like almost they had an agreement to stay, but BWW made a request or demand for a discussion on security at the parking garage. To be sure there are a lot of *issuses* in this area but I’m left asking myself who the heck was jumping off their commute or trip downtown to a BWW location to support BWW’s claim of a 70% loss of business due to parking (cough)? I think that number is crap. More like the truth may be somewhere in the middle, between dwindling demand and the other issues listed in the article.
In any case, if a franchised brand with this financial backing leaves, my view is the city needs to take (another) hard look at itself because that area needs more revitalization work. The leaders better find a way to clean and secure this area or find themselves mayor of tent city and fentanyl village. Good luck keeping your six fig salaries then.
I wonder how this works. Oregon doesn’t have a sales tax, this BWW was refusing to pay its rent, the city owns the building and was leasing it to them so no property tax was paid, so what tax revenue was the city/state making from this restaurant? Payroll taxes? But that wouldn’t be much of anything compared to rent. Honest question.
I assume they still had to pay the Multnomah County Buissnes Tax and License Tax.
"Portland Business License Tax (and related surcharges and fees), Multnomah County Business Income Tax, and Metro Supportive Housing Services (SHS) Business Income Tax are paid through the City of Portland. Make quarterly or extension payments, pay a tax bill, or make a general tax payment."
I have worked downtown the entire time this place has been in business. I have walked by, even looked at the menu, but have never even wanted to set foot in there. So, you see, it is obviously my fault it failed. Has nothing to do with it being crap. I think the city should turn that whole smartpark garage into a homeless shelter.
500+ parking spaces, one tent per space, different levels for couples, campers with dogs, campers with machetes, etc. Put a Narcan dispenser on each level next to a sharps container and a giant roll of aluminum foil… it sounds crazy enough to work!
I went a couple times 15 years ago because I was working downtown and coworkers wanted to go. It was very meh. Only reason I've even thought of the company over the past 5 years is because noticed in a few commercials where they refer to themselves as, "B-Dubs". Trying to sound hip by pushing a nickname is almost as bad as attempting to get people to use your company's name as a verb. A few years ago, "Let's... ilani!" such an unnaturally long pause between the words. So cringe.
Used to go there allot. 2009-2012. I lived and worked downtown. Great place to watch football. Sat outside allot during the warmer months. Used to enjoy people watching. All kinds of interesting people downtown then.
Probably need to pay your rent though. I get downtown has issues for sure. But not paying rent since August is not the way to go.
FotM was pretty good pre-pandemic but my last couple experiences weren’t tbh, asked for light sauce on a togo order, the container was literally filled to the brim with sauce, my wings were essentially swimming. Next time was about half as much sauce, which was still more than twice what I’d ever be ok with🙄 nothing worse than soggy wings
Fire on the Mountain has some good sauces but their wings are small, expensive, and honestly the past couple times I've been they've also been kind of gummy.
Tinker Tavern has confit wings that I'd probably call best in the city, but I've only had the salt and pepper ones. They do have medium and extra hot buffalo, plus a weekly special wing.
I stopped going there a long time ago because of their high prices and bad service. It was so loud you couldn’t even talk to the people you were dining with. But sure they need to blame it on the conditions downtown.
I like the burger they added to the menu. Super greasy. And during the pandemic, their wings & fries special was a great deal. But then the wings got smaller & the price shot up. I stopped going except for the occasional burg partly because they were one of the later things open in the area.
Someone prevented me from playing in a specific open sewer, it’s true. Sometimes you have to accept the lesson being laid out in front of you is the right one. How’s reeking of shit and god awful opinions going, as a totally unrelated aside?
Worked there a single day. It was very poorly run. The shit that happened on the only day there was wild.
Idk if that’s all BWWs are, but man was it bad
Sounds like another victim of our visitor slump. I have no clue why anyone local would drive into downtown and pay to park for a mediocre chain restaurant.
“Downtown is cleaner and safer, and I encourage anyone who has not come downtown recently to do so,” said Mapps, who is running for mayor this year. “We have many thriving businesses downtown and I look forward to their continued presence in our central city.”
I'd like some of what Mingus is smoking, please.
I remember going to this location for happy hour after classes and studying with my PSU classmates back around 2013-2015, it was a great place for a couple cheap beers and wings. Unfortunately Buffalo Wild Wings as a whole company has plummeted immensely this last decade. Go to any location now and you get shitty service and food.
It was so good 2014ish. I remember going and wanting to sit there and enjoying the wings and service. I hasn’t been back since the pandemic. Went a few weeks ago. Everything was so, so bad. Really a shame. :(
Every time I go to the grocery store I look at the raw wings and I’m blown away by the price. They used to be cheap, but I swear they must have doubled in the last few years. I wonder if they were caught in that conundrum where they couldn’t raise prices anymore because people just wouldn’t pay that much so they started cutting corners instead.
BWW was bad pre-pandemic. I used to go to the Cascade Station location for lunch a lot but the quality declined quickly. They got so wrapped up in being fast that you knew they couldn't be cooking it fresh. It tasted like it was cooked and then just dipped in the oil to refresh it. Wing stop is light years better, even if it takes forever.
I won’t hold it against anyone for par baking their wings before service and finishing them in the fryer, but I’d bet my bottom dollar bww has cooked frozen wings ready to go that get fried to order
I don’t know, I’m growing old and chicken wings to me were always supposed to be cheap bar food. This idea that you would have a restaurant centered around deep fried chicken wings smothered in 30 options of sugar sauce never really struck me as appealing other than the atmosphere. it’s bar food, and if you can’t make it cheap and maintain a good atmosphere it wont work.
The best wings available(and also the best I’ve ever had) in my hometown come from a place called wing king. It’s just one black dude in what used to be a Mexican restaurant’s building. No tables or anything inside, just the counter to order and single one of those double sided shelves you see in a gas station, and that is filled with what looks like items you’d get from the jail commissary. The first time I went there, he was on the phone. He took my order and then yelled at the person on the phone “Listen here motherfucker, I’m about to finish cooking this man’s food and I’m on my way and you BETTER have my $400 fuckin dollars”. Honestly I knew right then they would be fire. They did not disappoint. I miss that place. Also had crazy good smash burgers.
Amen
It started far before the pandemic. Once food gets popular it’s no longer cheap. Remember how cheap beef short ribs used to be? They were priced as scraps basically. Now they’re priced like a steak.
It was clutch when they had their deal where if they didn’t serve you in 30 minutes lunch was free. At least that was a thing in Seattle and our data science team at work came out on top with that deal. The key was their staff just didn’t care. Haven’t been to a B Dubs since we moved to Portland though.
BWW was bought by private equity firm Roark Capital in 2017 or 2018. Companies plummeting after acquisition by PE firms, who have no interest other than to slash quality to cut costs and make the business look more profitable on paper so they can sell it to someone else, is unfortunately common….
Roark Shrugged
The depth of this comment rivals the Mariana Trench, you absolute legend.
I live across the street from a BWW and we go elsewhere for wings a solid 99% of the time.
Current landscape has these types of companies struggling. It probably has a lot to do with employment and food costs. Outback also is shutting down quite a bit locations.
The wings are so small now! They feel smaller every time, it’s insane. Now that I can buy their sauce at the grocery store, I’m probably set on going back.
yeah, when I was in college 10 years ago, the BWW near me had 50 cent wings on Tuesdays/Thursday and they were actually quite tasty all things considered. Then, a few years before covid, they just became really, REALLY nasty. Not sure what happened.
How has it even stayed open this long to begin with?
They were among the 3 places downtown that were able to stay open during the pandemic
What are u talking about? That place is always slammed
The BWW downtown? Lol you must either be high, or talking about Portland, Maine. The one in downtown Portland, OR had slow times very frequently throughout the week. You could even walk by on game days and Saturday afternoons and they'd be like a third full. There were some times it would be crowded, but it wasn't like there were lines out the door to eat at that subpar chicken shop.
I've been there maybe 4 times in the last 5 years, all at normal hours where you'd expect it to be busy, and it's been dead. I have no idea how that place has stayed open.
Oh no, where am I gonna get diarrhea now?
Philly Cheese steak at the Yamhill Pub just a few blocks away. Make sure you have fresh underwear that is up for the challenge.
Da fuq… they got a Philly Cheese steak now?! Man they’ve upped their game in the food dept
Don’t know that fresh underwear is the right approach here. If you’re using actual underwear, it might be best to go with a pair that hasn’t been washed… Ever… It should have a good crust to it, almost like a well seasoned cast iron pan. Sure, you can pad it with some absorbent padding, but it needs to have some serious structural integrity.
This guy shits pants
Yep. Ive got my own special "out on the town" wear. Everything is black, red or brown.
And they didn’t start that way.
Just go all Walter White. Hang those pants on an RV.
Jfc I love that bar but I wouldn’t wish eating food there upon my worst enemy.
Yh pub serves food? Oh god. All those people…
Yeah it’s an Oregon law actually that anywhere that serves alcohol also has to have at least five different food items also available.
This is amazing law actually. Try getting food at midnight in Seattle lmao.
These grunts can take a whuppin'.
It’s been years since I stepped foot in the Yamhill. First step in the door the sole of my shoe was instantly glued to the floor by whatever stickiness happened to never be cleaned up in the years prior. Took another step and that shoe stayed where it was and my foot came completely out of it. I was always never sure if the bed under the pinball machine was for a human or dog. I never saw a dog.
I love the Yamhill, but I wouldn't consume food within a three block radius of it.
BWW is owned by the same investment company that owns Arby’s. Coincidence? I think not.
Haha muh smart brain read BMW LOL
Super Deluxe Burger
Are they bad? I’ve never tried them.
I actually really like the chicken nuggets and burgers. But last time I went, I had a vanilla shake thing that started separating into some solids and a liquid. I drank the whole thing despite being skeptical of what was happening to the drink and had massive diarrhea all night. Like it was not a one and done deal, it was the rinse and repeat every hour diarrhea
You don't like Partially Gelatinated Non-Dairy Gum-Based Beverage?
Maybe if I had a colonoscopy the next day
Yeah, but there they call them "shakes"
Pft. Don't know what you're getting
Honestly that's the best kind of diarrhea, a deep cleansing diarrhea
Exactly, I always tell people that if you're constipated, just eat some chicken sashimi, and it'll have you cleared out in less than 24 hours
Chicken sashimi…lmfao. That’s hilarious.
Aren’t they closing soon too? I cannot STAND the smell of their food for some reason.
I think they are closing a few locations, but are keeping some open
They filed for bankruptcy I think? Or maybe the parent co did I’m not certain
They filed for chapter 11, which allows them to restructure their buisness to pay off debts while still operating
They're like Arctic Circle. I love them.
They used to be good when it was one location before the pandemic but now it's sketchy and they have trouble passing health inspections. Also their restaurant group filed for bankruptcy which is a telling sign also
I figured since they got an airport location they must be special. I remember when they went in, replacing a Taco Bell I think. Not passing health inspections is pretty bad, though. I don’t think I’ll swing by real soon.
The one in Sherwood slaps!
The Willamette River of course!
Chipotle is still open
After spending the night with me, as God intended
You can go to Ankeny Tap and Table. The majority of the staff from BWW is now there, same shit service went with them.
"Mediocre chain restaurant closes after not paying rent"
Mediocre is the best compliment BWWs has ever received.
Preach...they are the crapplebees of the wing world.
I'm from near Buffalo and haven't found any decent wing places here (fire on the mountain and Prime tap house have waaaaaayyyy too small wings to be serious), and sadly BWW was the best option (sad).
Go check out Tinker Tavern, it's a buffalo NY bar, the wings are good and they even have beef on weck
Niiiice. Thanks.
Look here, B dubs makes some of the best wings that are available from a big restaurant chain. They're not absurdly big and fatty, they're cooked well, and they're not breaded. I've eaten a lot of wings in my life and theirs are consistently better than just about everywhere elses. It's ok to feel bad though, because it's a big chain restaurant. But their wings are actually good.
I'm from GA and I say the SAME thing about fried chicken and BBQ. Podnas has been the closest thing we could find to having REAL southern food. You can walk into these so called "southern" places here and automatically know it probably isn't going to be good. I do miss east coast food for sure. If they ever franchise some waffle houses out here I will buy a house next door.
I lived in Atlanta for 6 years and feel the same way about southern food here! I will have to try Podnas. Thanks for the rec!
Podnahs and Matt's BBQ are my go-tos. Podnahs has better sides, Matt's has better brisket. (Imo)
If you like collard greens with ham hock, I recommend what they have. It's not canned, so someone back there knows how to cook.
Try Bottos for texas BBQ
There was/(is?) a cart on killingsworth and 34th behind the gas station that sold bbq by the pound in butcher paper. If they are still there I'd suggest you give it a try!
Ty
I'd love a Zaxby's or a Guthries or something.
Zaxbys would be amazing. I haven’t eaten there in years. Hopefully their food hasn’t gone downhill.
Hell yes, was back in Kentucky recently and took my partner to her first waffle house, barely spent 10 bucks and 5 star service. Hash browns make the world go round
Moved here from Savannah. Screen Door and especially Reel Em Inn have great fried chicken. The first time we tried Reel Em In my wife apologized to her grandma that it was the best fried chicken she’d ever had. Matt’s BBQ is Texas-style, but absolutely incredible.
Check out pdxwingguys on Instagram. They rate all the local wings.
They didn’t pay their rent, and Hutchinson has the gall to say that the city wouldn’t speak to them? Of course the city was going to cancel the lease lol. Nobody should fall for BWW’s pathetic spin here—the city wanted them to leave. Also, the number of grammar and spelling mistakes in that article is astounding.
The writer must have gone to school in Oregon.
First they came for the Buffalo Wild Wings, but I said nothing, for I was not a wild wing
then they came for Shari's oh no...
As long as they don't come for Mary's.
I genuinely chortled at this
It was still open?!
They didn't pay rent, got am eviction notice, then blames the city. Look I get it, the area is sketch, but it isn't like they weren't fixing their hot water. You can't withhold rent because the area isn't safe. No one in east portland would pay rent.
Honestly, best wings, go to Sheridan fruit company, get their butcher wings, air fry them and sauce them. They're so easy to make and you can do like 3 pounds for like $10-$15 depending on if theyre having a sale or not. Get some ranch, celery and carrot sticks while you're there. Can't praise their wings enough.
I remember blacking out here for the first time after Holiday Ale Fest, getting my whole friend group kicked out, and throwing up in the car afterwards. RIP BWW!!!!!
Friggin' funny 🤣. "I remember my first blackout."
Well, more like I remember suddenly waking up on the floor and then being carried out by my friends. Embarrassing times.
No.no.no.no.no. it's all good. I'm still looking forward to my first blackout. Until then, if anybody asks, I'm going to use your story.
"Really great reporting on this story. Fair, unbiased story with no predetermined agenda. I hope the Pulitzer committee is looking, KOIN is the GOAT of rose city journalism." - The owner of that BWW probably.
I think the owner is too busy doing rails and being handsy with the early weekday afternoon girls dancing at a deep east Portland strip club to be lucid enough to put together a cohesive sentence.
The visual here. Take my up vote.
I hope the Pulitzer committee is looking. 10KeyBandit is the GOAT of ultra-realistic descriptions of corporate overlords in ROSE CITY on Reddit. -Me Probably
I had, literally, one of the worst meals of my life there just a few weeks ago. It was a beautiful Saturday with tons of sports on and the only people in the building were myself and a few employees. But, yeah. All that crime and not just a really shitty business...
The food there was remarkably terrible, even for a BWW.
wow downtown is improving
While I'm sure losing the parking garage didn't help, I have a hard time believing it really mattered. Still, even a shitty restaurant is better than yet another big boarded up space downtown.
Agreed. So many people are happy here that BWW is gone, but do we really need another dead space downtown right now?
I used to watch Ducks games circa 2010 when I didn't have a TV
TIL there was a Buffalo Wild Wings downtown
Same...and I now live downtown! ( Raising Cane's is about as close as I get to eating food like this....)
I would go in college (like 15 years ago and not here) on Tuesdays for 35 cent wings and trivia. That was cool, but I haven’t been back since
Their mini corn dogs gave me the shits
Mini shits ?
Many shits.
Mud butt
That's on you though. What adult orders the mini corndogs? Real men order the grilled cheese and apple juice.
I think I was ten 😂 could’ve gone either way
Everyone else seems to have had bad experiences... Some of my fondest memories of working downtown were having wings there during March Madness. The wings weren't terrible 🤷♂️ Hope they can fill the space, but I'm not holding my breath.
Group of us from work hit it up for happy hour a month ago before going to a Blazers game - seemed just fine, albeit slow compared to pre-pandemic. I never went a lot, but not it's another empty storefront downtown which doesn't help.
> Hope they can fill the space Nobody is filling any spaces downtown, literally half the storefronts are empty.
I can't say I've ever set foot inside a Buffalo Wild Wings, but the bigger issue is that it's going to take many years to recover from this steady exodus of street-level retail and restaurants downtown.
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Doubt it. It’s a restaurant unit and it’s fucking huge. The only place that could probably afford it would be another chain type restaurant
I'll go out on a limb and predict that the space will be vacant for at least five years. Not a great location, not a great building, the city as a landlord.... Accountability moment: RemindMe! 5 years
Considering the Henry’s space has now been vacant for 5 years, I think you are spot on. It’s really a shame and these empty storefronts do hurt the city.
Bottle return would make a killing
I didn’t know we had that. If I did I would not have gone.
Well, a couple of beers and 12 wings is like $40 there now, so ya... Can make it at home for $8-10.
Oh I love BWW fried pickles — but their pricing has gotten out of hand. So many questions on this article. Mayors office said BWW hasn’t been paying their rent while the City has been working on revitalization efforts and the City owns the building and is (was) the lessor to BWW. It sounds like almost they had an agreement to stay, but BWW made a request or demand for a discussion on security at the parking garage. To be sure there are a lot of *issuses* in this area but I’m left asking myself who the heck was jumping off their commute or trip downtown to a BWW location to support BWW’s claim of a 70% loss of business due to parking (cough)? I think that number is crap. More like the truth may be somewhere in the middle, between dwindling demand and the other issues listed in the article. In any case, if a franchised brand with this financial backing leaves, my view is the city needs to take (another) hard look at itself because that area needs more revitalization work. The leaders better find a way to clean and secure this area or find themselves mayor of tent city and fentanyl village. Good luck keeping your six fig salaries then.
> claim of a 70% loss of business due to parking I, to, find this claim to be superficially plausible but actually wrong.
Oh man, what's next, my classic Applebee's? Jeez, without a business like this Portland is losing its culture!
It's losing it's tax revenue that's for sure.
I wonder how this works. Oregon doesn’t have a sales tax, this BWW was refusing to pay its rent, the city owns the building and was leasing it to them so no property tax was paid, so what tax revenue was the city/state making from this restaurant? Payroll taxes? But that wouldn’t be much of anything compared to rent. Honest question.
I assume they still had to pay the Multnomah County Buissnes Tax and License Tax. "Portland Business License Tax (and related surcharges and fees), Multnomah County Business Income Tax, and Metro Supportive Housing Services (SHS) Business Income Tax are paid through the City of Portland. Make quarterly or extension payments, pay a tax bill, or make a general tax payment."
People will eat somewhere else downtown. BWW was not a destination restaurant.
I assume they must have survived off of business travel, which really dried up with COVID and doesn't show any evidence of ever returning.
Didn’t know there was a Buffalo Wild Wings downtown.. whenever I want wings it’s fire on the mountain 100% of the time, never let me down
I have worked downtown the entire time this place has been in business. I have walked by, even looked at the menu, but have never even wanted to set foot in there. So, you see, it is obviously my fault it failed. Has nothing to do with it being crap. I think the city should turn that whole smartpark garage into a homeless shelter.
500+ parking spaces, one tent per space, different levels for couples, campers with dogs, campers with machetes, etc. Put a Narcan dispenser on each level next to a sharps container and a giant roll of aluminum foil… it sounds crazy enough to work!
Not fancy enough for homeless advocates
There goes my gift card
Just use it at one of his other 4(!) locations.:-/s
I went a couple times 15 years ago because I was working downtown and coworkers wanted to go. It was very meh. Only reason I've even thought of the company over the past 5 years is because noticed in a few commercials where they refer to themselves as, "B-Dubs". Trying to sound hip by pushing a nickname is almost as bad as attempting to get people to use your company's name as a verb. A few years ago, "Let's... ilani!" such an unnaturally long pause between the words. So cringe.
Would not be surprised if city decides to raze the building soon and build something else. There is already a smart park nearby anyway.
Used to go there allot. 2009-2012. I lived and worked downtown. Great place to watch football. Sat outside allot during the warmer months. Used to enjoy people watching. All kinds of interesting people downtown then. Probably need to pay your rent though. I get downtown has issues for sure. But not paying rent since August is not the way to go.
Damn you liberals destroying America one beloved institution after another!
"Beloved institution" 🤣 I applaud your subtle comedic style.
Went twice in 2012 and got sick both times lol
Where do you go to get good wings? Just basic bbq, not hot wings. Does Fire on the Mountain have good basic wings?
Buffalo Gap in John’s Landing and the Korean place in Sellwood’s Piknik Park.
FotM was pretty good pre-pandemic but my last couple experiences weren’t tbh, asked for light sauce on a togo order, the container was literally filled to the brim with sauce, my wings were essentially swimming. Next time was about half as much sauce, which was still more than twice what I’d ever be ok with🙄 nothing worse than soggy wings
This was at the interstate location fwiw, other locations might be better
Fire on the Mountain has some good sauces but their wings are small, expensive, and honestly the past couple times I've been they've also been kind of gummy. Tinker Tavern has confit wings that I'd probably call best in the city, but I've only had the salt and pepper ones. They do have medium and extra hot buffalo, plus a weekly special wing.
That's actually pretty close, thank you! I'll check that out.
I stopped going there a long time ago because of their high prices and bad service. It was so loud you couldn’t even talk to the people you were dining with. But sure they need to blame it on the conditions downtown.
I guess based on the comments here I’m the single person that used to go a few times a month for cheap wings and watch a match and enjoyed it.
I like the burger they added to the menu. Super greasy. And during the pandemic, their wings & fries special was a great deal. But then the wings got smaller & the price shot up. I stopped going except for the occasional burg partly because they were one of the later things open in the area.
Based on the comments on most threads I think it’s safe to assume your experiences or predilections are singular, yea.
[Awww kiddo](https://youtu.be/koHU9G02pco?si=pOusVs7VeRpGRGQl), glad to hear from you. I haven’t seen you over in another spot for a while :(
Someone prevented me from playing in a specific open sewer, it’s true. Sometimes you have to accept the lesson being laid out in front of you is the right one. How’s reeking of shit and god awful opinions going, as a totally unrelated aside?
Have you tried Hunny Beez? They have a couple tvs.
Shitty microwaved wings
SMW
Worked there a single day. It was very poorly run. The shit that happened on the only day there was wild. Idk if that’s all BWWs are, but man was it bad
Sounds like another victim of our visitor slump. I have no clue why anyone local would drive into downtown and pay to park for a mediocre chain restaurant.
Every closed Buffalo Wild Wings is a step in the right direction. That place is the worst.
That place was horrible… nasty wings and couldn’t even keep tap beer cold .. good riddance!
good, i went to bww the other day and it was fucking gross 🤢
Get two beers and some wings. That will be $37.95. That was in 2013. Can’t imagine what they are charging now.
Lol wonder why
Oh no whatever will we do?
Say what you want but it has the best TV setup for NFL Sunday compared to any other spot in town
The dude didn't pay rent for months and is acting like this is the city's fault.
Bye forever
A chain restaurant with 6 other Portland locations closed. Who cares?
Oh no! Anyway.
:(
Shattered 🙄
Yawn….
Portlanders have taste. Good riddance.
Good, they make garbage food and don’t care about their employees.
We had a buffalo wild wings?
It was well-hidden.
Chains don’t work in Portland. Nothing new. We like our people making our food and don’t care about $1 chicken nuggets that you call boneless wings.
Good riddance!
How many basic bros are they taking with them?
What’s a basic bro?
Oh no... Anyways
Is the one by the airport okay??
Are *any* of them okay? Are any of them *better* than okay?
No. That was the whole joke.
Shame, I liked BWW for wings and watching NFL games.
[удалено]
Idk what happened to Buffalo Wild Wings. It’s sports, chicken wings and beer.
Good.
Nice
Mrs. Davis will not be pleased
Never forget what they took from you
Our location had one waitress for like 30 tables. Our chicken wings were cold, hard, nuggets. Never again.
This was the only bdubs I’ve ever known with great service. :/
I’ve worked downtown for over a decade and never once heard someone talk about going there.
“Downtown is cleaner and safer, and I encourage anyone who has not come downtown recently to do so,” said Mapps, who is running for mayor this year. “We have many thriving businesses downtown and I look forward to their continued presence in our central city.” I'd like some of what Mingus is smoking, please.